This device was invented to make use of the vast surplus of coily cords for telephone receivers. Since nobody has a phone on the kitchen wall anymore, all those the coily cords would've ended up in the ocean and choked dolphins or something. THANK YOU to the Greek people for saving the planet!
So here's why the mounting point is in the middle, physics-wise: it's all about resonance and damping vibration. The piezos make the moving part longer and shorter, but they do it so fast that one way or another, both ends are gonna move in opposite directions. If your mounting point is at the back end, the vibration gets transferred to the handle of the tool and your hand, and the energy gets absorbed. If you mount it at its center of mass, the CM doesn't move, so the handle doesn't vibrate and no energy gets lost. It's like a wine glass: if you hold it by the stem, it rings nicely, but if you hold one side of the rim and hit the other, you get nothing. Since it's all about resonance, the shape and size of your tool bit matters a lot. I think you'll get the best "ring" when the vibrating thingy is about half as long as the wavelength of sound in the material it's made of. So for 40 khz in steel (6 km/s), you want a resonator 7 cm long, which looks like just about what you've got. For your 60 khz ultrasonic cleaner, you need a *smaller* vibrating element.
I was coming down here to make exactly that point. I work on ultrasonic welders for a living, and both Branson and Dukane, big industry giants, do this. The transducer outputs to a booster, with a central, dampened mounting ring. That then goes into a horn. Each component can be swapped out. In general, you want an end deflection of 160 nm, for a 20 kHz Sonic welder. Different boosters are for matching different horns.
like This was at 420 likes, and I can't ruin that. Given the recent change removing the dislike count on videos, I'm starting to just comment "like" or "dislike".
untill you used the "manual" exacto knife, I thought it looked like the ultrasonic cutter was just a regular knife. thanks for doing that, it calmed my skepticism and now I think maybe I might play with one of these!
Valentine's day is coming up next month. Nothing says I love you like a full sheet plasma table. And don't skimp on the features, they notice things like that.
DoRite Fabrication my mom is crafty and I’ve been trying to convince her she needs to buy a glowforge too since it’s not exactly in a college kids budget 😂😂
Hi, I'm an ultrasonic tooling engineer at Dukane IAS. I don't know too much about cutting, since that is handled by a different engineer, but I do know a decent amount about designing a horn to weld plastic components together. If you have any questions about ultrasonic welding, I can try to answer to the best of my knowledge, and what isn't covered by an NDA. Additionally, I know that we sell hand probes and generators for welding but those can be pricey and I'm not sure on how to order them, there's an online store, but it doesn't offer a whole lot. There was a comment below by Jason Goodman that had a point about why you need to mount at the nodal point, and all of his reasons are right. The only addition I want to make is that the nodal point will still vibrate, but it will be expanding in and out rather than moving up and down, which is why the cutter needed some padding around the transducer. If you try to grip firmly to the nodal point of a tool with a vice, you'll end up cracking your tool, and if you do it with your hand, you'll get burned. One last thing, ultrasonic cutters are used in the food industry too. Here is a link to a video posted by our Japan office of them doing some cutting with a horn: ua-cam.com/video/klBH1HHZx2s/v-deo.html It's a really neat process and leaves a terrific cut in the food, think things like snack cakes, candy bar centers, and cheese.
@HappyJackington cool video on the food processing!!! Just a few days ago at work, we were thinking that it might be easier to weld together thick webbing tapes instead of trying to sew them together for a certain product, hope ultrasonic welding is the solution.
USW-334 超音波小型カッター (Ultrasonic Wave Cutter) 毎秒40,000回の高速振動でクラクラカット！きれいな仕上がり！ (Vibrates 40,000 times a second for dizzying cuts! Produces beautiful works!)
Thank you so much for buying something and playing with it a bit so I don't have to. I just use a craft knife whilst standing on a washing machine spinning with an anvil in it. Works a treat but hard on the smaller gaskets.
I have but one question: what kind of otherworldly willpower did it take not to make a joke about grabbing a piece of felt just because you felt like it?
Here's a thought.... I'll bet if you put dull xacto blades in it you could get them insanely sharp by turning it on and using the right ceramic stone(s). I'd give it a shot.
it's actually really interesting I had an almost exact same idea I thought if he can't cut the ceramic that would be like him doing 10000 passes on a ceramic object it's so weird that you mention that because I thought the same thing. then again most people that have sharpened something on the bottom of a coffee cup probably thought about it. Matter of fact that might be really ingenious way to make a sharpening device.
It's actually very handy for model builders. You can cut various materials with it like Depron, Styrofoam, Lexan, Fiberglass and Carbon sheets, Gaskets and so on! These things are awesome if you build R/C Planes, Cars and Boats or have a model Railroad and have a few things that you want to trim or add details to. My fiance also used them to trim Resin jewellery or for crafting delicate sculptures. It's really useful Micro tool. Oh and for people who like to tinker with electronics, this thing is capable of cutting circuit boards nice and clean!
So this is Cody's second channel that I keep hearing about. Glad he's taking on the ultrasonic cutter project. He uses enough duct tape and explosives to pull it off properly.
