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I was pleasantly surprised to come home from work today and find my 9 year old son watching this video and telling me about the fella on the screen needing a tool and just making his own. The level of camera work and explanation in your videos is second to none. Signed- Proud dad!
Really amazing too hear about a 9 year old being interested in milling and building rather then watching the junk that most kids his age are watching , puts a smile on my face
I am fleet mechanic by trade. My 9 year old introduced me to your channel and said this is what we need to do so I stop”bitching” about not being able getting any parts. “You can just make your own”
Would be even more proud if he was raised and taught better by his actual father rather than a RUclips channel... Could be worse though! He could be watching some real garbage on this site but chooses something worthwhile.
@@PaperMakersAdeludedbroadit's funny how kind you are....the fact that any child would watch this says something about thier future and thier interests. x try and spread positivity ...the world is full of hate
That attitude is undoubtedly responsible for all the business that comes into the shop. If you're going to spend the kind of money that these companies spend with Kurtis to avoid spending the even greater costs in money and time that ordering OEM parts would be, you certainly don't want a shop that believes in 'good enough'.
Good work matey , I would love to get lathe but I’ll probably end up losing a bloody arm or something🤦🏻♂️. I’ll give ya a call next week mate and catch you up on what we were talking about the other day👊🏻😁🇦🇺🍻🍻🍻
Can't wait to see what's going to happen next. Like Kurtis getting a meal & a bear in the middle of the video, or BigStackD showing some bloopers at the end. Multiverse has come, and boi oh boi I'm ready. 🥴
Degreed "Jeweler" here. In school, all our "practice pieces" were mainly from Brass (even back when Gold/Silver were relatively cheap). So a smelting tip for you ... add a few pinches of "Flux Powder" to the crucible ... it draws impurities out of the melting metal and draws it to the top; also easier to collect the slag just before your pour. Wondering if a smear of conductive grease between the 2 Brass surfaces would help rotation ... like Permatex 22058 ? Brilliant job !!!
That is literally the worst thing to put on there. Dielectric grease is not conductive. Its whole purpose for being is that it doesn't conduct. But there are conductive lubricants out there. Permatix 22058 just isn't one of them.
Making that bolt you were hogging that material off, so nice. No disrespect mate, but the editing and content creation is approaching the level of the machine work. Little mama is getting really good! The split shot showing Curtis on the controls while also showing the cutter at work was excellent. People can learn a lot more from this style of edit. You two are a really talented couple!
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering Yes the behind the camera woman is half the channel, with the great work she does. Deserves a little swap soon, showing she can also weld and cut. If John and Debs from Doubleboost can do that......
The production value of this channel is amazing! The machining and metal working is top notch, but the video production is incredible. The clean edits tell the story of the job so well. I especially liked the introduction of the split frames. Thank you both for sharing your work! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦!
Plus all the outtakes at the end of each video for some comic relief. Kurtis' blank stare off into space or else he's dropping the F bombs like a sortie of B-52 bombers.
I know EXACTLY how much the brass components weigh! Precisely 12 bananas, and not one slice over! Massive respect for an excellent tool, expertly crafted from scratch! Just outstanding.
@@maxcactus7 Thanks. I know all about Kurtis reference to “banana” measurements. I’m a great fan of his and watch every video he produces. He prefers those strange “monkey” measurements over there while us old timers still use the old “barley corn” inch. Bananas and monkeys just always seem to go together somehow.
Every time kurtis runs the lathe and he runs the cutter RIGHT up to the chuck I always think to myself "the balls on this guy" lol. I truly enjoy watching him work. Thank you for sharing these videos with the world.
As always, nice job ;) 1 Month ago I bought a small rotary table for my hobby-WIG welder, what a coincidence ;) Assuming: Material: CuZn39Pb3 / CW614N with 8,46g/cm^3 No Bubbles is your Brass ;) Final Thickness of both Chucks after finishing pass: 21mm down from 21,48mm M22 Main thread M10 thread in sliding chuck approx. 11 full windings of M10x1,5 3mm main Chamfer on chucks 140mm lenght of Bolt 30mm Hexagon (edge to edge) 22,00mm Diameter (because Curtis likes the zeroes ;) ) 44mm lenght of M22 thread on Bolt and many maths: fixed Chuck : 698g sliding Chuck: 676g Bolt: 502g Total: 1876,2g Kind regards from Germany :D (as you may or may not have noticed, I'm quite interested ;) )
Hallo Andrej, meine Berechung hat was sehr änliches ergeben. 21mm*74 abzüglich ein 22,22 (OK... stimmt er mag die glatten Zahlen), bzw. 20,4 abzüglich Gewinde gemittelt 21,8. Bei der Schraube habe ich mich am Bild auf der Waage orientiert... Damit komme ich dann auf ca. 148mm und den Hexagonteil habe ich auf 20mm mit einer 4mm Abschrägung geschätzt. Das mit der M10 Schraube hast Du wesentlich besser abgeschätzt, da ich nicht auf die Idee gekommen bin die Umdrehungen zu zählen, die Kurtis braucht. Habe optisch geschätzt und 20mm angenommen. Beim Material jedoch habe ich "abgerundet" 8,40 ist meine Dichte. Beim Aufschmelzen von Messing oder Bronze verdampft ein Teil des Zink und Bleianteils (habe ich bei einem Glockengießer gesehen, die ettliche Barren Zinn in die Schmelze nachgeworfen haben...OK... ist hier Messing und nicht Bronze) Kurz: ich hatte 1884,2g berechnet... und aus beruflichen Gründen habe ich einen Faible für Schnappszahlen, darum ist meine offizielle Schätzung 1888g Schöne Grüße aus Bayern
Welt seit mir gegrüßt glaube ich hab zu viel Lack gesoffen, zu viel MoonSun geschaut oder einfach falsch gerechnet? kann mir einer sagen wieso ich auf rund 7kg komme? eine M20x200 wiegt ja schon rund 544g und da frag ich mich wie man unter 2kg kommen soll und das ist nur ne Stahlschraube, Messing wiegt ja mehr und ja ich hab mal im Video zugehört, teile sind als Bild zu sehen, Teile in Worten und den Faktor 8,46g/cm³, hab sogar nur mit 8,3 gerechnet, es ist ziemlich viel gegeben hab sogar mal kommstelle gerundet und mit 8cm Durchmesser auf 4cm höhe (sind ja 2 scheiben á 21,5mm) und komm da schon auf ein volumen von 800cm³ und das mal 8,irgendwas, also 8 8x8 sind 64 und die zwei nullen 6400g... nur mal so als NEbenrechnung zum prüfen Schöne grüße aus "The Länd" wir können alles, aus Hochdeutsch und 20% auf Tiernahrung
Very cool to see you make a robust and high quality tool from metal you melted in your shop. Also, great camerawork and video editing. Thank you very much for making these videos to the both of you. RUclips needs more quality content like this.
