Modular vacuum chucks for the milling machine
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- This is a set of prototype vacuum chucks I've made so that I can machine sheet goods in my milling machine.
The red rig with 3 arms, that's visible every now and then, is a camera rig I made in a previous video. Watch it here: • Creating the most univ...
My first camera rig was absolutely MAGNETIC: • Making a magnetic came...
I'm very happy with the result, but I might make a revision 2 in the near future and implement a couple of new ideas that I've come up with since.
This channel is about my two companies and some of the projects I'm doing. One of the companies is for R&D, prototyping, and product development for customers. I also have several inventions of my own that are under development.
The other company is for designing and building bespoke/custom furniture. Most of the designs are my own, but I also build according to customers designs. Thanks to some of my machines, I've got a lot more creative freedom when I'm creating my own designs.
My workshop is well-equipped, with the two main workhorses being a Mazak Integrex multi-OP CNC millturn/lathe and a Haas VF-3 CNC mill. I've also got plenty of equipment for both TIG and MIG/MAG welding and sheet metal work, plus general fabrication.
A website is under construction, and I'll add a link here when it's up! 
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Very cool. Though I’d much prefer to hear you talk about it rather than listen to the generic music! 😊
Thank you! I've been considering doing voice-over, but I haven't had time yet to give it a try. Thinking about doing it for an upcoming video.
@@Rydermanmakes yeah dude you are putting in all the work but you are just falling short in the personality department! Only because you aren’t presenting one. It’s cool either way tho man do your thing.
Good work. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week😎
Thanks for sharing it :)
Oh man I was in the zone watching this without blinking. Sub
I'm glad you enjoyed the video :) Got alot more coming, quite soon.
for real!!! sub'd!
that tool changer is sweet!
your content is great, just lose the tunes and the channel will probably blow up.
subbed
EDIT: clerical error
Thanks! Have not yet decided on what style I'm going to have on my videos in the future. One big problem is that both my cnc machines are really noisy and it really needs to be drowned out...
@@Rydermanmakes well, for what it is worth, I like your content. good audio is a factor, now I understand. I personally tend to watch videos while im working, so that background noise works out in the end. its a 50/50 shot can't please everyone and nor should you.
Be Well! and good luck! i'll see you around
Exactly. If you want to please your entire audience perfectly, you can only have 1 viewer hehe
Where can I get the length of pre made T - Nut material? Looking to dive into a lot of custom fixtures / vice mounts and want to use metric hardware on an imperial machine
I bought them from a local company here in Sweden. Not sure were to get them in imperial sizes.
Bro You really need a tooling station for those preparations, my heart bleeds watching the HSK holder in the vise, despite seeing it is done in a non barbaric fashion... Great project none the less 😉 What is your choice of CAD / CAM software? C axis to Spindle center alignment must be set up extremely precisely to get the opposite side slots to align perfectly with each other. Gotta love Y axis lathe maintenance logic... i maintain a compounded slide Y axis Lathe, it can be fun after some big disassembly. Is it a direct drive C axis or it is mechanical? do you have to deal with the possible backlash in the rotary axis while indexing out the slot milling for the keys? what is the vise jaw brand You use on the 3 ax mill? i need a similar system! I always wonder how little average people know about the difficult of the trade. Great music at the end!
Hehe yeah, I really don't like doing it that way. It's an upcoming project. I use SolidWorks and HSMWorks. My machine is not in perfect condition. It has some issues with the B and X axis. I machined all the key slots above the centerline to get them as close to in line as possible. I measured them, and they were all in line with each other, within a few micrometers. The C axis is driven by the spindle motor windings, so there is no backlash. Surprising amount of torque, but can also be locked. The vise in the milling machine is a brand called Disella. I don't really recommend it. The base of it is only 50mm tall, so it flexes when I tighten it and leaves marks on my table...
nicely done
Thank you!
Marvelous
Thank you!
wash ur maschine
Hehe yeah it really needs it
Good work… but all I could think about was how caked up this machine is…
Clean machines run better and longer with less maintenance or down time.
And the hazmat fluid you call coolant 🤮
That you're making is not as important as why, what problems does this build solve. Voice over is always better than muzak
Hi. I've been making prototypes for many years now, for both customers and myself, and this is something that I've needed many many times. Saves a lot of time and money with workholding and fixturing. I think you'll see these come back quite often in upcoming videos!