Hey Tony, I work as a injection moulder and I think you got the thing about the small number 2 wrong. Most likely bottle caps are produced with a injection tool with up to 50 individual cavities. All of them are numbered through, so if something goes wrong with one of the caps it's easier to find which one. Instead of sprues these cavaties have hotrunners to fill. Basicly a heated channel that leads direct to the surface of the part. Once you identify the cap that has a problem you can simply switch of the electrical power to the heating element and keep on producing with 49parts falling out of the tool, until a toolmaker has time to fix your problem. About what material is used, my best guess would be PE for those caps. All the caps we produce are PE. We manufacture 300-1000Liter IBC (intermediate bulk container) and heating oil tanks up to 4000Liter. The tanks are blowmoulded hdpe and the valves and fittings for the caps are too. This is necessary to make it possible to weld them on, since you can only weld alike plastics together. But there exist differently blended mixtures of HDPE. One for blow molding and and a special blend for injection moulding. The injection moulding blend is slightly more fluid in it's heated state and its easier to form filigree shapes with it.
One additional info I forgot: if the number is printed inside the three arrow recycling symbol, than it's a key number for the plastic used. Search "recycling mark numbers" on Google.
What PE exactly is used for plastic caps? (the soft flexible kind). There are a few kinds to my understanding. The sales person was no help at all. Can you help?
@@danl.4743 There are MANY different materials used for closures. LDPE, HDEP, PE, PP homo copoly nucleated slip agent blah blah and MANY different grades of those materials... Depends on the application food, medical, push on, screw on , living hinge etc. Technical sales from a resin compounder should get you in the ball park for a specific application. If you check online with a closure manufacturer they'd probably have a selection guide of their stocked resins. Been too many years but I *think ldpe is a soft type for say push on one use applications. There are soft PPs as well. Matweb website might help you pair down the 1000's of PE and PP grades available by physical characteristics. TMI, molders sometimes lie with the cavity numbers to fool competitors with their production capacity/cost. :)
@@anullhandle That's informative. Thank you. Specifically I am looking for this material in sheets, so that I could cut flat spacers or shims to custom size, to use below and around the glazing in windows. They need to be firm, but still somewhat soft in order to absorb shocks like when smashing a door or a window shut. Buying these shims ready made to the sizes I want is too difficult. I just want to cut them myself, easy. The consistency of a plastic cap is perfect. So do you know what material I should ask for?
For plastic that’s been solvent or even sonically welded, some time in the freezer followed by a series of sharp taps along the seam will usually separate the welds.
For you younger guys, telephone - not your cell phone, used to be this thing you hung on the wall in your house. You'd use it to call people, talk, that sort of thing. When you were done you need to hang it back up on the wall and return to everyday life...
I am a homebuilder. I do plumbing, framing, concrete work, drywall etc. etc. are use my oscillating tool 2 to 3 times a month for different jobs. It is an extremely versatile tool capable of reaching tight spaces where you would not think of using a saw saw/reciprocating saw. I remember when I first saw the tool I was extremely skeptical, now I wouldn’t leave home without it.
This exactly, when you need to make a slit to wood for cabling, cut a small piece off sheathing board to fit a girder, or flush some wooden structural beam with a doorstep, that is your tool. I cant imagine it having any use in the shop, but on a construction site? Hell yeah.
@@Sup3rman1c I agree in the shop there are more tools at hand, but in the field we find ourselves in some odd situation. Like cutting the bottoms of door jams when you’re installing flooring.
I'm sure someone else has made this comment, but an easy way to see if a plastic is polypropylene is to bend it at as sharp an angle as possible -- PP turns white at the bend, HDPE (for example) does not! Great video!
Man, I still think someone needs to go after building a ~400 kHz transducer. I've heard you can boil water at that level and use it in energy production, but it's nigh impossible to get a transducer at that range without paying an arm or a kidney...
Well I am sure you can use it for more than you think. If you are working with very small objects like figurines it's way easier especially with tough materials. I don't believe you do figurines but micromachines and the likes are very tough.
@@REDSIX Ditto, I was thinking this is not useful for me, well, not anymore. Though this is a bit more expensive than I would be okay with paying for it.
Love your content Tony! I work for an ultrasoincs company that makes plastic welders, (soft) metal welders, cutters and cleaners. Its so cool to see someone home brew an ultrasonic horn and get something that works well. The tune length of your horn is going to horn is play an important factor in how much vibration you get out on the business end of things. @Jason Goodman has got it right that the frequency of of the tool is going to dictate this length. The area were the tool is being held is the node where no vibration occurs. There should be an another node in the center of the horn where you no vibrations occur. If you run your finger there while the piezo is one you'll feel a dead spot. That should be a quarter wavelength. If you measure that distance from the holder to the dead zone it could be a good way to experimentally find the half wavelength you need on your homebrew horn. You can even keep growing the horns by half wavelengths to get longer tools if you need. A big factor in the output amplitude of these tools is the amount of gain in the horn/ system. The larger the mass ratio on the different sides of the horn's node, the more vibrations you will get at the business end. Your homemade horns seems to have a lot of gain, where as the straight necked horn you bought seems to have a 1:1 gain. If you put too much gain in the system you can over stress the material and crack the horn. That nice 40 kHz sound will make a terrible squeal. Fortunately I think that the little power supply would break before you got that far. A place where these cutters shine is in food cutting. The vibrations prevent the food particles from sticking to the horn and you are left with a nice cross section. Try cutting a Twizzler
These things are super versatile! You can turn this ultra sonic cutter into an oscillating multitool by simply plugging the cord into a phone and letting the dial tone do the work. I even use mine as an air chisel by rigging it up to the headphone jack on my boombox and cranking up the bass.