Wide range of applications of that Knipex pliers is really impressive. Machining that brass like butter shows the quality of your cutting tools and power of your lathes. It also depicts the range of material hardness you're dealing with on everyday basis. The clamp itself is the epitome of applied art and design - 100% of function enclosed in 100% of form, 0% of bullshit. Excellent video, both on Karen's and Kurtis' side.
Thank you CEE Editor for all of your effort in mixing the sound track on the parts speed-up with the normal rate sound and after when the video turn to normal as well. I know how hard it is and your job is perfect, the takes are perfect. Your effort is not in vain. :)
You both crush it with your content, editing and explanations of the project at hand. This video checked all my boxes for a machinist channel. Chips flying, threading on the the lathe and now melting metal to make part? Shut the front door! lol. Glad to see your channel continue to grow so rapidly!
it's so fun hearing you mention bigstack. been a long time viewer of both yours and his channel. love to see the multiverse of makers crossing into one another.
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering Time to get together, and let him have a drive away from your scrap bin, though I will guess most of the scrap is steel, so not really his forte, but there likely is enough of his favourite brass, copper and aluminium there to make him happy. Yes a pretty fair drive, or a flight, but you could post him a big chunk of stuff anyeay.
The thing that gets me about these videos is the care and perfection that goes into making something that is just a bodge to achieve what is required; this chap makes even a chucked-together tool into a jewel of a finished article.
I really appreciate the way Jen slows down the fast forward before completing a step. It really helps maintain perspective of what goes into this process and makes the video more enjoyable.
When you were a kid, did you realize how much fun tool making would be? I sure didn’t. I work in clay and wood, and making tools takes all my current skills to execute properly. Love your content, howdy from Tennessee, USA!
Gday Kurtis and Karen, this turned out bloody awesome, the castings cleaned up like a brought piece, great idea doing a giveaway mate, I really have no bloody idea how much this weighs at all, good luck to all that enter, have a great weekend mate, Cheers
Hey mate hope your week has been a good one, yeah was really happy with how the pour went, was expecting a fail to be honest lol There's a big variety of guesses so far be awesome if someone gets it exactly! Cheers you have a good one Matty 😎👍
Castings came out great, considering no degassing additives, surprised how quick the melt time was, love that Wurth clock, great colour scheme. Fantastic job Karen and Kurtis. Great giveaway, good luck to the lucky 🏆 🥇 Thanks for sharing.
Bravo,another great video,informative,entertaining,and fun to watch. Making a useful shop tool is time well spent,and even though it's not critical to the performance of the tool, you still had to finish off the head end of the brass bolt.,nice touch. The camera tech is doing her fabulous job as always,nice shots at various stages of the project. Keep up the great work,I really enjoy your videos,always fun to watch. Take care,stay safe and well. Give the shop mascot a big hug for me,he's a real treat.
Haha that is definitely a cool concept, we usually just tack on a small rod and hang ground clamp on it lol. Definitely gone above and beyond for this 1 👍👍 definitely my favorite machine shop channel on youtube.
Thanks for this fascinating Rotary Earthwire Attachment tutorial Kurtis & Karen. I'm glad you did this video, because I always wondered how you attached the all-important earth contact. I have no doubt in my mind, it weighs exactly 43 Bananas (skins attached).
@@Horus9339 They're Ripe QLD Bananas (export quality), but as a guide, I weighed my local Thai green bananas, hoping they'd give me the accuracy I need for this important guesstimate 😛. Hope you have a great weekend too!
@@Horus9339 (:-)). A Hispanic friend brought us some plantain and we cooked them and they were good. Those were big but I’ve eaten the smaller cooking bananas also.
Cool to see the big stack D shout out! Love his videos too! Won’t guess the weight as I won’t use one but amazing video one again guys! Love having a beer in the shed and watching the stuff you make weekly! Keep it up you legends!
Dependant on the alloy, Assuming RD of 8.5g per cm3 and a total volume excluding chamfors of 216.51 cm3 i would say 1790g adusted for including the chamfors or there abouts :) Great vid as always ;)
Yes yes yes, I was able to work it out how the clamp worked and I have all the pieces to put it together. I knew my hobby lathe would come in handy. I haven't made it yet, but now I have first class information. It'll be the next thing on the workshop to do list. And Karen is a spoilsport. Harrrumph What a muffin between friends. I use them to melt down Aluminium cans into ingots, true aluminium does get as hot as brass so my muffin tray is still good.............for ingot, it's pretty much stuffed for muffins....lol. Then I use the ingot to make other stuff. Good content Kurtis, take a bow All the best Ian
I have a small vice that was made by a machinist when I started work, I think around 1992, it is still in my tool case and used often. Made with such skill and your work reminds me how appreciative I am that he gave his hard work to me!
