I’ve been a programmer for decades, worked with a lot of people on a lot of machines in a lot of languages, for a lot of different projects. In my view, you’re doing great, learning a lot at a good pace. Your intuition serves you well. Remembering details will always be a pain. Keep going.
@@jafo766 I agree he’s a great machinist. What I was trying to say is that programming is very different skill than machining; it requires different parts of your brain (though some the same), and intuition is an important part of it - being able to look at the problem, and construct a solution, maybe more from creativity than previous knowledge. It’s one of the things I very much admire about Adam - “figuring stuff out.”
I love me a spiral flute tap, such a beautiful process. And as soon as I thought "I hope they show it coming through the underside...", Abby panned down and made it so. Mahalo.
A toolpath i use quite often in Fusion 360 is the Bore command, It basically lets you customize a helical ramp into a bore effectively roughing out with less haystacking, Works awesome with corner radius endmills. Glad youre using fusion now 👍
Tip to consider😉 When you made test part and you confirmed program OK✅ Save it to template and in new work pease you just hav to select hole locations again😊 That is cool tapping with Big boys tap💪
Adam, You keep letting Abby to the tapping, she's going to rob all the fun from you! 😃Those flex arm machines for drilling, chamfering, and tapping are just awesome. They make it look so effortless. Thank you for sharing.
If you haven't already, consider using a ship's windshield wiper unit. The rotating glass throws off liquids, giving a clear view in even the roughest weather. I've seen them installed on CNC machines at Westec in Los Angeles.
Great video as always! One thing you may want to consider. I use to machine a lot of flat plate type projects(drilling, reaming, tapping, & milling) on a HAAS CNC Mill. The plate or flat bar was nominal in size(hot rolled, cold rolled) and saw cut. I found that if you measured each plate (small batch) length & width and marked the center with a scribe or if you can a punch; make that point your Origin point for X & Y. It will make your hole locations out to the edge or corner more consistent. Take care.
The drawing showed the holes dimensioned from the edges. I don't know if this was a choice for the CNC or if the end user did it that way on original drawings but picking the centre of a flame cut plate as your origin might mean having to reset the XYZ zeros for each plate. Using the edges against fixed mounting points on the machine means set the zeros once and that's it.
Don’t worry about remembering everything like keep tool down, there’s so much s+%# to learn, you’re doing great! Hell, we all have had smart phones for years and we’re still learning what they can do !!!
I've been working on Cnc equipment since 2002, and watching Adam learn brings back memories of exactly how i used to think and overthink everything haha. Great job adam, you're going to excel at this
And for all the news out there, there is positive news if you look. As China becomes more bellicose, a lot of manufacturing is moving back to the western hemisphere. We need skilled people to operate machines that will allow us to compete with cheap labor overseas and increasingly, in our hemisphere. There was a move several decades ago to remove shop classes from high schools and funnel kids into white collar work but that has been fraught with problems. There are people who will lead better lives in both white and blue collar jobs and if we're smart, we'll make available the training for young people to find their sweet spot in finding a career that will allow them to take pride and make a good living in their chosen fields. Content like this shows what's possible.
He Adam, just stick a clear view screen in front of the camera. They are usually found on boats to provide a clear view in rain etc, its a rotating window that just centrifuges the water or snow etc off it. Just the thing for this coolant shower ! Edit, stick it in the side door window and the camera can be outside of the machine ! (and you can see through also)
I was going to suggest the same thing. Even make a small flat thin nozzle and you maybe could make an air curtain that would blow any fluid down and away before it even got to the camera.
If you wanted a bit more fancy, and a nice side project, make a plexiglass disk clearview window like on ships. It could mount on/with the GoPro and help protect it from spray and keep the lens clear.
Adam there are these little machines with a spinning piece of glass that spins up close to the windows and flings the coolant away so you can see. I'm not sure who makes them but I've seen them before.
