Hey, Tony, I made that arc furnace, too. It was in the 1955 Popular Mechanics encyclopedia. Used a clay pot, a pair of carbon arc electrodes, my mom's clothes iron as a load resistor in series with the arc. The clay pot was lined with a mixture of shredded asbestos and sodium silicate solution ("water glass"). I built a lot of stuff out of that set of books. One project was a wood lathe that I built in wood and metal shop class as a freshman in high school. I survived childhood, too. But just barely. My parents had no clue what I was up to most of the time. Still tinkering...
"Basic Electronics" magazine published a collection in the 60's. It includes a clay flower pot arc furnace that used two carbon rods from standard zinc/carbon 'D' cell batteries. No ballast. I melted a 4d finishing nail with it and couldn't see much of anything for about an hour. Before you ask, I checked it out of the library so, if I still had it, I'd be facing 80 years in prison and a visit from the Library Police.
I grew up with this Popular Mechanics Encyclopedias. I would go to bed and flip through them volume by volume before going to sleep each night...and then start over for years. I was around 10 years old at the time. Mom still has them on her book shelf. When she asked what I would like from the house when she goes I said that collection of books...she told me to take them now so I'm looking for a space in my 667 sqft house to put them. :-)
Most of the 1955 (I guess) Popular Mechanics Encyclopedias are available at archive.org/ and the Elecric Arc Furnace is among them available at archive.org/details/PopularMechanicsEncyclopediaSet/page/n255
you're on a roll! Engineers Notebook and others by Forrest M Mims III from Radio Shack got me started. 40 plus years later and I still refer back to them from time to time.
Tony, the books you're looking for are called "the boy mechanic" they're a 4 volume set sold by leevalley and are reproductions of some early 1900's-1950's popular mechanics publications.
I dont know if you still need to know how to do chamfers with fusion when they are modelled, but i hope it helps. You do a 2D contur, select de lower edge of the chamfer with a chamfer mill selected and just set a tip offset.
Huh, I've always heard it being called constrain-based design. This master sketch approach is rather new to me. I wonder will it work like that in Alibre design (yes, its back!)
I'm having such deja vu and flashbacks right now, wishing I could remember verbatim what I commented last time around. Something something thank you for teaching me about keeping master sketches as a separate parts document.
3 1/2 years into a mechanical engineering degree and that’s some of the best CAD advice I’ve ever heard. Wish I wasn’t 5 years late to the party. Thank you ToT
Me: No officer, it might have "Cali Commie AR 15 of doom" engraved on it, but it is an air blower. Cop: AR... ASSAULT AIR BLOWER! YOU ARE UNDER ARREST. You have the right to remain silent... .
sadly, that is the mentality of most people today... even on ebay if you try to list say a glue "gun", or a toy "gun", heat gun, soldering gun, ect ect ect.... it always gets flagged under their "vero" items simply because it contains the word "gun".... for many reasons, it is truly a sad and willfully stupid generation in which we live...
Sorry for the re-upload. TOT not smart. I regret losing all the great comments. To answer some of the questions from before: - I use Fusion 360 for CAM because its offers free 3D toolpaths to hobbyists. HSMXpress (in Solidworks) only does 2D for free. - I use Solidworks because ... old dog / new tricks. Am just very used to it. Change = Scary. - 2D Contour in Fusion does have a chamfer option but, even checked, the toolpath wouldn't do collision / avoidance with the model. It just chamfered everything in its way. 2D Chamfer, on the other hand, is smart enough to raise the tool if the tool body is about to run into something. (note the "middle finger ring" isn't chamfered inside all the way around. If the chamfer tool path hadn't stopped, it would have cut open the bottom of the valve bore).
TOT, you should make the switch to fusion, it really is more better... :D I made the switch to fusion about 6 months ago, and i'm definately still learning the innards of it, but from a cad / cam standpoint, for me, it's just so much more intuitive, and robust. John Sunders over at NYCCNC puts out quite a bit of fusion related videos, enough to give you a decent start anyway. As for your chamfer issue, you could have "projected" the edge gemoetry, and edited the projected path to avoid your problem area.
SW is far superior to anything Autodesk puts out. I never liked AD and I tried F360 with the same results so stick with what you know as changing for the sake of changing, or to jump on the bandwagon because all of the cool internet kids are using it, is just plain dumb. Peace.
I'm just starting to learn Solidworks. I can't tell you how much I would love a series of Solidworks tutorials using the design of your gizmo (or some other moderately-complex gizmo with multiple parts). Watching you zip around the software, I could tell there'd be a ton of tips, tricks, techniques, and basics about using Solidworks that I'd learn. Please put that series together in your spare time.
I second that - as if you have any 'spare' time I know what having 2 sons is all about - we all barely survived their childhood, they are 30 and 31 now but it seems like just last week we were all in our teens LOL
I rewound it twice, finally slowing it to 25%, and lost it when I realized he got me again! It's almost like getting RickRolled at this point. Love it!
My favorite childhood experiment was in 5th grade when we made dry ice artillery... later that week I started going into pressure vessels, leading me down a rabbit hole of various rocket motors, leading to aerodynamics, leading to full out amateur liquid fueled rocketry (thank you local rocket club)... later I moved to Indiana and am no longer able to do liquid fuel... so I now terrorize kerbals
I loved Popular Mechanics magazine when I was a kid. I actually had my own subscription :-) Lots of good info in those magazines though... at least there used to be... but like nearly everything else today, its probably been bought out by liberals and they probably only have "cup cake recipes" or "makeup advice for "boys"" or whatever in it now.... it is a sad sad thing to see just how far the last few generations have fallen, let alone the current generation... real men are getting fewer and fewer every day.
"Dangerous" is the chemistry books from the 30 and 40's. Some RUclipsr has a few videos on replicating those formularies. He found the book in the school's garbage Dumpster.
@@Yhrim70 real men? Seems your totally full of male toxicity. I know two women who were doing those electronic projects from popular mechanics back then. One of those women was my mother. She was not afraid to try experiments with me. So bugger off with your "real men" statement.
@@troyna77 Very cunning, to play the "you are probably full of toxic masculinity, so shut up" card. Well, nothing prevents women from doing "boys things", should they choose to, except maybe overprotective parents. Stating that boys are no longer allowed/motivated to do "boys things" is nothing toxic. But all that is irrelevant, because you know exactly who is full of toxicity and therefore their opinion is no longer valid, right? I am Soooo glad to have you around... No, seriously, think of a better counter, see if you find one.
this is almost like age old oriental saying, though they say - why not 100, and then sell them at 1/3 the price of the guy that ordered the first one and payed for all the tooling :P
"Fun with electricity" A Frederick Collins 1936. My father had it when he was a boy, and gave it to me when I was 10. He also gave me a wooden Ford spark coil that I ran with my Marx train transformer. At least a decade later I would be hired by companies to draw schematics and then go to the lab and make them work by correcting the schematics with red ink.
I remember that one! My elementary school was built in the early 50's so that was practically cutting edge, even though I read it in the early 90's heh
Hey Tony, I know this video is 2 years old and you probably figured it out already but if you want to machine chamfers that are modeled into the part, just select the top edge of the chamfer, set the width to 0, and give it a tip offset. I don't know if you need to do this step but under the heights tab, I set both the top and bottom height to the "selected contour" option. I believe this will give you a warning but it doesn't mean anything. Hope this helps!