You two are having so much fun with both your skills. Great work to you Kurtis and to you Karen. As always, Homey is keeping up with his toy patrols. You both are inspirational. Im not an engineer, though growing up and watching my Dad make his own tools and gadgets, I can fashion some tools I need for my craft.
This is a great video! It was great that you admitted you didn’t know what you were doing but were giving it a go anyway. You are an extremely talented guy. Thanks to both of you for your content.
My friend I’m very impressed with the way you scavenged around to make this happen. Waste not want not. And I’m sure Bigstack has asked for the chips laying on the ground. Glad to see you two guys are buddies. Been watching both of you for years.
cool design - i kind of figured that was how it worked and is great to see one in bits i’m estimating around 1.77kg in total. outstanding work as always…
I started out with a muffin tray, had same issues. Took some 3mm wall angle scrap and made an ingot tray works great. I've since moved from propane and made a burner to use diesel, much hotter and cheaper. Also works great for burning off stumps lol
Great video as always.Being from the other side of the pond we are at a disadvantage trying to convert bananas to grams 😁 .But here goes, my guess is 2165.5 grams or 4.7 bananas(pounds).Keep up the good work and have a great weekend!
I'm not a machinist, so when you show that you are using a TNGG insert, I'm always wondering why and when the different types of inserts are used. I look up and see the spec sheet shows that it's pure tungsten carbide with such-and-such a hardness, and it comes in various grades. The type of coating is specified - I used to be in disk drive manufacturing, so I think CVD must be chemical vapour deposition, but there's also "PVD" and "NO". It might be informative some time to explain the different types of inserts, and when you use them. Thanks so much for your very interesting videos.
I just imagined if CEE and BigstackD collabed on a video, one making the other something and surprising them. I think it'd be pretty awesome, two of my fave Aussie youtubers in one video
I loved it when Kurtis said, "I can't do it, I have got to do it proper"! One of the reasons CEE is my favorite channel is that if Kurtis does it, it is done right and well done at that. I reckon the earth clamp comes in at 1542.5g, or 3.4 bananas! All the same just different units.
Hi Kirtis & Karen Love your work, your both very dedicated to putting out quality work in engineering filming editing and information The brass weight should be close to 1953 grams Look forward to your next video Regards Paul
Hey guys, great vid! Nice to see the attention to detail for a give-away! BigstackD is also on my watch list! Not sure I am at the point of using it yet (my welding skills are still developing!), but my guess is 684g.
Greetings to Australia! i have estimated brass round thinks to be 0.72kg each, and the brass bolt to be 0.80kg. All together would be 2.24kg. I am an ac tech who likes to watch machinist doing their thing. Anyway love your channel!
That's easier then I thought, how hot does the clamp get? Might graphite based grease (for the conductivity) help? My guess for the weight is 1853 gramms.
Hello from Canada's East coast. Thanks for showing us how you made the earth clamp, I've been curious about that for some time. Why buy what you can build especially if you can use material from around the shop and it's pleasing to the eye too! My guess would be 460 grams or just over 1lb.
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering i think that you are done it pretty well ;) You didn’t got your brass from scrap but anyway its cool technical process as i think :)
Solid work as always, Kurtis! I switched trades from machinist to mechanic a few years ago and I thoroughly enjoy the content you're posting, sometimes I miss the smell of coolant, metal chips and polished metal and your videos kinda bring me back into the shop 🥴. I like your no BS, straight the the point explanation and Karen's editing compliment all of that very nicely! As for the weight of the brass parts of the clamp, I'll go with 1750 grams🤔 Greetings from Canada! 🇨🇦
have you ever tried any dielectric contact grease in between the brass pucks? just wondering if it would offer good electrical properties as well as a little lube for the material to slip against
That's what I love about the internet the most. Hearing and seeing all the different ways people do or say the exact same thing. I watched Marty T, and he would say negative or positive earth. On this side of the pond, I say ground, you're making a ground clamp. Same thing, different words. I used to play games a lot about 10 yrs ago. I made an Aussie woman mad at me, and she said "get on your bike and ride". Didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what she meant, but the first thing that came to my mind was Queen, fat bottom girls you make the rocking world go round. Get on your bike and ride. 😆 Great memories of fun times 🤣 on the internet. Keep doing what you're doing mate.
love the work guys as always top work on the machining and camera work i would guess at 1936g if that includes the brass bolt 1654g just for the conductive rings
36:21 How there can be no "Blue Steel" look after that out take, I'll never know. :D I'm tempted to note the dimensions, calculate the volume and use the density of brass to work out a brass gram value ... but I'm not a welder and don't need a rotary clamp. :D
Don’t know if they are available in Australia but that looks similar to the Lenco model C. Used those at a John Deere factory on all the rotating welding fixtures.
This project was made with a fair bit of "We'll see how this goes", and making a mess with a lathe insert. I have watched pretty much every video from the last 2 years and this explains where the clamp came from.
Very good video guys! So satisfying to watch the machining. If I ever get the chance would love to make one of those. I like the fact you turned the off cuts into something you will use for a very long time.does the contact surfaces wear much or do they last a while?
972g. Thanks for the content, I do pretty much exactly the same work as you guys, but it's rare to get parts from excavators over 80t. I also mostly work on Hyundai/Hitachi gear, so keen to get some Cat gear through the door at some point. A rotating earth clamp has been on my to-do list for a long time, getting pretty sick of coiled earths! Keep up the good work!
Came here for the rotary thingymajig... your out takes and dog got you a subscribe. Just kidding... kinda... :D Awesome bit of kit. I'm relatively new to welding and anything that makes the blasted ground clamp less of a pain is great. Thanks for sharing this style. I like. Cheers
Those piece of brass bar remind me of the bar end stock when I worked as a Screw Machinist. The machines I worked on were the Cadillacs of the industry, absolutely beautiful and produced the most deadly accurate parts an automatic lathe machine could make. They were so easy to set up, even as an apprentice with no foreknowledge of machining. Gonna miss those days but I'm headed in a better direction now with my current line of work. I hope to be taking on my own jobs in my own shop within the next 5 to 10 years. Cheer from the U.S.A Kurtis!
