Quinn, I watch a lot of youtube, so I'm confident when I say that you're one of the absolute BEST educators on this platform. It seems like you were born for this!
Hi Quinn, I am 70 and a retired Machine shop instructor having spent 30 yrs teaching all aspects of this I feel is a very honorable trade. Taught by an old machinist from Germany. I have recommended your website to my predecessor. She is young and needs lots of pointers that you can provide. I sincerely think that you have an approach to different topics she and her students can benefit from. We never stop learning!!
Ron, have to totally agree with you,,,she has a lot to offer for us that are just starting to follow and learn machining. Only wished I her as a neighbor to drop in and school this ole 68 yr old newby,,,Bear in TX.
Quinn, I'm an electronics engineer (35 years in design and support), and I think I'm fairly proficient at the 3D Printing design flow. I've designed a lot of hobby use 3D Printed tools and jigs etc, but the limits of plastic have inspired me to get into machining (last time on a lathe and mill was back in college 40 year ago). Your content is the best on the web by far. I thank you so much.
This is in my top 5 video list of videos that I’ve watched. They are not all done by you, but this list contain videos that radically changed the way I work. Thank you.
Slowly I am viewing all your videos. Very fond of your humor, and I appreciate all the thought you obviously put into your work. You are a natural teacher! Consider yourself given a virtual Apple. (It's an old tradition, giving your favorite teacher an apple.)
This must be the 6th or 8th time that I've binge watched this series of mill skills _for dummies_ videos. Now that I've actually got my mini mill, they're simply *full* of those 'HaHa' moments that make them worthwhile to me. Thanks for taking me by the hand and leading me through the -streets of London- basics of milling. lol
I have to hand it to you. Your vids are concise, and super helpful. I learned several new things- The collet block blew my mind. Also learned the 3 points on round stock thing, and setup, clamping, and zero referencing on a mill. Mucho thanks!
Are there any other females doing machining? I was just wondering if I’m the only one following Quinn? Quinn you are a master at instructional videos. Thank you for your time.
Quinn, you said that it really annoyed you to lose the space due to the DRO at certain times. Thanks for showing how to use that really nice fixture plate. Basically if I ever needed a rearward extension over the DRO bar: well now I 'd know how to do it! thanks.
I have seen a fixture on a hobby lathe where the work piece was attached to the cross slide and the cutting tool fitted to the spindle, this allowed a limited milling option on the lathe. So by adding an adjustable fixture the height became adjustable too, Myford lathes manufacture all these fixtures for their lathes.
Yes my 108 year old Drummond has a milling slide from Myford', the original Drummond slide is a hens teeth rare item . Limited travel but if you take your time it works for the patient. As Quinn says it's a hangover from the days when small mills were rare.
When starting a new project, my brain is constantly in a design -> the tools I have -> how to fixture -> adjust design -> ... -loop. Lots of my designs have weird features left over just for fixtureing. Also, the order of operations can become important, since you remove or gain places to reference to or clamp on in the process. Love your videos for also showing the puzzle-part instead just chips \o/
Wow! You covered so much information in half an hour. Your explanation of clamping options was from simple to complex. Thank you. But now, it begs the question (since I have a rotary table I barely know how to use) when are you going to give us the same treatise for Rotary Table use?
Terrific video Quinn. Some twenty years ago I work for a machine tool company as a software developer. We programmed our A axis as a linear axis . You specified the diameter of the part and then just programmed as if it were a flat surface X and A. This turned out to be used extensively with people who cut roll dies, but you could also use it to engrave on a round surface.
I got my little mill a couple of months back (Proxxon MF70) And this video will help as I am still learning... All I can really make is shenanigans and/or scrap metal :D Mostly my vise and fixture plates screwing things up so this will be great! Thank you!
Just finished this series (and found you on YT) and I just want to say thank you. I mean my wallet won't be thanking you but once I'm making my own "art" I'll be thanking you even more. 🙌
I like the series. Simple and builds on previous ones. If I had the tools and the room for them, this would be so great. So many of us wannabe machinests out here.
