Huge 1890s Wood Lathe Restoration

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Komentáře • 177

  • @Ivegotwormsinme
    @Ivegotwormsinme Před rokem +24

    "Are you using a lathe to fix a lathe?" "Do you know a better way to fix a lathe?"

    • @seanthompson6720
      @seanthompson6720 Před rokem +4

      what came first, the chicken or the lathe?

    • @Joe1935429
      @Joe1935429 Před rokem +4

      Kudos to the young man who lends his considerable skills to giving an antique some additional useful life. We antiques appreciate it.

  • @_MadFox
    @_MadFox Před rokem +54

    Olivier, I don't know if you read the comments, but if you don't want to kill the spindle bearings very quickly, this machine needs drip oilers for constant lubrication of the spindle. Otherwise, you will have to quickly say goodbye to accurate rotation. The oilers are screwed into the holes where you poured WD-40 from a can.

    • @OlivierGomis
      @OlivierGomis  Před rokem +27

      I know it needs frequent lubrifications. But I don't think it had drip oilers, since the holes aren't threaded. The the spindle bearings are pretty dead allready and the shaft is not running true. If I want to use this lathe I'll probably change the whole spindle assembly, and go with modern ball bearings.

    • @The_idk16
      @The_idk16 Před rokem +9

      He does read comments cool

    • @The_idk16
      @The_idk16 Před rokem +8

      No idea what any of this means but I liked the video

    • @_MadFox
      @_MadFox Před rokem +2

      @@OlivierGomis the right idea. I would also switch to modern bearings with the manufacture of a new spindle and flange bearing supports.

    • @designabeej
      @designabeej Před rokem +2

      Love the makeover 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
      How do u fix the alignment problem?

  • @debsmith2269
    @debsmith2269 Před rokem +12

    Great job restoring such a big and heavy piece of machinery. When my previous workplace closed down, all our old machinery was sold for scrap because everyone wants more modern equipment. It was so sad to see these go, so I'm happy that this piece was saved.

  • @queenb67
    @queenb67 Před 10 měsíci +1

    That's so awesome! Were my grampa still alive, he would have loved this!

  • @apismellifera1000
    @apismellifera1000 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Awesome job on restoring the antique lathe.

  • @BryanM362
    @BryanM362 Před 11 měsíci

    Well done!

  • @JamesCouch777
    @JamesCouch777 Před rokem

    What a great find!

  • @leighw9684
    @leighw9684 Před rokem +1

    Even though it needs more work to be completely useful, it's time well.spent to restore this lovely old lathe. Merci pour ce partage!

  • @davestinyworkshop
    @davestinyworkshop Před rokem

    Truly awesome!

  • @admoh9681
    @admoh9681 Před rokem

    You're genius man

  • @RestorationAustralia
    @RestorationAustralia Před rokem

    Super.👍

  • @kalmanszeles8666
    @kalmanszeles8666 Před rokem

    great-great job.

  • @DirtyEngineer
    @DirtyEngineer Před rokem

    Great project. I see a CNC table and spindle in the background. Excited for that video

  • @stevedoolanTacoma
    @stevedoolanTacoma Před rokem +1

    My favorite videos on You Tube are wood turning and restorations. This is the best of both. Thanks Olivier😎

  • @richardcorwin1828
    @richardcorwin1828 Před rokem +5

    Nicely done Olivier as you have a nice piece of history! Thank you for sharing.

  • @3r1creations
    @3r1creations Před rokem +2

    Si vous disposez de suffisamment de temps, il ne fait aucun doute que vous comprendrez comment intégrer cette machine merveilleusement restaurée dans votre atelier ou que vous trouverez quelqu'un à qui elle conviendra peut-être mieux. Vous n'êtes peut-être qu'un type ordinaire, mais vous inspirez toujours M. Olivier. Merci de partager vos efforts de restauration honnêtes. Trop souvent, nous pensons "Je ne peux pas faire ça tout seul". Souvent, tout ce dont nous avons besoin, c'est de voir quelqu'un comme vous faire exactement cela.
    remarque ajoutée
    Regarder une deuxième fois, en remarquant tout à l'heure les panneaux acoustiques en hauteur sur les murs de votre magasin. Idée géniale pour enregistrer des vidéos et réduire le bruit de base d'un magasin. Intelligent.

