Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
In this video I'm making two parts for Ronald Finger's Datsun 280Z. He reached out to me if I can machine some parts for him on the lathe. As always I'm always in for a good YouTube collaboration. He sent me the technical drawings with all measurments and I started machining. The shaft is for an ignition distributor upgrade. The most tricky thing is the case hardening on this part. I picked case hardening steel, this steel doesn't contain enough crabon to get hardened, but it has very good abilities to absorb carbon. Having a media with high ammount of carbon together with this steel at high temperatures, will penetrate the carbon into the steel at around 0.1mm per hour. I used crushed charcoal and heated the part for around 5h. This created a layer of 0.5mm on the part with carbon. When hardening this layer gets hard, but the core remains soft for extra strength. The hard layer on this part is needed, because there's a seal running on the bigger diameter. Everything worked out nicely. I hope he likes my parts and the gift.
I hope you like my work and enjoy the video.
Watch Ronnie's video here:
youtube.com/watch?v=jZ38C-M3tyk&t=23s
Huge thank you to all of my Patreon supporters and especially to:
Aaron White
Adel AlSaffar
Alfonso Baz
August Kupfer
Ben Burns
Sigoss Family
Bold Cheddar
Brenna Redpath
Clint Fisher
Dane Prince
Edward Conway
John Shebanow
Joseph Kamps
Josh Ledford
Joshua Scher
Kar
Kerem Yollu
Kyle O'Keefe
Lambda GPU Workstations
Lorraine Hughes
Marcus H.
Mark Tesmer
Michael Fleisher
Nick Houston
NoLoneSurvivor
Peter Pearson
ReddDirt
Ryan Pickett
Scott Tomlin
Shao Zhang
Stefano Di Biase
Stuart
Tyler Carruth
Vickie Bligh
Vince Valenti
Yale Baker
Albert Siemers
Alex Manning
Andre
Anthony Apellido
Anton Pchelkin
Arni Bjorgvinsson
Ben Humphrey
Ben Simmonds
Benny
Bonnie Williamson
Brian Hoerl
Caleb Betczynski
Chad Bryant
Charles D
Chris Faehl
Chris Visscher
Chris Walter
Christian Fjelldal
Christopher Lobay
Crystal Cash
Damien Fuller-Sutherland
Daniel Varga
Dave Hardware
David Chang-Yen
David Lehnus
David P Hruska
David Thompson
Derson Jacomini
Dustin Davis
Eddie
Erik Nordby
Ethan Mc
Hakan Uzunoglu
Jack Curry
JacopoBello
James Hare
Jesus Fernandez Cortes
Joseph Coates
Justin Miller
Kay Smits
Kiro Ivanovski
Laurent Bolli
Leszek Bartczak
Marc Cerisier
Mary Casella
Matteo Capo
Matthew Johnson
MDC
Mihai
Máté Tamás Molnár
Norbert Spaar
Oleksandr
Pat Nakajima
Raoul Kriesi
repülő búgás
Roan Fryer
Robert Landrum
Sam
Sarah B.
Scott Brooks
Scott Marshall
Sean Sands
Sparrow
Spencer Kormos
Stanley Dimant
Stefan Heymanns
Svenja Kuckla
Thanny
Tim Holt
Timofey Lychik
Trevor Kam
Tucker Ifft
William
William Vineyard
Sorry for my bad english, it's not my language. I try my best to improve my technical english.
Thank you for watching :-)
„I make a new one“ T-Shirts:
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My Main Channel:
youtube.com/c/mymechanics
My Patreon Page:
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In this video I'm making two parts for Ronald Finger's Datsun 280Z. He reached out to me if I can machine some parts for him on the lathe. As always I'm always in for a good YouTube collaboration. He sent me the technical drawings with all measurments and I started machining. The shaft is for an ignition distributor upgrade. The most tricky thing is the case hardening on this part. I picked case hardening steel, this steel doesn't contain enough crabon to get hardened, but it has very good abilities to absorb carbon. Having a media with high ammount of carbon together with this steel at high temperatures, will penetrate the carbon into the steel at around 0.1mm per hour. I used crushed charcoal and heated the part for around 5h. This created a layer of 0.5mm on the part with carbon. When hardening this layer gets hard, but the core remains soft for extra strength. The hard layer on this part is needed, because there's a seal running on the bigger diameter. Everything worked out nicely. I hope he likes my parts and the gift.
I hope you like my work and enjoy the video.
Watch Ronnie's video here:
youtube.com/watch?v=jZ38C-M3tyk&t=23s
Huge thank you to all of my Patreon supporters and especially to:
Aaron White
Adel AlSaffar
Alfonso Baz
August Kupfer
Ben Burns
Sigoss Family
Bold Cheddar
Brenna Redpath
Clint Fisher
Dane Prince
Edward Conway
John Shebanow
Joseph Kamps
Josh Ledford
Joshua Scher
Kar
Kerem Yollu
Kyle O'Keefe
Lambda GPU Workstations
Lorraine Hughes
Marcus H.
Mark Tesmer
Michael Fleisher
Nick Houston
NoLoneSurvivor
Peter Pearson
ReddDirt
Ryan Pickett
Scott Tomlin
Shao Zhang
Stefano Di Biase
Stuart
Tyler Carruth
Vickie Bligh
Vince Valenti
Yale Baker
Albert Siemers
Alex Manning
Andre
Anthony Apellido
Anton Pchelkin
Arni Bjorgvinsson
Ben Humphrey
Ben Simmonds
Benny
Bonnie Williamson
Brian Hoerl
Caleb Betczynski
Chad Bryant
Charles D
Chris Faehl
Chris Visscher
Chris Walter
Christian Fjelldal
Christopher Lobay
Crystal Cash
Damien Fuller-Sutherland
Daniel Varga
Dave Hardware
David Chang-Yen
David Lehnus
David P Hruska
David Thompson
Derson Jacomini
Dustin Davis
Eddie
Erik Nordby
Ethan Mc
Hakan Uzunoglu
Jack Curry
JacopoBello
James Hare
Jesus Fernandez Cortes
Joseph Coates
Justin Miller
Kay Smits
Kiro Ivanovski
Laurent Bolli
Leszek Bartczak
Marc Cerisier
Mary Casella
Matteo Capo
Matthew Johnson
MDC
Mihai
Máté Tamás Molnár
Norbert Spaar
Oleksandr
Pat Nakajima
Raoul Kriesi
repülő búgás
Roan Fryer
Robert Landrum
Sam
Sarah B.
Scott Brooks
Scott Marshall
Sean Sands
Sparrow
Spencer Kormos
Stanley Dimant
Stefan Heymanns
Svenja Kuckla
Thanny
Tim Holt
Timofey Lychik
Trevor Kam
Tucker Ifft
William
William Vineyard
Sorry for my bad english, it's not my language. I try my best to improve my technical english.
Thank you for watching :-)
„I make a new one“ T-Shirts:
teespring.com/stores/my-mechanics
My Main Channel:
youtube.com/c/mymechanics
My Patreon Page:
patreon.com/mymechanics