Watching you go about your business on the lathe is a constant reminder to me that I tend to over engineer many of my ideas when a simple solution is there if you think the process through. I guess you are a tradie and I am a shed enthusiast which is the reason I love to watch your channel……and also the off chance of catching a glimpse of Karen who is shit loads prettier than you mate!!
I didn't even know that I needed a rotating ground clamp! At first from the thumb, I thought it was just a spiffy ground...but nay nay! It rotates! Don't know...7.2 pounds! I love the videos!
This is an excellent example of self reliance. You get to enjoy the fruits of you own labor and ingenuity when you use something you built. A tip of the hat to both you and Karen.
Nice. Very technical. We use the simple peeled ground wire technique in our pipe work. I use a stiff wire that I can bend in to a u-shape and it just hangs on top of the pipe like a hook. Welding a ground to the pipe would probably be excessive.
40 grams of brass in the earth clamp. I really like the way you built this. It shows how creative you are. I sincerely enjoy your videos and I frequently watch them. I live near the geographical center of the United States of America and I often struggle with your language that is the same as mine, yet so different. Keep up the good work. Thank you.
This is a great project very achievable by many. Particularly loved the casting thrown in for good measure and showing recycling of material. You have a great presence on camera and really enjoy the content. Thanks for sharing. 👍🇬🇧
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The weight of the brass components was 1,890grams!
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700 grams
@@stuartmorris4932 Good luck 😎👍
980 grams
Why dont you just make the clamp on the welder rotary? So you dont need a secondary clamp like you have made here?
1618 grams
I was pleasantly surprised to come home from work today and find my 9 year old son watching this video and telling me about the fella on the screen needing a tool and just making his own.
The level of camera work and explanation in your videos is second to none.
Signed- Proud dad!
Really amazing too hear about a 9 year old being interested in milling and building rather then watching the junk that most kids his age are watching , puts a smile on my face
taught the boy to swear, in the bargain
I am fleet mechanic by trade. My 9 year old introduced me to your channel and said this is what we need to do so I stop”bitching” about not being able getting any parts. “You can just make your own”
Would be even more proud if he was raised and taught better by his actual father rather than a RUclips channel...
Could be worse though! He could be watching some real garbage on this site but chooses something worthwhile.
@@PaperMakersAdeludedbroadit's funny how kind you are....the fact that any child would watch this says something about thier future and thier interests. x try and spread positivity ...the world is full of hate
I got such a big smile at “Can’t do it - got to do it properly” finishing the head of the brass bolt because I knew you wouldn’t let that go!
That attitude is undoubtedly responsible for all the business that comes into the shop. If you're going to spend the kind of money that these companies spend with Kurtis to avoid spending the even greater costs in money and time that ordering OEM parts would be, you certainly don't want a shop that believes in 'good enough'.
Good work matey , I would love to get lathe but I’ll probably end up losing a bloody arm or something🤦🏻♂️. I’ll give ya a call next week mate and catch you up on what we were talking about the other day👊🏻😁🇦🇺🍻🍻🍻
Hey mate you make this look easy I was shocked it worked out so well 🤣 I'll stick to the lathe work from now on haha Sounds good mate chat soon 😎👍🇦🇺
love your channel mate ive been a long LONG time subscriber
that would be cool if you had a lathe though
Hey bigstack, still waiting for your address. I’d love to come by and evaluate all your metal.
:-)
I love your video also
Can't wait to see what's going to happen next.
Like Kurtis getting a meal & a bear in the middle of the video, or BigStackD showing some bloopers at the end.
Multiverse has come, and boi oh boi I'm ready. 🥴
Degreed "Jeweler" here. In school, all our "practice pieces" were mainly from Brass (even back when Gold/Silver were relatively cheap). So a smelting tip for you ... add a few pinches of "Flux Powder" to the crucible ... it draws impurities out of the melting metal and draws it to the top; also easier to collect the slag just before your pour. Wondering if a smear of conductive grease between the 2 Brass surfaces would help rotation ... like Permatex 22058 ? Brilliant job !!!
That is literally the worst thing to put on there. Dielectric grease is not conductive. Its whole purpose for being is that it doesn't conduct. But there are conductive lubricants out there. Permatix 22058 just isn't one of them.
Making that bolt you were hogging that material off, so nice. No disrespect mate, but the editing and content creation is approaching the level of the machine work. Little mama is getting really good! The split shot showing Curtis on the controls while also showing the cutter at work was excellent. People can learn a lot more from this style of edit. You two are a really talented couple!
hey mate thanks so much we both appreciate the great comment!
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering Yes the behind the camera woman is half the channel, with the great work she does. Deserves a little swap soon, showing she can also weld and cut. If John and Debs from Doubleboost can do that......
The production value of this channel is amazing! The machining and metal working is top notch, but the video production is incredible. The clean edits tell the story of the job so well. I especially liked the introduction of the split frames. Thank you both for sharing your work! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦!
Thank you so much!!
Plus all the outtakes at the end of each video for some comic relief. Kurtis' blank stare off into space or else he's dropping the F bombs like a sortie of B-52 bombers.
I know EXACTLY how much the brass components weigh! Precisely 12 bananas, and not one slice over! Massive respect for an excellent tool, expertly crafted from scratch! Just outstanding.
Is that 12 servings of banana pudding, green bananas, large ripe Dole bananas, small cooking bananas, or ?
@@ellieprice363 Imperial bananas that are used as a unit of measurement. Watch more CEE videos and you'll understand the reference.
