Now this is the kind of RUclips machining channel I love watching! No shilling of products, no tiresome machine of nuts and bolts, and no boring steam engine build--just interesting projects with a practical purpose.
“I’m just a robot, so expressing emotions is definitely not my strongest point.” I knew it all along! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and to whoever is doing the drawings! This is incredible!
I found this video on my suggested feed, and I'm glad I did. I love this build series just as much as I love watching TOT, Blondiehacks, Mr.Pete, and the rest of the usual suspects. I'm a big metal head, but the classical instrumentals in these are perfect for the style of video and I find myself looking forward to them ( just as much as I look forward to you explaining your process haha). Very well done so far. Thank you for your efforts
Рад что нашёл ваш канал. Сам работаю токарем, проходил обучение на фрезерном станке хоть работать не довелось и когда нибудь обязательно приступлю к изготовлению уменьшенной, рабочей копии своей любимой модели токарного станка. Также очень хочется похвалить ваш английский. Смотрю вас без субтитров и всё понятно. А вот почему не понятно британцев мне непонятно. 😊
I am following your build videos, they are great! What I was wondering watching the mini mill build is why you didn't use cast iron for the table, the saddle and so on. Cast iron can be scraped to very precise tolerances.
@@Michel-Uphoff No, of course not. Casting the raw pieces is not what I meant though, but rather machining from raw cast iron blocks - cutoffs of various sizes can be purchased online - at least in Germany they can :)
@@GabrielFleseriu-bx2ee Ah, that way. I don't think I can find that in the Netherlands anytime soon, and milling away so much cast iron without cooling liquid doesn't seem like an attractive idea to me either, I find that cast iron dust nasty stuff.
Ooh... that might explain why there was no 'scraping in' of the ways... I'm not a Machinist or a metal worker of any sort but I've watched quite a lot of people on RUclips who are and the scraping thing seems to be quite popular. I've watched all four of this build series so far and it wasn't until the last minute or so when it occurred to me that no scraping had happened and yet there was an astonishing level of accuracy 😂
@@Vandal_Savage The surfaces of the dovetails are about 7 mm wide. That is almost impossible to scrape. Apart from that, scraping is hardly done nowadays with new machines. The machining can be very precise nowadays. Scraping is currently mainly the domain of restorers of larger machines. And of course, every toolmaker has a good set of files. You can do a lot more with them than you would think at first glance.
My mill and lathe weigh 1tonne each I'm impressed with the work you do on such small machines. 12 microns of backlash is ten times better than the cross slide on my lathe.
Hello, love your videos. Your knowledge and experience is very much appreciated. I was wondering if maybe after you finish your mill would you consider making a lathe or a paragraph. Thank you for the great videos and keep them coming
Really nice work, and the robot-voice is no problem with such accuracy and skill on show. But I’m wondering why, when you already have a small milling machine, you work so hard to make a smaller one? Great videos, Thank you. Les 🇬🇧
Am I missing something? Or are you referring to his ff500? If so, then shortly explained: "Big" problem with that machine is the low rpm. It's great for medium sized cutters but you just can't really use smaller than 2mm bits on it. Max rpm is only 4k rpm afaik
@@Michel-Uphoff Ahh, sorry, I’ve just been back to watch episode 1 again, and of course, you explained it very fully. I’ve got the message (at last!) Thank you again. Les
Hello thanks for sharing your video with us. Ihave a question:? Why didn't you use cast iron? That’s means steel is better than cast iron for milling table? Ween yes please let me know and also say me why. Thanks Im watching your videos from Austria 🇦🇹 Best regards sina
The main reason I didn't use cast iron is that it's not available here in good quality in small and manageable dimensions. In addition, working with grey cast iron is a very dirty job and I don't like all that nasty dust at all.
@@sinadaneshkhah8537 That depends on the purpose, but certainly also on the quality of the cast iron. A good quality gray cast iron is fine for the base, the table and the saddle. But for the column it is unsuitable, unless you make the column much heavier. Cast iron can withstand much less tensile forces than steel, and it is more brittle. One of the advantages of cast iron is its vibration-damping property. It is a lot cheaper than steel, a more complex shape is of course the easiest to cast.
Dovetails are much lower profile, easier to build, and cheaper. Linear rails are not nearly as space efficient or rigid in the sizes he is dealing with. There are more esoteric solutions, cross roller guides and such, but don't underestimate the accuracy of a well scraped dovetail.
Now this is the kind of RUclips machining channel I love watching! No shilling of products, no tiresome machine of nuts and bolts, and no boring steam engine build--just interesting projects with a practical purpose.
Thank you! 😊
“I’m just a robot, so expressing emotions is definitely not my strongest point.”
I knew it all along! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and to whoever is doing the drawings! This is incredible!
Thank you!
Very, very nicely done, you get 10 ponts of 10.
Another terrific instalment & a high level of precision achieved Michel, Congrats!!
Thanks again Colin!
I found this video on my suggested feed, and I'm glad I did. I love this build series just as much as I love watching TOT, Blondiehacks, Mr.Pete, and the rest of the usual suspects. I'm a big metal head, but the classical instrumentals in these are perfect for the style of video and I find myself looking forward to them ( just as much as I look forward to you explaining your process haha). Very well done so far. Thank you for your efforts
Beautiful job,as always. Can't wait for the next video.
Thanks!
It wil take two weeks I'm afraid..
The wait is worth it. ❤
Briliant plan and perfect execution. Keep up this kind of work. 👏👏👏
A thing of great beauty. Well done.
