Valentine's day is coming up next month. Nothing says I love you like a full sheet plasma table. And don't skimp on the features, they notice things like that.
DoRite Fabrication my mom is crafty and I’ve been trying to convince her she needs to buy a glowforge too since it’s not exactly in a college kids budget 😂😂
like This was at 420 likes, and I can't ruin that. Given the recent change removing the dislike count on videos, I'm starting to just comment "like" or "dislike".
This device was invented to make use of the vast surplus of coily cords for telephone receivers. Since nobody has a phone on the kitchen wall anymore, all those the coily cords would've ended up in the ocean and choked dolphins or something. THANK YOU to the Greek people for saving the planet!
So here's why the mounting point is in the middle, physics-wise: it's all about resonance and damping vibration. The piezos make the moving part longer and shorter, but they do it so fast that one way or another, both ends are gonna move in opposite directions. If your mounting point is at the back end, the vibration gets transferred to the handle of the tool and your hand, and the energy gets absorbed. If you mount it at its center of mass, the CM doesn't move, so the handle doesn't vibrate and no energy gets lost. It's like a wine glass: if you hold it by the stem, it rings nicely, but if you hold one side of the rim and hit the other, you get nothing. Since it's all about resonance, the shape and size of your tool bit matters a lot. I think you'll get the best "ring" when the vibrating thingy is about half as long as the wavelength of sound in the material it's made of. So for 40 khz in steel (6 km/s), you want a resonator 7 cm long, which looks like just about what you've got. For your 60 khz ultrasonic cleaner, you need a *smaller* vibrating element.
What about changing materials to something that transfers the waves faster and dampen less? Wouldn't graphite be better than steel? If it is anything like rf theory then thickness plays a part as well. Fattening your conductor will lower and broaden your band but reduce the selectivity. Does Jacobi's law of power transfer apply here?
So this is Cody's second channel that I keep hearing about. Glad he's taking on the ultrasonic cutter project. He uses enough duct tape and explosives to pull it off properly.
USW-334 超音波小型カッター (Ultrasonic Wave Cutter) 毎秒40,000回の高速振動でクラクラカット！きれいな仕上がり！ (Vibrates 40,000 times a second for dizzying cuts! Produces beautiful works!)
Hi, I'm an ultrasonic tooling engineer at Dukane IAS. I don't know too much about cutting, since that is handled by a different engineer, but I do know a decent amount about designing a horn to weld plastic components together. If you have any questions about ultrasonic welding, I can try to answer to the best of my knowledge, and what isn't covered by an NDA. Additionally, I know that we sell hand probes and generators for welding but those can be pricey and I'm not sure on how to order them, there's an online store, but it doesn't offer a whole lot. There was a comment below by Jason Goodman that had a point about why you need to mount at the nodal point, and all of his reasons are right. The only addition I want to make is that the nodal point will still vibrate, but it will be expanding in and out rather than moving up and down, which is why the cutter needed some padding around the transducer. If you try to grip firmly to the nodal point of a tool with a vice, you'll end up cracking your tool, and if you do it with your hand, you'll get burned. One last thing, ultrasonic cutters are used in the food industry too. Here is a link to a video posted by our Japan office of them doing some cutting with a horn: ruclips.net/video/klBH1HHZx2s/видео.html It's a really neat process and leaves a terrific cut in the food, think things like snack cakes, candy bar centers, and cheese.
@HappyJackington cool video on the food processing!!! Just a few days ago at work, we were thinking that it might be easier to weld together thick webbing tapes instead of trying to sew them together for a certain product, hope ultrasonic welding is the solution.
Thank you so much for buying something and playing with it a bit so I don't have to. I just use a craft knife whilst standing on a washing machine spinning with an anvil in it. Works a treat but hard on the smaller gaskets.
untill you used the "manual" exacto knife, I thought it looked like the ultrasonic cutter was just a regular knife. thanks for doing that, it calmed my skepticism and now I think maybe I might play with one of these!
It's actually very handy for model builders. You can cut various materials with it like Depron, Styrofoam, Lexan, Fiberglass and Carbon sheets, Gaskets and so on! These things are awesome if you build R/C Planes, Cars and Boats or have a model Railroad and have a few things that you want to trim or add details to. My fiance also used them to trim Resin jewellery or for crafting delicate sculptures. It's really useful Micro tool. Oh and for people who like to tinker with electronics, this thing is capable of cutting circuit boards nice and clean!
I have but one question: what kind of otherworldly willpower did it take not to make a joke about grabbing a piece of felt just because you felt like it?
I hadn't heard that song in years. I watched this video, saw your post and guess what's playing on the radio right now? Ted Nugent Stranglehold. Just kidding. Come on Eileen.
For you younger guys, telephone - not your cell phone, used to be this thing you hung on the wall in your house. You'd use it to call people, talk, that sort of thing. When you were done you need to hang it back up on the wall and return to everyday life...
Man, you nailed the oscillating multi-tool on the head. I literally used it twice, once to plunge cut some slot in wood, and a second time to cut the cast of my wife's arm (no joke).
Man, I do a lot of modelling and craft stuff and I can tell you that I would love this thing. Just not enough to spend $300-$450 on one. If somebody could make a good working model for around $50, I'm sure that they would be *very* popular with the crafting crowd. To be honest, I can see no reason at all that this thing costs so much.
Here's a thought.... I'll bet if you put dull xacto blades in it you could get them insanely sharp by turning it on and using the right ceramic stone(s). I'd give it a shot.
it's actually really interesting I had an almost exact same idea I thought if he can't cut the ceramic that would be like him doing 10000 passes on a ceramic object it's so weird that you mention that because I thought the same thing. then again most people that have sharpened something on the bottom of a coffee cup probably thought about it. Matter of fact that might be really ingenious way to make a sharpening device.