Man, you nailed the oscillating multi-tool on the head. I literally used it twice, once to plunge cut some slot in wood, and a second time to cut the cast of my wife's arm (no joke).
Man, I do a lot of modelling and craft stuff and I can tell you that I would love this thing. Just not enough to spend $300-$450 on one. If somebody could make a good working model for around $50, I'm sure that they would be *very* popular with the crafting crowd. To be honest, I can see no reason at all that this thing costs so much.
I hadn't heard that song in years. I watched this video, saw your post and guess what's playing on the radio right now? Ted Nugent Stranglehold. Just kidding. Come on Eileen.
I laughed so loud when the phone off the hook sound came on. My wife fell out of bed from it scaring the crap out of her. Total bonus! Two for one! First time seeing one of Your videos. So glad I did.
I swear, I actually bought it because Acme Tools and Makita had a deal going where when you bought two "tool only" LXT tools, you got two 5Ah batteries. The Oscillating tool at $99 seemed just as useful as anything else they had on hand at the time. I have not tried using it as a cast saw.
I use my oscillating multi-tool about every other day some months and then not at all for several. Trim work, frame notching in tight places, blind severing nails, cutting out clean holes in drywall or cabinetry, etc. I was the opposite I didn't see a need for it when I was gifted one by a friend; but now, while I don't need it all the time, it's a definitely a hardship not to have it when I do need it.
I bought the cheapest one I could find at harbor freight and used it a bunch installing a laminate floor, and now it sits in the garage. Easily got my money's worth from that project though :)
I immediately subscribed to Cody's Lab, such a great channel, unfortunately had to unsubscribe from some other channels , you have to be picky right. Channels like oh, This Old Tony ;)
"unfortunately had to unsubscribe from some other channels , you have to be picky right" oh, that is what you have to do? no wonder my subs list is so long. "Channels like oh, This Old Tony" Yeah, that channel is the worst. All that playing with razor blades and not even one little finger cut. Guy has no idea what the internet wants to see.
Ever check out ave? My favorite channel so far. This old Tony; I watch him when I'm bored, and whatever he's talking about sounds interesting. Cody's lab is awesome though, isn't it?
@@lucusloc You don't need razor blades to cut fingers. A cheap steak knife and cutting food without a surface is more than sufficient. _posted two days after lopping off a small slice of my fingertip like an idiot_
@Awakened2Truth - Disciple of Jesus the Christ Okay, I understand the whole argument, and I'm usually on the same side you are, because often the misuse of words ruins the distinctions between those and other words that USED to make them elegant. It used to be that if I asked for a Martini, the bartender knew what I meant, and I got what I expected. But about fifteen years ago, that changed. Now if I ask for a Martini, it requires four or five qualifiers just to specify what the single word used to mean. It's as if "Martini" is now a piece of glassware with something liquid in it, even though "Martini" was the brand name of the Vermouth that was the origin of the name of the mixed drink, and most concoctions now called "Martini" do not contain any Vermouth at all. Of course, no doubt there are other people out there who believe that ordering a "Martini" means ordering a shot of Martini brand Vermouth on the rocks. Which makes ME part of the first corruption. Dang. So yeah, I get it. The problem is this: I don't think "trolling" is at all described by the word "trawling", because while the [troll] may be fishing, that form of "trawling" doesn't characterize the malice involved. Similarly, verbing the word "troll" is a corruption of THAT word. BUT, if I instead describe someone as a "baiter", which seems both sufficient and complete, the inevitable follow-up seems to be, "what do you mean, like a troll?", so sometimes I just roll with it. Choosing my battles, you know. But thank you for your insights on the subject.
If Tony's wife doesn't want it, he should go ahead and send it to the Isle of Man and let Clive perform some thorough reverse engineering. Or send it to AvE and he'll let the smoke out along with all the angry pixies.
I need to add the ultrasonic cutter to my home surgical kit. I am planning on giving free hysterectomies Mother's Day weekend. If it melts the CD, it ought to cauterize as I make the incisions. Super glue to close the incision. Viola!
Thermal camera on workpiece would be interesting? And with your homebrew cutter, twiddle the drive frequency to find a frequency that results in a maximum (or a minimum, what do I know?) in supply current.
It seems to me that this tool is perfect for cleaning up 3D prints (e.g. PLA, ABS, TPU), because less force is needed and is therefore ideal for cleaning difficult places of a 3D print.
Holy moly! Popped on amazon to check the price of this thing, thinking it would be $50-$100 (given the cheap plastic build and low power), but it's $350! Jeez.
I've done a little amateur Sonic horn making myself and it's non-trivial. The trick is that you need to shape the horn just right so it resonates at the frequency of your drive. Not only that, it needs to resonate in a suitable mode to do the things you want it to do. Things can resonate like a noodle, or in a twisting motion, but what you are looking for is straight in and out, at least that is what I wanted for spot welding. Fusion 360 has some FEA tools that you can use to identify what mode and frequency your design will resonate at. Then it's a LOT of trial and error to find a design that Should work. Then you make your horn and tune it manually with a lot more trial and error. As I said before, non-trivial.
ack, just give the blister pack to some young child, they can open anything. Seriously though, that was one of my first thoughts when he was putting it through it's paces.
Really love the casual humor, without it this would just be 20 minutes of a fancy knife. Turns out it was actually a stand up show. :D Highly entertaining thank you.
