When you put them in in production don't forget that one socket holder that you need three or four of the same size next to each other and I don't think I need to tell you what size I'm talking about
@@ChristopherHallett Douglas Adams also - “The major problem-one of the major problems, for there are several-one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
@@scythelord You mean George Washington who had to increase the size of the Continental army in order to crush the second American Revolution? The revolution that was caused by him not only reimposing every single tax king George III had imposed but an additional tax on whisky as well? That George Washington?
@@andrewallen9993 The difference as Washington explained then was that the war was about taxation without representation, not about taxation itself. The people literally just voted in politicians who supported a tax to raise an army and fund western exploration, so they had no right to complain. This is also why Washington did not really have to fight, people surrendered as soon as Washington laid down the line and Washington let them go off without punishment. Also the army was not increased to fight the people, it was increased to fight off the indian and superpower colonies that bordered their newly founded country.
@@rockerpat1085 I think I coined that phrase back in the early days of cloud computer, kinda before anyone even knew what cloud computeing was. ...or at least I had never heard anyone say it when I used it for the first time in the office. I'm claiming rights to it. 🤣
@@colbyscott9822 you weren’t the only one who coined that phrase. It’s how we kept our IT department going for years. I dunno what it’s like now, because I retired 5 years ago.
I work in IT support... supporting customers who work on cloud infrastructure. They're all onboard when they hear they won't have to buy new servers no more... and once the 4-to-5-digit bills come in every month thery're pissed... plus they're now dependent on their internet connection to do productive work. I spend my days calling cable companies and rebooting firewalls.
@@arduinoversusevil2025 can call confirm... I spent 2 hours before I learned press/pull is not the same as extrude. I mean it does the same thing. Whatever time to print another gun.
As an apprentice engineer back in the late nineties, Friday afternoons consisted of manufacturing billet VW Beetle switch pulls to sell at car shows and drag racing events for beer tokens 👍🏻
I'm so glad that CNC is proliferating so quickly, all the way to the hobby level. That leaves me a fighting chance of affording my own clapped out bridgeport one day without my wife euthanizing me.
Or at a minimum yur nuts for her earrings. Yes, the paradigm which faces most hetrosexual men (perhaps homosexual too? I am not)...the INFINITE battle for 100% absolutely needed things with the Warde....err...the Bos...err...Haggzill...err.... the WIFE, yeah, the fairer sex. I've found the 'beg for forgiveness vs ask for permission' adage to reap the best results for me. But BE FOREWARNED: Women have a memory EXPONENTIALLY better than your average elephant so this technique is not for all machinery deprived males.
I traded firewood for a 1984 Cleveland 2 hp mill. I got a pile of end mills too. I spent several hundred in tooling. Friends gave me wire and a 3 phase convertor. I moved and installed it myself. And by the way I haven't used my drill press in years. Buy drill chucks if you get one.
CNC is just a fad. It reminds me alot of the smartphone. 5 years ago everyone had to have a smart phone. Who has a smart phone today? Nobody. Everyone has an iphone or an android today and the smartphone goes the way of the horse and buggy. This is the same thing thats gonna happen to CNC. You put 10 men out of work with 1 little computer? Thats not sustainable.
"It ain't stealing if you also *used it* on company time." 😉 I've had a friend bring me patent forms, swearing one or two of my deelybobs were destined to make a million bucks. I'm with you, more like a million pin pricks in the ass... You always tell the stories, well... I've got a story about the best bosses ever and, most people don't get to make that claim. 😀 I was the luckiest "underverker" in the world when I worked for a particular movie production company. My "shop boss" was the most under-spoken, even tempered, actually nice, calm, cool and collected (in front of us) guy, *even when you F'd-up bad...* He'd look at you, ask you if you learned anything and if you think you'll do it again and, presuming you gave him the correct answer and didn't have a look of sheer terror in your eyes, he'd show you the *right way* to "F'er-up" and send you on your merry way... Just as long as you never tried to hide anything. There was someone(s) bending the lower legs on the expensive, automatic trailer jacks because, it's a "hurry-up, it's due yesterday, even though we just got the order ten minutes ago... Kinda place. Some walkin' dingle-berry would hook up to a trailer and take off... Dragging the jack leg in the dirt then drop it really quick and not say anything. *Not cool.* The owner (actually a very cool guy, whom I punched squarely in the mouth on my first day and didn't get fired!!) and his #1 came toolin' up on his golf cart (big lot) and asked me "Do you know who bent that trailer jack on the XYZ trailer back there??" I looked him squarely in the eye and said "Yes, Sir... I did. And I know what I did wrong and it won't happen again, Sir. I'm just going in right now to get a new one and get it fixed..." He just looked at me and said "Fair enough, I'll let you get to it." And they drove off in a cloud of dust. A little while later, his #1 came rolling back up, by himself and said "You're a very smart, *very* lucky man. He saw that bent jack and he hit the roof!... He was going in to go to the cameras when we pulled up. He was going to look through the footage and fire whomever did it, right on the spot... But, you caught him off guard, owned up to it, promised not to do it again and were already fixing it so, he didn't have anything to say. If you'd have lied about it, you'd be done for, right where you stood." I asked him "why should I lie and lose a $50k job over a $150 jack that I'd be happy to pay for. That's stupid." That's when he said that people were bending them every couple days and just hiding them and he was over it. (a couple days later, I noticed one less person at the lunch table). It's a shame to act like that when you have really cool bosses. The owner would charter a bus and take the *whole production shop crew* deep sea fishing every spring, down to Panama City beach (The "Redneck Riviera!" 😆) and paid for *everything.* Rooms, breakfast and dinner every day, the works. We'd have a full day of fishing in between two days to do whatever "stupid tourist tricks" we wanted. Easily a $30k trip... And people repaid him by hiding fuck-ups and lying to him (but not for very long). If there was a rush on a job building a special project, he'd ask for volunteers to work overtime (never orders, just asks, you wanna leave, no prob.) and he'd walk by, an hour or two in and just hand you an extra $20 bill (or two) and say "thanks for the good work." and move on out of your way. Nobody does that. It's just a gesture of appreciation but, it's flowers and wine for the wife to make up for being late for dinner, missing an event, etc.. There's not too many owners and foremen who treat you like that. Then again, there's not a lot of companies like that... Very special skill-sets required and you have to be a good fit overall (personality, etc.) because, it's a fast paced, "bust-ass from whistle to whistle" job to which many people say "screw this!" roll up their gear and hit the bricks (or are shown the bricks) after a week, maybe less. I'm probably going to get called on this but, it's *the largest* provider of movie production/transportation equipment in the entire US of A. Need to shoot a location set somewhere? Cast and Star trailers, "Honey wagons," grip, electric and camera trucks (with custom built dark rooms), hair and makeup trailers, light towers and a bunch of support equipment. Anything you can dream up, they'd build it and deliver it to you, anywhere you want it. It's a great company but a very "tough nut" to crack. But, once you're "in, you're in" until you want to leave. And they take good care of you... No yelling, screaming or threatening of jobs. It's not a job you just "go to school" for, it requires a collection of skill sets just to get hired, then it's a *lot* of OJT. 👍 When I got the call to come for an interview, he asked if he'd called before. I told him "no, I just figured they weren't interested." He apologized, said he wanted to talk to me 4 mos. ago and am I still interested. It so happened I was so, the wife drove me down and ran a quick errand and waited in the front lot. I found the boss, one "Mr. Rock..." Great boss' name (he's retired, I can say it now). He looked over my resume for a hot second and asked "Is this you?? This is your resumé?" I said "Yes, Sir." And he said "walk with me." We looked over the *huge* compound (which is hidden behind another business in front of the property, they don't take walk-ins 😆). We walked and talked and looked at equipment and buildings and got a feel for each other. We made the circuit and conveniently ran out of things to say right back where we started. I just said "Im happy." to which he replied "Im happy." The entire interview (only one, none of this 2 & 3 interview crap) took a little over two hours. Just for an interview... I told him I needed to get back to my wife and he started apologizing and I said to not worry, she was reading and listening to music, it took what it took for both of us and that was it. The next day I started the best/coolest job I ever had and, it was because of the owner and bosses that ran the place, not a bad apple in the bunch. But they gave no slack, it was a very high stress, "has to be perfect and done two days before you start" type of environment. As long as you keep up with the curve, you're fine. But, the movie industry is crazy and it's in the top 3 hardest jobs I've had, including the military. The other was piledriving foundations and forming up skyscrapers in the carpenter's union so, they have to be understanding of the employees, too. if you make a mistake (and I made a couple big ones) you learn from it and move on or you find another career. But if you can swing it, it's also the most challenging and fun time you'll ever have. 😉
In October in Texas, damn near every weld shop is busy creating all manner of deer stands. You wonder how any deer survive-- but remember how much beer is sold at the same time.
