Re: Mr. Pete just started a series on the Unimat SL/DB on YouTube
I've always used the tailstock ram against the die when threading, even on a Unimat, never thought of using the toolpost to keep the die square.
On a full sized lathe (when I wasn't screwcutting) I used to use the tailstock ram against the die with the end of the diestock handle running in an empty toolholder, select a low speed, start the chuck and off you go. Can't do that in a Unimat!
Paul B.
On Thursday, 4 April 2024 at 04:41:28 BST, Tamra <tamrabrogdon@...> wrote:
That making screw videos was helpful... I do want to make my 1/12th miniature Jorgensen screws for wood working - just because.? I liked the stationary position of the die and moving the headstock to thread.? That was definitely worth the time; it is likely I would not have figured that out until after I made 100 screws or so, on my own.? I bought drill rod and left hand and right hand dies...?
Of all things that I have made on a lathe at this point in the journey, screw threads were on the top of the cool things to make and you do it essentially by hand... but it is so fun, I will attempt to make 4 tiny screws later this month.??
Must buy some brass hex stock; I just got a McMaster Carr order this past Monday.
I think I've watched the Mr. Pete YouTube videos on the subject matter.? I cannot for any reason understand why he wants a 3d print for a tailstock raiser, when he owns a bridgeport mill???
Tamra
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Re: Mr. Pete just started a series on the Unimat SL/DB on YouTube
That making screw videos was helpful... I do want to make my 1/12th miniature Jorgensen screws for wood working - just because.? I liked the stationary position of the die and moving the headstock to thread.? That was definitely worth the time; it is likely I would not have figured that out until after I made 100 screws or so, on my own.? I bought drill rod and left hand and right hand dies...?
Of all things that I have made on a lathe at this point in the journey, screw threads were on the top of the cool things to make and you do it essentially by hand... but it is so fun, I will attempt to make 4 tiny screws later this month.??
Must buy some brass hex stock; I just got a McMaster Carr order this past Monday.
I think I've watched the Mr. Pete YouTube videos on the subject matter.? I cannot for any reason understand why he wants a 3d print for a tailstock raiser, when he owns a bridgeport mill???
Tamra
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Vintage EMCO UNIMAT SL Lathe 500 $ CDN
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Re: Mr. Pete just started a series on the Unimat SL/DB on YouTube
Not sure why that comes up. It¡¯s called ¡°Making tiny screws on a Unimat lathe #942 tubalcain¡±
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Re: Mr. Pete just started a series on the Unimat SL/DB on YouTube
I only have 2 (or 3?) visors.?
Thanks for the reminders of the books. This triggered searches and finding¡ the Stuart S50 engine series. Hmmm, I think I have an S50 kit with boiler(?) out in storage. Hmmm¡
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Good afternoon,
I bought them from "gadgetskingdom", reference 201177. This is on UK Ebay.
The parts have a UPC reference of 746453424412.
They work perfectly for me but I take no responsibility for anyone else being disappointed. Like me, "You takes your chance".
I also worked on the principle that has already been mentioned in that there is very little room for error when running an M14 thread onto a tube with M12 inside it.
It has to be reasonably accurate to even survive the machining process.
regards,
David?
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Re: Mr. Pete just started a series on the Unimat SL/DB on YouTube
Three Optivisors in the house; one in the basement workshop, one in the basement spin-casting area, and one at my office desk for when I'm fiddling with stuff there.? Occasionally I walk around the house wearing one all day long ...
Jeff
On Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 10:06:16 AM CDT, paul b via groups.io <pointfivebsw@...> wrote:
I know where mine is, on the dining table! Its milling .6mm slots in the end of brass bar where things get a touch tricky.
Paul B.
On Wednesday, 3 April 2024 at 16:01:17 BST, Andrei <calciu1@...> wrote:
Everybody needs to use an optivisor in order to find the lathe ???
Nice to note that I'm not the only Unimat user who wears an Optivisor whilst machining!
Paul B.
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Re: Mr. Pete just started a series on the Unimat SL/DB on YouTube
I know where mine is, on the dining table! Its milling .6mm slots in the end of brass bar where things get a touch tricky.
Paul B.
On Wednesday, 3 April 2024 at 16:01:17 BST, Andrei <calciu1@...> wrote:
Everybody needs to use an optivisor in order to find the lathe ???
Nice to note that I'm not the only Unimat user who wears an Optivisor whilst machining!
Paul B.
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Re: Mr. Pete just started a series on the Unimat SL/DB on YouTube
Everybody needs to use an optivisor in order to find the lathe ???