You don't see them often, but there are harmonic scalpels used in surgery. Foot pedal activated. They would position it and then activate the scalpel. I repaired a few of them. Not much to them. Although it was more complex than this one.
It works because it is producing sound waves to cut. That is why they choose a phone jack hook up. Take a speaker and hook it up to the two main wires in the knife that are hooked to the magnets. If you replace those magnets with some stronger magnets, it should be stronger in cutting.
I wonder if modifying the cutting edge of the blade would improve performance? Perhaps try decreasing the sharpening angle of the blade. Then make the blade symmetric by adding a second sharpening angle to the opposing side. (Single sharpening angles on one side make the blade veer in one direction.) I have a specific use for one of these: cutting a ⅛" x ¾" connector opening into tool battery cases when upgrading to, or replacing the lithium cells. I use small circular saw blades, (1" diameter, or less), right now, and they're kinda squirrelly. If the sonic knife would cut the case material easier than a regular blade, it should be less squirrel impactful. === Watching you try to get the sonic knife apart reminded me of myself before I ventured into the merky world of jeweler's bench tools. We all see one guy, (yeah, you know who you are!), leave "apprentice marks" using a screwdriver, or others risk the razor sharp edge using their pocket knife to open the snap-lock shells of tools or consumer goods. (To say nothing of what that same razor edge could do to fingers). To stop leaving evidence of entry, or risk lowering my blood level, I braved the jewelers' world to buy a back knife, the tool jeweler's use to remove wrist watch back covers. I found Esslinger, a company specializing in watch & jewelers tools. Here's a link to the back knives on their site: www.esslinger.com/snap-off-back?sort=priceasc&page=1 (NOTE: I make nothing referring you to Esslinger.) My purchase timing was pure luck; Esslinger was selling a clone of the $26.48 Bergeon 4932 back knife, (Bergeon makes the Swiss Army Knife). The clone was a promo piece, (it has Esslinger in the company color, sky blue handle). The promo clone was
@cmac Then you already know how handy a back knife is. Then there's my other fav tool, but it's more of a jewelry fab kinda tool, I think. It's a 6" x 2" arbor mount drum sander. Takes the 3.14 x 6" long 'belts'. I had a couple I got at an estate sale, for nothing, then discovered what they were. Not long after, I was caught in the YT time loop, watched an industrial grinding stone safety film. It scared me enough I swore off vitreous grinding stones on a bench grinder. And I been doing fab work for 50 years. LOL I do love the drums on my 1 hp grinders.
The angle of attack has to do with you still needing to create a kerf (space) for the thickness of the blade. Most of the time you're melting a kerf when cutting the thicker plastics. It looks like you were loosing some of the energy while cutting the thinner and unsupported material. The need for cutting on an angle was more pronounced. Try cutting cardboard with a regular thick knife at 90degs and then at an angle. As always Tony, love your youtube clips mate! It's not often that I come across a youtuber where I constantly learn something new. FYI, I'm sure you already knew the above info.
Interesting... my grandpa told me stories of needing to connect one of those to a crank power generator so that he could send smoke signals to the other side of town or something...
Love your videos Tony! I would love for you to make a basic machining video, mostly how to mesure complicated cuts and whatnot, how to find the center of parts. just basic stuff us newbies struggle with
the box says 'ultrasonic small cutter' and '40,000 high-speed vibrations. cut beautiful finish!' The back of the box has the usual warnings about not sprinkling it with water or dropping it. The side lists its features; safe and compact, beautiful finish and "I'm not tired. Work can be done with little force." Made by Honda
I have a feeling the reason you've got two different feels for the HDPE is due to the rigidity of the plastic being cut. The softer it is, the more give under the ultrasonic vibrations thus less effective cutting... that probably wasn't too clear. I like to think it's like the blades that vibrate that won't easily cut your skin but do cut hard cast material.... because your skin gives under the vibrations.
Oh jesus. I started the video and immediately forgot I was wan't watching a codyslab video so I settled into my start of video routine (i guess) and glanced and and saw the metal not changing and though "oh sweet he re did it." Then the "son of a" part broke my reality. That was weird and hilarious.
If you had another one of those, you wouldn't get stuck at 16:10. I'd have a hard time keeping myself from using the blade to cut the main case, holder, etc.
I kept seeing references to you on AvE's channel and finally checked you out. You had me cracking up man! I love your humor! I especially loved the call tone when you plugged in the cord. Subscribed!
Love the intro!
Old Tony Needs some chemistry! SCIENCE UNITE !
So you're going to have a "This Old Cody" intro?
Should have burned the cardboard with the torch.
All the cool boys gather here I see! :D
yeah me too
This device was invented to make use of the vast surplus of coily cords for telephone receivers. Since nobody has a phone on the kitchen wall anymore, all those the coily cords would've ended up in the ocean and choked dolphins or something. THANK YOU to the Greek people for saving the planet!
Great innovators the Greeks, ideed it seems like they even invented 2 alphabets
That’s Japanese!
Superslim Anoniem I think it was a joke
I always wondered what they had done with all the surplus phone cords.....