I haven't noticed deer stand hunting being all that effective. It's better to be on foot, but nobody wants to actually put forth any effort these days.
@@CIorox_BIeach Nah, it's more a lot of hunters don't give a damn about hunting and just use it as an acceptable path to find some peace and quiet for a few hours.
@@davidrutledge3240 yep like fishing, I never catch a damn thing, but I hang out with my friends and drink a few beers, so time well spent in my opinion
I worked for Spar Aviation years ago and we were doing avionics upgrades on RCAF C130. We had a sheet metal tech that was on shift with us wire pullers to drill holes if needed. He was bored most of the time, so he would make stuff for the crew. His best off the books project was a titanium lunch box. He probably used about $200 in materials. Beautiful workmanship.
1:10 It's not just a blue-collar tax. When I was a kid, dad and I would go to his workplace and let me fuck around on a lab computer for the whole day and it just so happened that said computer ran either a pen plotter or a CNC machine (no, they weren't that cheap, I literally could just pick which IBM 5150 I wanted to fuck around on). The funny relevant bit here is that his supervisor found out this was going on, would come by to watch, and not only didn't mind it, but encouraged it because he was just amazed that a kid not yet even in his teens could be taught how to operate this stuff competently. This later extended into my teen years, where I was then plotting circuit traces on a HP-UX workstation running something from Mentor Graphics (when not using his Windows machine to play online games on the company T3). Different supervisor came by one day while I was doing this and said that if it weren't for my age and lack of a security clearance, he'd have hired me on the spot.
My dad made something similar after a car he was propping up with bricks fell on him and he had to bench press his way out (morris minor not a yank land yacht)
While nosing through the fab shop scrap bin at work I was asked several times “What do you need?”. The third time I clued in that he was offering to custom cut some “scrap” material that was oddly similar to the sketch I quickly made for him. What luck!
Here's an idea for your next Friday session, titanium pry bar. Like a 4 footer. Buddy had one I saw in the 80's built on military time and military dime. No doubt on a friday. Keep up the great vids AvE!
Back when I was in the Army I used to party with a bunch of Air Force guys. One of them did sheet metal work on the U2. He had a bottle opener he made out of some super fancy expensive metal alloy. It was super hard and stiff but also super lightweight.
@@eflanagan1921it's the SR-71 that leaks all over itself before it's at working temp. The U2 is actually a pretty dry bird. Temperamental as an insecure redheaded schoolgirl, but dry.
I had a titanium pry bar that was made in the USSR, and back in the mid '90's, there were catalogs that sold Soviet surplus, like that prybar. Sadly, mine was stolen....
I had a great shop that taught me set up. No one ever said anything about taking too much time as long as the machine didn't go boom. 1st day supervisor was like "the guy who was here before you caused $40k damage. Don't do that."
As do we in the excavation/masonry field, though we typically have an extra smoke n coffee as we don't exactly have milling machines around to play arts and crafts with. STAND STRONG SAP SUCKERS, WE DOWN SOUTH SUPPORT THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM WITH YAS.
I used to work in hospital maintenance, and one of our guys would so some Friday freelancin’ in the HVAC/welding shop to work on his holiday decor. He was one of those guys whose yard was transformed into a Griswaldian wonderland at Christmas time. Biggest project was using a large (like 6ft diameter) metal spool that once held electrical cable to make a Ferris wheel. It was something to behold with seats for stuffed animals, a motor and stand so it actually worked, and he even engineered a system using motor brushes to transfer AC power to run the twinkle lights on the spokes and circumference since any cord or wiring would get twisted and mangled when the big wheel was turning. It was impressive to me, anyway.
If you ever need something similar, the lingo you are looking for is "slip ring." Through the magic of Chinese manufacturing they can be had for relatively cheap in the plastic variety. Nonetheless, still impressive he made it himself.
I had a belt buckle made out of Inconel with my name welded in beautiful script. It was made by hand at a place I worked at years ago. It had a slight curve with fluted edges and a satin brushed finish.
as one of those odd fellows, I 100% agree with your assessment that we're about the individual processes, I find myself working about each individual tool path making sure it's as good as I can get it then, moving to the next, but that may just be because I am the individual that programs the part sets it up and runs it. The major breakdown you see may come when you get into a shop that has a programmer, a setup, and then a operator. The programmer only cares that it virtually simulated out, The setup actually wants it to make good parts but is trying to idiot proof it for the operator, and well the operator .... "Green button make robot go wherever".
Your Friday-afternoon comments remind me of when my dad's college department's machine shop first got in a CNC mill in the late 1980s. From what I remember, the first two people to learn how to use it were my dad (who needed some airfoil shapes for his research) and the machinist who was using it to make some fancy trigger guards for his rifle. I don't know how much of that was precisely on company time, but it meant he actually knew how to use the thing, so I figure it was worth paying him for it.
We have a CNC, plasma cutters, 12,000 lb vehicle hoist, various mig/tig welders, all the metalworking tools you could want, and we are a computer service company lol. Our fuk-around-Fridays are absolutely epic.
