I built a big CNC Portal Milling Machine from Scrap!
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First Video about the CNC Plasma Cutter:
• Scrapyard CNC Plasma T...
Repairing the Plasma Cutter / Compressor etc:
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Windscreen wiper motor's are fantastic for using as a high torque low speed stepper motor when converted as one, they're also super cheap
You woudn't believe how many companies would just throw good stuff in the trash on the idea "it's not worth the time".
It's infuriating to me the way UA-cam seemingly punishes quality sometimes. I truly believe that your channel is important far beyond the context of UA-cam. If my situation weren't what it is I would be supporting you as well as many other people who independently produce things like this, and other educational content. Thank you for being relentless in your mission. I appreciate you.
thats just what newly uploaded videos look like until they go through final transcoding
@@drkastenbrot that's not what I mean.
@courier11sec I'm struggling to understand what your complaint is then? He has half a million subscribers, and is well deserved.
@hayleyxyz where do you see a complaint about him in my comment? I said this channel is important and remarked that UA-cam specifically disincentivises high quality long form content which makes up the entirety his videos. 🤷♂️
@@courier11sec "It's infuriating to me the way UA-cam seemingly punishes quality sometimes."
The value is in the Eyes of the Welders and Engineers . One mans Scrap is another man next Project
As Edison said « To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk »
Alter Schwede. Ich kann nur ansatzweise abschätzen, wie viel Arbeit (viele Jahre an Recherche, Lernen, Experimentieren, Umsetzung, gelegentliches Scheitern, Umdenken...) da drin steckt. Meinen aller größten Respekt dafür!
Not to mention the creativity. Thats what elevates you from the herd of sheeple.
Yes ! Impressed by the amount of work and knowledge of that guy ! Gruesse aus Frankreich !
I made it halfway through your comment, wondering why your spelling was so eccentric and why my reading comprehension had fallen to near zero, before I realized it wasn't my native English🙂 Imagine if his brain stays sharp for another 40 years how much this guy will know. I bet next time he needs surgery he will DIY that himself with a CNC cauterizing scalpel and sewing machine attachment.
This is great! It's tricky to get people excited about CNC. Who knows why. It's always hard to walk the line between technical and entertaining.
I wouldn't worry too much about piercing with your plasma. I can usually get 500 pierces on a nozzle, and have gone well over 1000. It works out to something like $.06 per pierce.
I don't usually browse comments much, but I did, and I see Wes likes Gerolf! Very cool - you are both favorites of mine. Gerolf is a brilliant and resourceful man. I love it when he uses American terms like "five bucks" in that accent!
I too was pleased to see Wes commenting on Gerolf's video - as Gerald says, both favorites of mine, too! Just gives credence to the old saying "great minds think alike"!
Hey Wes. Nice to see you here! I will have to automate the third axis on the cnc table to solve this issue. This particular kind of plasma cutter cuts best while in direct ocntact witg the the workpiece. However while piercing it is recommended to lift the nozzle of the workpiece for a short moment. If you don't do that the nozzle wears much quicker during piercing. That was my problem so far.
This bloke is so talented
Hope the surgery goes well and a speedy recovery. As always thanks for the videos!
The big CNC table is a scrapyard masterpiece, so inspiring. Don't let the poor performance of the plasma table video get you down. These new tools will pay dividends both in what they allow you to do, as well as future well-performing videos that would not have been possible without the new CNC tables. Hope the surgery goes smoothly, and you are back in action shortly thereafter.
I won't say genius because that is hyperbole. But your wide range of knowledge and skills and the ability to see things as part of a bigger picture is a skill set that seems to very much lacking today.
The world works be a much better place if there were more people like you
Dont be disheartened mate, ur a fking genius. Just rem when u r ahead of ur time ur often the only one there. Breathing new life into machines that have been discarded, LEGEND!
Im 15 years old and I admire your work. Without a doubt, you are the best DIY channel. Learned lots of new things from your videos. Good luck with the surgery!
I don't think many people would have the guts to try something like this, and you did AND succeeded. Keep up the great work!
As a Mk1 Golf owner and hobby mechanic I was like, eh those gears look familiar 😂 Neat idea! Indeed they spin well on the lathe, had to make one narrower someday.
Amazing utilization of "junk" resources. You take adding value to another level!!
Haven't watched the video yet; decided to comment first! Already know this is a prime example of creating extreme value from essentially NOTHING. Great work Gerolf!
UPDATE: Watched the video, assumptions confirmed! Impressed by dedication to using parts on hand with an eye toward service and portability...bravo!
I am forever jealous of the stuff you get as scrap. Cool project.