Hey Malacca’s
So here's why the mounting point is in the middle, physics-wise: it's all about resonance and damping vibration. The piezos make the moving part longer and shorter, but they do it so fast that one way or another, both ends are gonna move in opposite directions. If your mounting point is at the back end, the vibration gets transferred to the handle of the tool and your hand, and the energy gets absorbed. If you mount it at its center of mass, the CM doesn't move, so the handle doesn't vibrate and no energy gets lost. It's like a wine glass: if you hold it by the stem, it rings nicely, but if you hold one side of the rim and hit the other, you get nothing.
Since it's all about resonance, the shape and size of your tool bit matters a lot. I think you'll get the best "ring" when the vibrating thingy is about half as long as the wavelength of sound in the material it's made of. So for 40 khz in steel (6 km/s), you want a resonator 7 cm long, which looks like just about what you've got. For your 60 khz ultrasonic cleaner, you need a *smaller* vibrating element.
TIL. Thank you sir for this knowledge.
you have blessed us all with knowledge, thank you!
I was about to say exactly this same thing :-)
Did you mean to say resonant node instead of center of mass?
I was coming down here to make exactly that point. I work on ultrasonic welders for a living, and both Branson and Dukane, big industry giants, do this. The transducer outputs to a booster, with a central, dampened mounting ring. That then goes into a horn. Each component can be swapped out. In general, you want an end deflection of 160 nm, for a 20 kHz Sonic welder. Different boosters are for matching different horns.
Now you can make a mix-CD by cutting and pasting your favorite tracks together.
You'd need to buy an ultrasonic welder for that
naw, Revox can play anything
;D - "That's not how this works! That's not how anything works!"
I tried to erase a file on a CD to make more room on it...
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This was at 420 likes, and I can't ruin that. Given the recent change removing the dislike count on videos, I'm starting to just comment "like" or "dislike".
untill you used the "manual" exacto knife, I thought it looked like the ultrasonic cutter was just a regular knife. thanks for doing that, it calmed my skepticism and now I think maybe I might play with one of these!
Codyslab intro, AvE-style subject, This Old Tony delivery..
And they said Infinity War was the most ambitious cross-over.
Perfectly balanced.
Now we have to kill half of world's machinists
now only a Wintergatan soundtrack and some Clickspring finesse. Sums up to the most valluable UA-cam content to me.
And with a colin furze cameo or two in the comments
Uriah Siner I definitely picked up on all those also buddy, glad I wasn’t the only one 😂🤣
Good one Tony
My wife is a “crafty” woman too. I’m trying to convince her she needs a CNC plasma table. Great video as always!
Valentine's day is coming up next month. Nothing says I love you like a full sheet plasma table. And don't skimp on the features, they notice things like that.
It's like they don't appreciate how much we think about them.@@M3rVsT4H
Nothing says "I love you!" like 10,000 degree ionized gas.
"Honey, with this thing you could cut cookies in shapes you can't even imagine" :p
DoRite Fabrication my mom is crafty and I’ve been trying to convince her she needs to buy a glowforge too since it’s not exactly in a college kids budget 😂😂
Hi, I'm an ultrasonic tooling engineer at Dukane IAS. I don't know too much about cutting, since that is handled by a different engineer, but I do know a decent amount about designing a horn to weld plastic components together. If you have any questions about ultrasonic welding, I can try to answer to the best of my knowledge, and what isn't covered by an NDA. Additionally, I know that we sell hand probes and generators for welding but those can be pricey and I'm not sure on how to order them, there's an online store, but it doesn't offer a whole lot.
There was a comment below by Jason Goodman that had a point about why you need to mount at the nodal point, and all of his reasons are right. The only addition I want to make is that the nodal point will still vibrate, but it will be expanding in and out rather than moving up and down, which is why the cutter needed some padding around the transducer. If you try to grip firmly to the nodal point of a tool with a vice, you'll end up cracking your tool, and if you do it with your hand, you'll get burned.
One last thing, ultrasonic cutters are used in the food industry too. Here is a link to a video posted by our Japan office of them doing some cutting with a horn: ua-cam.com/video/klBH1HHZx2s/v-deo.html It's a really neat process and leaves a terrific cut in the food, think things like snack cakes, candy bar centers, and cheese.
I suppose the sonic screwdrivers are still under NDA....
@HappyJackington cool video on the food processing!!! Just a few days ago at work, we were thinking that it might be easier to weld together thick webbing tapes instead of trying to sew them together for a certain product, hope ultrasonic welding is the solution.
Holy moly, that's a freaking ultrasonic guillotine!
I'm greek and i can confirm that this is greek
Is Greek all greek to you?
Greek is like Spanish, but what do I know...
I'm Dutch.
I thought it was Chinese 🧠
Can I use it to cut my toenail? I think it's a good idea....
Favorite GnR quote
USW-334
超音波小型カッター
(Ultrasonic Wave Cutter)
毎秒40,000回の高速振動でクラクラカット！きれいな仕上がり！
(Vibrates 40,000 times a second for dizzying cuts! Produces beautiful works!)
KomaruKirinashi pretty cool how you can read Greek
thanks for the translation!
Are you from the leaf village?
Thanks for the Xlation. For a while I thought that 40,000 was the price in Yen.
I'm glad someone knows Greek
Thank you so much for buying something and playing with it a bit so I don't have to. I just use a craft knife whilst standing on a washing machine spinning with an anvil in it. Works a treat but hard on the smaller gaskets.
I usually just pass the knife to my neighbor that has Parkinsons...
Oh god i haven't laughed this hard at a youtube comment in quite a while, thanks for that!