I've considered voice-over for my videos, but I don't yet have a good place to do the recording. My shop is quite noisy. I think I'll give it a go in an upcoming video.
I could watch this all day if it didn't have the awful music. I'd rather the machine sounds. It's like being on hold for half an hour! 😅
Yeah the music/sound is the worst part of the video making process. I have no idea what I'm doing or what the video needs hehe. I've skipped the music in all my newer videos tho.
Thank for sharing
Nice work!! Compression bits made for woodworking do have axial load FYI. The reason for their geometry has more to do with reducing blowout on both the top and bottom surfaces. I’ve thrown way too many parts on my cnc as a result. 🤦🏽 great work!!👍🏾👍🏾
Thank you! Yes, that is correct. Minimize tear-out was the main reason for running a compression endmill, especially when I was cutting the walnut. When doing lighter cuts with low radial engagement, the axial force alternates up and down, but when cutting with a large radial engagement, or even full slotting, there is always 2 flutes cutting the material. It's not a perfect balance, especially not if you get some harmonics in the game. I placed the crossover point between the up and down cutting sections of the endmill in the middle of the workpiece to get the best balance possible.
I am impressed, just thinking about all the set-up work needed. Registering all the tool bits to their respective holders, then registering them to the machine itself. At least that is what I think is happening. For you, just another day in the machine shop, I suppose. Nice to find your channel. 🙂
Thank you :) That arm you see at 0:54 helps alot. Trying to have some tools permanently in the machine to reduce setup time, so for this job all I had to setup was 5 new tools. Just have to be careful so that all the tool lengts, tools holders and such are correct. A single digit off can get expensive!
@@Rydermanmakes OK, so that was what I was thinking. I saw some probes with a round jewel at the end on other channels, not sure if they were used for setup. The number salad to keep track of must be quite intense.
Yeah the probes are mostly to locate the workpiece in the machine. Sometimes also used to measure features after machining. The best way to keep track of all the numbers is to do everything methodically and only taking care of 1 thing at a time. Might take a bit longer but considering what might happend if something goes wrong, it's an easy tradeoff.
@@c4t4l4n4 as a machinist, over time numbers become second nature, an essential part that just flows within you
@@Rydermanmakes taking care of one thing at a time is very important. It's just too easy to add an extra 0 if your not paying attention lol
Cool machining where do you get the T-Nut Bar from, it looks premade
Thanks! Yes i got it from a local shop here in Sweden
I envy your selection of scrapbinium...
Very cool though. I have subscribed!
Thank you! Yeah those small pieces of "scraps" are surprisingly useful
Man i wish i was as skilled as you, i barely scratch the surface of all this stuff, new subscriber enjoying your videos👍
Thank you! That was nice to hear. Good thing there's a lot of aducational content here on youtube for this.
Good video. What model is your vacuum pump? Do you recommend this brand or have you seen a better option?
Thank you! I don't know what brand that is. It's the 750W model. I think it's one of those nameless manufacturers, because it looks identical to many other "brands" you can find online. I got it because it was the most powerful one I could find. I got it initially for a job to make custom polyurethane bushings for a Swedish sportscar brand.
@Rydermanmakes Swedish sports car brand, huh? I know of only 1 Swedish sports car manufacturer, is that the one you did work for? Although calling the cars I'm thinking of a "sports car" is a bit of an understatement.
@Jacob Miller Koenigsegg? That would have been fun :) Unfortunately not the one i worked for...
Very nice work. I'm pretty envious of your integrex. How does the milling spindle compare to the haas?
The spindle in my Haas is a bit worn so can't really compare. I've had my Haas for many years now so that's were I've created my go-to cutting parameters. If you look at the profiling with the 50mm shoulder mill at 3:00, i could easily go 3x in cutting depth and double the feedrate without any problems., but not without coolant.
Nice. I always think the integrex spindles look precarious but it looks like a solid cut. I have a hurco vmc sort of similar to the haas. Did you buy the mazak 2nd hand?