@@REDSIX Ditto, I was thinking this is not useful for me, well, not anymore. Though this is a bit more expensive than I would be okay with paying for it.
Man, I still think someone needs to go after building a ~400 kHz transducer. I've heard you can boil water at that level and use it in energy production, but it's nigh impossible to get a transducer at that range without paying an arm or a kidney...
Well I am sure you can use it for more than you think. If you are working with very small objects like figurines it's way easier especially with tough materials. I don't believe you do figurines but micromachines and the likes are very tough.
I am a homebuilder. I do plumbing, framing, concrete work, drywall etc. etc. are use my oscillating tool 2 to 3 times a month for different jobs. It is an extremely versatile tool capable of reaching tight spaces where you would not think of using a saw saw/reciprocating saw. I remember when I first saw the tool I was extremely skeptical, now I wouldn’t leave home without it.
This exactly, when you need to make a slit to wood for cabling, cut a small piece off sheathing board to fit a girder, or flush some wooden structural beam with a doorstep, that is your tool. I cant imagine it having any use in the shop, but on a construction site? Hell yeah.
@@Sup3rman1c I agree in the shop there are more tools at hand, but in the field we find ourselves in some odd situation. Like cutting the bottoms of door jams when you’re installing flooring.
I'm sure someone else has made this comment, but an easy way to see if a plastic is polypropylene is to bend it at as sharp an angle as possible -- PP turns white at the bend, HDPE (for example) does not! Great video!
Great video, thank you for taking the time to upload. very informative and based on this I'm definitely saving up to get one of these for myself and my sons crafting. Thanks again, subbed :)
These things are super versatile! You can turn this ultra sonic cutter into an oscillating multitool by simply plugging the cord into a phone and letting the dial tone do the work. I even use mine as an air chisel by rigging it up to the headphone jack on my boombox and cranking up the bass.
I swear, I actually bought it because Acme Tools and Makita had a deal going where when you bought two "tool only" LXT tools, you got two 5Ah batteries. The Oscillating tool at $99 seemed just as useful as anything else they had on hand at the time. I have not tried using it as a cast saw.
I use my oscillating multi-tool about every other day some months and then not at all for several. Trim work, frame notching in tight places, blind severing nails, cutting out clean holes in drywall or cabinetry, etc. I was the opposite I didn't see a need for it when I was gifted one by a friend; but now, while I don't need it all the time, it's a definitely a hardship not to have it when I do need it.
I bought the cheapest one I could find at harbor freight and used it a bunch installing a laminate floor, and now it sits in the garage. Easily got my money's worth from that project though :)
I kept seeing references to you on AvE's channel and finally checked you out. You had me cracking up man! I love your humor! I especially loved the call tone when you plugged in the cord. Subscribed!
For plastic that’s been solvent or even sonically welded, some time in the freezer followed by a series of sharp taps along the seam will usually separate the welds.
Really love the casual humor, without it this would just be 20 minutes of a fancy knife. Turns out it was actually a stand up show. :D Highly entertaining thank you.
"In addition to the usual Single Men in my area"... 1:35 I had to listen to that part like 5 times in a row to find out about your subbtle joke there. Nice one Tony, as all your videos are. Keep on turning !
I immediately subscribed to Cody's Lab, such a great channel, unfortunately had to unsubscribe from some other channels , you have to be picky right. Channels like oh, This Old Tony ;)
"unfortunately had to unsubscribe from some other channels , you have to be picky right" oh, that is what you have to do? no wonder my subs list is so long. "Channels like oh, This Old Tony" Yeah, that channel is the worst. All that playing with razor blades and not even one little finger cut. Guy has no idea what the internet wants to see.
Ever check out ave? My favorite channel so far. This old Tony; I watch him when I'm bored, and whatever he's talking about sounds interesting. Cody's lab is awesome though, isn't it?
@@lucusloc You don't need razor blades to cut fingers. A cheap steak knife and cutting food without a surface is more than sufficient. _posted two days after lopping off a small slice of my fingertip like an idiot_
Hey Tony, I work as a injection moulder and I think you got the thing about the small number 2 wrong. Most likely bottle caps are produced with a injection tool with up to 50 individual cavities. All of them are numbered through, so if something goes wrong with one of the caps it's easier to find which one. Instead of sprues these cavaties have hotrunners to fill. Basicly a heated channel that leads direct to the surface of the part. Once you identify the cap that has a problem you can simply switch of the electrical power to the heating element and keep on producing with 49parts falling out of the tool, until a toolmaker has time to fix your problem. About what material is used, my best guess would be PE for those caps. All the caps we produce are PE. We manufacture 300-1000Liter IBC (intermediate bulk container) and heating oil tanks up to 4000Liter. The tanks are blowmoulded hdpe and the valves and fittings for the caps are too. This is necessary to make it possible to weld them on, since you can only weld alike plastics together. But there exist differently blended mixtures of HDPE. One for blow molding and and a special blend for injection moulding. The injection moulding blend is slightly more fluid in it's heated state and its easier to form filigree shapes with it.
One additional info I forgot: if the number is printed inside the three arrow recycling symbol, than it's a key number for the plastic used. Search "recycling mark numbers" on Google.
What PE exactly is used for plastic caps? (the soft flexible kind). There are a few kinds to my understanding. The sales person was no help at all. Can you help?