Why are these so expensive tho
c goodwin have you tried replacing the anvil with a cinderblock or two?
Targus Mack , c goodwin , there are two types of people...
I have but one question: what kind of otherworldly willpower did it take not to make a joke about grabbing a piece of felt just because you felt like it?
LOL I thought exactly the same thing.
A real missed opportunity for a dad joke!
This video is getting reuploaded because of you. That or a forced felt cameo in the next upload...
Not making that joke was the joke.
But that joke was cutting edge.
Here's a thought.... I'll bet if you put dull xacto blades in it you could get them insanely sharp by turning it on and using the right ceramic stone(s). I'd give it a shot.
Oh shit, this is interesting
I just read on their site, it only takes their own proprietary blades. Xacto will not fit this $319.00 piece of shit with bad reviews.
it's actually really interesting I had an almost exact same idea I thought if he can't cut the ceramic that would be like him doing 10000 passes on a ceramic object it's so weird that you mention that because I thought the same thing. then again most people that have sharpened something on the bottom of a coffee cup probably thought about it. Matter of fact that might be really ingenious way to make a sharpening device.
@@werewolf74 .
@@tony5535 I guarantee you that with enough effort you could mod it to take xacto blades.
Holy #&%!
I just checked the price and it's like $400 oO.
By its look (and function) I expected it to be more like $40 - at max...
BTW, nice video ;)
They raised the price after this video
This man spent 350 to 370 on the danm thing
@@justdead101 800,000 subs and a million views ? Nah, he spent your money on this thing.
dammit. i would've bougt it for 20-30, mebbe 40
I’d expect at least 100$ base 40 is basically giving expedite tech for free
It's actually very handy for model builders. You can cut various materials with it like Depron, Styrofoam, Lexan, Fiberglass and Carbon sheets, Gaskets and so on! These things are awesome if you build R/C Planes, Cars and Boats or have a model Railroad and have a few things that you want to trim or add details to. My fiance also used them to trim Resin jewellery or for crafting delicate sculptures. It's really useful Micro tool.
Oh and for people who like to tinker with electronics, this thing is capable of cutting circuit boards nice and clean!
So this is Cody's second channel that I keep hearing about. Glad he's taking on the ultrasonic cutter project. He uses enough duct tape and explosives to pull it off properly.
Just like Nurd Rage is Nile Red, TOT is Cody's Lab
This would be Cody's third channel actually lol
Who’s Cody?
and Big Clive is AvE
@@tomalcolm I hope you are not serious...who is Cody? that is like asking who is the President...long live Cody's lab!!!!
This old Cody?
No this is Patrick
Tony Slab.
Yes. . . in 30 years.
@@soop597
Dontcha mean, "That Old Cooter?"
So basically, this is a hot knife... *that isn't hot.*
So a cold knife?
@@shred1894 I think it is a cold hotknife
Except when it's hot.
ya cut foam with only half the toxic fumes
@@AsbestosMuffins big win for any table top wargamer still making their own terrain XD
As a Japanese descent, I can confirm the accurate translation.
Did you mean Greek?
Oops, yeah!
The guy doesn't even know where he's from and named himself after a car company. I don't think I can trust him.
14:40 what you *meant to say: “what do I look like, Big Clive or something?”
Hey Tony, I work as a injection moulder and I think you got the thing about the small number 2 wrong. Most likely bottle caps are produced with a injection tool with up to 50 individual cavities. All of them are numbered through, so if something goes wrong with one of the caps it's easier to find which one. Instead of sprues these cavaties have hotrunners to fill. Basicly a heated channel that leads direct to the surface of the part. Once you identify the cap that has a problem you can simply switch of the electrical power to the heating element and keep on producing with 49parts falling out of the tool, until a toolmaker has time to fix your problem. About what material is used, my best guess would be PE for those caps. All the caps we produce are PE. We manufacture 300-1000Liter IBC (intermediate bulk container) and heating oil tanks up to 4000Liter. The tanks are blowmoulded hdpe and the valves and fittings for the caps are too.
This is necessary to make it possible to weld them on, since you can only weld alike plastics together. But there exist differently blended mixtures of HDPE. One for blow molding and and a special blend for injection moulding. The injection moulding blend is slightly more fluid in it's heated state and its easier to form filigree shapes with it.
One additional info I forgot: if the number is printed inside the three arrow recycling symbol, than it's a key number for the plastic used. Search "recycling mark numbers" on Google.
What PE exactly is used for plastic caps? (the soft flexible kind). There are a few kinds to my understanding. The sales person was no help at all. Can you help?
@@danl.4743 There are MANY different materials used for closures. LDPE, HDEP, PE, PP homo copoly nucleated slip agent blah blah and MANY different grades of those materials... Depends on the application food, medical, push on, screw on , living hinge etc. Technical sales from a resin compounder should get you in the ball park for a specific application. If you check online with a closure manufacturer they'd probably have a selection guide of their stocked resins.
Been too many years but I *think ldpe is a soft type for say push on one use applications. There are soft PPs as well. Matweb website might help you pair down the 1000's of PE and PP grades available by physical characteristics.