Oh, and the owner of our building, works for an auto manufacturer, he has made plenty of things, cabinets, counter top supports, light brackets etc etc which he all made on "spare time" at work.
I encourage my employees to use the machines for personal projects. I often fund the materials. How else will they learn, except doing something they are interested in? After hours of course, and if they want to sell 100 of them then it gets bid like any other job. I feel that letting someone use a cnc mill or laser cutter or welding robot on a personal passion project is an excellent way to have people learn machines. You never hire anyone who knows your mix of machines. We have Haas, Piranha, Panasonic. Each machine has its own language and quirks. Knowing Doosan, Lincoln and Trumpf is a great start, but I have never interviewed that guy either.
Do you know what's better than watching this video on company time? Watching it on the governments time. Thank you American's for paying me to watch this
So fun to hear you talk about the "little things" that can be the whole world in production. I learned to start at the basics when trouble shooting. As I was STARTED/trained on a night shift all by myself. I ran screw machines so checking the variables, were as many as I imagined as I worked out the troubles. Usually it was something like tension on the guide bushing. If I got three bad ones in a row I shut the shop and went home. Because it's really about keeping the (4 screw machines and a Hobart to fix shit) shop alive. We had/have 2/4 guys doing sales dev and production. When we started we did the shit that other shops were passing on. Our Dev is the best. Just send an Etchashech pic! LOL! We did stuff for Boeing and Shh DARPA... Made free parts for dental work in Africa. Glad to hang and watch you play..
Your explanation at the end sounds like a wise man I know who gave the exact same explanation when I asked him why he did not sell the pens (beautiful lathe turned pens) he made... Cause then its a job and not a hobby,,, Love ya AvE...
Thanks for breaking the edges on the aluminum. I work on buses and the three fingered trained monkeys who built them love to leave razor sharp edges on every piece of sheet metal
I miss working in a shop. I have tools at home, but there was just something more enjoyable about spending half the work week building some project for home.
I still have a set of jumper cables built from scrap cable from my employer, 20+ years ago. I did have to buy the clamps and am looking at replacing them, but the 4 AWG cable has been great the whole time.
So do I, made from 'scrap' #4 welding cable, the best thing is they're 20 feet long. I also bought clamps, of course. Assembled in 1984, but still in use.
It’s like magic! You start out with a clean tool box and a dirty bolt, end up with a clean bolt and a dirty tool box! You’ve outdone yourself again AVE! This is why I love your channel!
Your content has been so consistent four years, and it just keeps on coming. Pretty sure most of us that have been here before you hid your sub count are still curious what numbers you're up to, because you're one of the best gals on RUclips.
Props for the nod to Bob Widlar with the poster. To say he was an interesting fellow is an understatement. Thinking about it just a little tiny bit, it is easy to see that you and he share some personal philosophies. Love your videos. Along with the great visuals, there is no shortage of wit. An entertainment enigma to be sure. Keep up the great work, love you long time.
Skookum as frig! I've been binge watching your videos here in Iraq. AWESOME. I need one of these major awards for my milling/machinist magic tool box when I get home. Absolutely bad-ass.
@@arduinoversusevil2025 Semi-suprising! Vibration in tooling is an entire science in itself. I've found increasing chip load and choking up on tools typically works. Higher chip load is a little counter intuitive, but is usually effective.
This looks awesome, to get a little extra mileage out of the sharpie maybe mill in a 1/8 slot so you could store it upside down so the juices flow to the tip
Those arty-farty videos showing some state-of-the-art 12 axis machine producing some wonderful piece of machinery-art. You watch for 25 minutes and marvel at the end product and they NEVER tell you what it's for! 😖🤯 AvE - you watch a piece of material being machined through a haze of lubricating fluid with a commentary that is out of sync with the world but at the end of the video you have a practical thingamajig that does stuff that you don't need BUT you really want! That's the AvE difference!
I look away for one goddamn second, hear some screamin' goat, look back and Ol' Bumblefuck is dumping lubricant on a sparkler and playing with an etch and sketch... never a dull moment. :D I also like to think he is talking to the CNC machine and we are just watching a video of that. Like that front of the house guy that comes into the shop once in a while and talks at you while you are working on something. When he is talking about bringing down the feed speed, it even looks like the machine pauses to see what his choice will be.
Love it whenever you drop one of these types of videos. I also love the French Canadian slang thrown in from time to time, being from Quebec myself. My Québécois girlfriend gets a kick out of it. Thanks for sharing!
Those Friday night and weekend shifts are what built my empire of dirt. Some of the coolest shiz I have was a weekend night shift project. All those night hours with the lathe and mill sitting still ... Shame to leave em lonely..might as well keep em lubed and running smooth after all a rolling stone gathers no moss ..right
Glad to be supporting the beer fund! Got no need to clean any bolts but the content is one of a kind. Miss the days when the camera wouldn't focus though.
Excellent call on the BEST possible machining vise, Kurt!! Another fine Minnesota product (although sound in idea & purpose, their "Chipmunk" is overpriced a bit IMO). Machining is the only thing I've ever done here in Minnesota...4 generations now...me being #3. Gotta tout those locals, don'tcha knooo?
I’ve been in the Kurt factory several times because they are a supplier for the company I work for. Those vises are probably the least interesting thing that comes out of there. The Navy contracts they have keep them pretty busy from the looks of it.
Brilliant, get yourself a beer! (or whatever the Canadian equivalent of beer is, LoL!). That’s mighty slick! When can we start ordering the pencil swing press?lol!……
Myself being a cast off wood butcher, I know fuck all about machining. But this was a fun way to kill time while waiting for the new episode of Cold War Motors to drop.
And here I thought Haas had come by in the night and repossessed their machine as part of their obligations to the anti-torture provisions of the Geneva Convention. Glad to see they still haven't identified your location so you can keep showing us what Big CnC doesn't want us to know!
No no no. You need to check out the Helical chipbreaking end mills. They are reasonably priced, and we run the 3/4 chipbreaker at 10k rpm, 2" LOC and .15 - .20" radial stepover at 150-180ipm all day long. The material removal is incredible and they cut so quietly and last so long. You CANNOT beat it. This is in a cat40 taper machine too. But using dual contact, milling or hydraulic chucks. ER collets wont hold the tool at those depths. Edit: they are not corncob roughers. They just have a chipbreaking notch every so often.
100% Friday afternoon, our gaffer used to disappear off to a "meeting" wed break out the homers Monday morning was always a stand off, we knew and he knew and we all got on with it.
We run a tube project a lot at my shop, and my boss wrote the milling operations so that the top half of the mill does a roughing pass and the bottom half of the mill does the finish pass. I'm always amazed by the little tweaks he does to get more life out of the tool while making a nicer part
In my experience most the people who make/take stuff "Government work" can afford to buy their own. Never stole from work whether I was paid min wage or better But that's just my personal feelings about taking what is not yours.
