Videos

Rudy Kouhoupt, covers' basics of facing, boring and turning on the lathe. Included are plans and directions for a project to practice your skills. Making a boring bar holder for lathe and boring bars. Time 1 hour, 35 minutes.

Rudy Kouhoupt, offers you a number of more sophisticated and useful techniques you can apply to your own lathe work. An outline and feed/speed charts are supplied with the video. Time 2 hour, 30 minutes.

Rudy Kouhoupt, discuses lathe cutting tools in depth, and then describes how each would be ground properly for optimum metal cutting. Also included are plans to build a grinding table that will increase your accuracy when grinding you lathe tools. Time 1 hour, 45 minutes.

Rudy Kouhoupt, using just a small mill and your lathe, you can learn how to cut your own spur gears. Terms and techniques all covered. Charts and tables included. Time 43 minutes.

Rudy Kouhoupt, you may remember Rudy’s article in the Home Shop Machinist called "Old Iron." In this video, he shows you the many applications his little shaper is capable of and how to do it. An outline is provided. Time 2 hour.

Rudy Kouhoupt shows you how to build your speedy little horizontal steam engine from Rudy’s plans and description. Rudy does it all on a little Sherline lathe and milling machine. Plans and outline included. Time 3 hours, 40 minutes

A master machinist discusses and demonstrates the metal lathe. Layout, setup, facing, offset turning, boring, thread cutting, tool grinding, and more. Also, a discussion of recommended tools to get started. By Steve W. Chellis and Robert M. Bailey Copyright 1992. Time 1 hour 1 minute

North American Model Engineering Society’s 1998 meet at Wyandotte, Michigan. A video of the exhibits, you will see and hear some of the engines run. There are engines, engines, and more engines,… from classic hit and miss and Stirling engines to original designs. View the workmanship of other machinists involve in the meet. Time ???

See Dave Gingery and Robert Bailey demonstrates green-sand casting. Instructions on where to put the sprues and runners, vents for steam and gas, and just how hard to ram up the sand are skills that are demonstrated. Learn about tools, materials and methods, including sands, tempering, sieves and riddles, rammers, required hardness, deep molds and vent, drawing the pattern, and closing and pouring, shaking out the casting and much more. Time ???

A commercial video about sharpening drill bits, and end mills. This video shows Darex’s complete line of precision sharpening tools. Time ???

Welding -- Henrob 2000

A commercial video about oxygen/acetylene cutting and welding. Items covered, oxidation, fuel consumption and pressure, flame pressure, distortion/heat dispersion, needs for specialty rod and flux. Demonstration shows kit, which includes, pistol grip welder, 4 welding tips, cutting tip, cutting attachments, guide wheels, heat shield, air-acetylene tip, tip cleaners and manual. Time ???