Man you made a great breakthrough at the end. Coming to the realization that it’s weird to be in your basement answering your own questions is a real step forward in the self integration process. Great video.
Great vid. I worked with lathe and robot welders in a previous life. For a dedicated single weld like pipe the CNC is obviously unneeded but a cool 1st attempt. Repetively welding complex shapes with multiple attachments is where your setup would shine. Shortening the stickout will help control weld position. The long wire is heating up and wandering. Then dial in the wire feed rate to control the bead width. You might try stopping and starting the weld between layers to allow cooling. Stopping the weld would also allow air blast cooling. D**n now I really want a cnc machine. 😈
Pretty dang spiffy I must say, pretty dang spiffy! Glad to see you isolating your components and not boning yourself when goofing around, so I guess that makes up for having to talk to yourself just to have an intelligent conversation, LOL! Thanks for the show, Aloha...Chuck
because machines are smoother and consistent you can jack up the heat and get better results. for the circle you just have to add in interpass cooling before you go to the next stack. IRL most of the time when im welding 10s is all it takes.
Love it. "So off camera I 3d printed a short piece of pipe... *clank* " In all honesty I think you would really enjoy 3d printing. If you're ever near NYC I'd love to show you our shop.
That’s actually a really good result, I bet in a week you can have legit parts! Just modify the code so the wire feed matches the movement speed. I love how you made the CNC wire brush!!!! 😂😂😂😭😭😭😂😂😂😂
Well, Well, Tony, You have started something very interesting.. Take it a step further up and create 3D welding in metal like the 3D printers that are now so popular and use plastic’s. You have a CNC and a attached welder already now. Lot’s of possible ideas lies ahead.
If you put an encoder and speed controller on your wire feeder, it could be another co-ordinated axis like on a RepRap. I'd try this with my stick welder and plywood CNC if I was feeling like arson around.
@thisoldtony Dude awesome work. Will you ever use it extensively, maybe but half the battle a lot of times is "how am I going to perform this operation, and what tools do I have available?" Just one more tool for the arsenal of tricks.
Weldone.....I'm trying to servo my way into cnc. Hope you already or will check out EASEL. Generous and wall breaking contribution through inventables!
There is no way you 3d printed that flat plate and that tube???!! I NEED to see a video of that! How are you able to separate the plate from your build surface??
Great video! LOL! I bet you are not the only "weirdo" who talks to himself in his shop, as a matter of fact, I know you are not. P.S. Nice CNC wire brush too BTW.
Cool project! Was that nerve wracking drilling that first hole in your spindle mount? I would imagine you could convert this project to running a plasma cutter too.
That is actually called "Rubber ducky debugging" in Software Development: Explain what you are trying to do to a rubber duck, this very often helps to find the error in the code.
@@kurtmueller2089 so that's what I've been doing for donkey ears. I think it helps define the problem and anticipate questions that I would need to answer.
Welding is about consistency, humans aren't as consistent as robots. The robot can move at the same constant speed laying down material at a constant rate and all of this can be tweaked by the designer until its near perfect.
"You ever get that feeling like you've just taken that first step down the path of 'Just don't go there'? Yeah so, this feels like one of those. But, fortunately for us magnificent creatures, countless millions of years of evolution have seen fit to embue us with the ability to completely ignore that instinct." This has to be one of the greatest quotes I have ever encountered, true wise words and the summary of anyone with a "crazy idea" - and everything we use in life started out as a crazy idea.
I was hoping to see this culminate in an actual welded 3D print of the world's saddest Utah Teapot or something, but this was still a lot of fun to watch. Also amazing to see how much your video production has refined in the last four years.
Since this is ultimately an FDM process, it'd be really cool to see a revisit on this one where you use slicer software in place of whatever CAM package you were using before. It might help to get some time on a plastic FDM printer first, however.
Awesome video. I like your dry humor. When making the last weld, the stickout was still too long (aim for 0.5") and wirespeed was too slow. If you hear it stuttering like it was, it is burning the wire up to the nozzle tip and doesn't arc again until enough wire comes back out. Turning up the wire speed a bit will make sure you have a constant arc.
I know it was a year ago, but mig should sound like constantly frying bacon the whole time. Also need to keep the nozzle close for gas coverage. Mig is exactly like tig with automated wire feed.