I know that my grandpa had some sticky fingers at the mine shop. I know because some of my tools that I got from him have said mine labels. But my grandma said his boss said he could do it as long as he snagged some for him too 🤣
Same, years ago when his factory closed he went to pick his tools up (hired a van, strangely) He himself has be gone a while now, but I’m still working my way through his liberated drill bits, electrical tape, zip ties and 2-pack epoxy sachets, they should last me another dozen lifetimes or so 😂
I spend the majority of these videos trying like hell to figure it out and how it will make my life easier knowing full well the enginerds in the crowd figured it out in the first minute based off the X, Y, and Z paths they caught a glimpse of and they spend the majority of the video laughing at me who doesn't get it.
@@VoidedWarranty Heh, yeah, i know that too... if i really need to clear my head (as in 'badly') i hit a comparatively empty stretch of the Autobahn and just go for a couple of tens of miles. The undisturbed driving... The focus thing: That's what they call 'flow'. A quite different state of mind, but it rocks! 😉
Those multiple passes in the center of the block at the 10min mark.... The sound and speed made the moves sound like the klaxon from Ghostbusters after Peck ordered the Laser Containment Grid powered down.
used to cnc stuff for a living in what seems like a previous life, i'd have an actual cnc, with a screen to run simulations of my questionable programs, and also an older emi-mec turret lathe with plugboard control, and an old but excelent Ward or Herbert capstan lathe for second op's. also nice brass candle sticks and hash pipes 👍
I'm a union electrician. Well, licensed apprentice anyhow. I'd love the time to fuck around and build tools. However, we're always behind schedule and short-handed because nowhere near enough people are getting into the trade. I guess this sounds like I'm subversively trying to convince you to be an electrician; I'm *_actually_* just bitching about waking up at 4:00am on a Saturday. God dammit.
As a wood man(college lecturer) this makes me want to be a metal butcher and yes you need to sell these so I can buy one preferably with a built in mouse trap for when my students are constantly stealing my pencils
At my last job I was known to bring cylinder heads for garden tractors and such to true them up with a fly cutter, resurface clutch plates and make driveshafts. Me and my father sled pull garden tractors for fun and I've saved a lot doing my own machine work
I purchased a Russian Rolex (Vostok Amphibia) as a Christmas present for my son. He asked me how you charge it up. Oh a mechanically charged mechanical battery he said when I explained.
I love the videos man! They give me project ideas to work on in my grandmother's basement. Hopefully I won't blow it up! Keep up the good work and giving me a distraction from the horrors of entropy.
yer spot on with machinists being focused on the process, the method vs the product, the product is the goal, but refining the process is a machinists job (one more reason I'm not a machinist anymore, no one wants the folks on the floor thinking at all...) as for the Gub-a-mint work... some of the best stuff I own was slammed out during breaks and while working nights with long run times, and little supervision... But having said that... if a shop tool is made for use in the shop, its the shops tool and doesn't belong in anyone's personal tool box
I'd have to get a box before I can start bedazzling it.
Speaking of Bedazzled Boxes, I was in Vegas the other week...
Her name was Vegas?
When you put them in in production don't forget that one socket holder that you need three or four of the same size next to each other and I don't think I need to tell you what size I'm talking about
@@Joe30pack You mean the floor finder size!?
10mm socket holder with a leash for the socket. lol
I always say, "Anyone who wants to be President should be immediately disqualified."
@@ChristopherHallett Douglas Adams also - “The major problem-one of the major problems, for there are several-one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
@@scythelord You mean George Washington who had to increase the size of the Continental army in order to crush the second American Revolution? The revolution that was caused by him not only reimposing every single tax king George III had imposed but an additional tax on whisky as well? That George Washington?
@@andrewallen9993 The difference as Washington explained then was that the war was about taxation without representation, not about taxation itself. The people literally just voted in politicians who supported a tax to raise an army and fund western exploration, so they had no right to complain. This is also why Washington did not really have to fight, people surrendered as soon as Washington laid down the line and Washington let them go off without punishment.
Also the army was not increased to fight the people, it was increased to fight off the indian and superpower colonies that bordered their newly founded country.
Similar to acquiring the sorcerer's stone 🧙♂️
"There is no such thing as “the cloud,” it’s just somebody else’s computer." - A motto I live by
Exactly!!!!!!! Why would anyone run their business through someone else's computer!!!!
So Gullible are some people!!!
@@rockerpat1085 I think I coined that phrase back in the early days of cloud computer, kinda before anyone even knew what cloud computeing was. ...or at least I had never heard anyone say it when I used it for the first time in the office. I'm claiming rights to it. 🤣
@@colbyscott9822 you weren’t the only one who coined that phrase. It’s how we kept our IT department going for years. I dunno what it’s like now, because I retired 5 years ago.
🤣 exactly!
I work in IT support... supporting customers who work on cloud infrastructure. They're all onboard when they hear they won't have to buy new servers no more... and once the 4-to-5-digit bills come in every month thery're pissed... plus they're now dependent on their internet connection to do productive work. I spend my days calling cable companies and rebooting firewalls.
that Etch-a-Sketch gag at 4:33 is fargin brilliant!
Every day is a struggle with Fusion 360...
@@arduinoversusevil2025 Idk why they call it 360.. you can’t even pull off a 180 without it deleting your fuckin work!
@@arduinoversusevil2025 can call confirm... I spent 2 hours before I learned press/pull is not the same as extrude. I mean it does the same thing. Whatever time to print another gun.
I dare you to use the cnc machine to use it to draw with the etch a sketch
Gag nearly killed me, amazing
As an apprentice engineer back in the late nineties, Friday afternoons consisted of manufacturing billet VW Beetle switch pulls to sell at car shows and drag racing events for beer tokens 👍🏻
Pretty sure I bought some of those, lol.
That was you...?
You ever sell at the meet in Pomona?
I'm so glad that CNC is proliferating so quickly, all the way to the hobby level.
That leaves me a fighting chance of affording my own clapped out bridgeport one day without my wife euthanizing me.
Or at a minimum yur nuts for her earrings. Yes, the paradigm which faces most hetrosexual men (perhaps homosexual too? I am not)...the INFINITE battle for 100% absolutely needed things with the Warde....err...the Bos...err...Haggzill...err.... the WIFE, yeah, the fairer sex. I've found the 'beg for forgiveness vs ask for permission' adage to reap the best results for me. But BE FOREWARNED: Women have a memory EXPONENTIALLY better than your average elephant so this technique is not for all machinery deprived males.
I traded firewood for a 1984 Cleveland 2 hp mill. I got a pile of end mills too. I spent several hundred in tooling. Friends gave me wire and a 3 phase convertor. I moved and installed it myself. And by the way I haven't used my drill press in years. Buy drill chucks if you get one.