11:05 ... I love those giant indexable insert drill bits!!! .. they are actually cheaper than HSS Drill Bts,when you get into the bigger sizes too! .. As I've mentioned i the past part of my job used to be sharpening drills for the other employees. The inserts make that step unnecessary! too!
Adam consider designing a lexan lens screen/inspection window, coat it in rainX and install a small low pressure air header at the top with enough coverage to clear the workpiece coolant and not make a lot of noise. I imagine it's frustrating having to clean the glass all the time.
Anyone else find it ironic that Adam has one hell of an eye for details, wiping the smallest spec of dust off the work pieces, yet that Gorbel remote so was filthy he had to wear gloves 😂, appreciate all the time you spend explaining your thought process Adam, keep up the great work! Enjoying the ‘new’ cnc work too it’s inspirational that after working with manual machines for so long you are confident to share your learning experience. 👍🏻
Kevin does the drawings and the programs. He’s the programmer with the skill sets and Adam is the machine operator. Pretty much how most factories work. Bottom line is it takes a real commitment to CNC programming to be one. Adam is a great manual machinist and a just a CNC machine operator. But at least we see how most CNC shops really operate, with factory workers doing the machining
That is some comment. Does an operator change programs edit them and prove them out? Not in my experience. Your effort to devalue the training and learning process Kevin and Adam are going through is quite frankly piss poor. How many operators own their own shops and cnc machines? Don't bother answering no doubt it will be negative self justification
@@zorbakaput8537 operators find zeroes, and make adjustments (an operator is semi skilled). they don’t write programs and establish tool paths etc. now go Ahead and try to say Adam does that. He doesn’t. He tweaks at best and has to call Kevin about a lot of those tweaks. He’s a heck of a manual machinist but he’s not going to be a CNC guy any time soon. Even the CNC work he does is only drilling holes. Get real. Adams Channel was built on manual machining. This stuff is beyond his ability, or his time to learn fast enough. It’s been YEARS and he’s drilling holes with another programmer writing the programs.
WOW , e prima data cind vad un asemenea sistem de filetare atit de mare , se vede ca tehnologia a evoluat , e o adevarata placere sa lucrezi cu asemenea aparatura !
I always get a kick out of watching Abby getting enthusiastic about doing a shop procedure. I guess in this case Abby's dance was a 'Tap Dance!" Love that beautiful tap, a thing of beauty in itself. Can't imagine having to crank it manually through all 8 holes, not at 82 at least. Perhaps in my 20's or 30's it would just be a challenge to find the cheater pipes and another beefy guy to help tap it straight.
That 3D sensor looks cool! Nice and easy way to find the real zero, it seems. Also thanks for leaving the cleanup on there too. Even though I kinda have a clue how it'd be done, I still like to see. Wouldn't have known to use a hammer on the slag.
I work in the electrical transmission industry where we have parts very similar to this. Your drawing technique is good. Always use those TYP dimensions when possible and start from one corner of the piece.
It's cool watching you learn this stuff. Far less chatter with the second plate. A CNC machinist on another channel I follow was asked how you know if you have the feed rate and spindle speed right. His answer was "If it sounds bad, something is wrong."
Cool to see some big metal in your shop. In some ways I miss the days of giant shaft turning. Haha. You know a guy has passion for his craft when he can say a thread tap is "most fun" :-)
Good evening. Thanks for the reply. I agree, if it was large batch production you wouldn’t have the time to line up to center on each one but, if it’s a small batch and you’re looking for symmetry center point has always worked best for me. Take care
Haven't been here for a while. Good to see your improvement in skills with this beast. I enjoyed watching the high speed clean up segment. Always tricks to be learned watching mundane tasks. I see your little passel of haters are still here. We should all go down to their channels and watch THEIR videos . . . Ya right. 19:30 So the head does the + & - X and the table does the + & - Y ? Was not expecting that table motion. Perhaps it was not the table but the carriage. Table moving doesn't make much sense.