Quinn, thanks for making this video & series. You share _many_ good ideas/techniques for beginners. If someone purchases a rotary table, it's often very useful if the rotary table can also use the chuck from your lathe. I've seen a lot of parts go from the lathe in the chuck to the mill and back again without losing registration.
Thanks again for another informative and entertaining video. Most all I know about using a lathe came from watching your lathe series. I recently purchased a mini mill and enjoy these videos as well. You are an excellent teacher.
Thanks. I appreciate the way you approach these things. I had to convert a sink drain without overflow into one with, and succeeded largely through slowing down, and using sacrificial parts andit all worked out great.
I am realizing to do what I want to do I will need a rotary table. So many choices on the internet. Do all rotary tables and vises use the same size bolts/fixtures to bolt down to your work table? In other words are the attachments to the work table standardized? Can you recommend a rotary table?
I learned a lot from your video even though I have used several of these tools. Thank you for this level of delightful detail. I would love to know more on the dos and don'ts of the rotary table. I am sad that the algorithm isn't working for you, because your channel content rocks!
Well done Quinn,,,I am also taking fixturing on line course (when time allows) over at Academy: Titan of CNC. Not that I will ever be around are have a CNC machine, just want to learn and enjoy my mill and lathe,, thx, Bear.
Silly question - could you locate the vise toward one end of the mill table? That would leave enough space at the other end for some work and reduce the number of times the vise needs to be removed completely ?
Yes, I definitely think that there is more to learn on a milling machine. I have not done anything in the workshop for a long time I live in Thailand and we are selling up our home and moving to North Thailand. So I will have to start from scratch again. But milling is always harder I found.
Thanks a lot, really helpful!!! I still wonder if there is a good way of clamping a round stock (25 mm diameter) to flatten (take off) it on one side (to get a cross section shape of a letter D).....🤔??
Have you ever played around with dovetail vises? Used to work at a machine shop, and we loved those things. Held the work piece down, gave a decent enough indication surface for repeatability and gave the mills access to 5 of 6 faces of the work piece.
I find a very small - "pocket size" - toolmakers vice very useful. It let's me transfer small parts, still held exactly the same, in between for example a vice for machining and some manual work.
Another thing to note is that when you have round stock in a colletblock you can take the colletblock off the mill and put it in the lathe. Just put the entire block in your Chuck. When you're done with your lathe work, then you can take it and put it back in the mill to continue milling without losing any of your orientation 😁🤗👍
More than okay with it being a tailstock, especially when it is used with a rotary table. If it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck.......... Thanks for the great Ideas. I am a member of a FB group called Metal Lathe and when newcomers ask for advice they are generally directed to Blondi Hacks then Joe Pie and Mr.Pete as their skills ramp up.
Hi, thanks for all the great videos! I recently acquired a used small mini mill that has a spindle with a 3/4 -16 thread. It came with a Taig 1037-3H 2 inch faceplate, with bolt holes, that fits the spindle. What would that be used for??? Thanks
Do you think you have the skill now to make a new spindle for your lathe, perhaps the grinding excepted? CNC conversion would address most of the shortcomings that make an 11x27 attractive but I'm really on the fence about getting a camlock spindle nose.
G'day from tropical North Queensland, Australia Quinn, thanks for your super informative videos, they really are standing the test of time. I'm fortunate enough to have got hold of an old Cincinnati Toolmaster 1C as my first mill and the vast majority of what you've presented is very applicable (though I don't have a quill, so knee cranking it is for me...). I do have a question though, with the strap clamps, toolmaker clamps etc, are these perfectly adequate when made from say 1020 or other decent grade mild steel, or would they benefit greatly from being made from a high carbon steel like Cromoly? I don't have the luxury of having various merchants with all grades available locally, so need to plan these things out so the specialty supplier can order in (or go hunting on fleabay etc). I suspect that using the softer material will benefit when clamping harder workpieces as they aren't typically used as a precision positioning component like the vice and vee block (though I'm sure you have better insight than me on this). Now to go look at scraping my table to get 50 years of cane farm work smoothed off it... and figure out a way to make the old (but enormous) cast angle plate smooth, flat and with a precision angle again.