CNC is just a fad. It reminds me alot of the smartphone. 5 years ago everyone had to have a smart phone. Who has a smart phone today? Nobody. Everyone has an iphone or an android today and the smartphone goes the way of the horse and buggy. This is the same thing thats gonna happen to CNC. You put 10 men out of work with 1 little computer? Thats not sustainable.
@@rustyshakleford5230 is this comment nonsense on purpose?
@@rustyshakleford5230 ironic how you talk about tools, seeing how you are one yourself
"It ain't stealing if you also *used it* on company time." 😉
I've had a friend bring me patent forms, swearing one or two of my deelybobs were destined to make a million bucks. I'm with you, more like a million pin pricks in the ass...
You always tell the stories, well... I've got a story about the best bosses ever and, most people don't get to make that claim. 😀
I was the luckiest "underverker" in the world when I worked for a particular movie production company.
My "shop boss" was the most under-spoken, even tempered, actually nice, calm, cool and collected (in front of us) guy, *even when you F'd-up bad...*
He'd look at you, ask you if you learned anything and if you think you'll do it again and, presuming you gave him the correct answer and didn't have a look of sheer terror in your eyes, he'd show you the *right way* to "F'er-up" and send you on your merry way... Just as long as you never tried to hide anything.
There was someone(s) bending the lower legs on the expensive, automatic trailer jacks because, it's a "hurry-up, it's due yesterday, even though we just got the order ten minutes ago... Kinda place.
Some walkin' dingle-berry would hook up to a trailer and take off... Dragging the jack leg in the dirt then drop it really quick and not say anything. *Not cool.*
The owner (actually a very cool guy, whom I punched squarely in the mouth on my first day and didn't get fired!!) and his #1 came toolin' up on his golf cart (big lot) and asked me "Do you know who bent that trailer jack on the XYZ trailer back there??"
I looked him squarely in the eye and said "Yes, Sir... I did. And I know what I did wrong and it won't happen again, Sir. I'm just going in right now to get a new one and get it fixed..."
He just looked at me and said "Fair enough, I'll let you get to it." And they drove off in a cloud of dust.
A little while later, his #1 came rolling back up, by himself and said "You're a very smart, *very* lucky man. He saw that bent jack and he hit the roof!... He was going in to go to the cameras when we pulled up. He was going to look through the footage and fire whomever did it, right on the spot... But, you caught him off guard, owned up to it, promised not to do it again and were already fixing it so, he didn't have anything to say. If you'd have lied about it, you'd be done for, right where you stood."
I asked him "why should I lie and lose a $50k job over a $150 jack that I'd be happy to pay for. That's stupid." That's when he said that people were bending them every couple days and just hiding them and he was over it. (a couple days later, I noticed one less person at the lunch table).
It's a shame to act like that when you have really cool bosses.
The owner would charter a bus and take the *whole production shop crew* deep sea fishing every spring, down to Panama City beach (The "Redneck Riviera!" 😆) and paid for *everything.* Rooms, breakfast and dinner every day, the works. We'd have a full day of fishing in between two days to do whatever "stupid tourist tricks" we wanted.
Easily a $30k trip... And people repaid him by hiding fuck-ups and lying to him (but not for very long).
If there was a rush on a job building a special project, he'd ask for volunteers to work overtime (never orders, just asks, you wanna leave, no prob.) and he'd walk by, an hour or two in and just hand you an extra $20 bill (or two) and say "thanks for the good work." and move on out of your way. Nobody does that. It's just a gesture of appreciation but, it's flowers and wine for the wife to make up for being late for dinner, missing an event, etc..
There's not too many owners and foremen who treat you like that. Then again, there's not a lot of companies like that...
Very special skill-sets required and you have to be a good fit overall (personality, etc.) because, it's a fast paced, "bust-ass from whistle to whistle" job to which many people say "screw this!" roll up their gear and hit the bricks (or are shown the bricks) after a week, maybe less.
I'm probably going to get called on this but, it's *the largest* provider of movie production/transportation equipment in the entire US of A.
Need to shoot a location set somewhere? Cast and Star trailers, "Honey wagons," grip, electric and camera trucks (with custom built dark rooms), hair and makeup trailers, light towers and a bunch of support equipment. Anything you can dream up, they'd build it and deliver it to you, anywhere you want it.
It's a great company but a very "tough nut" to crack. But, once you're "in, you're in" until you want to leave. And they take good care of you... No yelling, screaming or threatening of jobs.
It's not a job you just "go to school" for, it requires a collection of skill sets just to get hired, then it's a *lot* of OJT. 👍
When I got the call to come for an interview, he asked if he'd called before. I told him "no, I just figured they weren't interested." He apologized, said he wanted to talk to me 4 mos. ago and am I still interested. It so happened I was so, the wife drove me down and ran a quick errand and waited in the front lot. I found the boss, one "Mr. Rock..." Great boss' name (he's retired, I can say it now). He looked over my resume for a hot second and asked "Is this you?? This is your resumé?" I said "Yes, Sir." And he said "walk with me."
We looked over the *huge* compound (which is hidden behind another business in front of the property, they don't take walk-ins 😆).
We walked and talked and looked at equipment and buildings and got a feel for each other. We made the circuit and conveniently ran out of things to say right back where we started.
I just said "Im happy." to which he replied "Im happy." The entire interview (only one, none of this 2 & 3 interview crap) took a little over two hours. Just for an interview...
I told him I needed to get back to my wife and he started apologizing and I said to not worry, she was reading and listening to music, it took what it took for both of us and that was it. The next day I started the best/coolest job I ever had and, it was because of the owner and bosses that ran the place, not a bad apple in the bunch.
But they gave no slack, it was a very high stress, "has to be perfect and done two days before you start" type of environment. As long as you keep up with the curve, you're fine.
But, the movie industry is crazy and it's in the top 3 hardest jobs I've had, including the military. The other was piledriving foundations and forming up skyscrapers in the carpenter's union so, they have to be understanding of the employees, too. if you make a mistake (and I made a couple big ones) you learn from it and move on or you find another career. But if you can swing it, it's also the most challenging and fun time you'll ever have. 😉
In October in Texas, damn near every weld shop is busy creating all manner of deer stands. You wonder how any deer survive-- but remember how much beer is sold at the same time.
Texas deer ? what percentage have udders and what percentage have flea collars ?
@@eflanagan1921 nah, you're talkin' 'bout the slow elk
I haven't noticed deer stand hunting being all that effective. It's better to be on foot, but nobody wants to actually put forth any effort these days.
@@CIorox_BIeach Nah, it's more a lot of hunters don't give a damn about hunting and just use it as an acceptable path to find some peace and quiet for a few hours.
@@davidrutledge3240 yep like fishing, I never catch a damn thing, but I hang out with my friends and drink a few beers, so time well spent in my opinion
I worked for Spar Aviation years ago and we were doing avionics upgrades on RCAF C130. We had a sheet metal tech that was on shift with us wire pullers to drill holes if needed. He was bored most of the time, so he would make stuff for the crew. His best off the books project was a titanium lunch box. He probably used about $200 in materials. Beautiful workmanship.