    • @DonDrito
      @DonDrito Před 3 měsíci

      Petite remarque pour ameliorer votre français:
      shop (where things are sold) = magasin
      (work)shop = atelier

  • @vernabink2865
    @vernabink2865 Před rokem

    Outstanding

  • @theodoranorton4779
    @theodoranorton4779 Před rokem +1

    Merci Mille fois, Olivier, for a great episode. It is a beautiful old machine, and you did just the best amount of work to save it while letting it keep its character. Someone must have valued it highly, as the mechanics were in surprisingly good shape, with perfect castings and all that solid brass or bronze. Those two meters may well come in handy for one of your giant projects. Please keep us updated, and thanks again.

  • @Sir_Uncle_Ned
    @Sir_Uncle_Ned Před rokem

    Nice to see an old beauty given a second chance. Hopefully it finds a good home.

  • @marknelon6958
    @marknelon6958 Před rokem +4

    Nice job restoring this piece. Glad to see some of the old tools getting a second chance at life.

  • @novembermiss
    @novembermiss Před rokem

    Great restoration of an antique piece that would otherwise have been trashed or continued to rust away, unused. Your skills are beyond amazing--is there anything you can't restore? My guess would be no.

  • @juancarlosmanglano753
    @juancarlosmanglano753 Před rokem +3

    No sólo eres un artista de la madera , si no que también restauras maquinaria vintage 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
    Saludos

  • @hughcawley473
    @hughcawley473 Před rokem

    If the definition of genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains (as Holmes would have it), then Olivier G is a genius. And that idea gets my vote, time and time again. Thank you, Olivier. Best Hugh

  • @raydriver7300
    @raydriver7300 Před rokem

    What a beautiful old lathe resurrected by a genius 🌞

  • @klarajijavadze8870
    @klarajijavadze8870 Před rokem +2

    Какой же вы умничка. Я не перестаю восхищаться вами. Да Благословит вас Господь. 🙏

  • @DougMilleratWoodSpunRound

    Very cool. I would change the chuck for a woodturning chuck and shim the tail stock to correct the alignment issue. A VFD to control the speed would be great too. That will be a fabulous wood lathe.

  • @hassanal-mosawi4235
    @hassanal-mosawi4235 Před rokem +1

    Heavy stuff WOW, and it looks good in your big shop!

  • @brucewelty7684
    @brucewelty7684 Před rokem

    THAT looks like a typical engine lathe for METAL working. Main chuck, tool post, et al.

  • @oneshotme
    @oneshotme Před rokem +1

    Looks great and you did a wonderful job restoring it!!
    Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

  • @onthehuron
    @onthehuron Před 10 měsíci

    Great job! I know some old machinists that would be in awe of your work.

  • @kalmanszeles8666
    @kalmanszeles8666 Před rokem

    hi Olivier ,this work was beatiful restoring ,i'm also a woodpecker ,but i retaired old man,this work was so-so beautiful ,congrat ,Koloman from Hungary ,Budapest,yes i now what is restoring a'm also worked in in an Hungary museum along 37-years along, thank you,take care on your hands. by-by.thank you again.

  • @samanthadean1083
    @samanthadean1083 Před rokem +1

    Fantastic job!!! ❤️❤️❤️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @Horacio-Lorenzo
    @Horacio-Lorenzo Před rokem

    Bonjour Olivier, je te félicite pour la restauration du tour, c'est toujours bien de sauvegarder un peu l'histoire de nos métiers, je suis mécanicien et j'ai aussi restauré des outils anciens.Je vous envoie un gros câlin et des bénédictions pour vous et votre famille de Buenos Aires Argentine.

