in my last video i showed you this home made wooden wood lathe made from some firewood at the time it needed a motor mount. and now it has one so we can do some testing i cobbled together this basic construction that is pretty self-explanatory or do i need to explain it for the 5% women folk... that according to google is watching my channel ok, this on is for the air fairer sex;
this wooden boxlike construction here pivots around this bolt and that allows the motor to move up and down a bit so you can change the belt to a higher speed setting on the pulley. this is a pulley, in case you didn't know that :) if needed the bold can be tightened to stabilize the motor got it?..... ok then, moving on. now we are going to find out if my creation is actually working as eh, as expected this this will be the first time i'm going to start it
maybe the motor will rip it apart knowing who made it it is not inpossible i think it's in the off position but i'm not 100% sure so, it might start when i plug it in ok, that's good. here we go! not bad at all!! that was a lot better then i expected i'm going to take out the drive centre so can drive my speed tester
with this pointy bit its not going to work about 1500 rpm so assuming that the pulleys are of equal size the motor is also a 1500 rpm unit let's test the other settings almost thousand rpm for the lowest speed that's a bit much if you want to turn a big bowl all right here comes top gear a bit over 2200 rpm
before i do a little test turning.... i want to see what in these bearings maybe they need a little oil look at that..... those are normal ball bearings there are two rows of ball bearings coated in a very think oil or a thin grease i wonder if i should add some bearing grease although i read somewhere that lots of bearings get damaged by adding grease probably too much grease i wonder if these things can take a thrust load
when pushed in on the spindle nose i'll write down the numbers and look them up on the internet all right i skip the grease for now.... a bolt escaped... and close them up there is a piece of felt here, to keep dirt out let's mount a piece of wood. and do a little testing adjusting this mid evil toolrest annoying old piece of crap
this a piece of, what we call american oak. don't ask me for the latin name. it's about as stable as a ocean liner in a hurricane but we are going try it anyway i've got the lathe on the lowest speed setting. that's a thousand rpm and i'm hiding behind the headstock hoping that, when i flip the switch this thing won't come out flying into a low earth orbit here we go....... well, at-least it stayed in place
but it is a bit shaky to be honest... i'm a bit afraid to take a cut. it's spinning way to fast for me maybe i should do a test..... well that seems to be pretty fixed in there let's take a cut i'm wearing my lucky safety glasses so nothing can happen :) those chips are coming right at me man... those a chips they fly a lot further at a 1000 rpm they were hitting me straight in the face
the lousy stability isn't a big problem i didn't really notice it that much i must say the it's running way too quick for my taste i guess that i should also test one of those worn-out gouges that come with the lathe this thing is digging in takes real big chunks of also, a bit loose in there yeah..... not the best tool rejected!
one more test from another angle well, thats enough ok, one more. i guess it isn't a proper test till i used my home made gouge well you got to have one catch at least well that concludes testing for now i'm going to put this machine away see if i can find a three-phase motor and a vfd drive for it and then, when i have a proper bowl gouge and a big bowl blank i'll drag it outside and have some fun with it during the summer
for now, i'm done. till next time.