I’m watching this on company time. Take that evil OmniCorp!
@@DanSpotYT lmao
I'm watching this wile my macine is running so no problem
Nothing better than machining parts and watching youtube videos on machining between the M00s
1:10 It's not just a blue-collar tax. When I was a kid, dad and I would go to his workplace and let me fuck around on a lab computer for the whole day and it just so happened that said computer ran either a pen plotter or a CNC machine (no, they weren't that cheap, I literally could just pick which IBM 5150 I wanted to fuck around on). The funny relevant bit here is that his supervisor found out this was going on, would come by to watch, and not only didn't mind it, but encouraged it because he was just amazed that a kid not yet even in his teens could be taught how to operate this stuff competently. This later extended into my teen years, where I was then plotting circuit traces on a HP-UX workstation running something from Mentor Graphics (when not using his Windows machine to play online games on the company T3). Different supervisor came by one day while I was doing this and said that if it weren't for my age and lack of a security clearance, he'd have hired me on the spot.
My grandpa has a couple of Jack Stands made on company time that you could sit a tank on and they wouldn’t bend.. best he ever had!!
My dad made something similar after a car he was propping up with bricks fell on him and he had to bench press his way out (morris minor not a yank land yacht)
My pops made the same at work, with a seat attachment to two and the other two held a table for shots
Grampa was a wise man indeed..
@@eliotmansfield Damn, that's terrifying.
While nosing through the fab shop scrap bin at work I was asked several times “What do you need?”. The third time I clued in that he was offering to custom cut some “scrap” material that was oddly similar to the sketch I quickly made for him. What luck!
Here's an idea for your next Friday session, titanium pry bar. Like a 4 footer. Buddy had one I saw in the 80's built on military time and military dime. No doubt on a friday. Keep up the great vids AvE!
Back when I was in the Army I used to party with a bunch of Air Force guys. One of them did sheet metal work on the U2. He had a bottle opener he made out of some super fancy expensive metal alloy. It was super hard and stiff but also super lightweight.
@@shadymaint1 Did it leak until used ?
@@eflanagan1921it's the SR-71 that leaks all over itself before it's at working temp. The U2 is actually a pretty dry bird. Temperamental as an insecure redheaded schoolgirl, but dry.
I had a titanium pry bar that was made in the USSR, and back in the mid '90's, there were catalogs that sold Soviet surplus, like that prybar. Sadly, mine was stolen....
This day an age, the best route would be to just cast it out of titanium...
...trust me, it'll work!
I had a great shop that taught me set up. No one ever said anything about taking too much time as long as the machine didn't go boom. 1st day supervisor was like "the guy who was here before you caused $40k damage. Don't do that."
Always good to be the guy coming in *after* the smouldering crater was created.
That really takes the pressure off because you could cause 10k in damages and it wouldn't be half as bad as what that guy did
@Yuck Foutube he said it wouldn’t be half as bad* try reading before commenting
We always called it wage compensation on account of getting paid diddly.
As do we in the excavation/masonry field, though we typically have an extra smoke n coffee as we don't exactly have milling machines around to play arts and crafts with. STAND STRONG SAP SUCKERS, WE DOWN SOUTH SUPPORT THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM WITH YAS.
Hang on, you guys are getting paid?
@@ishnifusmeadle sap suckers, i like that!
He was being paid, they gifted him that rust bucket of a Zero Tolerance in the opening scene.
Boss gets a dollar, i get a dime. That's why i poop on company time
I used to work in hospital maintenance, and one of our guys would so some Friday freelancin’ in the HVAC/welding shop to work on his holiday decor. He was one of those guys whose yard was transformed into a Griswaldian wonderland at Christmas time. Biggest project was using a large (like 6ft diameter) metal spool that once held electrical cable to make a Ferris wheel. It was something to behold with seats for stuffed animals, a motor and stand so it actually worked, and he even engineered a system using motor brushes to transfer AC power to run the twinkle lights on the spokes and circumference since any cord or wiring would get twisted and mangled when the big wheel was turning. It was impressive to me, anyway.
If you ever need something similar, the lingo you are looking for is "slip ring." Through the magic of Chinese manufacturing they can be had for relatively cheap in the plastic variety. Nonetheless, still impressive he made it himself.
it's only missing a circular pocket to hold your malt beverage while you search for the 10mm socket.
When you drill a hole into your mill bed make sure to stamp the word OIL over it. You might even squirt some oil in there to make it look good.
I had a belt buckle made out of Inconel with my name welded in beautiful script. It was made by hand at a place I worked at years ago. It had a slight curve with fluted edges and a satin brushed finish.
as one of those odd fellows, I 100% agree with your assessment that we're about the individual processes, I find myself working about each individual tool path making sure it's as good as I can get it then, moving to the next, but that may just be because I am the individual that programs the part sets it up and runs it. The major breakdown you see may come when you get into a shop that has a programmer, a setup, and then a operator. The programmer only cares that it virtually simulated out, The setup actually wants it to make good parts but is trying to idiot proof it for the operator, and well the operator .... "Green button make robot go wherever".
Your Friday-afternoon comments remind me of when my dad's college department's machine shop first got in a CNC mill in the late 1980s. From what I remember, the first two people to learn how to use it were my dad (who needed some airfoil shapes for his research) and the machinist who was using it to make some fancy trigger guards for his rifle. I don't know how much of that was precisely on company time, but it meant he actually knew how to use the thing, so I figure it was worth paying him for it.
We have a CNC, plasma cutters, 12,000 lb vehicle hoist, various mig/tig welders, all the metalworking tools you could want, and we are a computer service company lol. Our fuk-around-Fridays are absolutely epic.
Oh, and the owner of our building, works for an auto manufacturer, he has made plenty of things, cabinets, counter top supports, light brackets etc etc which he all made on "spare time" at work.
@@tburda823 are y’all hiring 😂🤣
@@tburda823 yeah are yall hiring?
I encourage my employees to use the machines for personal projects. I often fund the materials. How else will they learn, except doing something they are interested in? After hours of course, and if they want to sell 100 of them then it gets bid like any other job. I feel that letting someone use a cnc mill or laser cutter or welding robot on a personal passion project is an excellent way to have people learn machines. You never hire anyone who knows your mix of machines. We have Haas, Piranha, Panasonic. Each machine has its own language and quirks. Knowing Doosan, Lincoln and Trumpf is a great start, but I have never interviewed that guy either.
Have to admit I was momentarily surprised the Etch a Sketch didn't USB 😅
it would be fun to mod one for shits and giggles. non working of course.
Do you know what's better than watching this video on company time? Watching it on the governments time. Thank you American's for paying me to watch this
You deserve it.
I now know one government employee I trust.
Finally a productive use of time.
"It's not wrong, is it? It's only wrong if you get caught..."
So fun to hear you talk about the "little things" that can be the whole world in production.
