Mini Lathe Cross Slide Improvements

In this film I give an overview of the modifications I've made to improve the performance of the cross slide on my 7x14 Chinese mini lathe. I replace the hard to use graduated dial, add bearings, increase the cross slide travel and make a replacement gib strip.

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Approximate imperial sizes are shown. They're not direct equivalents, but are intended to give the non-metric viewer a rough feel for what I'm doing.

Made with subtitles -click the CC box.

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For the material I couldn't capture myself, my thanks goes to the following:


Whoosh by Aysonny
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Shot: HDC-HS700 1920x1080 50P AVCHD
Edit: FCP7 ProRes 422
Mic: DR-05