Or the opposite is true if you want to spray weld a shank and build it up with a smooth thin layer. Getting a spray weld dialed in can be a little cumbersome but there are times it can come in very handy. Especially when you only need a few thou leaving less to grind down later.
If you really want to over complicate things, Im pretty sure you can watch the voltage drop in the welding circuit when you have too much stickout. So you could probably try to program that into your machine so that it automatically adjusts for stickout when the voltage drops too much.
Tony, I've never used your name before but it may be important at this point. In our totally anonymous and mostly sarcastic plane of interaction... I love you Man, if you need to talk I'm here for you... LOL. Outstanding Frankentraption, you need an award Sir! Thanks for letting me watch, out of the flux field.
Really enjoy the videos. What camera and editing software do you use? I want to improve my videos and I like yours so any help would be appreciated. thanks
Tony I see there are seventeen people that were not amused by this video... me on the other hand spent more time laughing than listening!!!! I think you are a brilliant guy truly, and your jokes and silly comments make my day everytime!! don't stop!!!! Razor!
Cool, I do enjoy your presentation technique/style/humour. 3D MIG machine, why not? I'd bet there are companies/research establishments trying to perfect one as we speak! Keep them coming.
This has real possibilities, as well as being fun. I suspect your wire stick-out is excessive, and that reduces accuracy. I agree with one of your viewers -- a cool-off hesitation say 1 sec might aid precision. I am also sure the big boys use a different torch. But I am no welder nor CNC guy, so ignore me. On the other hand, if you could shoehorn a plasma cutter into the setup you would rival Keith Fenner's plasma-cam. As usual, mazel tov.
Enjoyed!!....funny as my thoughts went to your son and what his life will be with your creative talents and great twisted mind! He will (is) be a lucky lad!
You're SO close! Try swapping Mach3 out for an opensource 3D Printer controller package, and you can get the rest of the way :D Its almost exactly what slicers were made for
I really dont know why I didn't subscribe when I saw your channel for the first time in 2016. It probably had a lot to do with *_Distraction_* ; because of something that should be etched on your psyche by now :- your unnerving similarity to AvE. ..and Alan Alder, AKA Hawkeye Pierce! I'm also sure that you *must* be tired of this AvE _Analogy_ being made and are snarling while reading this, but hey ho! Great Vijeho, _Old_ Tony! I really like your style of not Suffering (Foolish) _Tools_ and just Going For It, when it comes to avoiding certain practices that would otherwise hinder ones progress, IE *Safety* 🤭 }]Subbed[{
You're of Biblical proportions!!! :)))) 26 seconds of comedy gold!!! 0:14 "(have) you ever get that feeling like you just take that first step down the path of 'just don't go there'?! Yeah so this feels like one those... But fortunately for us magnificent creatures, countless million years of evolution have seen fit to imbue us with the ability to completely ignore that instinct.. Yeah... +machine part suddenly snapps on your finger+ *GAAAWD!!*" =]]]]]] I LOVE YOU! Thanks for the cheering feeling!
My, guess, Tony is that you are a manufacturing engineer in your real life. Your humor is amazing, I cannot believe you received negative feedback on your multi-meter video, People have no sense of humor ;-)
Is it weird I don't know what he's is doing... Probably... Will I continue watching. Definitely... Am I learning.. probably not... Am I asking myself questions... Who knows... But the sound of his voice makes me wet... So ... I am 4 years in to all his content... And running out fast..NEED MORE...!!!!
I'm expecting your next project to be a CNC Plasma Cutter, Welder, Lathe. That way you can cut a part, weld it back together, and then turn it down to it's original size. You would never run out of work that way.
Sicko.... Please continue.... THAT was cool. Now you got me thinking of converting my Koike optical tracing cutting table to welding.... Ummm....! Thanks Tony...!!!
Sumthin', sumthin', FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER!! No, actually I followed you quite well. When all you have is a welder, everything else looks metal. And broken.
Who needs mental health when you can make steel sea anemones? Gotta have between layer freeze dwells, so skip screw cutters, just use 3d printing with fat slices of z, retraction, freeze dwell, z position, print route, repeat. Should take about 6 months to print a manhole cover, lol. For Tig, use a wire feeder (or Craigslist CH used fluxer) and mig wire. You just need "bump" feeds. Now THAT should produce some quite abstract sealife 3d prints during the tuning phase, ROFL. A printer filament feed rig is basically a mig wire feed, so even the extrusion cycles (like feed head temp feedback, retraction cycles, etc) actually fit Tig techniques. Of course, printing that 426 hemi block in 630 stainless might take some creativity, and access to fort knox
I thought that was great.. If you know 3D milling, you can figure out how to get that down pat.. I think you'd have to find several stopping points to let it cool or something,, you'd just have to learn the ins an outs of it.... I have a homemade cnc router and a MIG.. but, I glad to see you prove it out first. Nice Video..