While watching I just kept shaking my head at how much work you were doing. WOW. What a sense of accomplishment this must have been when you finished. Building your own hi tech tool that you actually will get tones of use out of. Incredible sir!!! I tip my hat to you. Not to mention the years of planning and gathering parts. Good luck with your medical work and recovery.
Thank you for sharing another amazing project with us. I pray that all goes well with your surgery, and that you'll be back to normal speed very soon.Take all the time you need to recover, we'll be waiting patiently for you.
You are a man after my own heart. Unfortunately the scrap dealers here in tye United States believe the scrap they buy for pennies is worth 10,000.00 per pound, so these items cannot be salvaged here, And most likely will go to the smelter.
By the way, Germany is so beautiful!
Marvelous work on those self built CNC machines! You make it look so easy. I never get tired watching you tinker.
You inspire me to repair my own stuff and eventually help other repair their own.
Grüße aus Bayern und ein kleines Dankeschön per Paypal.
that castle is beautiful
I've been watching you since I was broke and am proud to help out now that I'm not. Keep it up, you really are a voice in the wilderness.
Very nice build !!you need to add a cooling pump nozzle to the head of the router with that in place your router bits gonna last longer and a vacuum nozzle when you cutt trough woods!:)
Take a look at the oil additive STP, we found it made our cutters and punches live 5 times longer that any other lube. Mix a can in 4 to 5 litres of cheap engine oil.
I enjoy all of your videos. In fact, you have made me even more of a scrap hound who can't stop keeping what other people would call junk stuff.
This build is amazing for one made from a scrapyard found bill of materials. I'm blown away. Well done with the machine's performance too!
The power plant shown in the intro was of particular interest to me. I spent the last decade of my career retrofitting old plants (not quite as old as shown) with new switchgear and control systems. Praying for a speedy recovery my friend.
It's in Lisbon along the river front!
@@kevinbeale4879 It appeared to be abandoned or "mothballed". Noticed the generator field out on the floor. A spare perhaps?
your last vidoe was one of my favorite! im still kind of shocked that you built a functional cnc! youre an amazing person, i pray your recovery from surgery goes well, and fast!
A comment as a sacrifice to the algorithm. You have a rare ability to do the practical stuff with your hands and the coding / maths / software to make the hardware work! I am very impressed.
Amazing build and just as you said you now have way more capabilities!
Alles Gute für die OP. Danke für die tollen Videos.
This and the previous videos are Excellent ! Truly great . I do not understand how they got Less views then the ones before. You just built a very impressive CNC machine from scrap ... that is very very good.
Consistently delivering some of the best DIY content on UA-cam!!
Hope all goes well with your surgery,Gerolf.
Your videos are very much appreciated,and the editing work you do is also very well done. I was able to follow all the steps in manufacture ,as your voice over commentary is crystal clear,and very well scripted. Your passion for saving,re-using ,and creating is a joy to watch. We are all waiting impatiently to see what marvellous creations you come up with next,and thank you for all your hard work. This allows us to live vicariously in your workshop,and I love going along for the journey!
Many thanks,and good luck,you are a huge inspiration to many people.
It's not the time it takes to make it (rather than buying it) it's what you gain from the project! Now you've unlocked new skills, as well as enjoyed the satisfaction of "I made that!". Great job as always. This time, everything from all the collecting and learning finally paid off in a big way!
You really are an incredible individual - your engineering skills, ethics, teaching prowess, vand humble generous character are an inspiration to everyone watching this channel - and that's not even to mention your video production skills, they are likely inspiring people too!
You wanna see ingenuity personified? You came to the right place. I really respect this man's work.
When you tell that making this video was a big job, I was just thinking those hours, days, weeks... you wrestled whith all that metal! Hope you a quick recovery as health is something that even money could buy!
I really had no idea it was even possible to do something like build your own CNC. It is hard to convey just how incredible this is, and it especially sucks that UA-cam buried the last video. I can confirm that I did not see the last video on my home page, only this one.
You are truly doing some incredible work with materials that were literally thrown away!
Gerolf, vielen Dank für dieses Video. Für deinen bevorstehenden Krankenhausaufenthalt und deine anschließende Genesung wünsche ich dir alles Gute.
That large CNC/plasma is a truly capable machine. It's impressive the level of capacity you are building in your workshop. I'm sure that your tenacity and skill will be rewarded. Wishing you a speedy recovery 🙏
as a fellow homemade CNC builder, this is magnificent! sourcing the great parts from salvage yards has paid off!
It really shows that you put a lot of effort in your videos and the content has always been inspiring. As long as you make them, I’ll keep watching!