Hello Quinn, have you made a video on injury and injury prevention? It's one of the concerns holding ne back from commiting to a lathe and mill, I don't want to announce I'm learning machining and lose some fingers for my enthusiasm 🙊
Wait, your vice doesn't have auto-tramming feature? On the underside of the vice there is usually a slot that coincides with T-slots on the mill. There also should be some threaded holes. I have two little blocks screwed in there that fit snugly into the T-slots and keep the vice trammed. Obviously very high precision is required, mine are surface ground
Thanks Quinn, some good tips there - particularly looking at ways to adapt the fixture stuff you have on hand. BTW, I've never met a cranky machinist - they've always been too busy :)
Next mill skills, machine tenon slot on under side of vice, make tenon keys, to aid refitting aligned vice every time. Great vlog thanks for sharing. Best regards John.
Thinking outside the vice and then all the pother bits that can be used and then combinations and... fantastic mind opening stuff. I learnt lottz. And I bet several others did too even the old grizzly bearded machinists that have cutting oil in the veins... keep it up you doing a grand job.
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Quinn, I watch a lot of youtube, so I'm confident when I say that you're one of the absolute BEST educators on this platform. It seems like you were born for this!
Hi Quinn, I am 70 and a retired Machine shop instructor having spent 30 yrs teaching all aspects of this I feel is a very honorable trade. Taught by an old machinist from Germany. I have recommended your website to my predecessor. She is young and needs lots of pointers that you can provide. I sincerely think that you have an approach to different topics she and her students can benefit from. We never stop learning!!
Thanks for taking the vise off.
That's how you de-vise things
Quinn - I love your eloquent delivery of somewhat dense technical information - extremely well done!
Ron, have to totally agree with you,,,she has a lot to offer for us that are just starting to follow and learn machining. Only wished I her as a neighbor to drop in and school this ole 68 yr old newby,,,Bear in TX.
You know you've got a great channel when ron covell watches your videos.
Yep you are destined to be a machine shop teacher. Great tutorial on how to hold things on the mill.
Quinn, I'm an electronics engineer (35 years in design and support), and I think I'm fairly proficient at the 3D Printing design flow. I've designed a lot of hobby use 3D Printed tools and jigs etc, but the limits of plastic have inspired me to get into machining (last time on a lathe and mill was back in college 40 year ago). Your content is the best on the web by far. I thank you so much.
Handy tip: the less expensive your v-blocks, the more contact area you'll get on the round surface. :)
Quinn, honestly, your lessons has been nothing short of amazing.
I really appreciate, thanks.
Quinn: "v blocks are great because they're flexible"
my cheap mill: "see, people like flexible things"
mine says the same thing!
How do you only have 84.5K subscribers? I would have thought closer to 1M.
The best set of the milling work holding tips for beginners delivered in a concise and creative manner. Thank you ma'am.
This one's worth at least a dozen re-watches, so much to learn-adapt-use straight from the video. Thanks, Quinn, as always! Super-useful!
This is in my top 5 video list of videos that I’ve watched. They are not all done by you, but this list contain videos that radically changed the way I work. Thank you.
We appreciate _everything_ you do do.
Yeah we do. 😊
Haha dodo
Aww shucks 🥰
0:18 Ahh, don't you just love when a "quick video" turns out to be 30 minutes short? I loved every minute of it! 🙂
“Quick” is increasingly a term of art rather than a fact. 😬
Yes.Yes I do.
some 10 min vids seem too long but with Quinn 30 went by wayyy too fast
@@MrBuck295 Always!
Luckily, "quick" is a relative term.
Newbie here. Really appreciate the excellent teaching of these concepts in a way I can understand.
Slowly I am viewing all your videos. Very fond of your humor, and I appreciate all the thought you obviously put into your work. You are a natural teacher! Consider yourself given a virtual Apple. (It's an old tradition, giving your favorite teacher an apple.)