@@danl.4743 There are MANY different materials used for closures. LDPE, HDEP, PE, PP homo copoly nucleated slip agent blah blah and MANY different grades of those materials... Depends on the application food, medical, push on, screw on , living hinge etc. Technical sales from a resin compounder should get you in the ball park for a specific application. If you check online with a closure manufacturer they'd probably have a selection guide of their stocked resins. Been too many years but I *think ldpe is a soft type for say push on one use applications. There are soft PPs as well. Matweb website might help you pair down the 1000's of PE and PP grades available by physical characteristics. TMI, molders sometimes lie with the cavity numbers to fool competitors with their production capacity/cost. :)
@@1boobtube That's informative. Thank you. Specifically I am looking for this material in sheets, so that I could cut flat spacers or shims to custom size, to use below and around the glazing in windows. They need to be firm, but still somewhat soft in order to absorb shocks like when smashing a door or a window shut. Buying these shims ready made to the sizes I want is too difficult. I just want to cut them myself, easy. The consistency of a plastic cap is perfect. So do you know what material I should ask for?
Thanks, Tony! I wonder if this one would be good for mylar stencil cutting? Ideally no melting and a tiny head would be better than the wicked blade for fine turns. I would like one that cuts clear mylar to make faux cut glass things (with or without faux leading). Will check your playlist.
Love your content Tony! I work for an ultrasoincs company that makes plastic welders, (soft) metal welders, cutters and cleaners. Its so cool to see someone home brew an ultrasonic horn and get something that works well. The tune length of your horn is going to horn is play an important factor in how much vibration you get out on the business end of things. @Jason Goodman has got it right that the frequency of of the tool is going to dictate this length. The area were the tool is being held is the node where no vibration occurs. There should be an another node in the center of the horn where you no vibrations occur. If you run your finger there while the piezo is one you'll feel a dead spot. That should be a quarter wavelength. If you measure that distance from the holder to the dead zone it could be a good way to experimentally find the half wavelength you need on your homebrew horn. You can even keep growing the horns by half wavelengths to get longer tools if you need. A big factor in the output amplitude of these tools is the amount of gain in the horn/ system. The larger the mass ratio on the different sides of the horn's node, the more vibrations you will get at the business end. Your homemade horns seems to have a lot of gain, where as the straight necked horn you bought seems to have a 1:1 gain. If you put too much gain in the system you can over stress the material and crack the horn. That nice 40 kHz sound will make a terrible squeal. Fortunately I think that the little power supply would break before you got that far. A place where these cutters shine is in food cutting. The vibrations prevent the food particles from sticking to the horn and you are left with a nice cross section. Try cutting a Twizzler
Great informative video Tony. I was wondering though. If I want to remove bad tracks from a Nickleback cd; Could I use my hacksaw or will a Skilsaw instead of this cutter be more efficient?
If Tony's wife doesn't want it, he should go ahead and send it to the Isle of Man and let Clive perform some thorough reverse engineering. Or send it to AvE and he'll let the smoke out along with all the angry pixies.
Holy moly! Popped on amazon to check the price of this thing, thinking it would be $50-$100 (given the cheap plastic build and low power), but it's $350! Jeez.
Thermal camera on workpiece would be interesting? And with your homebrew cutter, twiddle the drive frequency to find a frequency that results in a maximum (or a minimum, what do I know?) in supply current.
Very interesting and well-presented video. Bits and pieces of humour were on point! You got an instant new sub there. Cheers! :) Quick question: does it give a tingling feeling on the fingers while using it (probably more so on harder materials)?
It seems to me that this tool is perfect for cleaning up 3D prints (e.g. PLA, ABS, TPU), because less force is needed and is therefore ideal for cleaning difficult places of a 3D print.
ack, just give the blister pack to some young child, they can open anything. Seriously though, that was one of my first thoughts when he was putting it through it's paces.
I'll have to admit, I almost unsubbed when I seen you whip out a jawbreaker cd to assault with that sonic spear (the greatest band in the world) but then I realized that my favorite RUclipsr was potentially also a Jawbreaker fan as well and it made my day!
Some of the best content on RUclips. I laughed out loud a lot on this one. I'd like to see how it does with laminated carbon fiber and particularly Kevlar hybrids. Kevlar is murder to cut but adds a lot of toughness for the things I'd want to build with it. I can send some sacrificial pieces for your testing. 😁
Yeah man, always get a good laugh watching these videos... I'm not even halfway through... Jawbreaker!?!?! TONY is A PUNK ROCKER!!!! Tony is... hahaha... Have a great day, take it easy...
Love your videos Tony! I would love for you to make a basic machining video, mostly how to mesure complicated cuts and whatnot, how to find the center of parts. just basic stuff us newbies struggle with
Hey This Old, great video, and just a though about re-visiting your own ultrasonic knife. Those ultrasonic cleaners you based it on need the bucket of water on top as a heatsink, I'd expect the transducers to get hot pretty quick if you do manage to drive them at the full 60w. Stacking a few up like in the commercial one and driving them in phase may avoid them heating as much but still give the same amplitude of vibration. Idk, maybe a heatsink for them? Anyway thanks for the great videos as always.
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Love the intro!
Old Tony Needs some chemistry! SCIENCE UNITE !
So you're going to have a "This Old Cody" intro?
Should have burned the cardboard with the torch.
All the cool boys gather here I see! :D
yeah me too
My wife is a “crafty” woman too. I’m trying to convince her she needs a CNC plasma table. Great video as always!
Valentine's day is coming up next month. Nothing says I love you like a full sheet plasma table. And don't skimp on the features, they notice things like that.
It's like they don't appreciate how much we think about them.@@M3rVsT4H
Nothing says "I love you!" like 10,000 degree ionized gas.
"Honey, with this thing you could cut cookies in shapes you can't even imagine" :p
DoRite Fabrication my mom is crafty and I’ve been trying to convince her she needs to buy a glowforge too since it’s not exactly in a college kids budget 😂😂
"congratulations on your purchase of technology from the year 40,000"
The Emperor Protects
I just came from a Warhammer 40k video on RUclips and now I see your comment. Coincidence? No ... the Emporer Guides!