@@maxcactus7 Thanks. I know all about Kurtis reference to “banana” measurements. I’m a great fan of his and watch every video he produces. He prefers those strange “monkey” measurements over there while us old timers still use the old “barley corn” inch. Bananas and monkeys just always seem to go together somehow.
Add 1/2 of an American Twinkee and you'd be exact!
@@webgomer “Twinkie”
Every time kurtis runs the lathe and he runs the cutter RIGHT up to the chuck I always think to myself "the balls on this guy" lol. I truly enjoy watching him work. Thank you for sharing these videos with the world.
He's using a DRO. He can see the exact position of the tool on a little screen so he doesn't crash it
As always, nice job ;) 1 Month ago I bought a small rotary table for my hobby-WIG welder, what a coincidence ;)
Assuming:
Material: CuZn39Pb3 / CW614N with 8,46g/cm^3
No Bubbles is your Brass ;)
Final Thickness of both Chucks after finishing pass: 21mm down from 21,48mm
M22 Main thread
M10 thread in sliding chuck approx. 11 full windings of M10x1,5
3mm main Chamfer on chucks
140mm lenght of Bolt
30mm Hexagon (edge to edge)
22,00mm Diameter (because Curtis likes the zeroes ;) )
44mm lenght of M22 thread on Bolt
and many maths:
fixed Chuck : 698g
sliding Chuck: 676g
Bolt: 502g
Total: 1876,2g
Kind regards from Germany :D
(as you may or may not have noticed, I'm quite interested ;) )
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Hallo Andrej, meine Berechung hat was sehr änliches ergeben. 21mm*74 abzüglich ein 22,22 (OK... stimmt er mag die glatten Zahlen), bzw. 20,4 abzüglich Gewinde gemittelt 21,8. Bei der Schraube habe ich mich am Bild auf der Waage orientiert... Damit komme ich dann auf ca. 148mm und den Hexagonteil habe ich auf 20mm mit einer 4mm Abschrägung geschätzt. Das mit der M10 Schraube hast Du wesentlich besser abgeschätzt, da ich nicht auf die Idee gekommen bin die Umdrehungen zu zählen, die Kurtis braucht. Habe optisch geschätzt und 20mm angenommen.
Beim Material jedoch habe ich "abgerundet" 8,40 ist meine Dichte. Beim Aufschmelzen von Messing oder Bronze verdampft ein Teil des Zink und Bleianteils (habe ich bei einem Glockengießer gesehen, die ettliche Barren Zinn in die Schmelze nachgeworfen haben...OK... ist hier Messing und nicht Bronze)
Kurz: ich hatte 1884,2g berechnet... und aus beruflichen Gründen habe ich einen Faible für Schnappszahlen, darum ist meine offizielle Schätzung 1888g
Schöne Grüße aus Bayern
Welt seit mir gegrüßt glaube ich hab zu viel Lack gesoffen, zu viel MoonSun geschaut oder einfach falsch gerechnet?
kann mir einer sagen wieso ich auf rund 7kg komme?
eine M20x200 wiegt ja schon rund 544g und da frag ich mich wie man unter 2kg kommen soll und das ist nur ne Stahlschraube, Messing wiegt ja mehr
und ja ich hab mal im Video zugehört, teile sind als Bild zu sehen, Teile in Worten und den Faktor 8,46g/cm³, hab sogar nur mit 8,3 gerechnet, es ist ziemlich viel gegeben
hab sogar mal kommstelle gerundet und mit 8cm Durchmesser auf 4cm höhe (sind ja 2 scheiben á 21,5mm) und komm da schon auf ein volumen von 800cm³ und das mal 8,irgendwas, also 8 8x8 sind 64 und die zwei nullen 6400g... nur mal so als NEbenrechnung zum prüfen
Schöne grüße aus "The Länd"
wir können alles, aus Hochdeutsch und 20% auf Tiernahrung
I don’t care what happens this bloke wins 😂😂
Very cool to see you make a robust and high quality tool from metal you melted in your shop. Also, great camerawork and video editing. Thank you very much for making these videos to the both of you. RUclips needs more quality content like this.
thanks for the great comment we appreciate it!
The bloke is the nuts at his trade and yes his missus does a fine job filming. Dog is great aswell.
Wide range of applications of that Knipex pliers is really impressive.
Machining that brass like butter shows the quality of your cutting tools and power of your lathes. It also depicts the range of material hardness you're dealing with on everyday basis.
The clamp itself is the epitome of applied art and design - 100% of function enclosed in 100% of form, 0% of bullshit.
Excellent video, both on Karen's and Kurtis' side.
Curtis seems to have a genuine Mk.1 laser eyeball. I've never seen anyone eyeball things quite like he does.
Thank you CEE Editor for all of your effort in mixing the sound track on the parts speed-up with the normal rate sound and after when the video turn to normal as well. I know how hard it is and your job is perfect, the takes are perfect. Your effort is not in vain. :)
oh wow thank you very much! Appreciate it!
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering it was a pretty cool addition - I did a double take when I heard it!
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering We love you Karen :)
You both crush it with your content, editing and explanations of the project at hand. This video checked all my boxes for a machinist channel. Chips flying, threading on the the lathe and now melting metal to make part? Shut the front door! lol. Glad to see your channel continue to grow so rapidly!
it's so fun hearing you mention bigstack. been a long time viewer of both yours and his channel. love to see the multiverse of makers crossing into one another.
Awesome, we watch his video's every Friday, Karen loves to see Ingot & Bullion 🤣
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering Ingot and Bullion, two lovely doggos!
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering Time to get together, and let him have a drive away from your scrap bin, though I will guess most of the scrap is steel, so not really his forte, but there likely is enough of his favourite brass, copper and aluminium there to make him happy. Yes a pretty fair drive, or a flight, but you could post him a big chunk of stuff anyeay.
The thing that gets me about these videos is the care and perfection that goes into making something that is just a bodge to achieve what is required; this chap makes even a chucked-together tool into a jewel of a finished article.