I learned to start at the basics when trouble shooting. As I was STARTED/trained on a night shift all by myself.
I ran screw machines so checking the variables, were as many as I imagined as I worked out the troubles.
Usually it was something like tension on the guide bushing. If I got three bad ones in a row I shut the shop and went home.
Because it's really about keeping the (4 screw machines and a Hobart to fix shit) shop alive. We had/have 2/4 guys doing sales dev and production.
When we started we did the shit that other shops were passing on. Our Dev is the best. Just send an Etchashech pic! LOL!
We did stuff for Boeing and Shh DARPA... Made free parts for dental work in Africa.
Glad to hang and watch you play..
The Etch-a-Sketch bit is top notch comedy.
The mirrors to G-code reality made me laugh and throw my keyboard at the same time.
I absolutely love your content - and the Slavic Ladies commercials are really keeping me watching every second!
Your explanation at the end sounds like a wise man I know who gave the exact same explanation when I asked him why he did not sell the pens (beautiful lathe turned pens) he made... Cause then its a job and not a hobby,,, Love ya AvE...
Cloud computing is a great idea if you own the cloud. Otherwise it's more expensive than DIY.
IMO the only real reason cloud exists is to bypass software pirates.
Gives me an idea of my own. Not a good one, mind, but I'll mull it over a bit until it get worse
Thank you for having this CNC machine, so I don't have to. Cheers!
Do you get time and a half for people who watch this on Saturday?
Oh snap even deburred. Damn uncle AvE went the full 30% on the video production.
Thanks for breaking the edges on the aluminum. I work on buses and the three fingered trained monkeys who built them love to leave razor sharp edges on every piece of sheet metal
I miss working in a shop. I have tools at home, but there was just something more enjoyable about spending half the work week building some project for home.
kek
I still have a set of jumper cables built from scrap cable from my employer, 20+ years ago.
I did have to buy the clamps and am looking at replacing them, but the 4 AWG cable has been great the whole time.
So do I, made from the safety earth cable of an old 370 mainframe :)
REALLY 300 amps.
So do I, made from 'scrap' #4 welding cable, the best thing is they're 20 feet long. I also bought clamps, of course. Assembled in 1984, but still in use.
It’s like magic! You start out with a clean tool box and a dirty bolt, end up with a clean bolt and a dirty tool box! You’ve outdone yourself again AVE! This is why I love your channel!
Your content has been so consistent four years, and it just keeps on coming.
Pretty sure most of us that have been here before you hid your sub count are still curious what numbers you're up to, because you're one of the best gals on RUclips.
1.03 Million
@@ModernProspector Earned every damn one of them.
@@ModernProspector probably closer to 4 mil
Some of his older popular videos pop up in my suggestions on occasion. And I'm like damn, was that 5 years ago already? Felt like maybe a year ago
@@RoamingAdhocrat you are correct! More than double that as a matter of fact!! Many many numbers in there.
"blue collar tax"
I'm borrowing that.
Mill: *touches material*
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When you flipped the etch sketch and groaned made me laugh out loud. I love that kind of humor
Great for dressing up some scabby old M14 winter wheel lug bolts you swore you would never use again just four winters ago.
Love to see you back at the mill. Was afraid I might have to actually make something myself to get my fix.
Props for the nod to Bob Widlar with the poster. To say he was an interesting fellow is an understatement. Thinking about it just a little tiny bit, it is easy to see that you and he share some personal philosophies.
Love your videos. Along with the great visuals, there is no shortage of wit. An entertainment enigma to be sure. Keep up the great work, love you long time.
Skookum as frig! I've been binge watching your videos here in Iraq. AWESOME. I need one of these major awards for my milling/machinist magic tool box when I get home. Absolutely bad-ass.
Took me twenty three minutes to realize that wasn't an ashtray made for Mother's Day. That is a clever little device.
Choke up on your tools, and your tools won't be as prone to yelling at you.
Ok, I did. No difference.
@@arduinoversusevil2025 Semi-suprising! Vibration in tooling is an entire science in itself. I've found increasing chip load and choking up on tools typically works. Higher chip load is a little counter intuitive, but is usually effective.
@@krispockell685 Feed per tooth is 0.0046. I'll try more aggressive and see if it explodes.
@@krispockell685 +20% feed. Working great. Maybe (?) less noise but 6 minutes less cycle time. Thanks!
Exploding tools….. not a good idea…. That’s why I work finger dingler ten thousand..
This looks awesome, to get a little extra mileage out of the sharpie maybe mill in a 1/8 slot so you could store it upside down so the juices flow to the tip
Nicest joint rolling tray I have ever seen.
Fusion 360 is like golf. Work at it hard for years so you can be just kinda shitty.
Love the "Christmas Story " reference . It's a major award. !!!
Those arty-farty videos showing some state-of-the-art 12 axis machine producing some wonderful piece of machinery-art. You watch for 25 minutes and marvel at the end product and they NEVER tell you what it's for! 😖🤯
AvE - you watch a piece of material being machined through a haze of lubricating fluid with a commentary that is out of sync with the world but at the end of the video you have a practical thingamajig that does stuff that you don't need BUT you really want!
That's the AvE difference!
My dad still has the same makita 3/8 drill with the stick battery. It still works perfectly. He even has the tile saw.
I am not sure what I just watched...but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Yeah me too man! This channel be having you on a engineering tear I swear
Wage theft is a bigger issue than gov'ment jobs. You do your work on my time, I'll do my work on your time.
I look away for one goddamn second, hear some screamin' goat, look back and Ol' Bumblefuck is dumping lubricant on a sparkler and playing with an etch and sketch... never a dull moment. :D I also like to think he is talking to the CNC machine and we are just watching a video of that. Like that front of the house guy that comes into the shop once in a while and talks at you while you are working on something. When he is talking about bringing down the feed speed, it even looks like the machine pauses to see what his choice will be.
Your mastery of language never fails to keep me bolted to the screen. Bravo Sir.
Blue collar tax, love it and I'm gonna use it
Love it whenever you drop one of these types of videos. I also love the French Canadian slang thrown in from time to time, being from Quebec myself. My Québécois girlfriend gets a kick out of it. Thanks for sharing!
Cloud computing is a good idea because the higher you are the smarter you are.
Those Friday night and weekend shifts are what built my empire of dirt. Some of the coolest shiz I have was a weekend night shift project.
All those night hours with the lathe and mill sitting still ... Shame to leave em lonely..might as well keep em lubed and running smooth after all a rolling stone gathers no moss ..right
Can you imagine working with Ave? I would never stop laughing long enough to get anything done!
Glad to be supporting the beer fund! Got no need to clean any bolts but the content is one of a kind. Miss the days when the camera wouldn't focus though.
After the brass pen holder debacle I finally feel safe, once again, to suspend my disbelief! Thank you.
If you're worried about drills smashing through the earth, I'll give you a ring if one pops through.
I'm in Australia.
