Micro-Machining with the Taig Micro Lathe
Would you like to be able to see for yourself what can be done on a Taig micro-lathe, with just minimal tooling and expense? Are you somewhat undecided about acquiring one of these small but very capable tools and somehow wished you could just see one being put through its paces before opening your wallet? Well, wait no more! Finally there is a DVD that will answer most of your basic questions about this lathe. Initial setup hints will be discussed, during a thorough tour of the lathe and its basic components. This will be followed with a complete hands-on demonstration of all the basic machining operations possible on this tool. These will include:
Facing;
Turning;
Grooving;
cut off or parting cuts;
chamfering;
center drilling;
drilling;
reaming;
tapping;
thread cutting with a die;
boring cuts;
milling and much more!
Basic Taig Micro-Lathe Techniques
Running Time: Approximately two hours

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Advanced Taig Peatol Micro Lathe Opeartions (Ref: DVD4)

Advanced Micro Machining on the Taig Micro-Lathe
See the Taig Micro-Lathe perform some of the most unorthodox machining techniques most thought were impossible. Learn how to make 60-50-40 hole indexing plates and how to use it of the Taig. Get that tail stock set to within a few tenths in a couple of minutes with a simple shop made test bar and TDI. See a heavy-duty motorized cross slide drill rig that will perform any radial drilling as well as milling job. See a 50 division graduated dial being engraved with the use of a simple device. Turn the Taig into a miniature 3 in 1 machining center. Would you like a graduated carriage lead screw for your Taig? After viewing this DVD, you will be able to make one in one evening. Learn to make and use several flex shaft milling and grinding units for both the cross slide and the vertical milling attached. How about auto feed for the carriage and cross slide! These are just some of the fun subjects that will be covered in this new and unique production
Advanced Taig Micro-Lathe Micro machining Techniques

Running Time: Approximately four hours

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The 7 x 10 Variable Speed Mini Lathe Operations (Ref: DVD6)

Aimed at owners of this popular style of machine available in the UK under various names including the Clarke 300. Also applicable to owners of many small lathes.
Machining operations on the 7 x 10 variable speed Asian-Made Mini-Lathe
This has been a hot topic in recent months on the internet, various metalworking newsgroups and mailing lists. Now all of your questions, doubts and anything else you may have been wondering about this tool will be answered in a four-hour, no holds barred dvd presentation. The dvd will begin with a full tour of the tool, followed by a complete machining presentation that should put to rest any fears or reservations you may have had about this tool once and for all!!! Not only will you be shown just about every basic machining cut a lathe is able to do, you will also see a complete "milling on the lathe” demonstration adapting the Taig vertical milling slide to the mini-lathe's cross slide. This is an extremely informative presentation that will also double as a perfect machining mini-course.
Running time: Approximately four hours

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Making Gears The Easy Way (Ref: DVD8)

Making Gears the Easy Way
Have you forgone the pleasure of building a small, geared engine simply because the thought of having to cut your own gears brings a shiver down your metalworking spine? Even if you can muster up the nerve, you realize that so called involute gear cutters cost an arm and a leg. You next need a set of eight cutters to enable you to cut the entire range of teeth for 12 to infinite rack. The cost in cutters alone can reach well over $200 before you even begin thinking about arbors to hold them. It’s no wonder many of us will simply go to the nearest gear vendor and put down $50 -$60 for a pair of small brass spur gears.
In this DVD you will learn the secrets of the HOB. You will not only learn how to use a hob, but you will also learn how to build one from scratch right on your small- to medium-size lathe and small milling machine. For a cost of about $3 in raw materials, you can make a hob that will not only enable you to easily make any number/tooth spur gear as well as a worm and worm gear. You will be amazed at how simple gear making can be! You can make any diemetral pitch hob by simply following the diemetral pitch chart that comes with the DVD. The DVD shows a 1/10” pitch spiral and straight hob being made and then used to make gears of various diameters. You will not need to compute anything. All basic diameters for gear blanks for gears of any numbers of teeth will also be included within the info sheets that come with the package. If you rather use a calculator to figure out diameters, easy formulas for that are also included. Once you have used a hob to cut a gear you will wonder why you would use anything else!!!

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Milling Without a Milling Machine (Ref: DVD7)

Milling without a Milling Machine
Are you tired of avoiding machine projects simply because you do not own or have access to a milling machine? Learn some of the secrets to successful milling techniques utilizing your existing lathe as well as a drill press. I know what you must be thinking - this guy must be crazy!!! Milling on a drill press???? I, as well as none other than Rudy Kouhoupt, have been doing just that very thing for years now with entirely good results in finish as well as dimensional accuracy. You will also witness the Taig Micro Lathe being put trough its paces milling a work piece held on the cross slide as well as with the vertical milling accessory. See the Taig with the externally mounted modified micro drill press to convert it into a miniature 3 in 1 machining center. See the 7 x 10 Minilathe in conjunction with the Taig vertical milling accessory performing milling cuts with hardly an effort. We finish the presentation with the 8" modified drill press performing milling on a rough block of stock held on a great little shop made milling vice. This is the only drill press with a micrometer operated locking spindle. See it being used and you too will marvel at its simplicity. After viewing this DVD ,you should be well on your way to the pleasures of milling without having to own a milling machine.
Running time: Approximately two hours

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Making a Milling Machine - 12 HOURS LONG (Ref: DVD9)

This video, by Jose Rodriguez, provides complete instructions for building a milling machine.