Re-uploaded and you didn't fix the units at 1:41? The OCD triggered my PTSD which in turn caused involuntary encopresis. Now I have a mess to clean up. Thanks Tony!
The How and Why series of books. I ran across the one on Electricity in about 1965, inside of a few months I was lighting flashlight bulbs then 2 with DPDT switches. Then fuses made from Christmas tree Icles (real lead foil back then - incredibly shocking mix for the 120v 11w Christmas lights on the tree.... In any case I had my amateur ticket at 13, was working part time at a TV shop repairing TVs from 13 thru college. One day, standing in a 40,000 sq ft IBM cleanroom - I was part of building the process equipment, I thought of that book. It changed my life. I exposed my 2 sons (both in college now) to a lot of stuff growing up, but they never latched onto anything like I did. I never knew 'not knowing what I wanted to do". One of my sons is getting his marketing degree this year and the other is well along in his Mech Eng studies. He now gets my machine tools.... I did the pencil lead thing, stank to high heaven until the oils in the lead burned off. More of a resistance heater. The solenoid bedroom setup was just the solenoid brought to 2 screws about an inch and a half apart on the drawer face. The "Key was a 6 volt lantern battery - you just touched it to the screws. You could arc 'weld' with a large train transformer and steel wire.....
I wonder why the last generation of kids really flounder at what they want to do? It's like an over exposer to information has left them clueless... WTF 15 years ago it wasn't this bad. Now all they can do is use social media. Our kids are just in their teens.
I would love to see some more CAD related videos once in a while. With your way of explaining things the video doesn't even seem to be as long as it is 😊
I found an article on building a similar device in an archived magazine from the 1930s and gave it a try. It works, but I'd recommend using carbon rods from a lantern battery instead of pencil lead.
Hey Tony! I've been binging your videos the last few days. Wanted to write a comment on this one specifically for a few reasons! First off thank you! This is some seriously fantastic info wrapped up into a nice 30 minute package. I am going to school for mechE and we spent a quarter on CAD and design and didn't even touch on the idea of a "master" file. Next, well, I guess thanks again for all the cool stuff you cover on the channel! It's really inspirational and makes me want to scratch that creative maker itch! Cheers, Daniel
As a girl, I used to hate the fact that those books always had the word "boy" in the title, which meant there was NO WAY I was getting them for Christmas or birthdays no matter how much I wanted them! And the looks I got from librarians, although of course they'd let me take them out anyway. That being said, what I remember most from those books was everything used one of those gigantic 9v (?) lantern batteries. Maybe that's because I was reading the "safer" 70s versions? Those batteries were great cuz they had those wonderful springs on top you could just sorta stick a wire in and it would stay.
@pamdemonia I got my first electronics kit and my first sewing machine at 6, and the sewing machine was a kids' sewing machine so it was pink and covered in little girls. it didn't phase me, and I'm sure some members of my family were miffed but they never mentioned it to me. Glad you stood up and looked around too!
I’m retired but that was one of the best tutorials I have seen I learned original AutoCAD through 12, some silver screen And I actually understood what you were talking about thank you for the knowledge
Tony, I have a couple of thoughts on your discussion of old "technology" books. My favorite when I was a kid (a looong time ago) was "The Boy Mechanic", a publication of Popular Mechanics and Simon and Schuster. It has about 500 projects of every kind. I remember building some of the electric motors and getting ideas for a lot of kites. I still have the book. My copy has copyright dates from 1913 to 1952. They do have your electromagnet lock in there, but applied to a door rather than a drawer. I made a carbon arc like you discussed. I can't remember where I got the idea, but my electrodes were the carbon center rods from used D size carbon zinc batteries that I tore apart. My source said that you needed a load resistor in series. I used my mom's electric iron for the load and when she saw how bright the light was she locked it away. Rats! Paul -- max runout on youtube
Wow. Great description of design intent and parametric modeling. One of the reasons I fell in love with solidworks so many years ago as a real Design program and not just a digital drafting program. Using one design input parameter to update the entire design accordingly is critical for maintaining the integrity among many files and features. I really like the way you explained it and showed the clear connection and value.
i used to have the exact book you describe. i can't be 100% sure but i'm almost certain it was written by alfred morgan (wikipedia lists him as alfred powell morgan) and i'm pretty sure it was called 'a first electrical book for boys'. i could be wrong on the title because morgan was somewhat prolific and some of his books had similar titles, and other books were republished with different titles. another of the projects i remember from that book was the jacob's ladder made from a model t spark coil. just in case a model t spark coil might not be available, he included detailed instructions on how to build one from scratch.
Wow! It just got brighter in here. (Inside my head, that is.) I went straight over to FreeCAD and made a square plate with a hole in it. Up until now I had absolutely no idea what "parametric modelling" was, let alone how it worked. Thank you Tony. I'm now a better man.
I really appreciate the videos, you never know where your next inspiration or insight will come from. Old dog-new trick is apropos as it relates to cad, the video, and myself. I have been working with cad for 20+ and 3-d cad for close to the same. I have continued to use my self taught process. Watching the master modeling and realizing all the time it would have saved me over the years-well lets just say it hurt a little. I have known about i-parts and driven parts for a long time, but never pursued actually learning how to accomplish the feat, not sure why, just jump in and start designing I guess. I am not sure how it relates directly to inventor, possibly doesn't, but my curiosity is peaked and I feel it is the next step in my evolution with CAD. I did recently get the latest and greatest autodesk super suite, which includes CAM. It barely fit on my local drive and I will need to do some housekeeping seeing as how I have 3 versions of everything on my system at this point. I would be grateful for direction to literature or other training on master modeling. Also, and most important, thank you for sharing. The magnitude of skills and training being amassed on RUclips alone is staggering not to mention the rest of the net. I use many RUclips videos as training aides for technicians, there is no substitute for master training you can find online when you do not have in house masters. I love to teach and share myself and always hope what I teach transcends generations, also why I try very hard to make sure I am passing good information. When I look at what is available today, it gives me hope that we will bring skill back into the workforce and ingenuity back to the common man, those garage breakthroughs can change the course.
Cody Moncrief I takes me back to my childhood.. I think it was Eagle (Boys magazine) magazine that had a profile of the Molotov Cocktail as a cover story including some really interesting enhancements, like auto ignition and additives to give that Napalmy stickiness. Now I've been Googling it so I suppose I'll be on some watch list...get my door kicked in next time there's an unexplained fire in the area no doubt.
Lots of good 'Boys' books from the 40's and 50's had such great stuff as how to make an x-ray machine and similar. Try this link for safer stuff: www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Bookshelf/A.P.Morgan/1st-Electrical-Book-for-Boys-Morgan.pdf
We were all just trying not to die back then. Now these kids are coddled to level that causes them to be over sensitive and/ or mean. Maybe paddling and being bullied weren't so damn bad!? JS
The boy electrician is what your looking for it's available as a PDF on Google somewhere. Has an amazing section on radio experiments :) (said this in previous video but doesn't hurt to say it again)!!
