Speeds & Feeds for Steel on the Lathe! WW171

This maybe my favorite video you've ever done. Paul is such a nice guy for helping you share this with us. Would have been nice to get a better look at the inserts themselves like maybe some closeup shots so we could see what the chipbreakers looked like but great post John, really enjoyed it and can't wait for part 2.

one of the best tutorials i have seen on carbide tooling. now we need a similar one geared toward the lighter home shop lathes. great job looking forward to the next installment

Hey John, Awesome !! there is a lot of wisdom introduced to the viewers in this video. Paul 's experience and your "curiosity" and ability to ask intelligent questions is a great combination. Well done!!

As a machining student, thank you! These long videos with thoroughly explained details are incredibly helpful and educative. I definitely commit the typical beginner mistake of taking too light of a cut, haha. It was shocking for me to see cuts that are like 4 times deeper than what I usually limit myself to. Anyways, thanks once again John and Paul, excellent content. Cheers from Spain!

Thanks guys, I've learnt more about insert tooling in the first 14 minutes of this video than I learnt from 4 years of watching youtube machining videos.

Just wanted to say thanks. I must have watched this video 20+ times for a reference.

Paul is the very best of dudes !! I love this guys disposition, The way he shares and teaches at the same time is incredible. My lathe is smaller at a 12x36 2hp and sized right for my needs in scale model engine building but the concepts are scalable and the same. I really learned here. Million thanks to you.

I'm not a machinest, but have used machine tools and been responsible for purchase of tooling for them as part of my job as the Chief Engineer for a number of maintenance depts, mainly in the food and drink industries. I did quite a bit of research about 30 years ago on what might be the best all round tools and decided on the button and triangle inserts as being the ones that would cover most uses and be cost effective in an envirionment were we could be cutting 304, 316L and hot rolled mild steel within the same day. I still use these same inserts in my home workshop today and have to say that Sandvik have never let me down. Its nice to watch a video with a couple of real machinests, confirm that the choices I made as a total non expert all those years ago, were pretty well the correct ones.

This series of your videos is some of my favorite content of yours! I play them over and over to try to make it all part if my thinking. Thank you!!!

I really like how the old boy response to the questions. He don't rush to answer a question. I hope he works the same way

I love it when you visit DeBolt

Thank you John and Paul. I just got done watching this for the first time. Next time will be with a notepad. Your timing is excellent for me, I am expecting my new to me 16x40 in a few weeks and I have had my nose in every catalog that I could find reading up on insert tooling. Also, I noticed a round insert tool holder in the box of parts included with the machine, and I thought that it would be a novel little tool to have, now I am certainly going to take a much closer look at it. Great work and as said by others, I couldn't believe that 90 minutes went by so fast!! R.J.

give Paul another episode on drills in the lathe, all types of drills. he's the man!

So much knowledge dropped in this video. Thank you so much for sharing!

Started out thinking OMG, and hour and half, this has got to be boring. Turns out, I watched the whole thing, and completely lost track of time. Great Video! I've long been familiar with Mr. DeBolt from his model engines./

Really nice to see that you both liked Sanvik inserts, when I did my last machine class, it was all Sandvik inserts, the perk of living in Sweden before international shopping and sorting for cheapest was the norm. But I talked to guy working in production recently, they still use all Sandvik, it is still cheaper in the long run since they last much longer then any thing else they have tested

Very informative... didn't think I would make it all the way through, but after a few minutes I knew it would be great. I ran the same model lathe for over a year...made many unique parts. Well done Paul and John.....cheers, PB

Thanks guys. I saved this video and refer back to it frequently at work. I shared this with my old machine school instructor and he now shares it with his classes.

I would love to work with and learn from this guy. We need more people like him in this world.

Awsome, i hope you find time to continue the comparison video, i am super excited to see the stainless.