Videos - machining

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Videos for Learning Home Machining - Free

There are hundreds and hundreds of videos available on the web (and for purchase) which can help you to learn basic machining techniques. On this page I provide links to a selected list of these videos as an aid to to those people who are just getting started in home machining, with the goal of providing the equivalent of a video training class in basic machining methods for the lathe, mill, and other equipment.

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Note: If you are leaving a comment, please keep in mind that the purpose of this page is not to include every video on machining, but rather to serve as an overview and introduction to home machining. For these reasons, basic videos which focus on equipment and methods relevant to the hobby machinist are most desired.

Categories

• Lathe
  • Drilling and tapping
  • Facing
  • Knurling
  • Parts of a lathe - Parts of the Clausing Metal Lathe - tubalcain
  • Turning
  • Turning between centers
  • Workholding
• Mill
  • Face milling
  • Locating
  • Squaring a part
  • Tramming
  • Workholding
• Series
  • MIT Tech TV - Prototype Machining
    • A good overview of basic machine shop methods and techniques, covering a wide variety of machine shop equipment. These videos are already organized into a set of courses, so I have merely put the contents in one place for easy access. These videos show "full sized" machine shop equipment, but many of the basic techniques are applicable to the mini-lathes and mini-mills found in the home shop.
• Tools
  • Micrometers - Micrometer Basics: Use, Care and Calibration (Keith Rucker)

MIT Tech TV - Prototype Machining

• Machine Shop 1 [Duration 40:32]
  • 1) Basic
  • 2) Layout Techniques
  • 3) Basic Tools: Drill Press, Band Saw, Belt Sander & Grinder
  • 4) Locating and Drilling Holes
  • 5) Tapping Holes
• Machine Shop 2 [Duration 57:33]
  • 1) Basic 2
  • 2) Drilling Holes
  • 3) Special Drills for Plastics and Hard or Abrasive Materials
  • 4) Drill Press Limitations
  • 5) Bandsaw
  • 6) Suitable Speeds, Feeds and Materials
  • 7) Bandsaw Setup
  • 8) Using the Drill Press Vise
• Machine Shop 3 [Duration 30:02]
  • 1) Basic 3
  • 2) Good Practice - Clean Up
  • 3) Small Belt Sander Configurations
  • 4) Grinder Operations and Materials
  • 5) Deburring and Buffing
  • 6) Finishing Techniques
• Machine Shop 4 - Milling Machine 1 [Duration 50:33]
  • 1 Milling Machine 1 Layout & Use; what the different parts do
  • 2 Quill Feed Allows you to move tool up and down
  • 3 Axis Handfeed Feed/Crank on Axis with Dials to adjust the Bed
  • 4 Gibb Locks Holds/Locks Bed to Saddle & Saddle to Knee and Knee to Body of Machine Locking Ring Adjustments
  • 5 Power Feed Attached to one or more of the Axes Forward/Reverse Knob and Variable Speeed Control
  • 6 Digital Readouts Measure position of Axes to 0.001" or in mm
  • 7 Milling Machine Set-Up Squaring the Head Square=Z-zxis of head [Quill] is perpendicular to axis of Bed
  • 8 Squaring the Vise Adjusting the vice so back [stationary] jaw of vice is parallel to bed Machine Safety, Protocol, & Shop Safety
  • 9 Milling Machine Accessories & Workholding Techniques Milling Machine Tools Drill Chuck-drilling & reaming Boreing Head-more precise cutting to 0.0002" Fly Cutter-used to square up a part [4 teeth and 1 single tooth] End Mill-shank type milling cutter Collett Chucks-holds End Mills Saws-used to make deep narrow slots-installed on an arbor Reamers-used to smooth out inside of drilled holes Edge Finder & Center Finder-used to locate punches or holes on a milled part Boreing Tool-Used on a shank head to bore holes
• Machine Shop 5 - Milling Machine 2[Duration 1:03:33]
  • 1 Milling Machine
  • 2 Square and Hex Collett Blocks-used to hold/clamp parts to machine features on 4 and 6 sides of a part, respectively 2 V Blocks Holding parts to machine features into parts and end of parts
  • 3 Hold-down Clamps Used to hold large or irregularly shaped parts
  • 4 Using Angle Blocks Used to hold materials to machine features not perpendicular on a part
  • 5 Drill Press Vice Used to hold a part to machine a feature @ 45? angle and other positions/angles Also used with angle blocks to hold parts
  • 6 Lathe Chuck With Vise Used to hold parts in the milling machine; not accurate method, but quick/convenient
  • 7 Double Sided Tape Used to hold a part in a vice securely without distortion
  • 8 Squaring High Aspect Ratio Parts Used to hold a part to be machined securely and squared
  • 9 Right Angle Attachment A right angle gear box to mill features in an end of a larger/slender part that is clamped in the vice.
  • 10 Slitting Saw A saw blade that is used to cut slots/slits/features in a part Can also be used with a right angle attachment
  • 11 Rotary Table A bench/table attached to the bed of the machine used to machine circular parts, grooves, circles, segments Dial indicator and Co-Axe indicator uses to square/center the Table to the Y axes
  • 12 5 C Collett Indexer Used to hold Colletts and position parts in up to 24 positions for various milling features
• Machine Shop 6 - Milling Machine 3[Duration 46:33]
  • 1 Squaring a part, maching all surfaces so they are flat and perpendicular to one another and nominally to the part that will be milled; removing burrs
  • 2 Squaring a Plate Squaring the sides of a part/plate to the dimensions of the finished milled part; remove burrs
  • 3 Using the Edgefinder Used to locate the edge of a part relative to the spindle of the machine
  • 4 Drilling Holes Drill press used to drill holes in parts; center drill milling and other drill bits; setting depth stop
• Machine Shop 7 - Milling Machine 4 [Duration 45:33]
  • 1 Reaming Holes Reamer is used to make a drilled hole larger and smoother within 2/10000" of it's diameter
  • 2 Boring Holes A Boring Head is used for making very accurate holes; also used on a quill producing more accurate holes
  • 3 Milling a Slot End Mills used to mill slots in a piece
  • 4 Milling a Shoulder Conventional & Climb Milling
• Machine Shop 8 - Lathe 1 [Duration 45:02]
  • 1 The Lathe Components @ Set-Up Axes and Feeds
  • 2 Turning Tools
  • 3 Turning and Facing
  • 4 Cutting Off a Part
• Machine Shop 9 - Lathe 2 [Duration 47:33]
  • 1 Tapping
  • 2 Boring
  • 3 Knurling
  • 4 Cutting Tapers with the Compound
  • 5 Turning Shafts Use of live center
  • 6 Single Point Thread Turning
• Machine Shop 10 - Lathe 3 [Duration 34:32]
  • 1 Lathe Chuck
  • 2 Lathe Arbors
  • 3 Turning Between Centers
  • 4 Face Plate Irregular Shapes
  • 5 Face Plate Thin Materials