-12:40 Even in the production shop I worked at (where every minute counted), doing an "Air Cut" before each job was mandatory. Even when just loading a pre existing program we used weekly for years, we had to do an air cut.
A filming suggestion for you where coolant is a problem on the lenses. I imagine that you have protective filters over the actual lense to prevent any damage from chips and grit in the coolant? Try coating your filters with a product called “rainex”. I’ve seen it used at sea on the windows of lobster boats & it makes even sea water bead up and roll right off, much like what happens with raindrops when you wax your car. Give it a try, I have a suspicion you will have to stop program and clean lenses a lot less often. 👍 Enjoyed the video, keep it up. 👍👍👍🇦🇺
He's still learning. He did a lot of test runs over many hours and days, and still made at least 3 mistakes (that he showed and admitted). Luckily none of them were costly or catastrophic.
Adan could you explain how the earth chain magnet works? If no electricity is needed how can you unlatch it from the steel with 5000 lbs of force on it
@SuburbanToolInc has a good video on 'How To Build A Magnetic Chuck' which isnt a crane but works on a similar principal and @mrpete222 also has a video called 'What Makes It Work #27 Magnetic Indicator Base tubalcain' where he explains how a indicator with a similar magnet works
ABom! Thanks for the videos man! Hey I was thinking about the issue of the camera lens getting coolant splash back on it. Would a wall or stream of compressed air blowing in front of the camera lens keep coolant off the camera? Anyway thanks for the videos and the content! Saw some dumb comments ragging on the content. Just wanted to counter those comments with a positive one and say thanks!
@@karlbeckmann8865 you single point the threads. You don't need much torque. That 2 inch tap, needs a bunch of torque. Even the multi tooth thread mills don't need much torque.
Adam, Great video. At 40:10 and elsewhere, those are some gnarly chip curls! From the perspective of a former plumber, I sure like flooding such taps (and dies) with dark, sulfurated cutting oil. Your "foamy" cutting lube is a whole lot less messy.
Great work. Maybe you could try a small underwater enclosure for camera with rain-x on lens cover and an air nozzle positioned to continuously clean windshield/lens cover? This would allow for you to get clear video w/o worrying about coolant messing up content and give camera extra protection. How much for that massive tap and seperately the flex-arm system, it's very impressive it did not visibly hesitate with a 2" tap, that's a lot of torque. I could watch this type of tapping content much more? More Abby! Ray PS Extra "B" in your name may make sense.
That’s one hell of a tap; I bet that single tap costs more than my entire tap collection. Let’s not even discuss the cost of the flex arm machine itself which probably costs more than my house. Excellent product placement!
I don't know if it will make a difference on this machine but I was taught to run the auger at the end of The Run so it doesn't cause undo vibrations while you are Machining. But this gantry is humongous so it must be Stout enough to handle a little vibration from the auger
I'm just questioning the need for using two end mills for cutting the tap sizes. Being a tapped hole surface finish shouldn't be a issue I would think.
As much as Black Sabbath is on of my all time faves, your opinions on this issue are of no merit to me. Black Sabbath bass lessons? Oh, unsarcastically, top notch!
I think the reason he went for a roughing end mill first was to change the chip shape and quantity which probably blocked the work as it was being done.
It seems like Kevin at mechanical advantage is the one who suggested adding a finish end mill instead of roughing the holes to size and now desperately defending his untenable position by removing all comments calling it out.
Hi Adam and Abby, I’m sure you have thought of this but may I suggest that you look into one of those spinning glass windows like they have on the big ships?
I do an "air cut" every time I begin a new program. I have a small gouge in one of my aluminum clamps that taught me that rather than be confident and cocky. Would it be possible to give an estimate how long those two plates would take if done manually. (All in one shop) Thanks.