OMG I can't believe finding that book! Thank you! I've not seen it or found it for 45 years - couldn't remember the damned title! As a kid I checked it out continuously for a couple of YEARS until one day, the local library said, no, you can't have it back, we're taking it out of circulation. I begged them to sell it to me, give it to me, turn away and let me steal it. No avail. I was heartbroken. Thank you Again Mr. Dudley!
What you showed first was constraint modeling. Might have been better using the right word for that! Parametric is when you add named variables and formulas for measurements/dimensions.
Used SolidWorks professionally for 10 years. Your Master Parts and parametric explanations were super as is your fabulous visual techniques. I did diecast tooling design for ultrahigh frequency electronics.
lol I remember an experiment that was basically creating a feeder reactor. Pretty sure all those books are in the landfill at this point replaced with humanities and feeling books.
Jeff Childers nah, things - mainly the way we share information - have just changed since then. Children’s library books aren’t really relevant anymore in this capacity - instead, look at all the crazy shit kids do on internet, tutorial sites like Thingiverse, RUclips, etc. I remember making a spot welder, unbeknownst to my parents, out of microwave oven components when I was probably “WAY to young”. Also, ever heard of hacker/maker spaces? But yes, likely due to liability issues, printed science books have become weak. I will say the downside is that internet tuts don’t always explain the underlying science, but then again neither did some of those books irrc
@@nickoli9889 In addition - it is not always the case that the young mind will have a direction or let's a clear idea of what to start with. These old (let's call them books) were a sort of a guidance - basic electrical - you have it, basic mechanic - here it is, some pneumatics - no problem, etc. The vastness of RUclips and Co is awesome, but in a way it is chaotic (probably too hard, but still). I for example found TOT like 4-5 months ago. AVE even later.
I always enjoy your videos. The editing work is really done well. If I may, I'd like to contribute (with all due respects of course) . During your final rendered motion animation, it looked like you had some handle to frame interference just behind the valve head in the area of the body radius and handle underside. Not a big deal. I would also say you may be looking at some soft tissue impingement ( pinching of skin on your hand) between the handle and body. A larger radius on the underside of the handle may solve that. You also did a masterful job of hiding the side to side profile mismatch during filming. Once you generated the holes and sculpted the body, you could have used buttons in those holes to secure the part to a plate for a full perimeter cut and not worried about a parting line remnant or mismatch. I do scuba light trays like this all the time and the technique is sound. Oh yea...one more thing...you forgot to engrave Diresta in 47 places on the body. As always, thumbs up.
Thanks Joe! The rendering wasn't the final CAD, I didn't get any pinching, and good tip on the buttons! I usually use the router to drill dowel holes for this kind of work, straight down into the fixture plate.
Whenever I am looking at a job like that, If I have a choice, I would rather put the potential mismatch on the chamfers than a profile surface. They can be out and its practically invisible. Thanks for the reply. Keep up the great videos. I always enjoy your projects.
As a recent recipient of one of these knuckle dusters I am very proud to own something that was a collaboration between makers that I admire. Love you guys.
I've been parametric modeling for almost 20 years and even I learned something from this master model technique. Glad to be back on Solidworks (2015) this go around so I'll definitely be giving this a shot. Thanks Tony :)
Naturally way too late to do anything about it, but... My comment was mostly on the design of spool valves. Usually the inlet is designed to be between the o-rings in any working position. That way there is balanced pressure pushing the spool in both directions. To actuate, the spool is moved to also uncover the exhaust opening. It would have made drilling the passages on this project really difficult without a major redesign, so I can see why you did it the way you did.
Your videos are awesome! The editing is fantastic and I love the "dad" humor. I have four kids of my own, the oldest being 6, and they all love making things. I guess dad being an engineer is rubbing off on them. Your videos are full of inspiration, and I always look forward to your next upload. Thanks for spending the time to make such great content!
What were the design considerations for the lightening hole by the valve? It seems like you could have simplified your drilling process significantly if you made it a bit shorter, since it would allow you to drill closer to the center of the valve opening. and have a bit more clearance if something wandered just a bit off. Since it's a cosmetic part, I'm sure you were going for something specific, just curious what the rationale was.
0:17 Are you kidding? We're here for the small talk, joke's (dad joke's), machining, metal cutting, fab, welding, repairs, etc. I'm not putting any of the other RUclipsrs down or anything, buy if I can't find anything to watch. I'll always go to ToT n rewatch your videos as they make me happy and relaxed. I'd say it's similar when watching TV. You look through the guild/listing n there's never anything new or interesting on. The only thing that is worth watching is a film you like because it's easy relaxing watching. And it's probably a BTTF, which everyone loves 😍
I can not wait to apply the cad principles here. I used to find your channel entertainingly humorous and a release for engineering constraint, but with this video I have been truly inspired . thanks
Although I am a FreeCAD user, I've learned probably the best CAD lesson ever from this video: master model / parts / assembly workflow (21:36). I was always struggling creating multi-part parametric designs, but after using that workflow in the recent project I am really impressed how well did it go, Thanks, Old Tony!
I am happy to see you mastering Kung Fusion 360. Once you are able to snatch the threading insert from my hand, you will be a REAL RUclips Machinist, Gashogger!
I think I remember those. Actually, I've been looking for them too. There was one called something like "333 Science Tricks and Experiments" by Robert J. Brown. archive.org/details/333ScienceTricksAndExperiments-English
Here you go, Carbon Arc Furnace electrodes from pencils - chestofbooks.com/crafts/popular-mechanics/The-Boy-Mechanic-1000-Things-for-Boys-to-Do/Furnace-Electrodes-of-Lead-Pencils.html
i can fix this... I Can Fix This... I CAN FIX THIS... I'll just clean it up, reupload, makeup some bullshit story about slowing down the CAD or naration or somthing. Then maybe, just maybe I wont have to move the family to freeking Nairobi or Ulaanbaatar or... or Oswaldtwistle. Oh god please don't let anybody have seen it.
No the Design, CAD and presentation were fine, there was just a slight editing "anomaly" that needed fixing. Cant say exactly what it was or this comment will need "fixing" ;-)
I collect old mags like Pop. Mech.,Sci & Mech.,etc.,and have several as far back as 1932,The stories and ads especially are a blast! I'm sure you know of it(BUT,maybe you don't,lol...others may not know either),the site archive.org has tons of them that you can read and download.My only complaint is that once I go there,I spend WAY too much time there and get nothing done for at a minimum,the next several hours,and sometimes days,lol.Lastly,do you have a "real time" video on the CAD work?I'm really curious about where/how you designed the "bump" contours for the valve and threaded area(18:56 or so),mostly how you make it "blend" into the main body so it looks like a casting.It looks like fillets,but I've never designed anything like them before.Also,the "movie" type at about 19:45,the "exploding" view,the parts interaction,etc,it looks awesome!Have you ever done a video on your video production?The software you use,and how you do the overlaying shadows,graphics,fonts?Again,Thanks for sharing!!!
Of cause I know parametric modeling! For example you need the parameters 90-60-90 for photographs but for catwalk modeling you need much shallower curves.
I'm REALLY late to the party because I'm watching your backlog but try this archive.org/details/TheAmateurScientist There's also a CD out there somewhere, it includes fun stuff like a pulsed UV laser.
