A Unique, Original Lathe. Probably the only one of its kind!

If my father had seen this he would have feinted with envy! Around 1955 he set up a one-man precision engineering shop in our basement. He took on production runs of small components. One contract was to produce many thousands of tapered fittings to be soldered onto the ends of copper tube used in industrial fire sprinkler systems. He adapted a small capstan lathe to automatic operation, using sequenced pneumatic cylinders. It was a bit cantankerous until it was warmed up, and calibrated... after that it hissed, sneezed, and clunked, filling box after box with goodies! A stepper motor and controller would have been like something out of a Buck Rogers sci-fi movie! Time moves on... 😉

This is why we can have nice things.

For those of you that are curious, 160,000 Rubles is equal to around $2370 US.

Beautiful work, sir! Now I know what to do, at least in general, with my Taig mill and lathe.

This is some of the best content on youtube. All of your projects are just so well thought out and elegant.

I am delighted to see the machine components and where assembly is critical to function. Thank you for posting. At my workbench, I am having fun with a quite ancient 1935 South bend C model. But which came with some wear as component, thus lessened precision...but very fun, very amusing to toolbar end use as 1 meter bed potential to project. At the needs to typical mechanical function, soft component as brass, al are fine to needs. So I now plan to simply expand my bench with some very similar build. And take notice as where rigid mounting, light, various tool component storage...are among first build consider to project. As intended to work function. I really was able to see your drilling and thread task, which is very useful to where I execute parallel part. Hoping to see more and gain from your insight. Regards from Washington State, US. McGary

Excellent work 👍👍👍 . Thank you for sharing. Be safe 🇨🇦

nice work it's good to see what kind of tools you're working on!

It's good that there are such people. After watching this content, I want to do something useful. Great channel, positive and informative. Good luck in your hard work.

This is an excellent machine. Thank for posting this video.!

Nice machine! CNC horizontal mill. Excellent!

Very smart! Life is easier with that tools.

Well done and fair play 👍

This was an excellent video. I love your new machine. We use collets at work. My job is to laser hydraulic parts. We have another machine called a Pinstamper. It's like an engraver. So we use the collets to hold the parts to be engraved. P.S. I figured out how to change the collets all by myself. No one else knew how. ☺️ Yay me!

Pretty cool setup!

Nice work. I've seen people that upgrade their Dremel manual lathe with electronics so that it can run like an automatic mill. Very inspiring to see! Those Dremel mills aren't that expensive and they are great for beginners.

Well, that is certainly the longest cross slide I have seen on a lathe. You can set that up with a huge number of gang tools. Very Nice!

Awesome work Jean-François

The great advantage of an extra long cross slide is you can use it as a turret, there's enough space to mount multiple tools with clearance, even drill chucks.

Great content! Impressed!