Adam, check this out. Have you ever thought about maybe doing a demonstration with interpolating thread milling on some parts, your software should handle the programming, and I've done it on difficult materials before (single point in titanium that was being difficult and breaking taps, 4-40 thread, boring them to the high end of the tolerance, plunging to the bottom of the holes, feeding out and interpolating up and out, you can control pitch diameter very closely doing that) or using the multi tooth inserts that are available now also. It really shows the capabilities of CNC machining as far as really precision thread machining. Just a thought.
I agree that this is probably a job for a threadmill. That tap looks REALLY expensive and if were to break it's probably a scrapped part. Threadmills arent cheap either, but they can be offset and re-run to suit the application.
When you're getting materials delivered to your shop with ABomb scrawled all over them I'd be surprised if there aren't some government agencies watching the place now under the suspicion of a 2nd Manhattan Project 😉 🤣 and I love that Abby is getting almost as interactive as Mrs.InheritenceMachining. Keep up the good work Abby, you'll soon be as good a machinerist as Adam 👍
I’ve been a programmer for decades, worked with a lot of people on a lot of machines in a lot of languages, for a lot of different projects. In my view, you’re doing great, learning a lot at a good pace. Your intuition serves you well. Remembering details will always be a pain. Keep going.
That's not intuition , it's years of conventional machining experience that gave him a solid foundation of knowledge , he's a great machinist.
@@jafo766 I agree he’s a great machinist. What I was trying to say is that programming is very different skill than machining; it requires different parts of your brain (though some the same), and intuition is an important part of it - being able to look at the problem, and construct a solution, maybe more from creativity than previous knowledge. It’s one of the things I very much admire about Adam - “figuring stuff out.”
@@ydonl I understand you meant him no disparage.
I love me a spiral flute tap, such a beautiful process. And as soon as I thought "I hope they show it coming through the underside...", Abby panned down and made it so. Mahalo.
A toolpath i use quite often in Fusion 360 is the Bore command, It basically lets you customize a helical ramp into a bore effectively roughing out with less haystacking, Works awesome with corner radius endmills. Glad youre using fusion now 👍
Tip to consider😉 When you made test part and you confirmed program OK✅
Save it to template and in new work pease you just hav to select hole locations again😊
That is cool tapping with Big boys tap💪
Adam,
You keep letting Abby to the tapping, she's going to rob all the fun from you! 😃Those flex arm machines for drilling, chamfering, and tapping are just awesome. They make it look so effortless.
Thank you for sharing.
WOW a 2" tap in that Flex-Arm.
The sound of that tap is amazingly crunchy! Love it. Love the content! Keep up the good work! Go Abby!!
If you haven't already, consider using a ship's windshield wiper unit. The rotating glass throws off liquids, giving a clear view in even the roughest weather. I've seen them installed on CNC machines at Westec in Los Angeles.
Hi. I enjoy the machining.
It’s your personality that keeps me coming back.
I am absolutely impressed with the FlexArm, what a the torque it can deliver 😲😲😲😲
Hydraulics are a beautiful thing
Great video as always!
One thing you may want to consider. I use to machine a lot of flat plate type projects(drilling, reaming, tapping, & milling) on a HAAS CNC Mill. The plate or flat bar was nominal in size(hot rolled, cold rolled) and saw cut. I found that if you measured each plate (small batch) length & width and marked the center with a scribe or if you can a punch; make that point your Origin point for X & Y. It will make your hole locations out to the edge or corner more consistent.
Take care.
The drawing showed the holes dimensioned from the edges. I don't know if this was a choice for the CNC or if the end user did it that way on original drawings but picking the centre of a flame cut plate as your origin might mean having to reset the XYZ zeros for each plate. Using the edges against fixed mounting points on the machine means set the zeros once and that's it.
I really liked the closeout followed by the cleanup of the parts. A nice gentle cooldown after all that work! Good edits and work you two!
Don’t worry about remembering everything like keep tool down, there’s so much s+%# to learn, you’re doing great! Hell, we all have had smart phones for years and we’re still learning what they can do !!!
Ah another relaxing video to watch from Adam, keep them coming!!