Facts and Figures = Entertainment. On a side note I think "This old Tony" may well be a love child from Welcome Back Cotter. If you have to think then you just plain miss the humour! And Yes, we all are guilty of talking to ourselves in the shed (work shop) ;}
You may never arrive here again Tony, but how many young Frankenstein engineers we're watching your test run. I'm willing to bet in the next 5 to 10 years it's going to be old news. And systems have been upgraded 5x over. So give yourself a pat on the back and sue the creeps that took your idea. Sit back and let the $$$$ flow. Because TOT has it documented on video. I'll take 15% royalties. Cheers.
Very cool & very hot. Hello from Edinburgh. Not actually Edinburgh, actually Bathgate, but you've never heard of Bathgate. Not unless you really like The Proclaimers, who were born in Leith, which is actually in Edinburgh.
Wow at first I thought you were just trying to speed up some huge welding job you had. But your really freaking printing Kinda... I dont know much about welding, but couldn't you bath it in argon to keep the temp down? In maybe in a more controllable fashion like a tig? - No man its not weird, Its freaking killer :) Thanks for the awesome vid :)
I don't believe in the pat of, "Just don't go there," unless it involves too much risk, such as bodily harm or disaster; risk such as a failed prototype or project is okay, you can improve upon what you currently have. I like to call it the path of, "I have no clue what I'm doing, but I'm doing it anyways." This is where you can chose many paths of learning by mistakes, learning as you go, or learning from research. The first few outcomes of this might not be perfect, or even close to good, but this is where you find improvements, through either trial and error or more research. My current project, which I have no clue where to start, is a ceramic cnc machine. Like hand sculpting with a rotary platform, but with the cnc being the 'hand', but I'm not sure. I'm thinking like a vertical lathe, maybe on a 4th axis or as a y-axis replacement; with x and z being the same, and probably an additional axis for rotating the tool up and down for contouring purposes. I'm also thinking of just using the spindle input for the lathe, and just a clay hand cutting tool for the cutter; then putting the additional axis on y. My uncle's family moved recently, movers broke an old ceramic cup and a one of a kind dish from Bob (literally) from who knows where, and the movers also stole ceramics among other things. All of it irreplaceable. So, I thought I could just do my best to recreate what they've lost to the best of my ability. But I haven't worked with clay for 7 years, and I don't trust myself enough to do it by hand. I also believe that if you want a very precise outcome to the design, it's better to use computers, if you want to do it yourself; or make multiple copies that are identical. I know clay is more of a freehand, any outcome is possible, artsy thing, but I'm not an artist and I'd like one solid outcome. Anyways, if anyone sees this and has suggestions, please leave your input.
The wire brush on the CNC cracked me up.
+Practical Engineering Me too :D
where can i buy the brush attachment?
CNC parts get polished by a brush in the spindle all the time
Hello Grady! I'm so glad to see you on this channel. It might not be very "practical" but you should cover some machining concepts in your channel.
Haha yeah even before that the welding tip rotated with the sound of a stepper motor :D
Man you made a great breakthrough at the end. Coming to the realization that it’s weird to be in your basement answering your own questions is a real step forward in the self integration process. Great video.
Great vid. I worked with lathe and robot welders in a previous life. For a dedicated single weld like pipe the CNC is obviously unneeded but a cool 1st attempt. Repetively welding complex shapes with multiple attachments is where your setup would shine.
Shortening the stickout will help control weld position. The long wire is heating up and wandering. Then dial in the wire feed rate to control the bead width.
You might try stopping and starting the weld between layers to allow cooling. Stopping the weld would also allow air blast cooling.
D**n now I really want a cnc machine. 😈
You could combine cooling air through a coolant pipe with your ground wiper
You ever get that feeling that ToT's version of DIY and your version of DIY are not quite in-sync? No? Just me then? OK...