I watch a lot of TV series on all sorts of streaming platforms. Only few of them gives the same enjoyment I get when I watch your build-series 🤗
@@innominatum9906 Wow! Thanks 🙂
Your precision is amazing. Cheers 👍💪✌
Beautiful work! 👏
Greetings from Canada. This is an excellent build and a very enjoyable video to watch. Well done!
Wow, that is truly impressive work.
Incredible work!
Thanks for the compliment!
Olá amigo saudções daqui do Brasil!!!
Que trabalho fantástico incrivel a precisão!!!
Lhe desejo saúde e cada vez mais sucesso!!!
Obrigado pelos seus votos amigáveis 🙂
Amazing alignment sir!
Рад что нашёл ваш канал. Сам работаю токарем, проходил обучение на фрезерном станке хоть работать не довелось и когда нибудь обязательно приступлю к изготовлению уменьшенной, рабочей копии своей любимой модели токарного станка. Также очень хочется похвалить ваш английский. Смотрю вас без субтитров и всё понятно. А вот почему не понятно британцев мне непонятно. 😊
high quality build and video. Thank you
Great stuff, thanks for the upload 😊
Wow... impressive.
Very nice build Michel! Especially on your small machines! Best! Job
Thanks Job. I really have to push the limits of what my small machines can do.
Very nice work sir. You can be real proud
I am following your build videos, they are great! What I was wondering watching the mini mill build is why you didn't use cast iron for the table, the saddle and so on. Cast iron can be scraped to very precise tolerances.
Because I don't have the oven, the molds, the material, the space and the knowledge to cast them myself.
@@Michel-Uphoff No, of course not. Casting the raw pieces is not what I meant though, but rather machining from raw cast iron blocks - cutoffs of various sizes can be purchased online - at least in Germany they can :)
@@GabrielFleseriu-bx2ee Ah, that way. I don't think I can find that in the Netherlands anytime soon, and milling away so much cast iron without cooling liquid doesn't seem like an attractive idea to me either, I find that cast iron dust nasty stuff.
Ooh... that might explain why there was no 'scraping in' of the ways... I'm not a Machinist or a metal worker of any sort but I've watched quite a lot of people on RUclips who are and the scraping thing seems to be quite popular.
I've watched all four of this build series so far and it wasn't until the last minute or so when it occurred to me that no scraping had happened and yet there was an astonishing level of accuracy 😂
@@Vandal_Savage The surfaces of the dovetails are about 7 mm wide. That is almost impossible to scrape. Apart from that, scraping is hardly done nowadays with new machines. The machining can be very precise nowadays. Scraping is currently mainly the domain of restorers of larger machines. And of course, every toolmaker has a good set of files. You can do a lot more with them than you would think at first glance.
My mill and lathe weigh 1tonne each I'm impressed with the work you do on such small machines. 12 microns of backlash is ten times better than the cross slide on my lathe.
Awesome 10 out of 10
Thanks!
Hello, love your videos. Your knowledge and experience is very much appreciated. I was wondering if maybe after you finish your mill would you consider making a lathe or a paragraph. Thank you for the great videos and keep them coming
Really nice work, and the robot-voice is no problem with such accuracy and skill on show. But I’m wondering why, when you already have a small milling machine, you work so hard to make a smaller one? Great videos, Thank you. Les 🇬🇧
See the first video in this series, there it is explained. (and, if you like, see the second an third also).
Am I missing something? Or are you referring to his ff500? If so, then shortly explained: "Big" problem with that machine is the low rpm. It's great for medium sized cutters but you just can't really use smaller than 2mm bits on it. Max rpm is only 4k rpm afaik
@@Michel-Uphoff Ahh, sorry, I’ve just been back to watch episode 1 again, and of course, you explained it very fully. I’ve got the message (at last!) Thank you again. Les
@@bastian6173 Thanks. Les
Nice
too much good
Hello thanks for sharing your video with us.
Ihave a question:?
Why didn't you use cast iron? That’s means steel is better than cast iron for milling table? Ween yes please let me know and also say me why.
Thanks
Im watching your videos from Austria 🇦🇹
Best regards sina
The main reason I didn't use cast iron is that it's not available here in good quality in small and manageable dimensions. In addition, working with grey cast iron is a very dirty job and I don't like all that nasty dust at all.
@ Otherwise, cast iron is better?
@@sinadaneshkhah8537 That depends on the purpose, but certainly also on the quality of the cast iron. A good quality gray cast iron is fine for the base, the table and the saddle. But for the column it is unsuitable, unless you make the column much heavier. Cast iron can withstand much less tensile forces than steel, and it is more brittle. One of the advantages of cast iron is its vibration-damping property. It is a lot cheaper than steel, a more complex shape is of course the easiest to cast.
Ive watched a couple of the videos on the build and I would say If it was done all over again I'd use linear rails instead of the dovetails.
Dovetails are much lower profile, easier to build, and cheaper. Linear rails are not nearly as space efficient or rigid in the sizes he is dealing with. There are more esoteric solutions, cross roller guides and such, but don't underestimate the accuracy of a well scraped dovetail.
@@TheBakafish Hear hear! 🙂
Michel U nu mai am nimic de comentat in legatura cu executia lucrarii -exceptional- dar as dori tare planurile de fabricatie daca se poate..
He has released the building plans for many of his other inventions - so I think theres a chance he will eventually release these as well =)
first? gteat series, starting...