I just clicked SUBSCRIBE button but I'm already subbed. Weird... Now for a brut dry question, since you have intimate experience in both, if you hadn't already invested in learning SW would you have just started with F360 from the get-go ? Like many of us paralyzed at that spork in the road, I'm wrestling with this decision. I do know that I'd rather take my brain out and play with it than to spend another millisecond in SketchUp :-D Thanks for the awesome videos Tony !
"The Boy's, First, Second, Third and Forth Book of Radio and Electronics", Alfred Morgan or Alfred P.Morgan are excellent books. He also wrote "Tools and How to Use Them".
Skeletal modeling driven by an embedded excel spreadsheet. Equation driven modifications can be achieved. Use the origins and planes ✈️ provided by the software package 📦. Solidworks has some decent simulators: flow simulation solidworks plastic and the FEA one. Oh! Mold design also. I’ve used inventor and solidworks professionally and prefer solidworks. I hear there is solidCAM now not sure how good it is, we use ESPRIT. Don’t laugh but BobCad is pretty good! I programmed EDM with that one for a short while. Now your talking my language Tony. Forget your books 📚 we don’t need them anymore! We don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control, Hey! Teacher leave them kids alone.
Hey Tony, about the books, I know this is like 1 year later, but! I know the books you're talking about. I still have some from my childhood. The Usborne Big Book of Experiments The Usborne Internet Linked Library of Science - Energy, Forces, and Motion. Barron''s Science Wizardry for Kids - Margaret Kenda & Phyllis S. Williams. Electric Mischief - Alan Bartholomew These books are definitely responsible for my interest in science and technology. Hope this helps.
Good gawd Tony. I STILL Have all those books. Many of them. And yes, browsing thru them now, is .... well to put it bluntly, scary. Plus the advancement in science, proves many of the 'Science' parts to be wholly wrong. Fun to read now.
I don't think you truly understand Direct Modeling. As a 25 year+ CAD professional, running both parametric & direct modeling software, (including 16 years using Solidworks) I can assure you that direct CAD models - can indeed be fully edited. My software of choice is KeyCreator. And KeyCreator, because it works on the pure geometry of the model, rather than the parametric "menu" (or feature tree, as it's called) , can even edit files imported from any other CAD program just as if it was a native KeyCreator file. Something parametric CAD has difficulty with. Because generally, imported files don't include the feature tree. What you have is what is referred to as a "dumb solid". There are no "features" that you can access to make changes.
I was inspired in the late fifties/early sixties by _Carl & Jerry_ stories in _Popular Electronics_. I built my first robot inspired by _The Lightening Bug_ published in November of 1963. I was pretty lucky to get it working since I did not really know much about electronics theory ... not even ohm's law ... no algebra yet. (I've always been kind of intuitive though. :) As luck would have it, these stories have been preserved and are available on this web site: www.copperwood.com/carlandjerry.htm Several of them are free as samples including the one I mentioned above. The technology and period are quite dated so I'm not sure they would work for the youth of today, but maybe they're worth a look.
That book is most definitely not “Build Your Own Laser, Phaser, Ion Ray Gun & Other Working Space-age Projects“ but add that to your list of books to keep away from your children... For now...
I didn't see the first version, but I'm pretty sure your mother called & asked for a gallon of milk. Did you ever get it for her. wink, wink. What about the sock puppet? Great video, makes me want to learn how to use my 3-D modeling in my program. TurboCad. I can run ring's in 2-D, but suck at 3-D.
wow... looked up Solidworks... it starts out at $3k+ !!! There is a "student and teaching" edition for like $100 or so, but you have to "prove what school" and ect. Is there another (read 'cheaper')"hobby" version?? Or is there a different similar cad software??
Excellent explanation of workflow. For lots of advanced science done simply and explained properly see Cody'sLab. For lots of great projects you don't want your kids to build (yet) see colinfurze.
The Boy Mechanic series of books by Popular Mechanics. Included things like: Making a carbon arc light, cutting gears without a lathe, how to make your own lathe, A wireless telegraph, hydrogen generator, gasoline burner, kites, Electrical Attachment for Discharging Toy Cannon, Pneumatic Door-Opener, Alarm Clock Chicken Feeder, suit of armor, a real hang glider and 100's more. Here is a public domain link to one of the older books: www.gutenberg.org/files/12655/12655-h/12655-h.htm
Hey, Tony, I made that arc furnace, too. It was in the 1955 Popular Mechanics encyclopedia. Used a clay pot, a pair of carbon arc electrodes, my mom's clothes iron as a load resistor in series with the arc. The clay pot was lined with a mixture of shredded asbestos and sodium silicate solution ("water glass"). I built a lot of stuff out of that set of books. One project was a wood lathe that I built in wood and metal shop class as a freshman in high school. I survived childhood, too. But just barely. My parents had no clue what I was up to most of the time. Still tinkering...
You still have that collection of books?
"Basic Electronics" magazine published a collection in the 60's. It includes a clay flower pot arc furnace that used two carbon rods from standard zinc/carbon 'D' cell batteries. No ballast. I melted a 4d finishing nail with it and couldn't see much of anything for about an hour. Before you ask, I checked it out of the library so, if I still had it, I'd be facing 80 years in prison and a visit from the Library Police.
I was born in the 2000's yes, but I rebuilt a snowmobile engine in my bedroom when I was 13
I grew up with this Popular Mechanics Encyclopedias. I would go to bed and flip through them volume by volume before going to sleep each night...and then start over for years. I was around 10 years old at the time. Mom still has them on her book shelf. When she asked what I would like from the house when she goes I said that collection of books...she told me to take them now so I'm looking for a space in my 667 sqft house to put them. :-)
Most of the 1955 (I guess) Popular Mechanics Encyclopedias are available at archive.org/ and the Elecric Arc Furnace is among them available at archive.org/details/PopularMechanicsEncyclopediaSet/page/n255
you're on a roll! Engineers Notebook and others by Forrest M Mims III from Radio Shack got me started. 40 plus years later and I still refer back to them from time to time.
Tony, the books you're looking for are called "the boy mechanic" they're a 4 volume set sold by leevalley and are reproductions of some early 1900's-1950's popular mechanics publications.
I am so happy this is happening!!
I dont know if you still need to know how to do chamfers with fusion when they are modelled, but i hope it helps. You do a 2D contur, select de lower edge of the chamfer with a chamfer mill selected and just set a tip offset.
The "Knuckle Duster" is taking shape..
Let us know when/if you get these going & I'll be one of the first to buy one..
Gary/Hk
Huh, I've always heard it being called constrain-based design.
This master sketch approach is rather new to me.
I wonder will it work like that in Alibre design (yes, its back!)
"order a small rock from Amazon" had me in stitches!
6:16 220v aluminium knuckle got me
I'm having such deja vu and flashbacks right now, wishing I could remember verbatim what I commented last time around. Something something thank you for teaching me about keeping master sketches as a separate parts document.
Make more Kalimbas!
Same, same, something, something, brilliant video.