Is there a such thing as pro DIY? Or DIY (where things work out a disproportionate amount of time)
@@djstringsmusic2994 ProIY
I love the inserted noise on your mig torch rotation. For a second I thought you had gotten really fancy.
I don't know what a good weld looks like but I know what funny is. And that was funny!
Very entertaining.
Hilarious! Absolutely love your content and presentation style / humour.
The whistle caught me completely off-guard. Well done.
Pretty dang spiffy I must say, pretty dang spiffy! Glad to see you isolating your components and not boning yourself when goofing around, so I guess that makes up for having to talk to yourself just to have an intelligent conversation, LOL!
Thanks for the show, Aloha...Chuck
because machines are smoother and consistent you can jack up the heat and get better results. for the circle you just have to add in interpass cooling before you go to the next stack. IRL most of the time when im welding 10s is all it takes.
Man this is great channel, on par with Ave! Only difference is I don't need a Canadian to English google translate window open to watch lol
Some fine-tuning of the torch gap and maintaining it and it should be all good.
Love it. "So off camera I 3d printed a short piece of pipe... *clank* "
In all honesty I think you would really enjoy 3d printing. If you're ever near NYC I'd love to show you our shop.
That’s actually a really good result, I bet in a week you can have legit parts! Just modify the code so the wire feed matches the movement speed. I love how you made the CNC wire brush!!!! 😂😂😂😭😭😭😂😂😂😂
I love your sense of humor
Well, Well, Tony, You have started something very interesting.. Take it a step further up and create 3D welding in metal like the 3D printers that are now so popular and use plastic’s.
You have a CNC and a attached welder already now. Lot’s of possible ideas lies ahead.
If you put an encoder and speed controller on your wire feeder, it could be another co-ordinated axis like on a RepRap.
I'd try this with my stick welder and plywood CNC if I was feeling like arson around.
Bro your videos are entertaining informative imaginative and you are flat out clever thank you! And Merry Christmas to you and your family!
thanks! and Merry Christmas to you and yours!
this is awesome so awesome it could rival state of the art cnc welders at thier awesomeness
Beautilfull, you should think of a way to print and mill at the same time. like printing the rough shape and milling for finish.
Thanks for giving me ideas to totally wast my time and money on. Only thing I’m going to change is push instead of dragging.
Ham and Rye with cheese! ~Ö~ A fine lunch! Almost hurt myself laughing. Thanks Tony....Brilliant! ~PJ
@thisoldtony Dude awesome work. Will you ever use it extensively, maybe but half the battle a lot of times is "how am I going to perform this operation, and what tools do I have available?" Just one more tool for the arsenal of tricks.
Weldone.....I'm trying to servo my way into cnc. Hope you already or will check out EASEL.
Generous and wall breaking contribution through inventables!
Really cool stuff, I like how you go through how you thought when designing/creating it!
Subscribed :)
Thank you and welcome aboard!
Another the old Frankenstein Tony production congratulations
Outstanding! Very impressiv, i will try some of your ideas!
That sign off comment. Too good!
Comedy at its finest, I approve
If you’re going to do that you should consider using spray welding technique
Best show on youtube !
There is no way you 3d printed that flat plate and that tube???!! I NEED to see a video of that!
How are you able to separate the plate from your build surface??
I was watching bluehands and there is a dwell in the spindle start/stop that you need to get rid of.
Experimentation, the beginnings of all we know how to do.
3d metal printing. Cool.
Great video!
LOL! I bet you are not the only "weirdo" who talks to himself in his shop, as a matter of fact, I know you are not.
P.S. Nice CNC wire brush too BTW.
Cool project! Was that nerve wracking drilling that first hole in your spindle mount?
I would imagine you could convert this project to running a plasma cutter too.
This is very nice!
So you could basically use that as a make shift metal FDM 3d printer
I always wonder why the arc will ruin your retina but not the CCD of your camera.
The real answer is, at least someone is asking these important questions.
Where'd you get the CNC wire brush? That thing is dope!
Sir, can you explain where the on off switch cable on the mig gun is connected so it can be automatic. my cnc plasma machine uses a proximity sensor
Awesome! Thanks
Thank you David.
It’s not weird to ask yourself questions, alone, in the garage. Sometimes you need expert advice, and really, who else has that expertise?
That is actually called "Rubber ducky debugging" in Software Development: Explain what you are trying to do to a rubber duck, this very often helps to find the error in the code.