Praise the Emperor!
I wouldn trust anything fron the year 40k, especially something with a blade
@@bournelucid found the Tau
It's clearly chaos tainted by the writing
Now you can make a mix-CD by cutting and pasting your favorite tracks together.
You'd need to buy an ultrasonic welder for that
naw, Revox can play anything
;D - "That's not how this works! That's not how anything works!"
I tried to erase a file on a CD to make more room on it...
like
This was at 420 likes, and I can't ruin that. Given the recent change removing the dislike count on videos, I'm starting to just comment "like" or "dislike".
Codyslab intro, AvE-style subject, This Old Tony delivery..
And they said Infinity War was the most ambitious cross-over.
Perfectly balanced.
Now we have to kill half of world's machinists
now only a Wintergatan soundtrack and some Clickspring finesse. Sums up to the most valluable RUclips content to me.
And with a colin furze cameo or two in the comments
Uriah Siner I definitely picked up on all those also buddy, glad I wasn’t the only one 😂🤣
Good one Tony
This device was invented to make use of the vast surplus of coily cords for telephone receivers. Since nobody has a phone on the kitchen wall anymore, all those the coily cords would've ended up in the ocean and choked dolphins or something. THANK YOU to the Greek people for saving the planet!
Great innovators the Greeks, ideed it seems like they even invented 2 alphabets
That’s Japanese!
Superslim Anoniem I think it was a joke
I always wondered what they had done with all the surplus phone cords.....
Hey Malacca’s
Holy #&%!
I just checked the price and it's like $400 oO.
By its look (and function) I expected it to be more like $40 - at max...
BTW, nice video ;)
They raised the price after this video
This man spent 350 to 370 on the danm thing
@@justdead101 800,000 subs and a million views ? Nah, he spent your money on this thing.
dammit. i would've bougt it for 20-30, mebbe 40
I’d expect at least 100$ base 40 is basically giving expedite tech for free
I'm greek and i can confirm that this is greek
Is Greek all greek to you?
Greek is like Spanish, but what do I know...
I'm Dutch.
I thought it was Chinese 🧠
Can I use it to cut my toenail? I think it's a good idea....
Favorite GnR quote
So here's why the mounting point is in the middle, physics-wise: it's all about resonance and damping vibration. The piezos make the moving part longer and shorter, but they do it so fast that one way or another, both ends are gonna move in opposite directions. If your mounting point is at the back end, the vibration gets transferred to the handle of the tool and your hand, and the energy gets absorbed. If you mount it at its center of mass, the CM doesn't move, so the handle doesn't vibrate and no energy gets lost. It's like a wine glass: if you hold it by the stem, it rings nicely, but if you hold one side of the rim and hit the other, you get nothing.
Since it's all about resonance, the shape and size of your tool bit matters a lot. I think you'll get the best "ring" when the vibrating thingy is about half as long as the wavelength of sound in the material it's made of. So for 40 khz in steel (6 km/s), you want a resonator 7 cm long, which looks like just about what you've got. For your 60 khz ultrasonic cleaner, you need a *smaller* vibrating element.
What about changing materials to something that transfers the waves faster and dampen less? Wouldn't graphite be better than steel? If it is anything like rf theory then thickness plays a part as well. Fattening your conductor will lower and broaden your band but reduce the selectivity. Does Jacobi's law of power transfer apply here?
TIL. Thank you sir for this knowledge.
you have blessed us all with knowledge, thank you!
I was about to say exactly this same thing :-)
Did you mean to say resonant node instead of center of mass?
So this is Cody's second channel that I keep hearing about. Glad he's taking on the ultrasonic cutter project. He uses enough duct tape and explosives to pull it off properly.
Just like Nurd Rage is Nile Red, TOT is Cody's Lab
This would be Cody's third channel actually lol
Who’s Cody?
and Big Clive is AvE
@@tomalcolm I hope you are not serious...who is Cody? that is like asking who is the President...long live Cody's lab!!!!
USW-334
超音波小型カッター
(Ultrasonic Wave Cutter)
毎秒40,000回の高速振動でクラクラカット！きれいな仕上がり！
(Vibrates 40,000 times a second for dizzying cuts! Produces beautiful works!)
KomaruKirinashi pretty cool how you can read Greek
thanks for the translation!
Are you from the leaf village?
Thanks for the Xlation. For a while I thought that 40,000 was the price in Yen.
I'm glad someone knows Greek
As a Japanese descent, I can confirm the accurate translation.
Did you mean Greek?
Oops, yeah!
The guy doesn't even know where he's from and named himself after a car company. I don't think I can trust him.
Hi, I'm an ultrasonic tooling engineer at Dukane IAS. I don't know too much about cutting, since that is handled by a different engineer, but I do know a decent amount about designing a horn to weld plastic components together. If you have any questions about ultrasonic welding, I can try to answer to the best of my knowledge, and what isn't covered by an NDA. Additionally, I know that we sell hand probes and generators for welding but those can be pricey and I'm not sure on how to order them, there's an online store, but it doesn't offer a whole lot.
There was a comment below by Jason Goodman that had a point about why you need to mount at the nodal point, and all of his reasons are right. The only addition I want to make is that the nodal point will still vibrate, but it will be expanding in and out rather than moving up and down, which is why the cutter needed some padding around the transducer. If you try to grip firmly to the nodal point of a tool with a vice, you'll end up cracking your tool, and if you do it with your hand, you'll get burned.
