How to Properly Maintain & Lubricate a Small Metal Lathe - Basic Tutorial - SMITHY GRANITE 3-in-1

This Video Shows the Viewer How to Properly Maintain & Lubricate a Small Metal Lathe - Basic Tutorial - SMITHY GRANITE 3-in-1 Quote from Video about machine tool maintenance: "Machine tool maintenance is all about maintaining the right conditions to produce high quality cuts. It's not something you can think of only in terms of four thousand mile oil changes and fifty thousand mile tune ups. It's more than that. Machine tool maintenance is an on-going activity that combines periodic machine adjustments with good work habits on a day to day basis. Operating the machine in a safe manner, and in a clean work environment is the first step to preventing accidental damage to the machine's components." _______________________ Check out the Smithy Industries Youtube Channel to view more videos about machine tool operation, maintenance and set up. Subscribe to release new videos about machining from Smithy _______________________ This lathe-mill-drill combo machine sets the standard for premium quality bench top machine tools. Putting a combination machine tool in your shop allows you to have the capabilities of a small machine shop without sacrificing too much floor space. The Granite 3-in-1 “big machine” features and premium quality is comparable to other larger, more expensive machine tools. PLUS, you'll have three machines in one. Nearly 30,000 Smithy machines are working hard every day in shops across North America. This fact let's you know that Smithy machines do set the standard for quality. ______________________ Smithy website homepage: www.smithy.com Granite Lathe Mill Drill Product page: https://smithy.com/granite-3-in-1 Please call us at 800-476-4849 to discuss your application needs E-mail: [email protected] Remember to like and subscribe. ______________________ Granite - Quality, Precision, and Reliability Are Built-In. Premium Bench Top Machine Tool America's #1 - for over 25 years. PRECISION: Compares to more expensive tools. BALANCE: Easy change over for different operations. FEATURES: Pro features help you work faster. MASS: Heavy castings add more precision. RELIABILITY: Designed and built for a lifetime of work. _______________________ As Close As You’ll Get to American Made 1) US Developed and Designed: The Granite Machine was designed by our engineers in Ann Arbor, Michigan based on machine user requests. 2) Precision is far higher than other 3-in-1 knock-offs: All components are machined to tighter specs, bearings are much higher grade, and the basic design is initially higher precision. 3) Higher Quality Production: Smithy employees oversee the production and quality control process at our sister factory of more than 25 years. No other seller can make that claim. 4) Superior Features: No machine out there can match the speed and accuracy with which you can accomplish your machining tasks on a Granite machine. Other 3-in-1 combo tools on the market are NOT EVEN in the same category for quality as the Smithy line of machine tools. ___________________ More of this Machine Tool Maintenance Video Transcript: "This is especially true with the ways. Any nicks or damage to the surface of the ways will prevent the carriage from seating. To prevent accidental damage use a lathe board whenever you are changing chucks or mounting heavy work pieces. If the chuck slips out of your hands, the lathe board will prevent it from falling on the weighs. The ways are not a shelf for your tools. Keep your tools off the lathe, put them on another table, or on a shelf below the lathe. Don't put tools on an open shelf above the machine where they can vibrate off and fall onto the ways. It's also very important to clean metal chips as your work progresses. This is not only the acceptable, safe way to work, it will also prevent small chips, or filings, from scoring the surface of the weighs. A good shop vac makes simple work of the small chips. I don't recommend blowing the chips away with a compressed air hose. It's dangerous and it just forces the chips deeper into the machine's bearings. Special precaution should be taken for dusty materials, like wood, plastics, and cast iron, because the dust will cling to all the machine's lubrication. The dust from cast iron is also very abrasive."