I do think the hinge pin needs to be stronger to cope with the forces it will encounter during a full power uppercut, right hook or haymaker
3 1/2 years into a mechanical engineering degree and that’s some of the best CAD advice I’ve ever heard. Wish I wasn’t 5 years late to the party. Thank you ToT
No officer, these aren't brass knuckles, it's just an air gun. See the valve?!
You used the word 'gun' - off to jail with you...
Me: No officer, it might have "Cali Commie AR 15 of doom" engraved on it, but it is an air blower.
Cop: AR... ASSAULT AIR BLOWER! YOU ARE UNDER ARREST. You have the right to remain silent... .
sadly, that is the mentality of most people today... even on ebay if you try to list say a glue "gun", or a toy "gun", heat gun, soldering gun, ect ect ect.... it always gets flagged under their "vero" items simply because it contains the word "gun"....
for many reasons, it is truly a sad and willfully stupid generation in which we live...
No, no. It's an air nozzle.
@@Yhrim70 and it only gets worse as time goes on...
Sorry for the re-upload. TOT not smart. I regret losing all the great comments.
To answer some of the questions from before:
- I use Fusion 360 for CAM because its offers free 3D toolpaths to hobbyists. HSMXpress (in Solidworks) only does 2D for free.
- I use Solidworks because ... old dog / new tricks. Am just very used to it. Change = Scary.
- 2D Contour in Fusion does have a chamfer option but, even checked, the toolpath wouldn't do collision / avoidance with the model. It just chamfered everything in its way. 2D Chamfer, on the other hand, is smart enough to raise the tool if the tool body is about to run into something. (note the "middle finger ring" isn't chamfered inside all the way around. If the chamfer tool path hadn't stopped, it would have cut open the bottom of the valve bore).
No worries, we will watch and comment some more! SUBSCRIBE!
Why did you not paint it white?
TOT, you should make the switch to fusion, it really is more better... :D
I made the switch to fusion about 6 months ago, and i'm definately still learning the innards of it, but from a cad / cam standpoint, for me, it's just so much more intuitive, and robust.
John Sunders over at NYCCNC puts out quite a bit of fusion related videos, enough to give you a decent start anyway.
As for your chamfer issue, you could have "projected" the edge gemoetry, and edited the projected path to avoid your problem area.
This Old Tony why'd you do it....? Curious as hell
SW is far superior to anything Autodesk puts out. I never liked AD and I tried F360 with the same results so stick with what you know as changing for the sake of changing, or to jump on the bandwagon because all of the cool internet kids are using it, is just plain dumb. Peace.
If you were wondering like me, at around 9:55, what he types in is SUBSCRIBE
Pretty sure he spelled it wrong in the original upload. Couldnt have that!
Alexander Ghostly AKA Ghost8909 lol I was !
I'm just starting to learn Solidworks. I can't tell you how much I would love a series of Solidworks tutorials using the design of your gizmo (or some other moderately-complex gizmo with multiple parts). Watching you zip around the software, I could tell there'd be a ton of tips, tricks, techniques, and basics about using Solidworks that I'd learn. Please put that series together in your spare time.
Assuming you may still be hungry for more... the internal tutorials are actually very good if you haven't taken the time to go through them.
I second that - as if you have any 'spare' time I know what having 2 sons is all about - we all barely survived their childhood, they are 30 and 31 now but it seems like just last week we were all in our teens LOL
Password U used is subscribe. thats some subliminal messaging if ive ever seen it
so why u out here lookin' at his passwords??????? 😂😅😂
Dude is running us😆👍🏼
He throws those in nearly every video
new viewer here... By the way ToT... make your videos long! I want the longs ones. I love em!
If I wasn't already subscribed I'd definitely do so after the "password" scene!
I just subbed after seeing that :)
I rewound it twice, finally slowing it to 25%, and lost it when I realized he got me again! It's almost like getting RickRolled at this point. Love it!
Popular Mechanics Encyclopedia from the 50's or 60's. It has all kinds of dangerous DIY projects and mods for stuff.
My favorite childhood experiment was in 5th grade when we made dry ice artillery... later that week I started going into pressure vessels, leading me down a rabbit hole of various rocket motors, leading to aerodynamics, leading to full out amateur liquid fueled rocketry (thank you local rocket club)... later I moved to Indiana and am no longer able to do liquid fuel... so I now terrorize kerbals
I loved Popular Mechanics magazine when I was a kid. I actually had my own subscription :-) Lots of good info in those magazines though... at least there used to be... but like nearly everything else today, its probably been bought out by liberals and they probably only have "cup cake recipes" or "makeup advice for "boys"" or whatever in it now....
it is a sad sad thing to see just how far the last few generations have fallen, let alone the current generation... real men are getting fewer and fewer every day.
"Dangerous" is the chemistry books from the 30 and 40's. Some RUclipsr has a few videos on replicating those formularies. He found the book in the school's garbage Dumpster.
@@Yhrim70 real men? Seems your totally full of male toxicity. I know two women who were doing those electronic projects from popular mechanics back then. One of those women was my mother. She was not afraid to try experiments with me. So bugger off with your "real men" statement.
@@troyna77 Very cunning, to play the "you are probably full of toxic masculinity, so shut up" card. Well, nothing prevents women from doing "boys things", should they choose to, except maybe overprotective parents. Stating that boys are no longer allowed/motivated to do "boys things" is nothing toxic.
But all that is irrelevant, because you know exactly who is full of toxicity and therefore their opinion is no longer valid, right? I am Soooo glad to have you around...
No, seriously, think of a better counter, see if you find one.
Well, might as well watch it again lol
20:36: RUclips auto-caption: _"This is music."_
Me: Yes. Yes, it is.
Edit: Also, thanks for the CAD 101 lesson. Great advice!
Hey, if you like something once, why not twice ? 😊😊
this is almost like age old oriental saying, though they say - why not 100, and then sell them at 1/3 the price of the guy that ordered the first one and payed for all the tooling :P
"Fun with electricity" A Frederick Collins 1936. My father had it when he was a boy, and gave it to me when I was 10. He also gave me a wooden Ford spark coil that I ran with my Marx train transformer. At least a decade later I would be hired by companies to draw schematics and then go to the lab and make them work by correcting the schematics with red ink.
...Wooden box Ford spark coil....great for running a Tesla coil...
I remember that one! My elementary school was built in the early 50's so that was practically cutting edge, even though I read it in the early 90's heh
That's a great one
Hey Tony, I know this video is 2 years old and you probably figured it out already but if you want to machine chamfers that are modeled into the part, just select the top edge of the chamfer, set the width to 0, and give it a tip offset. I don't know if you need to do this step but under the heights tab, I set both the top and bottom height to the "selected contour" option. I believe this will give you a warning but it doesn't mean anything. Hope this helps!
i love this man. his sense of humor makes me smile every time
Those subscribe subliminal messages always make me happy.
Tony you're my favorite youtuber by a country mile. cheers buddy. I savour each vid.
I highly recomment this video. Thanks for the CAD/CAM lesson.
(I can spell. Lame joke above.)
I'm a fusion guy. I do similar things but the work flow is much different.
Re-uploaded and you didn't fix the units at 1:41? The OCD triggered my PTSD which in turn caused involuntary encopresis. Now I have a mess to clean up. Thanks Tony!
ouch, didn't even notice that! good eye Michael.
had to google that... so glad i did... :o
The How and Why series of books.