This man is a wealth of knowledge. Thank you for sharing your creativity.
What you are doing, behind a veil of technology, is a beautiful thing. It’s beautiful. Thank you.
Believe it or not, I was lucky enough to accumulate most of the parts needed to make a smaller version of what you are doing. My background is in finance and I haven't a clue on how to even get started, but after watching this video I have a starting point now. My wife thought I was crazy collecting and keeping these parts, when I showed her your video, she was shocked. You just motivated me, thanks. Good luck with you surgery.
Right before I opened up my UA-cam page and saw your video, I was thinking "Hey, I haven't heard from Gerolf in a while!" Then, boom! here you are!
With a ball tearer of a project, imagine the shit u can make with that thing.
Once again turning trash into a treasure, i always love your videos, and knowing how much work this took is what makes it so amazing, hope yer operation goes well and you heal quickly
Klasse Video Gerolf. Ich bin immer von neuen inspiriert an meiner Fiat Barchetta neue Lösungen zu finden, wenn Teile nicht mehr existieren. Moderne Techniken wie 3d Drucker etc. sind super für sowas. Danke und weiter so.
The fact that you documented making this is more than amazing, hope you recover quickly from your procedure.
If you welded the linear guides to the framework, Murphy would have showed up and warped everything out of alignment.
The amount of engineering here are tremendous!!!
Wish you a very fast recovery man and hope to see more of your arts.
I gotta say, this is some pretty outstanding work using second-hand parts. I have noticed UA-cam not showing your stuff in my feed of late. I hope you have a speedy recovery and are able to get back to producing these sweet videos.
God Speed in healing up from your surgery. I ready LOVED this video. It was fantastic.
Wow. I admire your focus and handiwork!
What a feat! You never cease to impress with your ability to take "scrap" and turn it back in to something incredibly useful. Think of all the embedded carbon emissions in all of the things you've repaired; emissions that didn't need to be doubled by the pointless creation of new things.
Sending best wishes for a speedy recovery.
I wish you the best of luck with your surgery and a speedy recovery, I also hope you find and repair a laser cleaner at the scrap yard to save yourself the endless hours you need with the angle wheel for the rust
As an old machinist, this is so satisfying to watch! I was constantly doing little jobs at work for home projects - you never know what can be done until you get the training and experience. This is much larger work than I ever did, but I can connect to all of it.
Good luck with the surgery.
I look at what you fix and make with envy. You are indeed, one talented individual.
Thank you and all the best wishes for your up and coming surgery.
Wow, what a beauty of a machine. As a fellow pack rat, I can imagine how exciting it was to find that massive ball screw shaft and those rails and then planning around them. Must have felt good to get it moving under its own programming. Love your work!
You never fail to amaze, Gerolf. You are a unique and talented individual and I am grateful that you share your abilities with us. I also hope that your recovery goes quickly and well.
I hope your surgery goes well, and that you have a speedy recovery.
I build 3D pr8 tears as a hobby, and it’s always amazing how all CNC machines are essential the same. Just bigger, heavier parts.
great project well built, hope the op goes well rest up and recover
Good luck with the surgery.
Brilliant creation. I imagine just having the capabilities of those machines now will open up many more opportunities to make stuff. For all your efforts you certainly have an enviable workshop now.
The level of skill it's off the charts !!! How can one man knows all of that it's amaizing ! Keep up with the amaizing work ! Greetings from Belgium !
The logic behind declaring that these things have taken an unreasonable amount of time could fairly well equally be used to dismiss all R&D activities.
Food for thought.
Inspiring to watch one man take his ideas, and bring them to life.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
You truly are a Global treasure your workmanship your craftsmanship your personality you truly are just an all-around great man an inspiration to everyone wanting to be good with their hands and their mind keep up the great work
This is so cool. You must be very proud of your accomplishments. Putting these CNC tables together from scraps is no small feat!
You are a highly capable individual and you are very good at helping people with the right mindset see that they can do anything when they put their mind to it.
I hope your surgery goes well and you have a speedy recovery. 🙏🙏🙏
So very cool to see the CNCs working. Been watching you fix and collect stuff for years.
This one is next level, my friend.
The truth is technical type of content is more entertaining for people who has relevant experience. Simple stuff goes better for views on videos.
Really cool project! I was going to suggest „Kompressor“ pulleys since there are a million kinds, shapes, belts, etc, etc but you already found an automotive-based solution.
Real German Engineering at a glance. Nice Job Gerolf.