TMI, molders sometimes lie with the cavity numbers to fool competitors with their production capacity/cost. :)
@@anullhandle That's informative. Thank you. Specifically I am looking for this material in sheets, so that I could cut flat spacers or shims to custom size, to use below and around the glazing in windows. They need to be firm, but still somewhat soft in order to absorb shocks like when smashing a door or a window shut. Buying these shims ready made to the sizes I want is too difficult. I just want to cut them myself, easy. The consistency of a plastic cap is perfect. So do you know what material I should ask for?
@@danl.4743 lupolen 3821d for example is the injection version to match lupolen 4261a (blowmoulding)
For plastic that’s been solvent or even sonically welded, some time in the freezer followed by a series of sharp taps along the seam will usually separate the welds.
That curly cord is from a telephone. Maybe this is for cutting into conversations.
I thought the very same thing?
🤣🥇
For you younger guys, telephone - not your cell phone, used to be this thing you hung on the wall in your house. You'd use it to call people, talk, that sort of thing. When you were done you need to hang it back up on the wall and return to everyday life...
@@burnout4life129 Fun fact: they COULDN'T take pictures.
@@burnout4life129 yeah no young kids know that. we aren't that ignorant and most of us also know what vhs is and how to use a rotary phone
About the PCB: under that gray block there will probably be two MOSFET transistors that drive the transducer, screwed to a heat sink.
I am a homebuilder. I do plumbing, framing, concrete work, drywall etc. etc. are use my oscillating tool 2 to 3 times a month for different jobs. It is an extremely versatile tool capable of reaching tight spaces where you would not think of using a saw saw/reciprocating saw.
I remember when I first saw the tool I was extremely skeptical, now I wouldn’t leave home without it.
This exactly, when you need to make a slit to wood for cabling, cut a small piece off sheathing board to fit a girder, or flush some wooden structural beam with a doorstep, that is your tool. I cant imagine it having any use in the shop, but on a construction site? Hell yeah.
@@Sup3rman1c I agree in the shop there are more tools at hand, but in the field we find ourselves in some odd situation. Like cutting the bottoms of door jams when you’re installing flooring.
That bolt is pretty big to be 8th grade. It must have had a hardened life.
It was bullied by the imperial system
Yeah...harder than those 5th grade kids...
I cannot stand those *AvE* glue sticks. They have too much chooch and you can never get them to focus.
I use the reduced chooch sticks.
@@ken481959 Keep your chooch stick in a vise.
Get the knock off Power Fister ones. They're cock for dolly.
It's great for keeping your stick in a vise though.
@@thekbshouse Tighten it up until you hear it crack, then back it off 1/4 turn.
When I am in my own workshop designing and building, but I keep watching "This Old Tony", and "AvE" Content, and my projects are on extended builds,
I liked the AVE plug. That's how I found Tony.
Which one?
I found Tony through Colin furz and it's great being able to hammer through his back catalogue of uploads
I'm sure someone else has made this comment, but an easy way to see if a plastic is polypropylene is to bend it at as sharp an angle as possible -- PP turns white at the bend, HDPE (for example) does not! Great video!
Neat, I kinda want one for no particular reason
Man, I still think someone needs to go after building a ~400 kHz transducer. I've heard you can boil water at that level and use it in energy production, but it's nigh impossible to get a transducer at that range without paying an arm or a kidney...
This exact unit is over $300 American on Amazon. XD I thought it was going to be like $20-$30.
Well I am sure you can use it for more than you think. If you are working with very small objects like figurines it's way easier especially with tough materials. I don't believe you do figurines but micromachines and the likes are very tough.
Didnt expect to see u here
@@AndAbel-AOD You can buy the transducer from the other video for $15-$20, with the driver board for $40-$50.
That looks great for cleaning up 3D prints, especially where picking at something with a knife could slip and mar a nearby detail.
Why did you have to say that, I didn't want to buy it till now.
@@REDSIX You've got one life. Get those quality of life tools!
@@REDSIX Ditto, I was thinking this is not useful for me, well, not anymore. Though this is a bit more expensive than I would be okay with paying for it.
Love your content Tony! I work for an ultrasoincs company that makes plastic welders, (soft) metal welders, cutters and cleaners. Its so cool to see someone home brew an ultrasonic horn and get something that works well. The tune length of your horn is going to horn is play an important factor in how much vibration you get out on the business end of things. @Jason Goodman has got it right that the frequency of of the tool is going to dictate this length. The area were the tool is being held is the node where no vibration occurs. There should be an another node in the center of the horn where you no vibrations occur. If you run your finger there while the piezo is one you'll feel a dead spot. That should be a quarter wavelength. If you measure that distance from the holder to the dead zone it could be a good way to experimentally find the half wavelength you need on your homebrew horn. You can even keep growing the horns by half wavelengths to get longer tools if you need.
A big factor in the output amplitude of these tools is the amount of gain in the horn/ system. The larger the mass ratio on the different sides of the horn's node, the more vibrations you will get at the business end. Your homemade horns seems to have a lot of gain, where as the straight necked horn you bought seems to have a 1:1 gain. If you put too much gain in the system you can over stress the material and crack the horn. That nice 40 kHz sound will make a terrible squeal. Fortunately I think that the little power supply would break before you got that far.
A place where these cutters shine is in food cutting. The vibrations prevent the food particles from sticking to the horn and you are left with a nice cross section. Try cutting a Twizzler
These things are super versatile! You can turn this ultra sonic cutter into an oscillating multitool by simply plugging the cord into a phone and letting the dial tone do the work. I even use mine as an air chisel by rigging it up to the headphone jack on my boombox and cranking up the bass.