I ran across the one on Electricity in about 1965, inside of a few months I was lighting flashlight bulbs then 2 with DPDT switches. Then fuses made from Christmas tree Icles (real lead foil back then - incredibly shocking mix for the 120v 11w Christmas lights on the tree.... In any case I had my amateur ticket at 13, was working part time at a TV shop repairing TVs from 13 thru college. One day, standing in a 40,000 sq ft IBM cleanroom - I was part of building the process equipment, I thought of that book. It changed my life.
I exposed my 2 sons (both in college now) to a lot of stuff growing up, but they never latched onto anything like I did. I never knew 'not knowing what I wanted to do". One of my sons is getting his marketing degree this year and the other is well along in his Mech Eng studies. He now gets my machine tools....
I did the pencil lead thing, stank to high heaven until the oils in the lead burned off. More of a resistance heater. The solenoid bedroom setup was just the solenoid brought to 2 screws about an inch and a half apart on the drawer face. The "Key was a 6 volt lantern battery - you just touched it to the screws. You could arc 'weld' with a large train transformer and steel wire.....
I wonder why the last generation of kids really flounder at what they want to do? It's like an over exposer to information has left them clueless... WTF 15 years ago it wasn't this bad. Now all they can do is use social media. Our kids are just in their teens.
I would love to see some more CAD related videos once in a while. With your way of explaining things the video doesn't even seem to be as long as it is 😊
I found an article on building a similar device in an archived magazine from the 1930s and gave it a try. It works, but I'd recommend using carbon rods from a lantern battery instead of pencil lead.
CAD fast die young...Legendary
Hey Tony!
I've been binging your videos the last few days. Wanted to write a comment on this one specifically for a few reasons!
First off thank you! This is some seriously fantastic info wrapped up into a nice 30 minute package. I am going to school for mechE and we spent a quarter on CAD and design and didn't even touch on the idea of a "master" file.
Next, well, I guess thanks again for all the cool stuff you cover on the channel! It's really inspirational and makes me want to scratch that creative maker itch!
Cheers,
Daniel
It warms my heart to know that there exist engineers who can physically create what they have envisioned.... this isn’t common.
One of my favorite books from my childhood - the way things work by David Macauley
As a girl, I used to hate the fact that those books always had the word "boy" in the title, which meant there was NO WAY I was getting them for Christmas or birthdays no matter how much I wanted them! And the looks I got from librarians, although of course they'd let me take them out anyway.
That being said, what I remember most from those books was everything used one of those gigantic 9v (?) lantern batteries. Maybe that's because I was reading the "safer" 70s versions? Those batteries were great cuz they had those wonderful springs on top you could just sorta stick a wire in and it would stay.
Those are 6vdc batteries the 9vdc are the little rectangular ones used in like smoke alarms.with snaps on top to put on your tounge.
@pamdemonia I got my first electronics kit and my first sewing machine at 6, and the sewing machine was a kids' sewing machine so it was pink and covered in little girls. it didn't phase me, and I'm sure some members of my family were miffed but they never mentioned it to me. Glad you stood up and looked around too!
I have a ton of old magazines with excitements and projects from the 50s and 60s they are called popular mechanics and mechanics illustrated
I’m retired but that was one of the best tutorials I have seen I learned original AutoCAD through 12, some silver screen And I actually understood what you were talking about thank you for the knowledge
Tony,
I have a couple of thoughts on your discussion of old "technology" books. My favorite when I was a kid (a looong time ago) was "The Boy Mechanic", a publication of Popular Mechanics and Simon and Schuster. It has about 500 projects of every kind. I remember building some of the electric motors and getting ideas for a lot of kites. I still have the book. My copy has copyright dates from 1913 to 1952. They do have your electromagnet lock in there, but applied to a door rather than a drawer.
I made a carbon arc like you discussed. I can't remember where I got the idea, but my electrodes were the carbon center rods from used D size carbon zinc batteries that I tore apart. My source said that you needed a load resistor in series. I used my mom's electric iron for the load and when she saw how bright the light was she locked it away. Rats!
Paul -- max runout on youtube
Wow. Great description of design intent and parametric modeling. One of the reasons I fell in love with solidworks so many years ago as a real Design program and not just a digital drafting program. Using one design input parameter to update the entire design accordingly is critical for maintaining the integrity among many files and features. I really like the way you explained it and showed the clear connection and value.
Man I wish I had solid works. The only cad I've used is sketch up and tinkercad. :(
i used to have the exact book you describe. i can't be 100% sure but i'm almost certain it was written by alfred morgan (wikipedia lists him as alfred powell morgan) and i'm pretty sure it was called 'a first electrical book for boys'. i could be wrong on the title because morgan was somewhat prolific and some of his books had similar titles, and other books were republished with different titles.
another of the projects i remember from that book was the jacob's ladder made from a model t spark coil. just in case a model t spark coil might not be available, he included detailed instructions on how to build one from scratch.
9:52 you typed out subscribe lol. Have you ever just strait out asked people to subscribe before?
Wow! It just got brighter in here. (Inside my head, that is.)
I went straight over to FreeCAD and made a square plate with a hole in it. Up until now I had absolutely no idea what "parametric modelling" was, let alone how it worked.
Thank you Tony. I'm now a better man.
I really appreciate the videos, you never know where your next inspiration or insight will come from. Old dog-new trick is apropos as it relates to cad, the video, and myself. I have been working with cad for 20+ and 3-d cad for close to the same. I have continued to use my self taught process. Watching the master modeling and realizing all the time it would have saved me over the years-well lets just say it hurt a little. I have known about i-parts and driven parts for a long time, but never pursued actually learning how to accomplish the feat, not sure why, just jump in and start designing I guess. I am not sure how it relates directly to inventor, possibly doesn't, but my curiosity is peaked and I feel it is the next step in my evolution with CAD. I did recently get the latest and greatest autodesk super suite, which includes CAM. It barely fit on my local drive and I will need to do some housekeeping seeing as how I have 3 versions of everything on my system at this point. I would be grateful for direction to literature or other training on master modeling. Also, and most important, thank you for sharing. The magnitude of skills and training being amassed on RUclips alone is staggering not to mention the rest of the net. I use many RUclips videos as training aides for technicians, there is no substitute for master training you can find online when you do not have in house masters. I love to teach and share myself and always hope what I teach transcends generations, also why I try very hard to make sure I am passing good information. When I look at what is available today, it gives me hope that we will bring skill back into the workforce and ingenuity back to the common man, those garage breakthroughs can change the course.
i was drunk as fuck last time so - no problemo, can watch this again
This video fundamentally changed my work flow in a big picture kinda way. Thanks Tony!
I like that password.
Love your sandpaper/needle file app! Is this on Amazon or Ebay? Can you provide a link? Many thanks Tim , nice but dim!😂😂
Lady Bird science books. I believe I also may have found that carbon arc furnace you talked about- try "popular mechanics electric-arc furnace"
Cody Moncrief I takes me back to my childhood.. I think it was Eagle (Boys magazine) magazine that had a profile of the Molotov Cocktail as a cover story including some really interesting enhancements, like auto ignition and additives to give that Napalmy stickiness.