This must be the 6th or 8th time that I've binge watched this series of mill skills _for dummies_ videos. Now that I've actually got my mini mill, they're simply *full* of those 'HaHa' moments that make them worthwhile to me. Thanks for taking me by the hand and leading me through the -streets of London- basics of milling. lol
I have to hand it to you. Your vids are concise, and super helpful. I learned several new things- The collet block blew my mind. Also learned the 3 points on round stock thing, and setup, clamping, and zero referencing on a mill. Mucho thanks!
"And when you're done you have an art." 👏 😆
Quinn Dunki , You always give 110% Always , and that is no joke .
I'm a new hobby machinist in the process of restoring a small JET mill and I have to say your videos are very informative and fun to watch. Thank you.
Are there any other females doing machining? I was just wondering if I’m the only one following Quinn?
Quinn you are a master at instructional videos. Thank you for your time.
You are absolutely right Ron, it's Quinn's eloquence that makes her videos so enjoyable. Thank you Quinn for taking so much of your time.
Quinn, you said that it really annoyed you to lose the space due to the DRO at certain times. Thanks for showing how to use that really nice fixture plate. Basically if I ever needed a rearward extension over the DRO bar: well now I 'd know how to do it! thanks.
I have seen a fixture on a hobby lathe where the work piece was attached to the cross slide and the cutting tool fitted to the spindle, this allowed a limited milling option on the lathe. So by adding an adjustable fixture the height became adjustable too, Myford lathes manufacture all these fixtures for their lathes.
Yes my 108 year old Drummond has a milling slide from Myford', the original Drummond slide is a hens teeth rare item .
Limited travel but if you take your time it works for the patient.
As Quinn says it's a hangover from the days when small mills were rare.
I was talking to a friend about that category of tool that "you don't use very often, but that once a year or so, you're VERY glad you have it".
When starting a new project, my brain is constantly in a design -> the tools I have -> how to fixture -> adjust design -> ... -loop. Lots of my designs have weird features left over just for fixtureing. Also, the order of operations can become important, since you remove or gain places to reference to or clamp on in the process. Love your videos for also showing the puzzle-part instead just chips \o/
Wow! You covered so much information in half an hour. Your explanation of clamping options was from simple to complex. Thank you. But now, it begs the question (since I have a rotary table I barely know how to use) when are you going to give us the same treatise for Rotary Table use?
I am totally convinced of the value of this feature . Great explaination and demo.
Your videos feel like a much-appreciated gift. I can't tell you how valuable my daily excursions into your archives are.
Nice. That was a tour de force. I was wondering how you were going to manage the topic in 22 minutes. :)
Answer: I couldn’t. 😬
I'm a simple man. I see a Blondihacks video and I click the thumbs up button.
Fixturing on the lathe adds up to more than 100%, since you left out turning between centers. I'm cool with it adding up to more than 100%.
I’ve been on a clamping quest lately, and you’ve just given me more ideas. Thanks Quinn?
its allways a pleasure watch your videos....
You are an excellent instructor, Quinn, working from a great depth of knowledge. Thank you.
man the dry humor and knowledge is (not "are") priceless - my wife even enjoys watching this despite knowing zip about machining haha!
I truly appreciate the work you put into the mill skills videos. Thank you.
Terrific video Quinn. Some twenty years ago I work for a machine tool company as a software developer. We programmed our A axis as a linear axis . You specified the diameter of the part and then just programmed as if it were a flat surface X and A. This turned out to be used extensively with people who cut roll dies, but you could also use it to engrave on a round surface.
Hello Quinn. This is soooooo beneficial I love how you deliver scientific info in a simple manner
Better and better, Quinn. So much fun to watch!
Good video, lots of information. I like to use a face plate on my lathe because it freaks out younger machinists. Lol
Thank you Quinn, I'm quite experienced on the mill, and I still learnt from this 😀
Simply excellent!
Dr. B
I got my little mill a couple of months back (Proxxon MF70) And this video will help as I am still learning... All I can really make is shenanigans and/or scrap metal :D Mostly my vise and fixture plates screwing things up so this will be great! Thank you!
