Specialized Machining Tasks

The videos embedded below — starting with several U.S. World War 2-era training films — explain in detail how to perform several vital, specialized machining tasks. They’re followed by a huge list of additional video resources on YouTube.

Plain Turning on the Metal Working Lathe

How to Cut a Fine Screw Thread on a Lathe

Machining an Acme Thread

How To Machine a Shaft at Two Different Diameters

How to Shape Single-Point Lathe Cutting Tools

More YouTube Metal-Working Instructional Videos

This extensive list of YouTube videos by “Tubalcain” was originally published on the website of the New England Model Engineering Society. It was assembled by YouTube user mrpete222.

The YouTube Tubalcain has created the vast array of instructional videos on metal-working topics listed below. About the original Tubal-cain, from Wikipedia:

“Genesis 4:22 says that Tubal-cain was the "forger of all instruments of bronze and iron" or an "instructer of every artificer in brass and iron" . Although this may mean he was a metalsmith, a comparison with verses 20 and 21 suggests that he may have been the very first artificer in brass and iron. T. C. Mitchell suggests that he "discovered the possibilities of cold forging native copper and meteoric iron." Tubal-cain has even been described as the first chemist"

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