16:45 dang i can see why you love watching these drills work, its like theyre cutting through wood, not metal. love it
Abby is getting to be a pro with the flex arm. Always nice to see her smiling face on a video. Very cool video. Thanks for sharing 👍
I've been working on Cnc equipment since 2002, and watching Adam learn brings back memories of exactly how i used to think and overthink everything haha. Great job adam, you're going to excel at this
Didn't realize just how powerful that FlexArm is. I'm impressed.
That is one heck of a tap and the way Abbey makes ot look easy, means the machine is doing a lot of hard work.
Glad to see that I’m not the only person that still uses a Wildcat grinder. I have a Black and Decker and 2 Dewalts. They are heavy but monsters.
Great video and Abby is looking great, like she has lost some weight!! You go girl
And for all the news out there, there is positive news if you look. As China becomes more bellicose, a lot of manufacturing is moving back to the western hemisphere. We need skilled people to operate machines that will allow us to compete with cheap labor overseas and increasingly, in our hemisphere. There was a move several decades ago to remove shop classes from high schools and funnel kids into white collar work but that has been fraught with problems. There are people who will lead better lives in both white and blue collar jobs and if we're smart, we'll make available the training for young people to find their sweet spot in finding a career that will allow them to take pride and make a good living in their chosen fields. Content like this shows what's possible.
Shop classes were removed from high schools to reduce budgets as they are expensive
Yep, he's part of the solution, not the problem, to be sure.
He Adam, just stick a clear view screen in front of the camera. They are usually found on boats to provide a clear view in rain etc, its a rotating window that just centrifuges the water or snow etc off it. Just the thing for this coolant shower ! Edit, stick it in the side door window and the camera can be outside of the machine ! (and you can see through also)
I would think you would loosen up the Flex Arm head a bit before attaching the magnet to the plate.
No point in loosening it up if it turns out to be aligned already, only when it needs to be realigned
Adam, have you tried blowing air across the GoPro lens to keep it clean while machining? Doesn't need much, 20 or so psi.
I was going to suggest the same thing. Even make a small flat thin nozzle and you maybe could make an air curtain that would blow any fluid down and away before it even got to the camera.
If you wanted a bit more fancy, and a nice side project, make a plexiglass disk clearview window like on ships. It could mount on/with the GoPro and help protect it from spray and keep the lens clear.
Adam there are these little machines with a spinning piece of glass that spins up close to the windows and flings the coolant away so you can see. I'm not sure who makes them but I've seen them before.
11:05 ... I love those giant indexable insert drill bits!!! .. they are actually cheaper than HSS Drill Bts,when you get into the bigger sizes too! .. As I've mentioned i the past part of my job used to be sharpening drills for the other employees. The inserts make that step unnecessary! too!
Adam consider designing a lexan lens screen/inspection window, coat it in rainX and install a small low pressure air header at the top with enough coverage to clear the workpiece coolant and not make a lot of noise. I imagine it's frustrating having to clean the glass all the time.
What I like is that you have shown us a new way to make large holes.
Anyone else find it ironic that Adam has one hell of an eye for details, wiping the smallest spec of dust off the work pieces, yet that Gorbel remote so was filthy he had to wear gloves 😂, appreciate all the time you spend explaining your thought process Adam, keep up the great work! Enjoying the ‘new’ cnc work too it’s inspirational that after working with manual machines for so long you are confident to share your learning experience. 👍🏻
Kevin does the drawings and the programs. He’s the programmer with the skill sets and Adam is the machine operator. Pretty much how most factories work. Bottom line is it takes a real commitment to CNC programming to be one. Adam is a great manual machinist and a just a CNC machine operator. But at least we see how most CNC shops really operate, with factory workers doing the machining
That is some comment. Does an operator change programs edit them and prove them out? Not in my experience. Your effort to devalue the training and learning process Kevin and Adam are going through is quite frankly piss poor. How many operators own their own shops and cnc machines? Don't bother answering no doubt it will be negative self justification
He was given everything.