Thank you for your videos Quinn, my interest in my decades long hobby has been rekindled!
Just finished this series (and found you on YT) and I just want to say thank you. I mean my wallet won't be thanking you but once I'm making my own "art" I'll be thanking you even more. 🙌
I like the series. Simple and builds on previous ones. If I had the tools and the room for them, this would be so great. So many of us wannabe machinests out here.
Quinn, thanks for making this video & series. You share _many_ good ideas/techniques for beginners.
If someone purchases a rotary table, it's often very useful if the rotary table can also use the chuck from your lathe. I've seen a lot of parts go from the lathe in the chuck to the mill and back again without losing registration.
Quinn: Thanks for his very helpful video! You have such a great way of explaining things. I love all your videos. Please keep them coming!
Thanks well done !please make a video on the rotary table when you have time.
Freaking love your teaching videos. It should be required watching before buying tools, and that’s what I’m doing 😊
Thanks again for another informative and entertaining video. Most all I know about using a lathe came from watching your lathe series. I recently purchased a mini mill and enjoy these videos as well. You are an excellent teacher.
Thanks for the humour and excellent descriptions, camera work and explanations.
Excellent lesson again. You are an excellent instructor.
Congratulations, blond girl. I appreciate your job. I watch most of your videos, I am from Brazil
Thanks. I appreciate the way you approach these things. I had to convert a sink drain without overflow into one with, and succeeded largely through slowing down, and using sacrificial parts andit all worked out great.
I am realizing to do what I want to do I will need a rotary table. So many choices on the internet. Do all rotary tables and vises use the same size bolts/fixtures to bolt down to your work table? In other words are the attachments to the work table standardized? Can you recommend a rotary table?
I learned a lot from your video even though I have used several of these tools. Thank you for this level of delightful detail. I would love to know more on the dos and don'ts of the rotary table. I am sad that the algorithm isn't working for you, because your channel content rocks!
just trammed up my machine yesterday, and the vice, we started milling our v blocks,
Well done Quinn,,,I am also taking fixturing on line course (when time allows) over at Academy: Titan of CNC. Not that I will ever be around are have a CNC machine, just want to learn and enjoy my mill and lathe,, thx, Bear.
I found this VERY informative. I love those table clamps you designed and made.
Really excellent for everybody,thanks Quin
Silly question - could you locate the vise toward one end of the mill table? That would leave enough space at the other end for some work and reduce the number of times the vise needs to be removed completely ?
You can, though having the vise in the middle is more convenient and balances the weight on the table
Yes, I definitely think that there is more to learn on a milling machine. I have not done anything in the workshop for a long time I live in Thailand and we are selling up our home and moving to North Thailand. So I will have to start from scratch again. But milling is always harder I found.
Thanks a lot, really helpful!!!
I still wonder if there is a good way of clamping a round stock (25 mm diameter) to flatten (take off) it on one side (to get a cross section shape of a letter D).....🤔??
Have you ever played around with dovetail vises? Used to work at a machine shop, and we loved those things. Held the work piece down, gave a decent enough indication surface for repeatability and gave the mills access to 5 of 6 faces of the work piece.
I find a very small - "pocket size" - toolmakers vice very useful. It let's me transfer small parts, still held exactly the same, in between for example a vice for machining and some manual work.
Great Video ! Funny I once worked with a" master machinist" who couldn't think outside the vise .
You are such an amazing teacher. Thank you.
Another thing to note is that when you have round stock in a colletblock you can take the colletblock off the mill and put it in the lathe. Just put the entire block in your Chuck. When you're done with your lathe work, then you can take it and put it back in the mill to continue milling without losing any of your orientation 😁🤗👍
Great video, Quinn. Was wondering why you didn't mention "vise keys" as another way to square your vise? (hint: nice future project!)
RUclips Machinist violation detected: tapped down stock without saying "tappy tap tap". Citation written.
.....i read this entire comment in AvE's voice...
One of the many challenges of learning this hobby is how to hold stuff.