Yeah at first I was wondering how heavy of a cut the machine could handle since the B axis would have to hold up to alot of the cutting forces, but I've got alot of confidence in the machine now. Since I mainly do prototyping and one-off, I don't have to try and optimize the programs to save a few minutes, but it's always nice with the heavy cuts for the filming :) Yes I've had the machine now for about 4 years.
VERY nice work! You've got yourself a new subscriber ;-) This reminds me of a job a few years ago - I wanted about a hundred square pieces of 16mm MDF to make block-mounted photos with. Got someone to cut them, and the idiot made such a bad job that not a single one was square. So I ended up routing every one on my tiny little CNC router to make them square, and I remember making a vacuum chuck a bit like this out of some heavy PVC sheet. Not a job I'd want to repeat 😂😂
Thank you :) Yeah, that's properly infuriating when you have to redo something yourself that you first hired someone to do... "If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself."
Nice work! Really satisfying to watch this video! Also I really like your solution for clamping the vacuum plates to the machine table👌 Really nice and slick!
Thank you very much! :)
Riktigt snygga!
Tackar!
One of the best.
Thank you!
For wood, get a router
Might get one in the future if everything works out well.
Marvelous ,
Beautiful work! Thanks for sharing. From the trajectories, it looks like the control programs were made in fusion 360. right?
Yeah, or HSMWorks in solidworks, but they are the same. How did you notice that?
@@Rydermanmakes I do my own toolpaths in Fusion 360, and there's a quirk of starting bevel and groove toolpaths where he likes. I manually edit the entry and exit points so that they are not on a flat edge. I assign it to any corner or junction of faces.
Deze Mazak komt mij bekend voor, hoelang heb je die al? Ik heb jaren op zo een machine gewerkt bij VDW tot ze verhuisde naar Zweden.
I've had my machine for about 5 years now but it came from Norway.
Love it not enough machinist on RUclips show C axis milling.
Thanks :) Hope to get some B axis machining filmed in the future. That's when it gets really cool
Do you sell this kit on any sales platform? or do you share the model?
My idea is that if enough people show interest, I'll make a batch of the new version and sell them on some platform. I've come up with a few improvements for it since I made this video.
Do more videos please I love what I’m seeing!!
Thank you :) Yes more is on the way, alot more!
How you find the feed and speed for wood??
The spindle in the milling machine only goes to 7500 rpm, so I always run it all full speed in wood. Then I just tested different feed rates, so I get nice chips from the cut and a nice humming sound. It squeals quite a bit at 24:40, but it's difficult to get rid of when doing full slotting. I usually cut at 3000mm/min (118 ipm).
On the vise you have sponges with sharp fangs installed to secure parts with a low grip (11:30). Did you buy them in addition to the vise? Maybe there are links?
Those are the Mitee-bite talon grip. Works really well. I had to modify a par of soft jaws myself. They grip the stock suprisingly well.
@@Rydermanmakes Thanks for the brand name! 👌 I ordered a set of prismatic and round ones. Been looking for these for a long time.
Glad i could help. Do you mean the mitee-bite versa grips? They are great. I use them in the lathe all the time.
@@Rydermanmakes No. Those that are inserted into round holes in the vise jaws to secure cylindrical parts to the butt.
Did you do any testing, to see if when you are machining the part moves, maybe with a dial tester when you are machining?
I measured the parts after they were fully machined and they came out perfectly to size with straight cuts.
Beautiful work! And also very cool to see someone work on a Inegrex! Subscribed and hoping for more :) ...by the way: I usually get better surface finishes in wood when going conventional.
Yeah it's an awsome machine. Oh ok i'll try that! I sometimes get problems when milling perpendicular to the fibers, especially walnut. Like the fibers gets compressed and it's really tough to sand out...
@@Rydermanmakes with my compression cutters I tend to get streaks at the area where the two flutes overlap. not noticeable in plywood but for really nice finishes in solid hardwood I switch to a (insert) cutter with straight flutes. often the grain dictates the direction and sometimes a counterclockwise rotating bit would be the solution.
I've got the same problem with the line from compression bit. I've been trying to find a bit for ccw rotation but so far nothing. The cut I'm doing at 23:56 could not be done in other woods without a big tearout. Yeah, would have been nice to have a ccw bit and come in from the other direction.