I Bought A Mini Metal Lathe. First impressions and time lapse.

Mr. Pete/Tublacain is highly recommended! He use to be a shop teacher and does an amazing job teaching folks. As another commenter said, welcome to your new addiction. This old Tony and Joe Pie are also great folks to watch and learn from! Only been involved with it for 4-5yrs and have a small fortune spent.

⚠ 7:35 Never EVER grab any metal shavings while the lathe is turning! You might end up losing your fingers or worse. As for the video.. Thank you for sharing, great first impression. 👍

Welcome to your new addiction! I too started with a mini lathe. They only get bigger from here.

DO NOT GRAB SWARF when the machine is running it will rip your hands and fingers off if you ever use steel.

I'm happy you ended up getting one. I'm on your face book and have the green 1905 lathe. I was not able to watch the whole video but will later and probably comment again but this makes me happy.

Lubricate the tip of that dead center with spot of grease to avoid it being chewed up while machining

Dude I've been eyeing some old ww2 ones because I have the old shop in my basement and this is definitely motivation!!

Very nice little machine! My dad had a Crafstman (Atlas) lathe. When his mother passed he inherited her sewing machine which was missing a screw (they seem to have odd ball thread sizes). So he figured out what he needed & found that he could still get the right gears through Sears to make the part (this was years ago). I got a 3 jaw chuck with the right taper for rough boring or center drilling for my dad. You might find one handy for you too. If it is consistent you can do some pretty nice parts on it. They are addicting aren't they?

My dad had bought one last winter and is about twice the size of yours. It's older but built like a tank. Shit soon enough your going to be a fully blown transmission shop. A21 bravo transmissions. I still cant believe you went from a bass head to a full blown car building swapping transmission building gear head. Keep getting lernt buddy. Cant wait to see the gramps ranger ripping again!

Also that spring on the chuck is there just incase you forget it in the chuck. Shoots off like a bullet if it's turned on with it in there. And that's a dead center. A live center turns. That wallowing that you experienced was from no grease on the dead center. Sorry for many comments as I'm watching.

Nice little lathe!

Just found your channel and subscribed. Very nice lathe

Looks like a nice piece for the garage. Taking the part out of the chuck multiple times will mess with the concentricity unless you use a dial indicator every time it is taken out. Also get a 0/1” and 1/2” mic instead of calipers if you are trying to be accurate when making parts. I can’t wait to see what you come up with and how it will improve your builds over time. Oh yeah don’t grab chips with your hands if the machine is running, no need to find out why the hard way.

That tooling will where out and you will need to get some more. But before you do get more tooling get yourself a quick change tool post. That tooling is middle road. Above high speed steel tooling but below replaceable carbide tip tooling. If you have any question I'll do my best to answer. I am on your Facebook group so I can share there too

Nice and good work

Very nice. I want one of these! I used to used a giant one in advanced metal shop back in the day. Can you add the Amazon link to that model lathe?

Do yourself a favor and get a quick change tool post. That way the first thing I bought for mine. Then later I did major upgrades to my grizzly 8x22

Feeds and speeds add some coolant to your process will give your carbide longevity. Slower the speed and feed bigger the chip load faster smaller the chip load.

Thank you for posting this video I've been considering getting a mini metal lathe. This video popped up great in depth video. Thank you for taking the time to do this review right. After all this time how are you liking the lathe what if anything do you wish your consider it what would you do different if you were buying a large today? Are there features you wish this had? What upgrades if any have you done for this lathe? Thank you for your time and again great video you earned a new sub with this video.

8:27 if you changed the gears from low to high, the grinding noise may come from the headstock. If you tried to change from forward into neutral and to reverse, than should grinding the gears that you showed. I think you might change from low to high.