As my father always said, "gotta talk to someone with some sense once in a while". :)
what are you talking about welding isn't rocket science but trial and error
@@kurtmueller2089 so that's what I've been doing for donkey ears. I think it helps define the problem and anticipate questions that I would need to answer.
Precisely! On demand expert advice lol.
There's something about you that's not quite right. This appeals to me greatly.
+indoorherbivore , i agree with you..that's why i subscribed.
+indoorherbivore he's like 3° off normal
+Alex Horne of course he's not normal, he's an engineer.
boy is this ever the truth!!! He's got me too....
Some bromance going on here?
4:29 That little whistle bit cracked me up xD Also got you another sub. ;)
I laughed so hard I woke up my wife... And then couldn't stop for like 5 mins. Best laugh I have had in a long time!!! I think I rewound it 10 times.
same. subbed for the whistle.
Hah Me too! xD Watched it many more times and laughed harder all the time. Time to wipe my eyes and continue watching. ='D
I died! LOL
@@reh3ddoes Me too, fucking ace, nearly spat my beer out hahaha
My wife gave me a funny look because I laughed out loud when I saw the wire brush tool. great video!
Thanks!
Loved the "5th axis" tilting the torch into position.
Methinks it was hand driven with a stepper motor note superimposed ;-)
I noticed that too! Haha
I laughed at that too
spot on :)
thats an undocumented feature.
It was the cybernetic right hand, the one with liquid nitrogen flowing through its veins 😉
Just browsing RUclips and I see some guy hooking his MIG gun to a CNC table and I'm like...Who the hell would... Oh it's TOT
You missed the opportunity to say CNCanemones.
doh!
Well done. Excellent comment
This Old Tony timemachine lathe? Possibly? Maybe?
did he just say that he 3d printed the pipe?
And the plate.
Will J That was hilarious
this is the comment i came in search to find. sometimes he seems so normal.
🤣🤣
"Here's my sea anemone" (viewer snorts coffee out his nose)
you know snorting coffee is bad for your health ✌
"Going where NO Tony has gone before" Cool stuff and VERY entertaining stuff. Thanks Tony!
Hi mate. If a simple robot can make those welds, what the hell am I doing wrong. This really bugs me.
Welding is about consistency, humans aren't as consistent as robots. The robot can move at the same constant speed laying down material at a constant rate and all of this can be tweaked by the designer until its near perfect.
"You ever get that feeling like you've just taken that first step down the path of 'Just don't go there'? Yeah so, this feels like one of those. But, fortunately for us magnificent creatures, countless millions of years of evolution have seen fit to embue us with the ability to completely ignore that instinct." This has to be one of the greatest quotes I have ever encountered, true wise words and the summary of anyone with a "crazy idea" - and everything we use in life started out as a crazy idea.
Quill Maurer Yes; I've often had that very feeling.
However, I've also found some very nice oil & gas pools by pushing past it.
Ok this was quite entertaining. Starting a career at DMG making additive welding/milling machines? ;)
I have yet to see him! what vid did he appear on Barry?
He was kind enough to provide consistent positive and encouraging feedback in the "Lathe BackPlate" video. Thanks again Stefan!
That was cool and crazy. You need spent more time with real people. :-)
I'm pretty sure you missed the mark by not concentrating on the CNC wire brushing. That would sell like hotcakes.
I was hoping to see this culminate in an actual welded 3D print of the world's saddest Utah Teapot or something, but this was still a lot of fun to watch. Also amazing to see how much your video production has refined in the last four years.
Since this is ultimately an FDM process, it'd be really cool to see a revisit on this one where you use slicer software in place of whatever CAM package you were using before. It might help to get some time on a plastic FDM printer first, however.
Awesome video. I like your dry humor. When making the last weld, the stickout was still too long (aim for 0.5") and wirespeed was too slow. If you hear it stuttering like it was, it is burning the wire up to the nozzle tip and doesn't arc again until enough wire comes back out. Turning up the wire speed a bit will make sure you have a constant arc.
Thanks Kevin!
Kevin Bodj
Also, the angle of the weldgun relative to the rotation of the work piece will affect the weld.
I know it was a year ago, but mig should sound like constantly frying bacon the whole time. Also need to keep the nozzle close for gas coverage. Mig is exactly like tig with automated wire feed.
Or the opposite is true if you want to spray weld a shank and build it up with a smooth thin layer. Getting a spray weld dialed in can be a little cumbersome but there are times it can come in very handy. Especially when you only need a few thou leaving less to grind down later.
