Me too!!! Nearly 30 years experience working for someone else and now I have my own 'very' small shop. Mainly use it for doing rear end work.....which isn't very often these days.
Didn't say 'in the buff' lolPhew.....after seeing the thread title....I feared the worst....Cranky turning on the lathe wearing only his Mankini.
Worked at a couple of shops that didn't allow sleeves before hiring on at Exxon Baytown refinery and they allowed long sleeves which amazed me....at first. If you don't do dumb stuff, the long sleeves keep the hot chips off of your arms. I usually had a small shield on the carriage but there was always a stray chip that would get past the shield but with sleeves, it didn't create a burn. That was all fine and dandy until someone did something dumb and got hung up and then no more sleeves. Probably worked there 10 years before that happened and the dumbass didn't get hurt but he needed help getting 'unhung'.....but at least he was able to get things stopped before anything real bad happened. Whenever someone got hurt out there, the rules got changed and well, a lot of the rules only made the job harder to do. After 26 years out there, I was glad to retire!
Depending on what I was working on, the 'hammer adjustment' usually did ok especially with working on a large lathe. When I saw that in the vid, it brought back some old memories LOL.
Machining cast iron is sort of different animal. You can hog it pretty good but can't go too high on the spindle speed or you'll burn up the tooling. Most of that vid was probably 2x's fast forward if you didn't notice.
. Little did they know how many shafts that were made in the lathe and never saw the grinder.....all the while thinking that they ALL had to be ground to size. Didn't do the larger shafts that way but did many of the smaller ones.