@@zorbakaput8537 operators find zeroes, and make adjustments (an operator is semi skilled). they don’t write programs and establish tool paths etc. now go Ahead and try to say Adam does that. He doesn’t. He tweaks at best and has to call Kevin about a lot of those tweaks.
He’s a heck of a manual machinist but he’s not going to be a CNC guy any time soon.
Even the CNC work he does is only drilling holes.
Get real. Adams Channel was built on manual machining. This stuff is beyond his ability, or his time to learn fast enough. It’s been YEARS and he’s drilling holes with another programmer writing the programs.
@@marley589 no, that’s not right. He built a strong channel on manual machining and worked hard. Now he’s struggling with CNC
It´s moving in the right direction.Thank you,Adam and Abby.
WOW , e prima data cind vad un asemenea sistem de filetare atit de mare , se vede ca tehnologia a evoluat , e o adevarata placere sa lucrezi cu asemenea aparatura !
That flex arm is a studley machine. That was fun.
I always get a kick out of watching Abby getting enthusiastic about doing a shop procedure. I guess in this case Abby's dance was a 'Tap Dance!" Love that beautiful tap, a thing of beauty in itself. Can't imagine having to crank it manually through all 8 holes, not at 82 at least. Perhaps in my 20's or 30's it would just be a challenge to find the cheater pipes and another beefy guy to help tap it straight.
That 3D sensor looks cool! Nice and easy way to find the real zero, it seems. Also thanks for leaving the cleanup on there too. Even though I kinda have a clue how it'd be done, I still like to see. Wouldn't have known to use a hammer on the slag.
Thank you both for the great video. Such a great team and super neat to see how things are crafted. Thank you
I think my favorite thing on these videos is seeing the picture of Adam, his dad and grandfather!
Ya like back in the day when he made really good videos
I appreciate that too.
@@liamkelly8684 Maybe only include the pic for the manual machining videos, as his dad had no interest in the CNC stuff.
Thank you for the video. I’m must say Abbey is the star of this video, please let her know!
Ad a step to your program to bring a center drill down to spot your holes for verification before any actual machining.
I work in the electrical transmission industry where we have parts very similar to this. Your drawing technique is good. Always use those TYP dimensions when possible and start from one corner of the piece.
It's cool watching you learn this stuff. Far less chatter with the second plate. A CNC machinist on another channel I follow was asked how you know if you have the feed rate and spindle speed right. His answer was "If it sounds bad, something is wrong."
Cool to see some big metal in your shop. In some ways I miss the days of giant shaft turning. Haha. You know a guy has passion for his craft when he can say a thread tap is "most fun" :-)
Thanks for sharing.
You need a wiper for that window 🤤
could you set up a little air nozzle that pointed at the camera to blow it off?
Good evening. Thanks for the reply. I agree, if it was large batch production you wouldn’t have the time to line up to center on each one but, if it’s a small batch and you’re looking for symmetry center point has always worked best for me.
Take care
Awesome Abby has joined the Abom taping party.😊
Still looking for my 1/4 x 20 tap, super impressed by the flex arm tapper. Great helper you have with you !! 😎👍
Great work Adam, you are building confidence…
Looks like your really starting to make money with the flex CNC. great to see.
Oil field tooling, valves and even casing heads, never saw a 2" UNC tap before. You get to have all the fun...:)
Those big threads would have been ideal candidates for using thread milling in the Flex CNC.
Haven't been here for a while. Good to see your improvement in skills with this beast. I enjoyed watching the high speed clean up segment. Always tricks to be learned watching mundane tasks.
I see your little passel of haters are still here. We should all go down to their channels and watch THEIR videos . . . Ya right.
19:30 So the head does the + & - X and the table does the + & - Y ? Was not expecting that table motion. Perhaps it was not the table but the carriage. Table moving doesn't make much sense.
It's more obvious later with the longer shots that it is the Gantry.