One last thing, ultrasonic cutters are used in the food industry too. Here is a link to a video posted by our Japan office of them doing some cutting with a horn: ruclips.net/video/klBH1HHZx2s/видео.html It's a really neat process and leaves a terrific cut in the food, think things like snack cakes, candy bar centers, and cheese.
I suppose the sonic screwdrivers are still under NDA....
@HappyJackington cool video on the food processing!!! Just a few days ago at work, we were thinking that it might be easier to weld together thick webbing tapes instead of trying to sew them together for a certain product, hope ultrasonic welding is the solution.
Holy moly, that's a freaking ultrasonic guillotine!
Thank you so much for buying something and playing with it a bit so I don't have to. I just use a craft knife whilst standing on a washing machine spinning with an anvil in it. Works a treat but hard on the smaller gaskets.
I usually just pass the knife to my neighbor that has Parkinsons...
Oh god i haven't laughed this hard at a youtube comment in quite a while, thanks for that!
Why are these so expensive tho
c goodwin have you tried replacing the anvil with a cinderblock or two?
Targus Mack , c goodwin , there are two types of people...
untill you used the "manual" exacto knife, I thought it looked like the ultrasonic cutter was just a regular knife. thanks for doing that, it calmed my skepticism and now I think maybe I might play with one of these!
It's actually very handy for model builders. You can cut various materials with it like Depron, Styrofoam, Lexan, Fiberglass and Carbon sheets, Gaskets and so on! These things are awesome if you build R/C Planes, Cars and Boats or have a model Railroad and have a few things that you want to trim or add details to. My fiance also used them to trim Resin jewellery or for crafting delicate sculptures. It's really useful Micro tool.
Oh and for people who like to tinker with electronics, this thing is capable of cutting circuit boards nice and clean!
Ha, I like Cody's lab
i do too, LoL 😂
All that was missing was the thumbs up.
Guess no one is talking about all the single men in my area
That was such a great piss take
Maybe it will be reciprocated and we'll see a "This Old Cody" intro.
I have but one question: what kind of otherworldly willpower did it take not to make a joke about grabbing a piece of felt just because you felt like it?
LOL I thought exactly the same thing.
A real missed opportunity for a dad joke!
This video is getting reuploaded because of you. That or a forced felt cameo in the next upload...
Not making that joke was the joke.
But that joke was cutting edge.
I liked the AVE plug. That's how I found Tony.
Which one?
I found Tony through Colin furz and it's great being able to hammer through his back catalogue of uploads
“Come on Eileen” greatest tune known to man
I hadn't heard that song in years. I watched this video, saw your post and guess what's playing on the radio right now?
Ted Nugent Stranglehold.
Just kidding. Come on Eileen.
So basically, this is a hot knife... *that isn't hot.*
So a cold knife?
@@shred1894 I think it is a cold hotknife
Except when it's hot.
ya cut foam with only half the toxic fumes
@@AsbestosMuffins big win for any table top wargamer still making their own terrain XD
This old Cody?
No this is Patrick
Tony Slab.
Yes. . . in 30 years.
@@soop597
Dontcha mean, "That Old Cooter?"
Your humor and friendly sarcasm is a breath of fresh air.
14:40 what you *meant to say: “what do I look like, Big Clive or something?”
LMAO.... Love the Cody intro... Now back to watching the actual video.
Steve Evans I know 😂 I was smiling in the first second of the video! Before anything had even happened!
That curly cord is from a telephone. Maybe this is for cutting into conversations.
I thought the very same thing?
🤣🥇
For you younger guys, telephone - not your cell phone, used to be this thing you hung on the wall in your house. You'd use it to call people, talk, that sort of thing. When you were done you need to hang it back up on the wall and return to everyday life...
@@burnout4life129 Fun fact: they COULDN'T take pictures.
@@burnout4life129 yeah no young kids know that. we aren't that ignorant and most of us also know what vhs is and how to use a rotary phone
Man, you nailed the oscillating multi-tool on the head. I literally used it twice, once to plunge cut some slot in wood, and a second time to cut the cast of my wife's arm (no joke).
Man, I do a lot of modelling and craft stuff and I can tell you that I would love this thing. Just not enough to spend $300-$450 on one. If somebody could make a good working model for around $50, I'm sure that they would be *very* popular with the crafting crowd. To be honest, I can see no reason at all that this thing costs so much.
Here's a thought.... I'll bet if you put dull xacto blades in it you could get them insanely sharp by turning it on and using the right ceramic stone(s). I'd give it a shot.
Oh shit, this is interesting
I just read on their site, it only takes their own proprietary blades. Xacto will not fit this $319.00 piece of shit with bad reviews.
it's actually really interesting I had an almost exact same idea I thought if he can't cut the ceramic that would be like him doing 10000 passes on a ceramic object it's so weird that you mention that because I thought the same thing. then again most people that have sharpened something on the bottom of a coffee cup probably thought about it. Matter of fact that might be really ingenious way to make a sharpening device.
@@werewolf74 .
@@tony5535 I guarantee you that with enough effort you could mod it to take xacto blades.
That looks great for cleaning up 3D prints, especially where picking at something with a knife could slip and mar a nearby detail.
Why did you have to say that, I didn't want to buy it till now.
@@REDSIX You've got one life. Get those quality of life tools!
@@REDSIX Ditto, I was thinking this is not useful for me, well, not anymore. Though this is a bit more expensive than I would be okay with paying for it.
Your comedy style and timing are great! You crack me up in every video. Keep up the good work. (The dial tone cracked me up!)
I just searched the net for industrial ultrasonic cutter videos, it keeps coming back to this video. Tony, you've ruined the algorithm😂
Neat, I kinda want one for no particular reason
Man, I still think someone needs to go after building a ~400 kHz transducer. I've heard you can boil water at that level and use it in energy production, but it's nigh impossible to get a transducer at that range without paying an arm or a kidney...