Now I've been Googling it so I suppose I'll be on some watch list...get my door kicked in next time there's an unexplained fire in the area no doubt.
blog.modernmechanix.com/experimental-arc-furnace-melts-anything/
Lots of good 'Boys' books from the 40's and 50's had such great stuff as how to make an x-ray machine and similar. Try this link for safer stuff:
www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Bookshelf/A.P.Morgan/1st-Electrical-Book-for-Boys-Morgan.pdf
We were all just trying not to die back then. Now these kids are coddled to level that causes them to be over sensitive and/ or mean. Maybe paddling and being bullied weren't so damn bad!? JS
Forgiven, it's actually so good, it's worth a re-watch, so no harm done ;)
lol, love your password! Yes, of course I slowed it down to watch, figuring there'd be something entertaining!
The boy electrician is what your looking for it's available as a PDF on Google somewhere. Has an amazing section on radio experiments :) (said this in previous video but doesn't hurt to say it again)!!
this might be what you're talking about... rawfire.torche.com/~opcom/tbe/the_boy_electrician.pdf
Dudley Barker ---> Thank you!
OMG I can't believe finding that book! Thank you! I've not seen it or found it for 45 years - couldn't remember the damned title! As a kid I checked it out continuously for a couple of YEARS until one day, the local library said, no, you can't have it back, we're taking it out of circulation. I begged them to sell it to me, give it to me, turn away and let me steal it. No avail. I was heartbroken. Thank you Again Mr. Dudley!
Your time machine is messing with my head... I've been here before, or have I? Where is here exactly? What it time exactly? Many questions....
What you showed first was constraint modeling. Might have been better using the right word for that!
Parametric is when you add named variables and formulas for measurements/dimensions.
R + L = J. Extra nerd points to you, my friend.
Me fun pretty pictures but no dumb 'puter stuff get.
Used SolidWorks professionally for 10 years. Your Master Parts and parametric explanations were super as is your fabulous visual techniques. I did diecast tooling design for ultrahigh frequency electronics.
I didn't read the books, I just experimented with everything electrical. Still alive at 58.
fun fact this is known as the survivorship bias. you only ever hear from those who haven't died yet.
If you ever felt the inclination to make a SolidWorks tutorial series, I think a lot of people would make good use of it
:/ i thought it was a new video :/ what was wrong with the video?
lol I remember an experiment that was basically creating a feeder reactor. Pretty sure all those books are in the landfill at this point replaced with humanities and feeling books.
Jeff Childers nah, things - mainly the way we share information - have just changed since then. Children’s library books aren’t really relevant anymore in this capacity - instead, look at all the crazy shit kids do on internet, tutorial sites like Thingiverse, RUclips, etc. I remember making a spot welder, unbeknownst to my parents, out of microwave oven components when I was probably “WAY to young”. Also, ever heard of hacker/maker spaces? But yes, likely due to liability issues, printed science books have become weak. I will say the downside is that internet tuts don’t always explain the underlying science, but then again neither did some of those books irrc
@@nickoli9889 In addition - it is not always the case that the young mind will have a direction or let's a clear idea of what to start with. These old (let's call them books) were a sort of a guidance - basic electrical - you have it, basic mechanic - here it is, some pneumatics - no problem, etc. The vastness of RUclips and Co is awesome, but in a way it is chaotic (probably too hard, but still). I for example found TOT like 4-5 months ago. AVE even later.
I always enjoy your videos. The editing work is really done well. If I may, I'd like to contribute (with all due respects of course) . During your final rendered motion animation, it looked like you had some handle to frame interference just behind the valve head in the area of the body radius and handle underside. Not a big deal. I would also say you may be looking at some soft tissue impingement ( pinching of skin on your hand) between the handle and body. A larger radius on the underside of the handle may solve that. You also did a masterful job of hiding the side to side profile mismatch during filming. Once you generated the holes and sculpted the body, you could have used buttons in those holes to secure the part to a plate for a full perimeter cut and not worried about a parting line remnant or mismatch. I do scuba light trays like this all the time and the technique is sound. Oh yea...one more thing...you forgot to engrave Diresta in 47 places on the body. As always, thumbs up.
Thanks Joe! The rendering wasn't the final CAD, I didn't get any pinching, and good tip on the buttons! I usually use the router to drill dowel holes for this kind of work, straight down into the fixture plate.
Whenever I am looking at a job like that, If I have a choice, I would rather put the potential mismatch on the chamfers than a profile surface. They can be out and its practically invisible. Thanks for the reply. Keep up the great videos. I always enjoy your projects.
As a recent recipient of one of these knuckle dusters I am very proud to own something that was a collaboration between makers that I admire. Love you guys.
I've been parametric modeling for almost 20 years and even I learned something from this master model technique. Glad to be back on Solidworks (2015) this go around so I'll definitely be giving this a shot. Thanks Tony :)
Naturally way too late to do anything about it, but...
My comment was mostly on the design of spool valves. Usually the inlet is designed to be between the o-rings in any working position. That way there is balanced pressure pushing the spool in both directions. To actuate, the spool is moved to also uncover the exhaust opening.
It would have made drilling the passages on this project really difficult without a major redesign, so I can see why you did it the way you did.
Your videos are awesome! The editing is fantastic and I love the "dad" humor. I have four kids of my own, the oldest being 6, and they all love making things. I guess dad being an engineer is rubbing off on them. Your videos are full of inspiration, and I always look forward to your next upload. Thanks for spending the time to make such great content!
about how much was your solid works license?
What were the design considerations for the lightening hole by the valve? It seems like you could have simplified your drilling process significantly if you made it a bit shorter, since it would allow you to drill closer to the center of the valve opening. and have a bit more clearance if something wandered just a bit off.
Since it's a cosmetic part, I'm sure you were going for something specific, just curious what the rationale was.
0:17 Are you kidding? We're here for the small talk, joke's (dad joke's), machining, metal cutting, fab, welding, repairs, etc.
I'm not putting any of the other RUclipsrs down or anything, buy if I can't find anything to watch. I'll always go to ToT n rewatch your videos as they make me happy and relaxed. I'd say it's similar when watching TV. You look through the guild/listing n there's never anything new or interesting on. The only thing that is worth watching is a film you like because it's easy relaxing watching. And it's probably a BTTF, which everyone loves 😍
I can not wait to apply the cad principles here. I used to find your channel entertainingly humorous and a release for engineering constraint, but with this video I have been truly inspired . thanks
you could make the vent hole through the valve either all way through to the top or possibly to the output side
I was thinking the same thing. But it wouldn't be a good pressure regulator anymore. Just on and off.
Also, you should probably mention that solidworks costs $4,000 before you get people excited about downloading it...
Although I am a FreeCAD user, I've learned probably the best CAD lesson ever from this video: master model / parts / assembly workflow (21:36). I was always struggling creating multi-part parametric designs, but after using that workflow in the recent project I am really impressed how well did it go, Thanks, Old Tony!
From 1933, not 1955, but every bit as dangerous:
blog.modernmechanix.com/experimental-arc-furnace-melts-anything/
CAD is everywhere nowadays. 3D Printers, Routers, Yada yada yada ! )
Verry usefull. Thanks Toni. Almost 1M Subs. well deserved!!!!!