Genuine Question: Why is there always coolant flowing from the Spindel next to the Tool? I cant make sense of it.
Some of it is to flush away chips as they are created, but it also keeps the workpiece cool.
I don’t know what those plates are holding but whatever it is it must be stout. Good job. Next learning objective is thread milling.
Never get old!😃
-12:40 Even in the production shop I worked at (where every minute counted), doing an "Air Cut" before each job was mandatory.
Even when just loading a pre existing program we used weekly for years, we had to do an air cut.
A filming suggestion for you where coolant is a problem on the lenses.
I imagine that you have protective filters over the actual lense to prevent any damage from chips and grit in the coolant?
Try coating your filters with a product called “rainex”.
I’ve seen it used at sea on the windows of lobster boats & it makes even sea water bead up and roll right off, much like what happens with raindrops when you wax your car.
Give it a try, I have a suspicion you will have to stop program and clean lenses a lot less often. 👍
Enjoyed the video, keep it up.
👍👍👍🇦🇺
Adam, if the rain gets annoying, you can send it out west. We have some trouble with some fires.
thanks for the video
I love how damn nervous you sound…appreciate you trying new ways of doing things even when you have a tried and true method available…takes guts
He's still learning. He did a lot of test runs over many hours and days, and still made at least 3 mistakes (that he showed and admitted). Luckily none of them were costly or catastrophic.
you can't thread mill the threads on that machine?
Get an air nozzle to blow on the camera lens while filming inside the flex. It will blow the coolant off for better video quality.
Adan could you explain how the earth chain magnet works? If no electricity is needed how can you unlatch it from the steel with 5000 lbs of force on it
The lever rotates the magnet inside the block 90 degrees.
@SuburbanToolInc has a good video on 'How To Build A Magnetic Chuck' which isnt a crane but works on a similar principal and @mrpete222 also has a video called 'What Makes It Work #27 Magnetic Indicator Base tubalcain' where he explains how a indicator with a similar magnet works
ABom! Thanks for the videos man! Hey I was thinking about the issue of the camera lens getting coolant splash back on it. Would a wall or stream of compressed air blowing in front of the camera lens keep coolant off the camera?
Anyway thanks for the videos and the content! Saw some dumb comments ragging on the content. Just wanted to counter those comments with a positive one and say thanks!
Edge Precision had a video addressing this issue a couple of years (?) ago. Not easy to solve.
Giant monster tap in the flex arm = greatest asmr ever
Thank you Adam!
Would an air curtain stop the camera getting splashed?
thread mill in the Flex cnc. you have a cnc, use it and do all operations on one machine with only one setup.
Probably doesnt have enough torque, or is too fast in lowest speed.
He said he’s not there in his training I think. Didn’t want to mess up the big pieces
@@karlbeckmann8865 you single point the threads. You don't need much torque. That 2 inch tap, needs a bunch of torque. Even the multi tooth thread mills don't need much torque.
@@corndog6700 Yes, of course. I've read it wrong. I thought he meant using the 2inch tap in the FlexCNC.
When you get money for sponsorship. You can have all the toys.
Flex arm is always cool, but that drill bit is a metal eating monster...Wow.
Love how much she has enjoyed being involved and learning !! 46:16
Try out rocol rtd liquid cutting fluid. Best i have come across.
I agree. Rocol in liquid or paste form is absolute magic.
Que beleza! nada como ter as ferramentas, parabéns Att. Vicente (São Paulo BR)
Adam, Great video. At 40:10 and elsewhere, those are some gnarly chip curls! From the perspective of a former plumber, I sure like flooding such taps (and dies) with dark, sulfurated cutting oil. Your "foamy" cutting lube is a whole lot less messy.
Great work. Maybe you could try a small underwater enclosure for camera with rain-x on lens cover and an air nozzle positioned to continuously clean windshield/lens cover? This would allow for you to get clear video w/o worrying about coolant messing up content and give camera extra protection. How much for that massive tap and seperately the flex-arm system, it's very impressive it did not visibly hesitate with a 2" tap, that's a lot of torque. I could watch this type of tapping content much more? More Abby! Ray
PS Extra "B" in your name may make sense.