This exact unit is over $300 American on Amazon. XD I thought it was going to be like $20-$30.
Well I am sure you can use it for more than you think. If you are working with very small objects like figurines it's way easier especially with tough materials. I don't believe you do figurines but micromachines and the likes are very tough.
Didnt expect to see u here
@@stupaod You can buy the transducer from the other video for $15-$20, with the driver board for $40-$50.
That bolt is pretty big to be 8th grade. It must have had a hardened life.
It was bullied by the imperial system
Yeah...harder than those 5th grade kids...
I am a homebuilder. I do plumbing, framing, concrete work, drywall etc. etc. are use my oscillating tool 2 to 3 times a month for different jobs. It is an extremely versatile tool capable of reaching tight spaces where you would not think of using a saw saw/reciprocating saw.
I remember when I first saw the tool I was extremely skeptical, now I wouldn’t leave home without it.
This exactly, when you need to make a slit to wood for cabling, cut a small piece off sheathing board to fit a girder, or flush some wooden structural beam with a doorstep, that is your tool. I cant imagine it having any use in the shop, but on a construction site? Hell yeah.
@@Sup3rman1c I agree in the shop there are more tools at hand, but in the field we find ourselves in some odd situation. Like cutting the bottoms of door jams when you’re installing flooring.
I'm sure someone else has made this comment, but an easy way to see if a plastic is polypropylene is to bend it at as sharp an angle as possible -- PP turns white at the bend, HDPE (for example) does not! Great video!
That intro got we, had to check the channel name twice. Then I saw the title and had to check the channel again. Nice Codys Lab and AvE reference.
Yeah i thought my thumb must have slipped and hit the wrong vid!
@@earthbjornnahkaimurrao9542 Another trackball user - nice!
When I am in my own workshop designing and building, but I keep watching "This Old Tony", and "AvE" Content, and my projects are on extended builds,
Great video, thank you for taking the time to upload. very informative and based on this I'm definitely saving up to get one of these for myself and my sons crafting.
Thanks again, subbed :)
These things are super versatile! You can turn this ultra sonic cutter into an oscillating multitool by simply plugging the cord into a phone and letting the dial tone do the work. I even use mine as an air chisel by rigging it up to the headphone jack on my boombox and cranking up the bass.
Greek is my native language and i can verify that your translation was spot on Tony, a man o many , many ,many trades and knowledge !
That was fucking japaneese
@@giacomolora that's the joke
@@giacomolora whoosh
@@giacomolora r/woooosh
I'll have you know that I've used my oscillating multi-tool five, maybe six times!
In 20 years?
It seemed indispensable at the time of the impulse purchase. I'm not even sure I cut my finger with it!
I swear, I actually bought it because Acme Tools and Makita had a deal going where when you bought two "tool only" LXT tools, you got two 5Ah batteries. The Oscillating tool at $99 seemed just as useful as anything else they had on hand at the time. I have not tried using it as a cast saw.
I use my oscillating multi-tool about every other day some months and then not at all for several. Trim work, frame notching in tight places, blind severing nails, cutting out clean holes in drywall or cabinetry, etc. I was the opposite I didn't see a need for it when I was gifted one by a friend; but now, while I don't need it all the time, it's a definitely a hardship not to have it when I do need it.
I bought the cheapest one I could find at harbor freight and used it a bunch installing a laminate floor, and now it sits in the garage. Easily got my money's worth from that project though :)
I kept seeing references to you on AvE's channel and finally checked you out. You had me cracking up man! I love your humor!
I especially loved the call tone when you plugged in the cord. Subscribed!
welcome. pull up a seat.
You're humour never ceases to entertain me.
Thank you 😊
For plastic that’s been solvent or even sonically welded, some time in the freezer followed by a series of sharp taps along the seam will usually separate the welds.
Nice Cody’s lab intro!
Really love the casual humor, without it this would just be 20 minutes of a fancy knife. Turns out it was actually a stand up show. :D Highly entertaining thank you.
"In addition to the usual Single Men in my area"... 1:35 I had to listen to that part like 5 times in a row to find out about your subbtle joke there. Nice one Tony, as all your videos are. Keep on turning !
I immediately subscribed to Cody's Lab, such a great channel, unfortunately had to unsubscribe from some other channels , you have to be picky right.
Channels like oh, This Old Tony ;)
"unfortunately had to unsubscribe from some other channels , you have to be picky right"
oh, that is what you have to do? no wonder my subs list is so long.
"Channels like oh, This Old Tony"
Yeah, that channel is the worst. All that playing with razor blades and not even one little finger cut. Guy has no idea what the internet wants to see.
Ever check out ave? My favorite channel so far. This old Tony; I watch him when I'm bored, and whatever he's talking about sounds interesting. Cody's lab is awesome though, isn't it?
@@lucusloc
You don't need razor blades to cut fingers. A cheap steak knife and cutting food without a surface is more than sufficient.
_posted two days after lopping off a small slice of my fingertip like an idiot_
Cody's lab is cool check out his older videos about refining metals. Also if you like chemistry check out NileRed.
@@shootthemoon6072 "Ever check out ave?" - Sorry, I don't use hot glue sticks ;)
Hey Tony, I work as a injection moulder and I think you got the thing about the small number 2 wrong. Most likely bottle caps are produced with a injection tool with up to 50 individual cavities. All of them are numbered through, so if something goes wrong with one of the caps it's easier to find which one. Instead of sprues these cavaties have hotrunners to fill. Basicly a heated channel that leads direct to the surface of the part. Once you identify the cap that has a problem you can simply switch of the electrical power to the heating element and keep on producing with 49parts falling out of the tool, until a toolmaker has time to fix your problem. About what material is used, my best guess would be PE for those caps. All the caps we produce are PE. We manufacture 300-1000Liter IBC (intermediate bulk container) and heating oil tanks up to 4000Liter. The tanks are blowmoulded hdpe and the valves and fittings for the caps are too.