Does anybody else hear This Old Tony whispering "Rotary Dampers" every time the word rotary is used?
He is so clever,i really enjoy his humour
LMAO! I'm glad I'm not the only one. It's okay if I'm insane, but I don't want to be insane and alone. 😁
Yes 🤣👌🏻
Rotary….. damper….. lol can hear it in the whisper voice lol
I completely forgot about that so I rewatched it and could stop laughing haha
I am in awe of your talent, passion and knowledge. And that " I'll give it go" attitude. You're a smart cookie Kurtis
Great vid Karen 👌
thank you mate appreciate the support
I really appreciate the way Jen slows down the fast forward before completing a step. It really helps maintain perspective of what goes into this process and makes the video more enjoyable.
Karen.....
Good morning to you, its 0223am here in 60107 USA. Always great videos and tons of teaching you do.
Thank You
John A
good morning to you there mate very early, glad you enjoy the vids!
When you were a kid, did you realize how much fun tool making would be? I sure didn’t. I work in clay and wood, and making tools takes all my current skills to execute properly. Love your content, howdy from Tennessee, USA!
I AM FROM TENNESSEE ALSO.
Nobody's asking
Amazing, the difference between the raw casting and the turned parts. I hope the winner will make good use of it!
thanks for watching
Awe, a wee little baby devil forge. Bigstackd would be so proud.
Gday Kurtis and Karen, this turned out bloody awesome, the castings cleaned up like a brought piece, great idea doing a giveaway mate, I really have no bloody idea how much this weighs at all, good luck to all that enter, have a great weekend mate, Cheers
Hey mate hope your week has been a good one, yeah was really happy with how the pour went, was expecting a fail to be honest lol There's a big variety of guesses so far be awesome if someone gets it exactly! Cheers you have a good one Matty 😎👍
As Kurtis gave the dimensions in part, you can get an idea of the volume of material , but I think it is more than a banana
@@bryanlatimer-davies1222 Be sure to calculate the weight of those heavy holes when you bid. (:-)))
Castings came out great, considering no degassing additives, surprised how quick the melt time was, love that Wurth clock, great colour scheme.
Fantastic job Karen and Kurtis. Great giveaway, good luck to the lucky 🏆 🥇
Thanks for sharing.
hey mate yeah that melt time surprised me as well thought it would take longer, we're hoping it to someone that can make good use of it!
Bravo,another great video,informative,entertaining,and fun to watch.
Making a useful shop tool is time well spent,and even though it's not critical to the performance of the tool, you still had to finish off the head end of the brass bolt.,nice touch.
The camera tech is doing her fabulous job as always,nice shots at various stages of the project.
Keep up the great work,I really enjoy your videos,always fun to watch.
Take care,stay safe and well.
Give the shop mascot a big hug for me,he's a real treat.
Another excellent video. I love seeing your doggie, who by the way, NEVER has ANY outtakes. Edmond, Ok. USA.
Haha that is definitely a cool concept, we usually just tack on a small rod and hang ground clamp on it lol. Definitely gone above and beyond for this 1 👍👍 definitely my favorite machine shop channel on youtube.
Thanks for this fascinating Rotary Earthwire Attachment tutorial Kurtis & Karen. I'm glad you did this video, because I always wondered how you attached the all-important earth contact.
I have no doubt in my mind, it weighs exactly 43 Bananas (skins attached).
Are they ripe bananas or green? I went for Kg but I think you are onto something here. Have a great weekend Dav. ;)
@@Horus9339 They're Ripe QLD Bananas (export quality), but as a guide, I weighed my local Thai green bananas, hoping they'd give me the accuracy I need for this important guesstimate 😛.
Hope you have a great weekend too!
And….One banana w skins = ? Kg or lbs.? Cooking or eating bananas please? The devil is in the details.
@@ellieprice363 Plantain are not bananas, they are illegitimate measurements here boyo! Watch yourself, we are on to you.
@@Horus9339 (:-)). A Hispanic friend brought us some plantain and we cooked them and they were good. Those were big but I’ve eaten the smaller cooking bananas also.
Cool to see the big stack D shout out! Love his videos too!
Won’t guess the weight as I won’t use one but amazing video one again guys! Love having a beer in the shed and watching the stuff you make weekly! Keep it up you legends!
Love the dogo safety officer ;) He's just so cute and nuts!
Dependant on the alloy, Assuming RD of 8.5g per cm3 and a total volume excluding chamfors of 216.51 cm3 i would say 1790g adusted for including the chamfors or there abouts :)
Great vid as always ;)
Threads were 1.5mm pitch, so at 22mm long, sin@ x the ying of 1.5.....Better do ya maths or you'll miss out.😗
1510.5 grams is my guess.
I love watching BigStackD and it's really awesome you did your own melt. Good job 👏👍 I hope to see you melt some more.
I always learn something here and have a great laugh at the end with the out takes Keep up the great work guys love it.
Hey mate thanks for watching and the great comment we appreciate it!
Talk about a one stop shop! If Kurtis doesn’t have it in stock he will use all his resources and ingenuity to get the job done! Great show!
Every time I think you guys can’t get better you blow me away.
I love watching this channel. I always learn something new! You’re always making and working on some neat stuff!
Awesome! Thank you glad the videos are enjoyed
Yes yes yes, I was able to work it out how the clamp worked and I have all the pieces to put it together. I knew my hobby lathe would come in handy. I haven't made it yet, but now I have first class information. It'll be the next thing on the workshop to do list.
And Karen is a spoilsport. Harrrumph What a muffin between friends. I use them to melt down Aluminium cans into ingots, true aluminium does get as hot as brass so my muffin tray is still good.............for ingot, it's pretty much stuffed for muffins....lol. Then I use the ingot to make other stuff.
