You removed the hardness of the taper and the bearing races...they were hardened for a reason...simply spinning it on the lathe and sanding/scuffing/cleaning with scotch-brite would have been ample for cleanup...now it will not last as the bearings will chew up the races...
Unfortunately for me it didn't fit my lathe. I had to turn the tail to change from Morse MT4 as it was from the factory, to MT3 to fit. The bearings were removed and did not suffer during warm up and the tail is still extremely hard for my little hobby lathe. Thank you for your comment!
@@JIMMY916 I missed the part about having to change the MT4 to a MT3...I guess then if you had to make it fit and the hardened shank was too hard to cut even with carbide tooling then it was a good mod and you saved the live center from the scrap bin...so I retract my previous statement and change to a thumbs up...(forgive us armchair machinists...we jump to conclusions too easily) subbed...waiting to see more
I know that the audience that looks at this kind of content is a very demanding audience ( most are former machinists ) or they are good connoisseurs. The fact that you fast-forwarded the video is my fault because I didn't manage to make you watch the whole video. I would be lying if I said that I don't want to receive positive comments, but the ”negative” ones also make me understand some things. And anyway, I consider all of you my friends and you are no exception. Even more so after the last comment.
True what you say. Unfortunately, we are sometimes a bit wasteful and easily give up objects that can still be used, which is definitely not good. Thank you for watching and for your comment sir !
Did you re harden the taper off camera? I'm not sure the process of case hardening but if you were able to anneal it you should have the right equipment for it.
The reason why I had to heat it in the fire was to be able to turn it. From MT4 made by the factory to MT3 as my lathe uses. After being heated and cooled slowly, it's hardness remained very high ( I barely managed to turn it ). So re harden is not necessary for me. My hobby and small lathe has no way of ever failing this live center. Thank you very much for your comment ! P.S. My camera is never off :))
They wew already butchered and I don't think I could open them with a pin spanner because of the rust. I will definitely not need to go there again and if I still have to, I will rectify those holes and use a pin spanner to make everyone happy. Thank your for watching
Love the video and the effort to give an old tool a new life … away from the trash heap.
Thank you very much sir !
You removed the hardness of the taper and the bearing races...they were hardened for a reason...simply spinning it on the lathe and sanding/scuffing/cleaning with scotch-brite would have been ample for cleanup...now it will not last as the bearings will chew up the races...
Unfortunately for me it didn't fit my lathe. I had to turn the tail to change from Morse MT4 as it was from the factory, to MT3 to fit. The bearings were removed and did not suffer during warm up and the tail is still extremely hard for my little hobby lathe. Thank you for your comment!
@@JIMMY916 I missed the part about having to change the MT4 to a MT3...I guess then if you had to make it fit and the hardened shank was too hard to cut even with carbide tooling then it was a good mod and you saved the live center from the scrap bin...so I retract my previous statement and change to a thumbs up...(forgive us armchair machinists...we jump to conclusions too easily) subbed...waiting to see more
I know that the audience that looks at this kind of content is a very demanding audience ( most are former machinists ) or they are good connoisseurs. The fact that you fast-forwarded the video is my fault because I didn't manage to make you watch the whole video. I would be lying if I said that I don't want to receive positive comments, but the ”negative” ones also make me understand some things. And anyway, I consider all of you my friends and you are no exception. Even more so after the last comment.
Nice rebuild. Any time you can rebuild and save something from the trash is a good project...
True what you say. Unfortunately, we are sometimes a bit wasteful and easily give up objects that can still be used, which is definitely not good. Thank you for watching and for your comment sir !
Very nice work sir
Thank you Mr. Rusty !
Nice project❤
Thank you very much! I'm happy that you liked it.
Love all process
Thank you very much !
Did you re harden the taper off camera? I'm not sure the process of case hardening but if you were able to anneal it you should have the right equipment for it.
The reason why I had to heat it in the fire was to be able to turn it. From MT4 made by the factory to MT3 as my lathe uses. After being heated and cooled slowly, it's hardness remained very high ( I barely managed to turn it ). So re harden is not necessary for me. My hobby and small lathe has no way of ever failing this live center. Thank you very much for your comment ! P.S. My camera is never off :))
Make a pin spanner instead of butchering up the holes. So many things wrong here.
They wew already butchered and I don't think I could open them with a pin spanner because of the rust. I will definitely not need to go there again and if I still have to, I will rectify those holes and use a pin spanner to make everyone happy. Thank your for watching