A Great Machinist

[MikeKParticipant @mikek40713]

Nice to have a lathe big enough to turn an entire diff housing!

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by Danny M2Z on 24/02/2022 06:17:54:

Excellent videos Hopper – thanks heaps.

The lack of safety glasses is a bit of a worry.

Such a talented young person should value and take care of his eyesight.

If I had a mailing address I would be tempted to send him a pair as a gesture of Aussie-Indonesian friendship, but then, would he actually wear them or would that cause him to loose 'face'?

Personally, I would prefer to loose 'face' rather than an eye.

* danny *

Yes peer pressure is a powerful thing. I am half deaf today because when i worked in noisy car factory stamping plants, power stations and construction sites in the 1970s and 80s, only homosexuals were believed to wear hearing protection. I'm glad I'm not as smart now as i was back then.

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by MikeK on 25/02/2022 02:11:04:

Nice to have a lathe big enough to turn an entire diff housing!

Heck yeah. I'd be swinging those offset diffs all day long, just for the excitement! Nearest I get is when I forget to take the crank handle out of the Myford spindle before hitting the start button. You wouldn't believe how much a bolted-down steel bench can flex and dance around and look as though it is ready to launch holus bolus.

[JuddyParticipant @juddy]

If you like big lathe work have a look at this chap in Aus, works mostly alone repairing mining equipment on lathes up to 4M long

Cutting Edge Engineering Australia – YouTube

very good

just add this link to his new! shaper Is This The BIGGEST Shaper on YouTube? | Klopp 1000H Shaper – YouTube

 

Edited By Juddy on 25/02/2022 08:29:31

[ChrisHParticipant @chrish]

Love the way he puts his foot against the mould then pours the molten metal into the hole but towards his foot – one miss and he's got a very poorly foot. Enough to give our ElfnSafety mob a heart attack.

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