Man. 45 minutes of drilling 8 holes and 15 of tapping. I didn’t fall asleep but maybe next time.
That’s one hell of a tap; I bet that single tap costs more than my entire tap collection. Let’s not even discuss the cost of the flex arm machine itself which probably costs more than my house. Excellent product placement!
I don't know if it will make a difference on this machine but I was taught to run the auger at the end of The Run so it doesn't cause undo vibrations while you are Machining. But this gantry is humongous so it must be Stout enough to handle a little vibration from the auger
Adam,
How about running an airline over to where you mount your camera and blow a curtain of air in front of your lens to keep it free of coolant.
MJ
We here in Atlanta call these plates “pavement.”
lol! Love Abbie’s shirt! :D
The bots are active in the comments today. Thanks for the video, Adam.
Yes. I report every one I see. I hope others do too.
That flex arm is huge
U found your ying to your yang that’s great too man
Caos to your spectrum!! Lol
So awesome. Thank you for sharing
If you need help let me know. Machines for 23years
I'm just questioning the need for using two end mills for cutting the tap sizes. Being a tapped hole surface finish shouldn't be a issue I would think.
As much as Black Sabbath is on of my all time faves, your opinions on this issue are of no merit to me. Black Sabbath bass lessons? Oh, unsarcastically, top notch!
I think the reason he went for a roughing end mill first was to change the chip shape and quantity which probably blocked the work as it was being done.
No need for the finishing end mill.
On rough cut plates it is traditional to find the edges in the center of each edge to average out any errors.
It seems like Kevin at mechanical advantage is the one who suggested adding a finish end mill instead of roughing the holes to size and now desperately defending his untenable position by removing all comments calling it out.
those coolant-thru drills are the bees knees!
You could put air on the lens for clearing the fluid while its videoing
I was going to say that and you said it first. Lol
Hi Adam and Abby, I’m sure you have thought of this but may I suggest that you look into one of those spinning glass windows like they have on the big ships?
I do an "air cut" every time I begin a new program. I have a small gouge in one of my aluminum clamps that taught me that rather than be confident and cocky.
Would it be possible to give an estimate how long those two plates would take if done manually. (All in one shop)
Thanks.
Imagine to do that tapping by hand….
you can use XPS foam insulation plates to check your programs.
Adam, check this out. Have you ever thought about maybe doing a demonstration with interpolating thread milling on some parts, your software should handle the programming, and I've done it on difficult materials before (single point in titanium that was being difficult and breaking taps, 4-40 thread, boring them to the high end of the tolerance, plunging to the bottom of the holes, feeding out and interpolating up and out, you can control pitch diameter very closely doing that) or using the multi tooth inserts that are available now also. It really shows the capabilities of CNC machining as far as really precision thread machining. Just a thought.
Just thinking about your cam getting splashed. You could install a small air jet to create an air screen across the lense.
I agree that this is probably a job for a threadmill. That tap looks REALLY expensive and if were to break it's probably a scrapped part. Threadmills arent cheap either, but they can be offset and re-run to suit the application.
23:05 Not going to lie, that jump to fast forward scared me, haha
Have you tried coating the camera lens with a coating like they put on cars etc?
Outstanding !
Could you build some sort of jig to blast compressed air down in front of the camera lense and create an air curtain to keep us faithful viewers dry?
Good work ,awesome video !!
She's having just to much fun...
When you're getting materials delivered to your shop with ABomb scrawled all over them I'd be surprised if there aren't some government agencies watching the place now under the suspicion of a 2nd Manhattan Project 😉 🤣
and I love that Abby is getting almost as interactive as Mrs.InheritenceMachining. Keep up the good work Abby, you'll soon be as good a machinerist as Adam 👍