I am happy to see you mastering Kung Fusion 360.
Once you are able to snatch the threading insert from my hand, you will be a REAL RUclips Machinist, Gashogger!
I think I remember those. Actually, I've been looking for them too. There was one called something like "333 Science Tricks and Experiments" by Robert J. Brown.
archive.org/details/333ScienceTricksAndExperiments-English
Here you go, Carbon Arc Furnace electrodes from pencils - chestofbooks.com/crafts/popular-mechanics/The-Boy-Mechanic-1000-Things-for-Boys-to-Do/Furnace-Electrodes-of-Lead-Pencils.html
i can fix this... I Can Fix This... I CAN FIX THIS... I'll just clean it up, reupload, makeup some bullshit story about slowing down the CAD or naration or somthing. Then maybe, just maybe I wont have to move the family to freeking Nairobi or Ulaanbaatar or... or Oswaldtwistle. Oh god please don't let anybody have seen it.
Good catch "Tony". May I say this was a particularly elegant way of resolving your problem..... :-)
Soo, what was the "problem"? Was the math wrong?
No the Design, CAD and presentation were fine, there was just a slight editing "anomaly" that needed fixing. Cant say exactly what it was or this comment will need "fixing" ;-)
I collect old mags like Pop. Mech.,Sci & Mech.,etc.,and have several as far back as 1932,The stories and ads especially are a blast! I'm sure you know of it(BUT,maybe you don't,lol...others may not know either),the site archive.org has tons of them that you can read and download.My only complaint is that once I go there,I spend WAY too much time there and get nothing done for at a minimum,the next several hours,and sometimes days,lol.Lastly,do you have a "real time" video on the CAD work?I'm really curious about where/how you designed the "bump" contours for the valve and threaded area(18:56 or so),mostly how you make it "blend" into the main body so it looks like a casting.It looks like fillets,but I've never designed anything like them before.Also,the "movie" type at about 19:45,the "exploding" view,the parts interaction,etc,it looks awesome!Have you ever done a video on your video production?The software you use,and how you do the overlaying shadows,graphics,fonts?Again,Thanks for sharing!!!
Of cause I know parametric modeling! For example you need the parameters 90-60-90 for photographs but for catwalk modeling you need much shallower curves.
I'm REALLY late to the party because I'm watching your backlog but try this archive.org/details/TheAmateurScientist
There's also a CD out there somewhere, it includes fun stuff like a pulsed UV laser.
I just clicked SUBSCRIBE button but I'm already subbed. Weird...
Now for a brut dry question, since you have intimate experience in both, if you hadn't already invested in learning SW would you have just started with F360 from the get-go ? Like many of us paralyzed at that spork in the road, I'm wrestling with this decision. I do know that I'd rather take my brain out and play with it than to spend another millisecond in SketchUp :-D
Thanks for the awesome videos Tony !
"The Boy's, First, Second, Third and Forth Book of Radio and Electronics", Alfred Morgan or Alfred P.Morgan are excellent books. He also wrote "Tools and How to Use Them".
Skeletal modeling driven by an embedded excel spreadsheet.
Equation driven modifications can be achieved.
Use the origins and planes ✈️ provided by the software package 📦.
Solidworks has some decent simulators:
flow simulation
solidworks plastic
and the FEA one.
Oh! Mold design also.
I’ve used inventor and solidworks professionally and prefer solidworks.
I hear there is solidCAM now not sure how good it is, we use ESPRIT.
Don’t laugh but BobCad is pretty good! I programmed EDM with that one for a short while.
Now your talking my language Tony.
Forget your books 📚 we don’t need them anymore!
We don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control, Hey! Teacher leave them kids alone.
Hey Tony, about the books, I know this is like 1 year later, but! I know the books you're talking about. I still have some from my childhood.
The Usborne Big Book of Experiments
The Usborne Internet Linked Library of Science - Energy, Forces, and Motion.
Barron''s Science Wizardry for Kids - Margaret Kenda & Phyllis S. Williams.
Electric Mischief - Alan Bartholomew
These books are definitely responsible for my interest in science and technology. Hope this helps.
Good gawd Tony. I STILL Have all those books. Many of them. And yes, browsing thru them now, is .... well to put it bluntly, scary. Plus the advancement in science, proves many of the 'Science' parts to be wholly wrong. Fun to read now.
I don't think you truly understand Direct Modeling. As a 25 year+ CAD professional, running both parametric & direct modeling software, (including 16 years using Solidworks) I can assure you that direct CAD models - can indeed be fully edited. My software of choice is KeyCreator. And KeyCreator, because it works on the pure geometry of the model, rather than the parametric "menu" (or feature tree, as it's called) , can even edit files imported from any other CAD program just as if it was a native KeyCreator file. Something parametric CAD has difficulty with. Because generally, imported files don't include the feature tree. What you have is what is referred to as a "dumb solid". There are no "features" that you can access to make changes.
Popular Mechanics, The boy Mechanic
The Boy Mechanic: 200 Classic Things to Build
I have a few more.. but also look up the "old farm plans" website.
I was inspired in the late fifties/early sixties by _Carl & Jerry_ stories in _Popular Electronics_. I built my first robot inspired by _The Lightening Bug_ published in November of 1963. I was pretty lucky to get it working since I did not really know much about electronics theory ... not even ohm's law ... no algebra yet. (I've always been kind of intuitive though. :)
As luck would have it, these stories have been preserved and are available on this web site: www.copperwood.com/carlandjerry.htm
Several of them are free as samples including the one I mentioned above. The technology and period are quite dated so I'm not sure they would work for the youth of today, but maybe they're worth a look.
Password: Subscribe
Also the same password as North Korean "ICBM" launch codes
That book is most definitely not “Build Your Own Laser, Phaser, Ion Ray Gun & Other Working Space-age Projects“ but add that to your list of books to keep away from your children... For now...
I didn't see the first version, but I'm pretty sure your mother called & asked for a gallon of milk. Did you ever get it for her. wink, wink. What about the sock puppet? Great video, makes me want to learn how to use my 3-D modeling in my program. TurboCad. I can run ring's in 2-D, but suck at 3-D.
wow... looked up Solidworks... it starts out at $3k+ !!! There is a "student and teaching" edition for like $100 or so, but you have to "prove what school" and ect. Is there another (read 'cheaper')"hobby" version?? Or is there a different similar cad software??
Excellent explanation of workflow. For lots of advanced science done simply and explained properly see Cody'sLab. For lots of great projects you don't want your kids to build (yet) see colinfurze.
Tony did you know they added cam to everything seat of SOLIDWORKS starting 2018?
The Boy Mechanic series of books by Popular Mechanics. Included things like:
Making a carbon arc light, cutting gears without a lathe, how to make your own lathe, A wireless telegraph, hydrogen generator, gasoline burner, kites, Electrical Attachment for Discharging Toy Cannon, Pneumatic Door-Opener, Alarm Clock Chicken Feeder, suit of armor, a real hang glider and 100's more. Here is a public domain link to one of the older books: www.gutenberg.org/files/12655/12655-h/12655-h.htm