  • @shirleyannconfer9651
    @shirleyannconfer9651 Před rokem

    This is a neat video. I really liked watching you adapt this machine to the new motor.

  • @superilu
    @superilu Před rokem

    I was like "wait, Hand Tool Rescue" surely has changed, with no beard and all... :)
    Nice job!

  • @maggienelson4437
    @maggienelson4437 Před rokem

    There is no end to the imagination in these videos.

  • @stewartmcmanus3991
    @stewartmcmanus3991 Před rokem

    I liked the tool adapting, hand tools to lathe tools, easy !!!

  • @craftsmanwoodturner
    @craftsmanwoodturner Před rokem +2

    The thing I found most fascinating (apart from your amazing restoration abilities) was that so many of the features of modern woodturning lathes were already present on a model from the Victorian era! The advancing tailstock quill, the morse taper, the scroll chuck (even if it is only a 3-jaw one, with no carriers or interchangeable jaw sets).

  • @torneandomadeira
    @torneandomadeira Před rokem +4

    Sensacional 👍👍👍👍👍

  • @deeskinner9014
    @deeskinner9014 Před rokem

    Wow....Not only are you an artist of wood, but a restorer of the first order! Well done!
    Thank you so much for posting, always learn a ton from one of your videos

  • @JDubyafoto
    @JDubyafoto Před rokem

    What a wonderful and fulfilling project! It's a beautiful machine!

  • @jean-louishoules5198
    @jean-louishoules5198 Před rokem +1

    Génial, superbe. 😃👍

  • @mimimaitri1
    @mimimaitri1 Před rokem

    Wow, what a beautiful piece of equipment.

  • @mattlunetta490
    @mattlunetta490 Před rokem

    Very cool resto. That’s a very large hunk of metal. It turned out beautifully.

  • @kimodonnell7405
    @kimodonnell7405 Před rokem

    I'm completely in awe of your determination and problem solving skills. You rock!

  • @yeagerxp
    @yeagerxp Před rokem

    Very good restoration 👍👍👍Thank you for sharing. Be safe🇨🇦

  • @ttopero
    @ttopero Před 6 měsíci

    This seems like a metal lathe, but it seems to fit your precision & mechanical-leveraged way of working. I enjoy the diversity of your use of so many unique tools to increase precision for unique results!

  • @haemhorrhoidian
    @haemhorrhoidian Před rokem

    Wow 😲 what a beautiful lathe,you really did make it shine again,well done you Oliver 🙂 you can be very proud to have done it justice 🙂

  • @baptistemonbillard3445

    Super Job ! Très heureux que tu en soit le nouvel héritier ! Bravo Olivier vraiment 🙏

  • @dr.shadox4927
    @dr.shadox4927 Před rokem +1

    j'adore les video de restauration ^^
    et ton atelier est trop bien , ca change du garage ^^

  • @k9insomniac783
    @k9insomniac783 Před rokem

    I have a super old cast iron scroll saw I found at a recycling center. This kind of inspires me to tear it down and try to bring it back. You did an excellent job. Everything on those old lathes are heavy and blunt. I don’t know how anyone could have done any better work to revive it. My hats off to ya sir.

  • @jackthompson5092
    @jackthompson5092 Před rokem

    What a cool lathe Olivier.

  • @tripod6406
    @tripod6406 Před rokem

    I don't know how I missed this when you first released this video, but I have to say you did a fantastic job on the restoration of this lathe, now I'm going to show my age, I remember using a lathe very similar to this when I first started learning metalwork and fabrication, this is a stunning example of they built things to last back then. Keep up the great content youngster I really d9 enjoy your video's.

  • @nayosk8899
    @nayosk8899 Před rokem

    Beautiful ! I like the idea of tensioning the belt with the motor own weight, simple and smart !