From other people's junk came your treasure, amazing how it's all come together so well and made the job of making even more fun things out of junk even easier... :D
Great job recycling all of those parts! Especially the long stainless steel screw. Your over engineering of things (which I for one like) remind me of how things were built to last from the 50s to the early 80s. After that everything is built to last a few years before needing some expensive maintenance. Even worse today with "disposable trucks and cars."
Wow - great to see the large mill taking shape! Good luck with the hospital and hope you recovery quickly!
Wat een doorzettingsvermogen! Goed gedaan. Sterkte en beterschap toegewenst Gerolf, tot snel!!
Always great to see "scrap" repurposed into something useful. Well done, sir.
Thats awesome!! We know you have been working up to this project for sometime. Now it expands considerably the possibilities. People are dopamine machines. Quick gratification is what most are after.... thats why bringing old tools from the scrap yard to life is a winner (even though its still bit of a niche audience).
Monumental efforts, admirable results.
Wish You all the best, with the upcoming surgery.
And I wish Us All, to still enjoy decades of TPAI.
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Nice.
Good recovery and hope to see these machines in action soon.
Nice ending with the little video of the Burgh.
I like more shots like these too!
This is ridiculously impressive. Donated a bit, not as much as I'd like. I hope everything works out with the surgery.
You have amazing skills - I can’t get my head round where you start in order to build that from those bits, a genuinely amazing achievement. Hope the surgery goes well and your recovery is quick 🤞
Your engineering prowess is incredible my friend !!
Nice job turning scrap to a working cnc! That is really fantastic! I also love your ability to see value in recycling old equipment and tools and give them a new life. If everybody did this (what we do, I try to do the same as you ;) ) we would not have a waste problems. Almost anything is reusable with enough knowledge and will! Good luck with your surgery and hope to see a new video soon!!
@37:14 lol "guy gets money while in the hospital" is a funny saying
Why are you such a damn legend? Consistent uploads throughout the years and always interesting content. Bravo sir
Well done that man....great job on the big CNC .....take a rest for a while, get better soon and we'll see you again when your ready.....regards from the UK
Holy moly, you have taken things to a whole other level. Congrats on catching the magic smoke!
This has to be the largest and most complicated project on this channel yet! Job well done, and kudos for having the balls to give it a go. Like you said, it needs some tweaks here and there, which is normal for a prototype.
I wish you an expedient recovery Gerolf! I understand that you rely on this (youtube) for income, but the healing process takes as long as it takes. You'll be firing on all cylinders in no time, mate!
Thanks for posting...'tis much appreciated! 🤟
Nice work!!! I remember the first movements I got from my first home built machine….. it was FANTASTIC!!! That morphed into another machine, Then another machine rebuild that was sold o our local Makerspace and is still in use today by a member that bought it from them. It is an INCREDIBLE amount of work to do what you’ve done there; very nice indeed. Please keep up the good work and hope all goes well with your recovery.
the shop is certainly coming along nicely, hope you recover quickly, good luck with the surgery mate
Awesome build, I'm sure it will motivate a lot of us to get started/continue working on our DIY machines :D
Gerolf, another excellent update on the cutting table, speaking of which the water tank you have on the small plasma table needs to be mounted right under the cutting grid to be a bit more effective in catching the sparks.
Good luck with your surgery, I wish you a speedy recovery.
When you are routing wood, you should make multiple passes. The first pass should be with a spiral down cut bit. The cutter will push the material down, into the workpiece. This will prevent tear out on the upper surface. This pass only needs to be 3mm or so. I like to call this a scoring cut.
Next, perform a tool change to a spiral upcut bit. This will allow the chips to be evacuated from the cut, preventing them from getting packed Into the cut (as will happed if you kept using a down cut bit). The upcut bit will pull the material up from the work piece, however since you previously made a pass with the downcut bit, they won’t be any surface tear out. Once the bit breaks through the bottom surface, the bit will continue to pull the material into the workpiece. This prevents tear out on the bottom side (similar to how the down cut bit prevented it in the top surface.
Also, be cognizant of feeds and speeds when CNC routing. Having a router with automatic speed control will be extremely helpful and will prevent a lot of problems. You may want to consider a cheap Chinese CNC spindle instead if you find yourself chasing problems related to router shaft speed. A spindle would also allow you to take advantage of the spindle speed control of your CNC software which will allow you to program speed variation based on tool type and cutting operation, into your g-code.
Brilliant. As someone who has made a functioning ski factory from scrap. All the shaping tools and forms and press. I can appriciate the work going into this project. I will eventually make my own CNC router, while much lower duty than yours it will be bigger in one axis - needs to be over 2m cutting capacity