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Nice to note that I'm not the only Unimat user who wears an Optivisor whilst machining!
Paul B.
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Re: Mr. Pete just started a series on the Unimat SL/DB on YouTube
oops... I attended a few local auctions.... not options.??
Tamra
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Re: Mr. Pete just started a series on the Unimat SL/DB on YouTube
Nice to note that I'm not the only Unimat user who wears an Optivisor whilst machining!
Paul B.
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Re: Mr. Pete just started a series on the Unimat SL/DB on YouTube
Me thinks a bridgeport mill to make a milling table for a unimat isn't in my future... but I enjoyed watching it last night.? I have attended a few local options, and it isn't a price issue as much as an issue of how to move it.? I'll stick with bench top tools.? It is likely that a Bridgeport mill weighs more then me, so if it isn't on locking wheels, it isn't coming home to live with me.? I should move to Dallas, the Makerspace has one that you have to get certified to use but you would have access.
I am glad mine came with the unimat.??
I bought the Bedside Readers many years ago, and I am pretty sure, I have all three copies in print.? I had to wait for the price to bottom as they got really expensive when Practical Machinist puts it on the Christmas list.? Most print materials will come down in price, but it requires patience, absent of?a bottomless bank account.
Tamra
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Re: Mr. Pete just started a series on the Unimat SL/DB on YouTube
Just sprained my wrist again buying the 1st copy of "Hey Tim, I Gotta Tell Ya" I've seen in several years. Even in the stories he writes, he puts shop hints and tips...?
I am not an addict! I can quit any time!?
Bill in OKC?
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.? SEMPER GUMBY!
Expect in one hand, expectorate in the other. See which one gets full first.
On Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 09:06:26 AM CDT, Bill in OKC too via groups.io <wmrmeyers@...> wrote:
It may not help as much as you'd like, but certainly can't? hurt! I have(had) pdf copies of all three of Lautard's Bedside readers. Lost the 3rd reader pdf somehow, but a year or so ago the revised (1st) Bedside Reader was published, and I bought a copy. Almost sprained my wrist getting the card out to order it! :) His site updated to mention it, and that he's updating the 2nd & 3rd Readers. I'll be repeating that as each comes out.?
I missed a use set of 3 on eBay a few weeks ago. Hope that's the ones you got.?
When I took my machine shop class, I learned? (once again) that reading helps but practice is a major necessity.? Lautard's books will give you a lot of incentives to get that practice! So many neat ideas, and tips to help do things faster, easier, and better!
Bill in OKC?
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.? SEMPER GUMBY!
Expect in one hand, expectorate in the other. See which one gets full first.
On Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 08:03:10 AM CDT, Tamra <tamrabrogdon@...> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 07:23 AM, Bill in OKC too wrote:
https://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/threads/the-greats-of-model-engineering-tubal-cain.19675/
Thanks guys for the new found clarity on the subject.? I do have some of the Home Shop Machinist Magazines - shipping UK books and magazines are rather expensive, so I've refrain from the expensive shipping experience.? I will likely buy Tubal Cain's book on ornamental turning; that is an OTI lathe in the photo of the link that Bill in OKC embedded.?? I also bought the Bedside Machinists books by Guy Lautard... I need to get to my reading?! Tamra
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Re: Mr. Pete just started a series on the Unimat SL/DB on YouTube
It may not help as much as you'd like, but certainly can't? hurt! I have(had) pdf copies of all three of Lautard's Bedside readers. Lost the 3rd reader pdf somehow, but a year or so ago the revised (1st) Bedside Reader was published, and I bought a copy. Almost sprained my wrist getting the card out to order it! :) His site updated to mention it, and that he's updating the 2nd & 3rd Readers. I'll be repeating that as each comes out.?
I missed a use set of 3 on eBay a few weeks ago. Hope that's the ones you got.?
When I took my machine shop class, I learned? (once again) that reading helps but practice is a major necessity.? Lautard's books will give you a lot of incentives to get that practice! So many neat ideas, and tips to help do things faster, easier, and better!
Bill in OKC?
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.? SEMPER GUMBY!
Expect in one hand, expectorate in the other. See which one gets full first.
On Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 08:03:10 AM CDT, Tamra <tamrabrogdon@...> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 07:23 AM, Bill in OKC too wrote:
https://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/threads/the-greats-of-model-engineering-tubal-cain.19675/
Thanks guys for the new found clarity on the subject.? I do have some of the Home Shop Machinist Magazines - shipping UK books and magazines are rather expensive, so I've refrain from the expensive shipping experience.? I will likely buy Tubal Cain's book on ornamental turning; that is an OTI lathe in the photo of the link that Bill in OKC embedded.?? I also bought the Bedside Machinists books by Guy Lautard... I need to get to my reading?! Tamra
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Re: Mr. Pete just started a series on the Unimat SL/DB on YouTube
On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 07:23 AM, Bill in OKC too wrote:
https://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/threads/the-greats-of-model-engineering-tubal-cain.19675/
Thanks guys for the new found clarity on the subject.? I do have some of the Home Shop Machinist Magazines - shipping UK books and magazines are rather expensive, so I've refrain from the expensive shipping experience.? I will likely buy Tubal Cain's book on ornamental turning; that is an OTI lathe in the photo of the link that Bill in OKC embedded.?? I also bought the Bedside Machinists books by Guy Lautard... I need to get to my reading?! Tamra
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Re: Mr. Pete just started a series on the Unimat SL/DB on YouTube
The books by Tubal Cain in the UK are compilations of series of
aricles printed in Model Engineer around about the 1980's. I
remember at the time I found the articles very easy to understand
and have some of the magazines of that era still.
Mike
On 03/04/2024 07:10, Dave Seiter wrote:
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The books are by a different
Tubal Cain, from the UK, I think.
-Dave
Mr.Pete's You Tube Videos
say Tubal Cain.
I found some books by Tubal Cain tonite at Amazon.
But me, being me and curious, I googled Tubal Cain and
found the reference again to the 1st Blacksmith.??
There is even a tapestry with a black smith and that
caught me eye as a needleworker.
Do you think Mr. Pete wrote these books under a
pseudonym?? ?I am sure there are a lot of blacksmiths in
the larger world, but the coincidence makes me more
curious...?
Search Author Tubal Cain at Amazon... for multiple book
titles.? I bought Model Engineers Workshop Manual
published in the UK tonite.??
Tamra
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New Mr Pete Unimat video up
Making some screws. He seems to be having fun.
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Re: Mr. Pete just started a series on the Unimat SL/DB on YouTube
Nope. Tubal Cain was the pen name for an English Model Engineer who wrote for Model Engineer magazine, a British publication. And he borrowed the name from the Bible just as Mr. Pete did. Tom Walshaw, IIRC. I understand he was the inspiration for the protagonist in "Trustee from the Toolroom" by English author Nevil Shute.? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustee_from_the_Toolroom
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Walshaw
https://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/threads/the-greats-of-model-engineering-tubal-cain.19675/
Courtesy of my packrat brain, and Brave search. :)
Bill in OKC
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.? SEMPER GUMBY!
Expect in one hand, expectorate in the other. See which one gets full first.
On Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 09:23:53 PM CDT, Tamra <tamrabrogdon@...> wrote:
Mr.Pete's You Tube Videos say Tubal Cain.
I found some books by Tubal Cain tonite at Amazon.
But me, being me and curious, I googled Tubal Cain and found the reference again to the 1st Blacksmith.??
There is even a tapestry with a black smith and that caught me eye as a needleworker.
Do you think Mr. Pete wrote these books under a pseudonym?? ?I am sure there are a lot of blacksmiths in the larger world, but the coincidence makes me more curious...?
Search Author Tubal Cain at Amazon... for multiple book titles.? I bought Model Engineers Workshop Manual published in the UK tonite.??
Tamra
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Re: Mr. Pete just started a series on the Unimat SL/DB on YouTube
The books are by a different Tubal Cain, from the UK, I think.
-Dave
On Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 07:23:55 PM PDT, Tamra <tamrabrogdon@...> wrote:
Mr.Pete's You Tube Videos say Tubal Cain.
I found some books by Tubal Cain tonite at Amazon.
But me, being me and curious, I googled Tubal Cain and found the reference again to the 1st Blacksmith.??
There is even a tapestry with a black smith and that caught me eye as a needleworker.
Do you think Mr. Pete wrote these books under a pseudonym?? ?I am sure there are a lot of blacksmiths in the larger world, but the coincidence makes me more curious...?
Search Author Tubal Cain at Amazon... for multiple book titles.? I bought Model Engineers Workshop Manual published in the UK tonite.??
Tamra
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Re: Mr. Pete just started a series on the Unimat SL/DB on YouTube
Ok, perhaps The TubalCain books are like The Machinist's Bedside Reader books.... I think, or hope, I'm finally to the point where I can start reading to learn to use a machine.? I did buy some US magazines for Home Shop Machinist - I should get them out and see what kind of trouble I can get myself into.
Tamra
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Tamra
Dave W
Kit Maira
Bill in OKC too