    • @keithremnant7234
      @keithremnant7234 Před rokem

      That's exactly how my small old Record ;lathe is powered and geared. But with a protetive hingerd cover over the belts!! Good job pal.

  • @thegag64
    @thegag64 Před rokem

    Impressive restoration!!!!!!!

  • @georgebrown8312
    @georgebrown8312 Před rokem

    Wonderful. It must have taken a lot of hard work to disassemble the lathe and clean the parts free of all rust. It looks much better and it works like a charm too. Excellent work.

  • @blackraven8805
    @blackraven8805 Před rokem

    A true monster of a lathe. Congrats..

  • @FranWhitten
    @FranWhitten Před rokem +3

    WOW! Very impressive restoration. You did yourself proud. Having a piece of history is pretty great too.

  • @timf6916
    @timf6916 Před rokem

    A lot work, LOOKS GOOD

  • @wtfBrad
    @wtfBrad Před rokem +1

    This was really great to watch! Even if it doesn't get much use, you still brought it back to being a beautiful machine that can possibly still handle smaller jobs just to show it off in action. And great reflexes when that block flew off!

  • @egparis18
    @egparis18 Před rokem

    Very impressive. Congratulations.

  • @elainehoward8822
    @elainehoward8822 Před rokem +2

    Wow Oliver, this is a new string to your bow, and what a start, this piece was huge, and went from doing nothing, to becoming a great addition to your workshop. Thanks for another brilliant project ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

  • @neesr13
    @neesr13 Před rokem

    That was very interesting. Hope to see it in use in the future.

  • @bryanhowland8772
    @bryanhowland8772 Před rokem

    Very cool! A great piece of history saved from the scrap pile.

  • @OriginalMomo
    @OriginalMomo Před rokem

    Wow. Beautiful old lathe.

  • @davidmahoy4478
    @davidmahoy4478 Před rokem

    You did a beautiful job of restoring this lathe. It looks better than my old 1946 Delta Milwaukee lathe, and mine does not have a live tail stock center. Your lathe has the features of a metal lathe. Very interesting!

  • @divalea
    @divalea Před rokem

    Awesome to get a new video, and I love seeing old tools and machines.
    But let’s talk about how HUGEHUGE your shop is! You have a ding-dang second level to raise and lower heavy parts from! Woah!

  • @MASI_forging
    @MASI_forging Před rokem

    Great job, another gorgeous creation 👍👍

  • @ianbedwell4871
    @ianbedwell4871 Před rokem +1

    Great job. I though it more an engineering lathe with three jaw chuck and cross slides as you said but what a wonderful base for wood turning. Was amazed how good that chuck looked considering the age of it.

    • @raycarnis9540
      @raycarnis9540 Před rokem

      My thoughts are that it's a pattern makers lathe.

  • @laurentmell5989
    @laurentmell5989 Před rokem

    Ce tour à bois est magnifique.

  • @lador0709
    @lador0709 Před rokem +1

    Me encanta el trabajo de restauración que has hecho, fenomenal

  • @M0UNTAINEER
    @M0UNTAINEER Před rokem

    I need a big lathe like that, nice job 👌

  • @Barnagh1
    @Barnagh1 Před rokem

    You’ve done a good job. You should follow Keith Rucker and David Richards (Old Steam-powered Machine Shop) if you don’t already do so. I also think it was an engineering lathe, never a wood turning one. You now need a steam tractor with a threshing wheel to drive it.

  • @terrystover7365
    @terrystover7365 Před rokem

    Impressive work you've done. I wondered why you didn't just use the existing pulleys by machining them for vbelts.

  • @user-br8vz8en3m
    @user-br8vz8en3m Před rokem

    very good work

  • @bwrightaway2877
    @bwrightaway2877 Před rokem

    Very cool. Good job!

  • @fionanaylor6104
    @fionanaylor6104 Před rokem

    What a beast of a lathe…nice to see it getting some tlc 🙂

  • @sct27271
    @sct27271 Před rokem

    It is super cool! You did a great job, Olivier 👌👌👍👍

  • @staceyritchie7100
    @staceyritchie7100 Před rokem

    Very niiiiicce!