THIS SET COMPRISES THREE 4 HOUR DVDS
Jose says: "In this nearly 12 hour long dvd marathon, you will witness the seemingly impossible! Observe the author as he builds a fully operating and capable 80 pound variable speed milling machine with existing TAIG Micro lathe components and readily available stock aluminum material. A commercial heavy duty X & Y milling table is utilized to complete the project. This is definitively not a "TOY" but a complete milling center that will outperform just about anything in its class. For a total expenditure of less than $300. You too could have a tool that will perform better than milling machines costing more than twice as much. This video will take you through every step from its initial conception and planning to and beyond its very successful conclusion in painstaking detail so that you too will be able to easily duplicate this achievement! As an extra bonus, you will be treated to a fully narrative and visual step by step presentation on the building of a 60:1 geared dividing head that with the addition of a simple shop made indexing accessory will allow it to divide anything into as many as 21,600 equal divisions and for that matter, any other number divisible into that. You will also learn how to easily cut perfectly fitting dovetailed sliding joints with the simplest of equipment. These two items alone would be worth the price of this video set. See how to produce a professional quality engraved dial with nothing more than a small lathe ( TAIG ). You will see each component being worked, fitted and assembled as the unit is magically transformed more and more into a "REAL" milling machine. The final two hours or so will be devoted to a full battery of milling operations performed on real components that make up part of the geared dividing head including other milling goodies. During the filming of the final milling tests, cuts were routinely taken on 6061-T6 alloy to depths of over 90 thou with a common imported 1/4" diameter four flute end mill. We do not recommend that you routinely cut to those depths but it sure is nice to be able to so when needed.

This a definite "MUST" for anyone who has grown tired of using alternative milling methods but either is not ready to invest the big bucks for a commercially available bench top milling machine or simply not satisfied with what’s presently available out there.
MILLING MACHINE’S SPECIFICATIONS AND FEATURES

Table dimensions 5-1/2" x 12" with two "T" slots.
"T" slot is 1" wide and stud size is 5/8"
X axis travel is 9".
Y axis travel is 5".
Z axis travel is 8" from highest position to the surface of the milling table.
Lead screw to spindle center distance 5". Adjustable X and Y table stops.
No more than .005" backlash on all three axes.
Head stock locks to prevent possibility of downward drift during heavy cuts.
Re-zero type dials on the X and Y movements.
Heavy duty TAIG spindle and dovetailed head stock with provision for collets either proprietary or WW.
½" drilling capacity.
End mill capacity with Taig Blank arbor holder is ½".
Fly cutter capacity is 2-1/2" diameter.
All slides graduated to .001"
Variable speed permanent magnet DC motor with controller, 500 to 1500 rpm.
Six step machined pulley system giving step less, overlapping, no load speed ranges of 145 to 4900 rpm.
Full array of milling accessories available. Spindle accessories mount directly to the threaded 3/4-16 spindle or insert into the tapered spindle bore and are locked with a draw bar."

THIS SET COMPRISES THREE 4 HOUR DVDS

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Make a Miniature Boring Head (Ref: DVD10)

This DVD by Jose Rodriguez, provides complete instructions for making a miniature boring head.

Jose says: "Watch the author as he builds a fully operational and capable boring head. In this almost two hour DVD you will learn in full detail how to make a boring head with micrometer adjustment feature with very little material and equipment. In fact, although the author uses his home made milling machine to build it, it could be easily built using the TAIG lathe plus milling attachment. You will see the dovetailed components being built from layout to finish. The unit takes 1/4" shank shop made boring bars which you will see as well, although commercial 3/8" bring bars could be substituted instead. The idea here was to make a miniature version of a commercially available boring head complete will all the normal features found on them, but only about 1/2 the overall size. Small machines such as the Taig Micro mill and Sherline milling machines will vibrate when a full size boring head is installed with the head offset even a small amount. This unit is small, compact, but extremely strong and stiff. This will be evident at the end of the video during the actual test, boring out of an existing bore on a work piece. The head itself is adjustable in thousands of an inch with its graduated screw and its male dovetail is kept snug or fully locked during cutting by three gib screws. This unit has a real brass gib rather than the usual practice of slitting the female dovetail to create a pseudo gib. All in all, for the cost of a pack of cigarettes you make a great addition to your tool shelf that will perform for you for a lifetime."

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The Miniature Table Saw (Ref: DVD11)

The Miniature Table Saw
The Art of Miniature Cabinet Making
The Presenter says:

My jump to Micromachining came after almost two decades of designing and building scale reproductions of existing pieces of antique period furniture. Just like in the real world of fine full size cabinet making where accuracy is everything, I will teach you how to scale and produce accurate and realistic cuts, joints and other detail that will make the difference between a toy miniature and a Reproduction true to the original. The table saw is the workhorse in any wood working shop and so it is in the miniature shop as well. Accuracy is also proportional to the scale you are reducing the original. It is therefore extremely important that you not only have a tool capable of such accuracy, but know how to properly coax that level of accuracy out of it.

In this DVD you will learn all about this saw and how to make every cut required for most work cabinet making situations as well as simply how to do it MINI style. Running Time: Approximately one and half hours