How To Hold Parts In The Lathe (When There's NOTHING To Grab!)

In today's video we've got to get VERY creative to grab a super oddball part - the 18" Pilot Bit for our 10 foot (3m) Megadrill. It needs a few final touch-ups before assembly... which is fine... But there's no EASY way to grab that big sucker in the lathe. Not even in the 11 Ton Megabore. So we had to get creative. Join us for some Friday fun in the machine shop! Enjoy. About HAL Heavy Duty: We're a real life machine shop for a 60 year old drilling company located in Central Queensland, Australia. Our job is to keep rigs running in the field - fixing all the stuff drillers break and creating all the custom gear they need to get the job done! We run two CNC's, manual repair lathes, a few mills and a big green Megabore Lathe we call "THE HULK"... and are constantly having to make weird and wonderful tools for odd (usually oversize) jobs. We're a little shop that takes on big projects, and the latest is our MEGADRILL project where we're manufacturing a 3.0m (10 foot!) drill bit that'll weigh upward of 20 tonnes and we're getting ready to send it 250m (800+ feet) deep. If you want to catch up on the progress... here's the latest on the project. https://youtu.be/OKPr15PucGQ?si=dTVN39xDaAYi3Je9 https://youtu.be/mK3slsayuZM?si=kB4koTj7MrkngnlJ https://youtu.be/qtsz7cLtDY8?si=LL-ip0p-M-FVsoTs https://youtu.be/j_g8wMRu7wc?si=_PO-F-opHgggzjU1 https://youtu.be/r796Mw4j1gM?si=_9yPWEgUw4b10d5e We release our weekly video at 1pm Friday (AEST), so be sure to subscribe if you want to see stuff you really won't find anywhere else!