Excellent call on the BEST possible machining vise, Kurt!! Another fine Minnesota product (although sound in idea & purpose, their "Chipmunk" is overpriced a bit IMO). Machining is the only thing I've ever done here in Minnesota...4 generations now...me being #3. Gotta tout those locals, don'tcha knooo?
I’ve been in the Kurt factory several times because they are a supplier for the company I work for. Those vises are probably the least interesting thing that comes out of there. The Navy contracts they have keep them pretty busy from the looks of it.
USB Etch-a-sketch was absolutely priceless... Will be sharing with machining cohorts!!!
I'm machining an injection mold today and should be watching my ops, but instead I'm watching yours. Good thing I'm the boss otherwise I'd be fired.
Brilliant, get yourself a beer! (or whatever the Canadian equivalent of beer is, LoL!). That’s mighty slick! When can we start ordering the pencil swing press?lol!……
It's not stealing it's training autodiadactily on company time
G'day. I received my stickers and some have made it to my workplace. Happy to help out.
That Makita 9v brought back some so-so memories.
Myself being a cast off wood butcher, I know fuck all about machining. But this was a fun way to kill time while waiting for the new episode of Cold War Motors to drop.
Hoping the 18 wheels to flatten the Turd is going well for you up there 👍
We are hoping. Would be better if the coward would step down
@@DIRTVENTURE His father Fidel never turned away from communism, why would the son?
@@johndoe-so2ef so true…. You have a point there….
Between you and Rob Dahm, it always blows my mind that anybody can just buy one of these machines.
I mean... "anybody" can buy a minigun too. It's just that the people that can afford it aren't people but corporations usually. Shit's expensive.
We call it a “fringe benefit “
And here I thought Haas had come by in the night and repossessed their machine as part of their obligations to the anti-torture provisions of the Geneva Convention. Glad to see they still haven't identified your location so you can keep showing us what Big CnC doesn't want us to know!
No no no. You need to check out the Helical chipbreaking end mills. They are reasonably priced, and we run the 3/4 chipbreaker at 10k rpm, 2" LOC and .15 - .20" radial stepover at 150-180ipm all day long. The material removal is incredible and they cut so quietly and last so long. You CANNOT beat it. This is in a cat40 taper machine too. But using dual contact, milling or hydraulic chucks. ER collets wont hold the tool at those depths.
Edit: they are not corncob roughers. They just have a chipbreaking notch every so often.
100% Friday afternoon, our gaffer used to disappear off to a "meeting" wed break out the homers Monday morning was always a stand off, we knew and he knew and we all got on with it.
Pencil holder that's also a sharpenerrrrr
Ooooooooooo...
We run a tube project a lot at my shop, and my boss wrote the milling operations so that the top half of the mill does a roughing pass and the bottom half of the mill does the finish pass. I'm always amazed by the little tweaks he does to get more life out of the tool while making a nicer part
Need to get an Osborne deburring brush and get that mounted to a tool holder, save that 35 seconds in hand deburr. Also leaves a real purdy finish.
In my experience most the people who make/take stuff "Government work" can afford to buy their own. Never stole from work whether I was paid min wage or better But that's just my personal feelings about taking what is not yours.
I know that my grandpa had some sticky fingers at the mine shop. I know because some of my tools that I got from him have said mine labels. But my grandma said his boss said he could do it as long as he snagged some for him too 🤣
I have quite a lot of tools that have government NSN numbers on them.
Warm memories of my dad's MOUND of MSHA electrical tape. Best damn tape!
Same, years ago when his factory closed he went to pick his tools up (hired a van, strangely) He himself has be gone a while now, but I’m still working my way through his liberated drill bits, electrical tape, zip ties and 2-pack epoxy sachets, they should last me another dozen lifetimes or so 😂
I spend the majority of these videos trying like hell to figure it out and how it will make my life easier knowing full well the enginerds in the crowd figured it out in the first minute based off the X, Y, and Z paths they caught a glimpse of and they spend the majority of the video laughing at me who doesn't get it.
Golf slacks on, gotta go meet the vendor! Gold!
Makes me wonder: Do you get in some kind of relaxed, meditative state watching the Haas doing its thing? Because i certainly did... Oddly relaxing...
This happens to me on motorcycles. Focused meditation, thinking of nothing else other than what you're doing
@@VoidedWarranty Heh, yeah, i know that too... if i really need to clear my head (as in 'badly') i hit a comparatively empty stretch of the Autobahn and just go for a couple of tens of miles. The undisturbed driving... The focus thing: That's what they call 'flow'. A quite different state of mind, but it rocks! 😉
Those multiple passes in the center of the block at the 10min mark.... The sound and speed made the moves sound like the klaxon from Ghostbusters after Peck ordered the Laser Containment Grid powered down.
used to cnc stuff for a living in what seems like a previous life, i'd have an actual cnc, with a screen to run simulations of my questionable programs, and also an older emi-mec turret lathe with plugboard control, and an old but excelent Ward or Herbert capstan lathe for second op's. also nice brass candle sticks and hash pipes 👍
I'm a union electrician. Well, licensed apprentice anyhow.
I'd love the time to fuck around and build tools. However, we're always behind schedule and short-handed because nowhere near enough people are getting into the trade.
I guess this sounds like I'm subversively trying to convince you to be an electrician; I'm *_actually_* just bitching about waking up at 4:00am on a Saturday. God dammit.
As a wood man(college lecturer) this makes me want to be a metal butcher and yes you need to sell these so I can buy one preferably with a built in mouse trap for when my students are constantly stealing my pencils
Blue collar tax! Love it ! I will be using that one next time while working on a government project ;)
I do support the truckers in Canaderp in their battle with JT
At my last job I was known to bring cylinder heads for garden tractors and such to true them up with a fly cutter, resurface clutch plates and make driveshafts. Me and my father sled pull garden tractors for fun and I've saved a lot doing my own machine work
The USB and the etch-a-sketch is great. I think I'm going to give a kid one and just a phone charger just to see what happens
I purchased a Russian Rolex (Vostok Amphibia) as a Christmas present for my son. He asked me how you charge it up.
Oh a mechanically charged mechanical battery he said when I explained.
Fun video ... I was able to get a short nap in the middle and miss most of the coolant shower... Thanks for sharing ... Stay Safe...
I love the videos man! They give me project ideas to work on in my grandmother's basement. Hopefully I won't blow it up! Keep up the good work and giving me a distraction from the horrors of entropy.
Your grandmother has a machine shop set up in her basement?
yer spot on with machinists being focused on the process, the method vs the product, the product is the goal, but refining the process is a machinists job (one more reason I'm not a machinist anymore, no one wants the folks on the floor thinking at all...) as for the Gub-a-mint work... some of the best stuff I own was slammed out during breaks and while working nights with long run times, and little supervision... But having said that... if a shop tool is made for use in the shop, its the shops tool and doesn't belong in anyone's personal tool box
No. I don't believe they were gonna throw that out.