This is necessary to make it possible to weld them on, since you can only weld alike plastics together. But there exist differently blended mixtures of HDPE. One for blow molding and and a special blend for injection moulding. The injection moulding blend is slightly more fluid in it's heated state and its easier to form filigree shapes with it.
One additional info I forgot: if the number is printed inside the three arrow recycling symbol, than it's a key number for the plastic used. Search "recycling mark numbers" on Google.
What PE exactly is used for plastic caps? (the soft flexible kind). There are a few kinds to my understanding. The sales person was no help at all. Can you help?
@@danl.4743 There are MANY different materials used for closures. LDPE, HDEP, PE, PP homo copoly nucleated slip agent blah blah and MANY different grades of those materials... Depends on the application food, medical, push on, screw on , living hinge etc. Technical sales from a resin compounder should get you in the ball park for a specific application. If you check online with a closure manufacturer they'd probably have a selection guide of their stocked resins.
Been too many years but I *think ldpe is a soft type for say push on one use applications. There are soft PPs as well. Matweb website might help you pair down the 1000's of PE and PP grades available by physical characteristics.
TMI, molders sometimes lie with the cavity numbers to fool competitors with their production capacity/cost. :)
@@1boobtube That's informative. Thank you. Specifically I am looking for this material in sheets, so that I could cut flat spacers or shims to custom size, to use below and around the glazing in windows. They need to be firm, but still somewhat soft in order to absorb shocks like when smashing a door or a window shut. Buying these shims ready made to the sizes I want is too difficult. I just want to cut them myself, easy. The consistency of a plastic cap is perfect. So do you know what material I should ask for?
@@danl.4743 lupolen 3821d for example is the injection version to match lupolen 4261a (blowmoulding)
Your channel is just what I’ve been missing in my life.
Thanks for the well made video. Your humor is spot on. Patrick McMantus would be pleased the way you slip in the funnies.
You have no idea how bad I want to see you hook up a telephone receiver to that cord !
Or hook the knife up to the phone and control it via fax
@@notanimposter
*equifax* perhaps?
notanimposter
An ultrasonic fax machine?
@@notanimposter Time to make someone call a fax again..
@@tatemantis9293 It ultra-sonically shreds faxed documents for you! Right into the bin 👍🏻
Now see if you can make an ultrasonic cleaner out of that cutter, just to complete the loop.
I think in the end all he's going to get out of all this is an ultrasonic clutter.
I'll show myself out.....
Thankyou for this video I am now buying this tool it will serve me well in my tasks.
Thanks, Tony! I wonder if this one would be good for mylar stencil cutting? Ideally no melting and a tiny head would be better than the wicked blade for fine turns. I would like one that cuts clear mylar to make faux cut glass things (with or without faux leading). Will check your playlist.
I cannot stand those *AvE* glue sticks. They have too much chooch and you can never get them to focus.
I use the reduced chooch sticks.
@@ken481959 Keep your chooch stick in a vise.
Get the knock off Power Fister ones. They're cock for dolly.
It's great for keeping your stick in a vise though.
@@thekbshouse Tighten it up until you hear it crack, then back it off 1/4 turn.
Love your content Tony! I work for an ultrasoincs company that makes plastic welders, (soft) metal welders, cutters and cleaners. Its so cool to see someone home brew an ultrasonic horn and get something that works well. The tune length of your horn is going to horn is play an important factor in how much vibration you get out on the business end of things. @Jason Goodman has got it right that the frequency of of the tool is going to dictate this length. The area were the tool is being held is the node where no vibration occurs. There should be an another node in the center of the horn where you no vibrations occur. If you run your finger there while the piezo is one you'll feel a dead spot. That should be a quarter wavelength. If you measure that distance from the holder to the dead zone it could be a good way to experimentally find the half wavelength you need on your homebrew horn. You can even keep growing the horns by half wavelengths to get longer tools if you need.
A big factor in the output amplitude of these tools is the amount of gain in the horn/ system. The larger the mass ratio on the different sides of the horn's node, the more vibrations you will get at the business end. Your homemade horns seems to have a lot of gain, where as the straight necked horn you bought seems to have a 1:1 gain. If you put too much gain in the system you can over stress the material and crack the horn. That nice 40 kHz sound will make a terrible squeal. Fortunately I think that the little power supply would break before you got that far.
A place where these cutters shine is in food cutting. The vibrations prevent the food particles from sticking to the horn and you are left with a nice cross section. Try cutting a Twizzler
This video convinced me to buy one, loved it used it for weeks, then my dog had a stroke.
This is my first time watching your videos and I loved it, you're really funny
Nice tribute to CodyDon.
Charles Reiche did he die? :(
@@turbochargedbrick He can't die...
@@turbochargedbrick He slipped on butter one time. He was even jolted by a mercury vacuum pump apparatus, but that just recharged his borg shields.
Damn you ToT!
I was wearing headphones, and that ceramic bit had me doing the same thing as your son! 🤣
I'm pretty sure it's not his child but himself as a child he pulled from the past.
Vaasref It’s both, ToT is his own father! 😱
Yeah. Me too
Thank you, as soon as he said ceramic I tore my earbuds out
@@Nevir202 u callin TOT a MF??! 😂
Great informative video Tony. I was wondering though. If I want to remove bad tracks from a Nickleback cd; Could I use my hacksaw or will a Skilsaw instead of this cutter be more efficient?