Well done
I love and appreciate you and your vise-removing proclivities, Quinn! 🥰
Fantastic. So much info in such a short time. Thumbs up girl
More than okay with it being a tailstock, especially when it is used with a rotary table. If it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck.......... Thanks for the great Ideas. I am a member of a FB group called Metal Lathe and when newcomers ask for advice they are generally directed to Blondi Hacks then Joe Pie and Mr.Pete as their skills ramp up.
Hi, thanks for all the great videos! I recently acquired a used small mini mill that has a spindle with a 3/4 -16 thread. It came with a Taig 1037-3H 2 inch faceplate, with bolt holes, that fits the spindle. What would that be used for??? Thanks
Do you think you have the skill now to make a new spindle for your lathe, perhaps the grinding excepted? CNC conversion would address most of the shortcomings that make an 11x27 attractive but I'm really on the fence about getting a camlock spindle nose.
G'day from tropical North Queensland, Australia Quinn, thanks for your super informative videos, they really are standing the test of time. I'm fortunate enough to have got hold of an old Cincinnati Toolmaster 1C as my first mill and the vast majority of what you've presented is very applicable (though I don't have a quill, so knee cranking it is for me...). I do have a question though, with the strap clamps, toolmaker clamps etc, are these perfectly adequate when made from say 1020 or other decent grade mild steel, or would they benefit greatly from being made from a high carbon steel like Cromoly? I don't have the luxury of having various merchants with all grades available locally, so need to plan these things out so the specialty supplier can order in (or go hunting on fleabay etc). I suspect that using the softer material will benefit when clamping harder workpieces as they aren't typically used as a precision positioning component like the vice and vee block (though I'm sure you have better insight than me on this). Now to go look at scraping my table to get 50 years of cane farm work smoothed off it... and figure out a way to make the old (but enormous) cast angle plate smooth, flat and with a precision angle again.
Brilliant explanation - clear and comprehensive. Thanks!
Really excellent! Solid education, and fun to boot!
any more mill/lathe skill videos coming? I'm considering getting into metalworking, but mainly for the purposes of gunsmithing for hobby.
I'm just getting started with machine work. Lots of interesting ideas here. Thanks!
Hello Quinn, have you made a video on injury and injury prevention? It's one of the concerns holding ne back from commiting to a lathe and mill, I don't want to announce I'm learning machining and lose some fingers for my enthusiasm 🙊
Do you have to align the v-block with the moving jaw? Why not align it with the static jaw of the vise instead?
I spend as much time watching this, as I am denoting new things I need to buy or make for my set up.
Very informative Quinn and put over well. Many thanks for sharing.
Thank you Quinn. This was most informative and fun to watch as always.
i would like to mention the combination of vise + special jig for fixturing odd shape things: the chuck soft jaws (especially in CNC)
Wait, your vice doesn't have auto-tramming feature? On the underside of the vice there is usually a slot that coincides with T-slots on the mill. There also should be some threaded holes. I have two little blocks screwed in there that fit snugly into the T-slots and keep the vice trammed. Obviously very high precision is required, mine are surface ground
One gotcha with some collets is that they don't all have threading for collet stops. Something to think about when shopping for them.
Thanks Quinn, some good tips there - particularly looking at ways to adapt the fixture stuff you have on hand.
BTW, I've never met a cranky machinist - they've always been too busy :)
Next mill skills, machine tenon slot on under side of vice, make tenon keys, to aid refitting aligned vice every time.
Great vlog thanks for sharing.
Best regards John.
Hi Quinn! Thanks for your videos! What is your opinion on moving the mill head at angles?
Thinking outside the vice and then all the pother bits that can be used and then combinations and... fantastic mind opening stuff. I learnt lottz. And I bet several others did too even the old grizzly bearded machinists that have cutting oil in the veins... keep it up you doing a grand job.
I know a machinist who has small locating pins in his mill table to locate his vice and fixture plates so he doesn't have to tram them in each time.
Quinn used 1-2-3 Block! It’s super effective!
This is classroom worthy quality!