If you really want to over complicate things, Im pretty sure you can watch the voltage drop in the welding circuit when you have too much stickout. So you could probably try to program that into your machine so that it automatically adjusts for stickout when the voltage drops too much.
Great video.
I'm also considering making sea anemones.
Who knows, maybe I'll accidentally make something useful.
Thanks,
John
Very Very cool idea! And that robo whistle totally had me laughing! hahahah
I hope you'll do a video showing your 3d printer that makes such good tubing and flat plate!
4:30 oh jeez hahahaha
Tony, I've never used your name before but it may be important at this point. In our totally anonymous and mostly sarcastic plane of interaction... I love you Man, if you need to talk I'm here for you... LOL. Outstanding Frankentraption, you need an award Sir! Thanks for letting me watch, out of the flux field.
You give the word 'hobbyist' a whole new meaning.
Really enjoy the videos. What camera and editing software do you use? I want to improve my videos and I like yours so any help would be appreciated. thanks
an old nikon d300s and adobe premiere elements.
Tony I see there are seventeen people that were not amused by this video... me on the other hand spent more time laughing than listening!!!! I think you are a brilliant guy truly, and your jokes and silly comments make my day everytime!! don't stop!!!! Razor!
Thanks Razor, 'appreciate that!
so, you are developing a metal 3D printer
You know you've pretty much utilized a cnc machine for every project possible once you find yourself using a cnc wire brush 🤣🤣
Cool, I do enjoy your presentation technique/style/humour. 3D MIG machine, why not? I'd bet there are companies/research establishments trying to perfect one as we speak! Keep them coming.
This has real possibilities, as well as being fun. I suspect your wire stick-out is excessive, and that reduces accuracy. I agree with one of your viewers -- a cool-off hesitation say 1 sec might aid precision. I am also sure the big boys use a different torch. But I am no welder nor CNC guy, so ignore me. On the other hand, if you could shoehorn a plasma cutter into the setup you would rival Keith Fenner's plasma-cam. As usual, mazel tov.
Your toats right the wire stick out was a little bit too much the entire time
Enjoyed!!....funny as my thoughts went to your son and what his life will be with your creative talents and great twisted mind! He will (is) be a lucky lad!
You're SO close! Try swapping Mach3 out for an opensource 3D Printer controller package, and you can get the rest of the way :D Its almost exactly what slicers were made for
I really dont know why I didn't subscribe when I saw your channel for the first time in 2016.
It probably had a lot to do with *_Distraction_* ; because of something that should be etched on your psyche by now :- your unnerving similarity to AvE.
..and Alan Alder, AKA Hawkeye Pierce!
I'm also sure that you *must* be tired of this AvE _Analogy_ being made and are snarling while reading this, but hey ho! Great Vijeho, _Old_ Tony!
I really like your style of not Suffering (Foolish) _Tools_ and just Going For It, when it comes to avoiding certain practices that would otherwise hinder ones progress, IE *Safety* 🤭
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second video I've watched of yours, I'm subbed.
Thanks Dasaster, good to have ya.
You're of Biblical proportions!!! :)))) 26 seconds of comedy gold!!!
0:14 "(have) you ever get that feeling like you just take that first step down the path of 'just don't go there'?!
Yeah so this feels like one those...
But fortunately for us magnificent creatures, countless million years of evolution have seen fit to imbue us with the ability to completely ignore that instinct.. Yeah...
+machine part suddenly snapps on your finger+
*GAAAWD!!*" =]]]]]] I LOVE YOU! Thanks for the cheering feeling!
So if you build a part completely out of weld....and since the weld is always the strongest part....that means you just created an unbreakable part.
My, guess, Tony is that you are a manufacturing engineer in your real life. Your humor is amazing, I cannot believe you received negative feedback on your multi-meter video, People have no sense of humor ;-)
Is it weird I don't know what he's is doing... Probably... Will I continue watching. Definitely... Am I learning.. probably not... Am I asking myself questions... Who knows... But the sound of his voice makes me wet... So ... I am 4 years in to all his content... And running out fast..NEED MORE...!!!!
once again great show. You are the best shade tree machinist that RUclips has to offer
Looks like it could be very useful in specific situations.