14:40 I can NOT even EXPRESS how much I love this
Cody would be proud :,D
also thanks for following up from that first attempt!
13:58 I literally cried when he put the phone sound over it :'D
"Ironic effects". You sir, had me giggling. What a wonderful description
Very interesting I watched both videos all the way through. Thanks for you time and curiosity
I see u took inspiration from AvE with that title
or does AvE get it from this old Tony? i think they're neighbors
Ya'll beat me to it. I figure he is Son of AvE.
I wanted to see flesh cutting.
@@icyuranus404 I am sure the chain saw was AVE unboxing.
Cody's Lab title.
hopefully his channel goes like aves :/
Used Big Clive’s vice of knowledge I see.
If Tony's wife doesn't want it, he should go ahead and send it to the Isle of Man and let Clive perform some thorough reverse engineering.
Or send it to AvE and he'll let the smoke out along with all the angry pixies.
@@ytwdh Send it to Clive, then to AvE.
Both ToT and Clive know what vices are for...
How did I miss this. Really enjoyed this Vice if knowledge always helps.
Thank you for the dial tone... that's all I was thinking of while you were using it
You know someone paid too much for something when they have qualms about opening it up!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for opening the handheld unit! I didn't know how expensive those were, but REALLY needed to see inside it.
to my shock, they seem to price out north of US$300.00
Very entertaining, good content and well presented, thanks from Orlando Florida
my pleasure... thanks for watching!
Holy moly! Popped on amazon to check the price of this thing, thinking it would be $50-$100 (given the cheap plastic build and low power), but it's $350! Jeez.
Do they do a fork too? I could save time eating my lunch and have more time for recreational activities. Thanks TOT, Dean in Oxfordshire UK.
I am disappointed... You didn't even plug a telephone handset onto it.
It may allow one to talk to the dead, or possibly even.......THE FUTURE!
@@ken481959 Maybe even... FUTURE DEAD!!!
I was thinking plug it into a phone system
Omg the intro killed me, I was just watching Cody's butter incident video again before rewatching some of yours.
This has to be the best intro on youtube yet
OMG I was waiting THE WHOLE VIDEO for that phone cord joke.
actually I was hoping the tone would have been four beeps … then he would have had a voice message waiting
Thermal camera on workpiece would be interesting?
And with your homebrew cutter, twiddle the drive frequency to find a frequency that results in a maximum (or a minimum, what do I know?) in supply current.
Very interesting and well-presented video. Bits and pieces of humour were on point! You got an instant new sub there. Cheers! :)
Quick question: does it give a tingling feeling on the fingers while using it (probably more so on harder materials)?
Between the intro and the north remembers bit, you gained a subscriber
It seems to me that this tool is perfect for cleaning up 3D prints (e.g. PLA, ABS, TPU), because less force is needed and is therefore ideal for cleaning difficult places of a 3D print.
But will it open those *%#! blister packs?!
We live in hope. $320 is a bit steep of an entry fee though.
Yes, it can open blister packs!
Unfortunately they just started packaging these ultrasonic cutters in blister packs.
@@stephen1r2 Well worth it as a proper sword costs more than that.
After some involuntary blood sacrifices to the blister pack god, I learned that sheet metal aviation snips work WAY better than scissors or knives.
ack, just give the blister pack to some young child, they can open anything.
Seriously though, that was one of my first thoughts when he was putting it through it's paces.
That rj11 cable from the base to the knife, the future is now!
"this cd hasn't worked in 15 or 20 years" About the time I bought my cell phone :) Great review
Great video. LMAO on the dial-tone bit! Too Cool Tony
Most excellent Tony! (like thats a big surprise)
ATB, Robin
Did u use it on your fingernails?
I'll have to admit, I almost unsubbed when I seen you whip out a jawbreaker cd to assault with that sonic spear (the greatest band in the world) but then I realized that my favorite RUclipsr was potentially also a Jawbreaker fan as well and it made my day!
Some of the best content on RUclips. I laughed out loud a lot on this one. I'd like to see how it does with laminated carbon fiber and particularly Kevlar hybrids. Kevlar is murder to cut but adds a lot of toughness for the things I'd want to build with it. I can send some sacrificial pieces for your testing. 😁
OMG...You are SO FUNNY Tony!!! I SO enjoy your videos, man! Thanks.
14:18 "Why would they do that?" strange, it almost seems like they don't want you opening it up
Thank-you for the dial tone made my night
Yeah man, always get a good laugh watching these videos... I'm not even halfway through... Jawbreaker!?!?! TONY is A PUNK ROCKER!!!! Tony is... hahaha... Have a great day, take it easy...
For real I was like whyyyyy noooo at first.
@@twr412 I literally made a comment in all caps. Take that, Tony! There's THREE of us!
4, four of us are over the moon that you listen to jawbreaker
Yeah, that and the comeoneileen plastic... blew my fuse.
Cutting that jawbreaker cd was not fun to look at! 😅 Love jawbreaker, guess you listened to them too!
Love your videos Tony! I would love for you to make a basic machining video, mostly how to mesure complicated cuts and whatnot, how to find the center of parts. just basic stuff us newbies struggle with
Find another RUclipsr he wont do it lol..
Try MrPete222. He's a former shop teacher and his channel has the type of content that you're looking for.
Hey This Old, great video, and just a though about re-visiting your own ultrasonic knife. Those ultrasonic cleaners you based it on need the bucket of water on top as a heatsink, I'd expect the transducers to get hot pretty quick if you do manage to drive them at the full 60w. Stacking a few up like in the commercial one and driving them in phase may avoid them heating as much but still give the same amplitude of vibration.
Idk, maybe a heatsink for them?
Anyway thanks for the great videos as always.
you got my sub dude i love this content