Good content Kurtis, take a bow
All the best
Ian
Hey Ian that's awesome mate let us know how you get on with making one! lol yup muffin trays are now banned from the workshop
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering so ... if no tray, then muffins ... it's a deal i think
I have a small vice that was made by a machinist when I started work, I think around 1992, it is still in my tool case and used often. Made with such skill and your work reminds me how appreciative I am that he gave his hard work to me!
You two are having so much fun with both your skills. Great work to you Kurtis and to you Karen. As always, Homey is keeping up with his toy patrols.
You both are inspirational. Im not an engineer, though growing up and watching my Dad make his own tools and gadgets, I can fashion some tools I need for my craft.
This is a great video! It was great that you admitted you didn’t know what you were doing but were giving it a go anyway. You are an extremely talented guy. Thanks to both of you for your content.
My friend I’m very impressed with the way you scavenged around to make this happen. Waste not want not. And I’m sure Bigstack has asked for the chips laying on the ground. Glad to see you two guys are buddies. Been watching both of you for years.
Small crucible casting was my realm. Combining that with forging and machining..a dream come true😊 13:20 that's a BIT of porosity😂
Thanks for the video's , love everything you guys do and put out for us all to watch , my guess is 1500g , thanks again all the best .
cheers mate we appreciate that! Good luck 😎👍
cool design - i kind of figured that was how it worked and is great to see one in bits
i’m estimating around 1.77kg in total.
outstanding work as always…
I started out with a muffin tray, had same issues. Took some 3mm wall angle scrap and made an ingot tray works great. I've since moved from propane and made a burner to use diesel, much hotter and cheaper. Also works great for burning off stumps lol
I would love to see a post on building your burner.
Nice one..I was hoping you'd show how that earth clamp was made one day 👍
after watching this would you have a go of making one?
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering I'd try anything once..there's no better way of learning 👍
Never knew you did smelting. I've wanted to get myself a furnace ever since watching CodysLab's videos. Great vid as always 😁
You should! lol
Way cool . That came out perfect brother . Very awesome design.
thank you mate
Man, you are really cool! And laugh behind the camera is beautiful. Together you are the best team!
Great video as always.Being from the other side of the pond we are at a disadvantage trying to convert bananas to grams 😁 .But here goes, my guess is 2165.5 grams or 4.7 bananas(pounds).Keep up the good work and have a great weekend!
Hey mate. Love the videos and what a great job you've done. My guess for the parts of brass is 1932.831 grams.
I'm not a machinist, so when you show that you are using a TNGG insert, I'm always wondering why and when the different types of inserts are used. I look up and see the spec sheet shows that it's pure tungsten carbide with such-and-such a hardness, and it comes in various grades. The type of coating is specified - I used to be in disk drive manufacturing, so I think CVD must be chemical vapour deposition, but there's also "PVD" and "NO".
It might be informative some time to explain the different types of inserts, and when you use them.
Thanks so much for your very interesting videos.
Really these videos are a work of art - the editing is superb
I just imagined if CEE and BigstackD collabed on a video, one making the other something and surprising them. I think it'd be pretty awesome, two of my fave Aussie youtubers in one video
I loved it when Kurtis said, "I can't do it, I have got to do it proper"! One of the reasons CEE is my favorite channel is that if Kurtis does it, it is done right and well done at that. I reckon the earth clamp comes in at 1542.5g, or 3.4 bananas! All the same just different units.
It's not 3.4 bananas...
Bananas are what the US uses to measure Length...
They use Oranges to Weight...
And they use Pears for Volume...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
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Précision machining to perfection!
Hi Kirtis & Karen
Love your work, your both very dedicated to putting out quality work in engineering filming editing and information
The brass weight should be close to 1953 grams
Look forward to your next video
Regards
Paul
Wild this was almost what I guessed prior to seeing your comment.
Clock in the background was a great idea.
Hey guys, great vid! Nice to see the attention to detail for a give-away! BigstackD is also on my watch list! Not sure I am at the point of using it yet (my welding skills are still developing!), but my guess is 684g.
thanks for watching and Good luck 😎👍
That is a really neat way of doing it!
Whenever I saw those, I thought there were carbon brushes inside.
Nice work, man :D
thanks for watching mate
Greetings to Australia! i have estimated brass round thinks to be 0.72kg each, and the brass bolt to be 0.80kg. All together would be 2.24kg. I am an ac tech who likes to watch machinist doing their thing. Anyway love your channel!
Awesome mate thanks for watching and Good luck 😎👍
Absolutely hands down the best outtakes and bloopers ever recorded.
That's easier then I thought, how hot does the clamp get? Might graphite based grease (for the conductivity) help? My guess for the weight is 1853 gramms.
Hello from Canada's East coast. Thanks for showing us how you made the earth clamp, I've been curious about that for some time. Why buy what you can build especially if you can use material from around the shop and it's pleasing to the eye too! My guess would be 460 grams or just over 1lb.
hey mate glad you enjoyed watching that being made, Good luck 😎👍
675 gramos
Simplemente perfeto y simple.
Hi there guys, you're absolutely brilliant at what you do. Keep up the great videos, love them. Cheers Dave T.
Thank you! Cheers mate!