I'm expecting your next project to be a CNC Plasma Cutter, Welder, Lathe. That way you can cut a part, weld it back together, and then turn it down to it's original size. You would never run out of work that way.
I think TIG would work better here. :-P
theres a company thats about to start a kickstarter 3d printer with this technology.
Sicko.... Please continue.... THAT was cool. Now you got me thinking of converting my Koike optical tracing cutting table to welding.... Ummm....! Thanks Tony...!!!
Sumthin', sumthin', FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER!! No, actually I followed you quite well.
When all you have is a welder, everything else looks metal.
And broken.
Who needs mental health when you can make steel sea anemones? Gotta have between layer freeze dwells, so skip screw cutters, just use 3d printing with fat slices of z, retraction, freeze dwell, z position, print route, repeat. Should take about 6 months to print a manhole cover, lol. For Tig, use a wire feeder (or Craigslist CH used fluxer) and mig wire. You just need "bump" feeds. Now THAT should produce some quite abstract sealife 3d prints during the tuning phase, ROFL. A printer filament feed rig is basically a mig wire feed, so even the extrusion cycles (like feed head temp feedback, retraction cycles, etc) actually fit Tig techniques. Of course, printing that 426 hemi block in 630 stainless might take some creativity, and access to fort knox
I thought that was great.. If you know 3D milling, you can figure out how to get that down pat.. I think you'd have to find several stopping points to let it cool or something,, you'd just have to learn the ins an outs of it.... I have a homemade cnc router and a MIG.. but, I glad to see you prove it out first. Nice Video..
Always wanted to 3D print with a MIG...
Facts and Figures = Entertainment. On a side note I think "This old Tony" may well be a love child from Welcome Back Cotter. If you have to think then you just plain miss the humour! And Yes, we all are guilty of talking to ourselves in the shed (work shop) ;}
You may never arrive here again Tony, but how many young Frankenstein engineers we're watching your test run. I'm willing to bet in the next 5 to 10 years it's going to be old news. And systems have been upgraded 5x over. So give yourself a pat on the back and sue the creeps that took your idea. Sit back and let the $$$$ flow. Because TOT has it documented on video. I'll take 15% royalties. Cheers.
Very cool & very hot. Hello from Edinburgh. Not actually Edinburgh, actually Bathgate, but you've never heard of Bathgate. Not unless you really like The Proclaimers, who were born in Leith, which is actually in Edinburgh.
Brilliant Tony! I love proof of concepts, they are like little gateways to something spectacular down the road. Entertaining and well done.
Wow at first I thought you were just trying to speed up some huge welding job you had. But your really freaking printing Kinda... I dont know much about welding, but couldn't you bath it in argon to keep the temp down? In maybe in a more controllable fashion like a tig? - No man its not weird, Its freaking killer :) Thanks for the awesome vid :)
Omfw I spit out my coffee when I saw that wire brush🤣🤣🤣
I don't believe in the pat of, "Just don't go there," unless it involves too much risk, such as bodily harm or disaster; risk such as a failed prototype or project is okay, you can improve upon what you currently have. I like to call it the path of, "I have no clue what I'm doing, but I'm doing it anyways." This is where you can chose many paths of learning by mistakes, learning as you go, or learning from research. The first few outcomes of this might not be perfect, or even close to good, but this is where you find improvements, through either trial and error or more research.
My current project, which I have no clue where to start, is a ceramic cnc machine. Like hand sculpting with a rotary platform, but with the cnc being the 'hand', but I'm not sure. I'm thinking like a vertical lathe, maybe on a 4th axis or as a y-axis replacement; with x and z being the same, and probably an additional axis for rotating the tool up and down for contouring purposes. I'm also thinking of just using the spindle input for the lathe, and just a clay hand cutting tool for the cutter; then putting the additional axis on y.
My uncle's family moved recently, movers broke an old ceramic cup and a one of a kind dish from Bob (literally) from who knows where, and the movers also stole ceramics among other things. All of it irreplaceable. So, I thought I could just do my best to recreate what they've lost to the best of my ability. But I haven't worked with clay for 7 years, and I don't trust myself enough to do it by hand. I also believe that if you want a very precise outcome to the design, it's better to use computers, if you want to do it yourself; or make multiple copies that are identical. I know clay is more of a freehand, any outcome is possible, artsy thing, but I'm not an artist and I'd like one solid outcome.
Anyways, if anyone sees this and has suggestions, please leave your input.