Comments on: Free Metalworking Project Plans: Ball Turning Toolpost (Lathe, Mill)

By: Barry the Machinist guy

Barry the Machinist guy — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:45:54 +0000

This is an excellent design. I have been thinking of adapting this design to my Atlas lathe for some time. Way to go Tyler.

By: bob

bob — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:36:32 +0000

Liked it so much I bought the soundtrack!

By: admin

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:56:12 +0000

Hi Josh,

Glad to hear that you liked the site. My hope is that people new to machining will find simple, yet useful (and hopefully somewhat inspiring) projects to “cut their teeth” on. Eventually I’d like to expand the site a bit to include a few instructional videos that walk you through the project step by step. Even with a set of plans, someone completely new to machining would still have trouble getting started with even the most simple of projects.

Let me know if I can be of any help along the way as you start to hone your skills on the lathe. Good luck and have fun!

By: Joshua Alleman

Joshua Alleman — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:09:16 +0000

Hey, great site! I’m very excited to find your site… I plan on “cutting my teeth” and doing some of your projects to better my skill on the lathe. (Rather new to it) I’m thinking that this ball cutter tool could be used to also cut domes in metal by facing the cutter outward. This will be killer for modifying and making cylinder heads on scooter engines. Thanks for the great site! When I find the time, I’ll also post a link on my scooter forum. (http://forum.scooterinvasion.net)

~Josh

By: Ralph (AKA Divided head)

Ralph (AKA Divided head) — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:32:08 +0000

Hi Tyler,

I think that MadModder has quite a few “guest” hits…. Just that only a few like to join and share!
Glad the link is sending some your way too (even the Mad boss himself! ;-) )

I’ve got a few things of my own design I have made but the plans are either not drawn up properly or (most of the time) there never were any! I make a lot of things on the fly.
If I use someone elses plans then they’re always listed or linked to.

Lately,I’ve been making a couple of small fun engine type ideas, all from my head, inspired by others though :-) None of them finished yet…. need to get myself back out into the cold workshop!

Happy that the vid’ is helping, glad to see more projects being listed since I first found my way here. I’m going to have a good look through.

Very, very good site you have here :-)

Ralph.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:43:13 +0000

Oh, and the ball turner plans are still the most highly downloaded of all the plans (with nearly 1000 downloads after just 1 month), and I’m sure its due to your video. That should make you proud!

Tyler

By: admin

admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:38:50 +0000

Hey Ralph, thanks for the plug on MadModder.net – I’ve been noticing a few hits from that URL over the past several days so I checked it out and saw your posts. Thanks for the Kudos! It’s resulted in several hits. In fact, MadModder.net is the 7th largest incomming link currently, so I guess the forum isn’t as small as you might think, or maybe you just wrote such a compelling plug that it’s getting a 100% clickthrough from everyone who reads it :)

Have you been working on anything else lately? I’d love to feature another project if you’ve got the plans to go along with it. Let me know or feel free to submit via the “Submit Your Plans!” tab at the top of the page.

Thanks again for the kind words, you’re helping the site grow by spreading the word.

Tyler

By: Ralph (AKA Divided head)

Ralph (AKA Divided head) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:31:02 +0000

Hi,
I’ve posted a couple of links there (got permission first)
It’s only a small site at the mo’ but it’s growing. The post of the link has had 35+ views already and I’ve posted it on the ball turner posts I did there too….

Hope it sends a few your way :-)

Ralph.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:36:01 +0000

By the way, if your forum allows it, maybe you could post a link to this site so others interested in building the ball turner can find a copy of the plans (if you do that though, be sure to also post a link to Steve’s site, I’m certainly not trying to steal his thunder!).

Anyway, a link on your forum would definitely help spread the word about ProjectsInMetal.com, which I would greatly appreciate!

Just a thought … :)

By: admin

admin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:29:33 +0000

Are you talking about this link?

http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=741.0

Feel free to share any additional info/links for this project. At the moment the ball turner plans are the most downloaded of all the plans on the site, so it’s obviously a popular project.

Also, if you have plans for any other projects that you’ve made, please consider uploading them. I really like the projects I’ve seen of yours on YouTube – feel free to share plans and links for anything that you think visitors might enjoy. That’s what this site is here for!