Curtis, You Are The Absolute Best! I'm addicted 2 your show! Why isn't Karen pictured more in your video's? Being a guy & a contractor, you know.
two series of BackstakD in one day + one of them from Cutting Edge engineering = gorgeous!
we've got nothing on BigStackD when it comes to melting! 😂
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering All that brass scrap could become a coin or small ingot if it made it's way to big stack D. (edit: I guess it's called swarf)
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering i think that you are done it pretty well ;)
You didn’t got your brass from scrap but anyway its cool technical process as i think :)
Solid work as always, Kurtis! I switched trades from machinist to mechanic a few years ago and I thoroughly enjoy the content you're posting, sometimes I miss the smell of coolant, metal chips and polished metal and your videos kinda bring me back into the shop 🥴. I like your no BS, straight the the point explanation and Karen's editing compliment all of that very nicely! As for the weight of the brass parts of the clamp, I'll go with 1750 grams🤔
Greetings from Canada! 🇨🇦
have you ever tried any dielectric contact grease in between the brass pucks? just wondering if it would offer good electrical properties as well as a little lube for the material to slip against
Dielectric means non conductive
That's what I love about the internet the most. Hearing and seeing all the different ways people do or say the exact same thing. I watched Marty T, and he would say negative or positive earth. On this side of the pond, I say ground, you're making a ground clamp. Same thing, different words. I used to play games a lot about 10 yrs ago. I made an Aussie woman mad at me, and she said "get on your bike and ride". Didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what she meant, but the first thing that came to my mind was Queen, fat bottom girls you make the rocking world go round. Get on your bike and ride. 😆 Great memories of fun times 🤣 on the internet. Keep doing what you're doing mate.
love the work guys as always top work on the machining and camera work i would guess at 1936g if that includes the brass bolt 1654g just for the conductive rings
36:21 How there can be no "Blue Steel" look after that out take, I'll never know. :D
I'm tempted to note the dimensions, calculate the volume and use the density of brass to work out a brass gram value ... but I'm not a welder and don't need a rotary clamp. :D
Don’t know if they are available in Australia but that looks similar to the Lenco model C.
Used those at a John Deere factory on all the rotating welding fixtures.
This project was made with a fair bit of "We'll see how this goes", and making a mess with a lathe insert. I have watched pretty much every video from the last 2 years and this explains where the clamp came from.
Very good video guys! So satisfying to watch the machining. If I ever get the chance would love to make one of those. I like the fact you turned the off cuts into something you will use for a very long time.does the contact surfaces wear much or do they last a while?
hey mate, the last really well. The one I use is more than 4 years old and never pulled it apart
972g. Thanks for the content, I do pretty much exactly the same work as you guys, but it's rare to get parts from excavators over 80t. I also mostly work on Hyundai/Hitachi gear, so keen to get some Cat gear through the door at some point.
A rotating earth clamp has been on my to-do list for a long time, getting pretty sick of coiled earths!
Keep up the good work!
I could use one of those but I don’t ever win anything and would only use it a few times a year. It’s a great video to show us how to make one.
well thanks for watching the vid mate
Came here for the rotary thingymajig... your out takes and dog got you a subscribe. Just kidding... kinda... :D
Awesome bit of kit. I'm relatively new to welding and anything that makes the blasted ground clamp less of a pain is great. Thanks for sharing this style. I like. Cheers
notification squad, Have a nice weekend!🔥🔥🔥
Cheers mate good to see you here
And next week Karen will be showing us how to properly use a muffin tray with a free giveaway muffin at the end! 😂😂
muffin trays are now banned for life from the workshop
Also it appears the trick to casting metal is to have low-slung dogs that make lots of slobbering noises. 😄
hahaa yes, Homey has been getting tips from Ingot & Bullion! 🤣
Those piece of brass bar remind me of the bar end stock when I worked as a Screw Machinist. The machines I worked on were the Cadillacs of the industry, absolutely beautiful and produced the most deadly accurate parts an automatic lathe machine could make. They were so easy to set up, even as an apprentice with no foreknowledge of machining. Gonna miss those days but I'm headed in a better direction now with my current line of work. I hope to be taking on my own jobs in my own shop within the next 5 to 10 years. Cheer from the U.S.A Kurtis!
Watching you go about your business on the lathe is a constant reminder to me that I tend to over engineer many of my ideas when a simple solution is there if you think the process through. I guess you are a tradie and I am a shed enthusiast which is the reason I love to watch your channel……and also the off chance of catching a glimpse of Karen who is shit loads prettier than you mate!!
I'll over think a screwdriver of I'm not careful. Good to know I'm not the only one
i do not think that you realize the pleasure that you give to the people that watch you 3 it is a pleasure and lot of memories from years back
I didn't even know that I needed a rotating ground clamp! At first from the thumb, I thought it was just a spiffy ground...but nay nay! It rotates! Don't know...7.2 pounds! I love the videos!
Excellent video as always!! I loved the Benny Hill theme song ring tone in the edits. Cheers from Whidbey Island, WA USA.
Hello, what you show and do is a real add value,thanks
Brass looks like one of those materials that is a joy to work with.
I do throughly enjoy watching a machinist as good as you produce working parts. When I grow up I want to be just like Kurtis!!
This is an excellent example of self reliance. You get to enjoy the fruits of you own labor and ingenuity when you use something you built. A tip of the hat to both you and Karen.
Absolutely love your dog !
Your work is pretty darn good too
Nice. Very technical. We use the simple peeled ground wire technique in our pipe work. I use a stiff wire that I can bend in to a u-shape and it just hangs on top of the pipe like a hook.
Welding a ground to the pipe would probably be excessive.
That's a cool piece of work!
Dunno how I missed this one....
"I realize this might be a bad idea, but I'm doing it anyway" perfect attitude when trying something new!
This is why I save all useable size off cuts and scrap. Spend a little time and you’ve made yourself some free tools.
Cheers
That is not a tool... that is a piece of Jewelry! 👍👍
Excellent craftsmanship Kurtis!
40 grams of brass in the earth clamp. I really like the way you built this. It shows how creative you are. I sincerely enjoy your videos and I frequently watch them. I live near the geographical center of the United States of America and I often struggle with your language that is the same as mine, yet so different. Keep up the good work. Thank you.
I'm sorry I missed this giveaway. I live the work involved, particularly the smelting.
This is a great project very achievable by many. Particularly loved the casting thrown in for good measure and showing recycling of material. You have a great presence on camera and really enjoy the content. Thanks for sharing. 👍🇬🇧