  • @TheMessyStudio
    @TheMessyStudio Před rokem

    Great looking resto, Olivier!

  • @ralphrohr
    @ralphrohr Před rokem

    Nice Job!!

  • @ivanovrf2012
    @ivanovrf2012 Před rokem

    Супер находка!!! 👍

  • @bryanmccabe3632
    @bryanmccabe3632 Před rokem

    Well done sir I wish I could have half the talent you do you are inspiring

  • @kevinleee3408
    @kevinleee3408 Před rokem

    Neat

  • @mamamama1428
    @mamamama1428 Před rokem

    super 👍👍👍

  • @Evgeny100lyar
    @Evgeny100lyar Před rokem +1

    👍

  • @ragnkja
    @ragnkja Před rokem

    How glad were you to have documented how you took the lathe apart when it was time to put it back together?

  • @damarcastro768
    @damarcastro768 Před 9 měsíci

    Ficou muito bom

  • @josephthompson4615
    @josephthompson4615 Před 9 měsíci

    Thats a metal turning lathe!

  • @MargaretGeorgemgse
    @MargaretGeorgemgse Před 11 měsíci

    This type of lathe would have been used by my great grandfather!

  • @surytx
    @surytx Před rokem

    Super

  • @revdupartist9386
    @revdupartist9386 Před rokem

    I bow to your talent...again. I would not have ANY idea what to do with that. When you were pulling it apart, my thought was he's taking them all apart, how is he going to know/remember what parts went where....lol.... Ya, I'm not a mechanic.... Plus, my ADHD over reacted.

  • @cjcorrigan
    @cjcorrigan Před rokem

    You should meet up with @tysytube ! He’s got a restoration channel and is based out of Paris. (No I’m not a dumb American. I know it’s a big country. You guys are just my 2 favorite CZcamsrs and I’d love to see a collab!)

  • @monosit1453
    @monosit1453 Před rokem

    Süper .

  • @Ivan_Baev_45
    @Ivan_Baev_45 Před rokem

    👍👍👍

  • @kennystanton9516
    @kennystanton9516 Před rokem

    How in the.... did you get your hands on that????. That is a nice one. I have a friend in Virginia has one that his dad built in the 70s.
    It is 10ft long. Is Dad built it to do real long spindles for Like beds and stuff like that.
    It has two motors on it

  • @summerstorm5652
    @summerstorm5652 Před rokem

    I'm thinking this is a metal lathe. Not for woodworking and event so... it should be in a museum.

  • @stormkhan4250
    @stormkhan4250 Před rokem

    Nice restoration good job.
    I'm guessing the 'metal' working cross slide part might have been used to turn wood in a more accurate fashion than by hand. It simply copies metal working lathes by incorporating a cross slide. I say this since the cross slide does not seem to have measurement marks as would be seen if it really was a metal working attachment. Used for more commercial purposes is my guess. As you discovered, the chuck is more recent than the lathe itself. What you have looks to be originally a wood lathe repurposed to turn metal possibly. Wonder what happened to the original chuck!
    On a different note: I realise you are a wood worker but perhaps you could get someone to manufacture a metal motor mounting instead of that plywood one you made. It does not look like it is going to last the wear and tear of a fairly powerful motor stressing it for too long. Wouldn't like to see a 20+ kg running motor suddenly break its mount and fall to the floor... One last suggestion: perhaps add a VFD to control the motor speed, it might reduce the wear on those ancient brass style bearings.

  • @AlainStar
    @AlainStar Před rokem

    👏👍💪

  • @mungtor
    @mungtor Před rokem +1

    lol at about 4:30.. I'm thinking that's the same wire bush that started the project, just on its last legs now.

    • @OlivierGomis
      @OlivierGomis  Před rokem

      That's exacly right, and I got free acuponcure!