Man, you nailed the oscillating multi-tool on the head. I literally used it twice, once to plunge cut some slot in wood, and a second time to cut the cast of my wife's arm (no joke).
Ha, I like Cody's lab
i do too, LoL 😂
All that was missing was the thumbs up.
Guess no one is talking about all the single men in my area
That was such a great piss take
Maybe it will be reciprocated and we'll see a "This Old Cody" intro.
Now see if you can make an ultrasonic cleaner out of that cutter, just to complete the loop.
I think in the end all he's going to get out of all this is an ultrasonic clutter.
I'll show myself out.....
Greek is my native language and i can verify that your translation was spot on Tony, a man o many , many ,many trades and knowledge !
That was fucking japaneese
@@giacomolora that's the joke
@@giacomolora whoosh
@@giacomolora r/woooosh
Man, I do a lot of modelling and craft stuff and I can tell you that I would love this thing. Just not enough to spend $300-$450 on one. If somebody could make a good working model for around $50, I'm sure that they would be *very* popular with the crafting crowd. To be honest, I can see no reason at all that this thing costs so much.
Your humor and friendly sarcasm is a breath of fresh air.
That intro got we, had to check the channel name twice. Then I saw the title and had to check the channel again. Nice Codys Lab and AvE reference.
Yeah i thought my thumb must have slipped and hit the wrong vid!
@@earthbjornnahkaimurrao9542 Another trackball user - nice!
LMAO.... Love the Cody intro... Now back to watching the actual video.
Steve Evans I know 😂 I was smiling in the first second of the video! Before anything had even happened!
You know someone paid too much for something when they have qualms about opening it up!
“Come on Eileen” greatest tune known to man
I hadn't heard that song in years. I watched this video, saw your post and guess what's playing on the radio right now?
Ted Nugent Stranglehold.
Just kidding. Come on Eileen.
I laughed so loud when the phone off the hook sound came on. My wife fell out of bed from it scaring the crap out of her. Total bonus! Two for one! First time seeing one of Your videos. So glad I did.
I'll have you know that I've used my oscillating multi-tool five, maybe six times!
In 20 years?
It seemed indispensable at the time of the impulse purchase. I'm not even sure I cut my finger with it!
I swear, I actually bought it because Acme Tools and Makita had a deal going where when you bought two "tool only" LXT tools, you got two 5Ah batteries. The Oscillating tool at $99 seemed just as useful as anything else they had on hand at the time. I have not tried using it as a cast saw.
I use my oscillating multi-tool about every other day some months and then not at all for several. Trim work, frame notching in tight places, blind severing nails, cutting out clean holes in drywall or cabinetry, etc. I was the opposite I didn't see a need for it when I was gifted one by a friend; but now, while I don't need it all the time, it's a definitely a hardship not to have it when I do need it.
I bought the cheapest one I could find at harbor freight and used it a bunch installing a laminate floor, and now it sits in the garage. Easily got my money's worth from that project though :)
I am disappointed... You didn't even plug a telephone handset onto it.
It may allow one to talk to the dead, or possibly even.......THE FUTURE!
@@ken481959 Maybe even... FUTURE DEAD!!!
I was thinking plug it into a phone system
You have no idea how bad I want to see you hook up a telephone receiver to that cord !
Or hook the knife up to the phone and control it via fax
@@notanimposter
*equifax* perhaps?
notanimposter
An ultrasonic fax machine?
@@notanimposter Time to make someone call a fax again..
@@tatemantis9293 It ultra-sonically shreds faxed documents for you! Right into the bin 👍🏻
waitaminute...has it really be FIVE YEARS since this came out?!
I just searched the net for industrial ultrasonic cutter videos, it keeps coming back to this video. Tony, you've ruined the algorithm😂
I immediately subscribed to Cody's Lab, such a great channel, unfortunately had to unsubscribe from some other channels , you have to be picky right.
Channels like oh, This Old Tony ;)
"unfortunately had to unsubscribe from some other channels , you have to be picky right"
oh, that is what you have to do? no wonder my subs list is so long.
"Channels like oh, This Old Tony"
Yeah, that channel is the worst. All that playing with razor blades and not even one little finger cut. Guy has no idea what the internet wants to see.
Ever check out ave? My favorite channel so far. This old Tony; I watch him when I'm bored, and whatever he's talking about sounds interesting. Cody's lab is awesome though, isn't it?
@@lucusloc
You don't need razor blades to cut fingers. A cheap steak knife and cutting food without a surface is more than sufficient.
_posted two days after lopping off a small slice of my fingertip like an idiot_
Cody's lab is cool check out his older videos about refining metals. Also if you like chemistry check out NileRed.
@@shootthemoon6072 "Ever check out ave?" - Sorry, I don't use hot glue sticks ;)
Hey, I want to be a troll one time.
I can do that with my oscillating multitool!
Sorry.
@@John98512 the oscillating tool is very important in every man's life
Stefan Gotteswinter and Stefan comes in hot with a wicked burn! 😅
@Awakened2Truth - Disciple of Jesus the Christ Are you sure it doesn't come from the troll under the bridge? Seriously. I don't know which it is.
@Awakened2Truth - Disciple of Jesus the Christ Okay, I understand the whole argument, and I'm usually on the same side you are, because often the misuse of words ruins the distinctions between those and other words that USED to make them elegant. It used to be that if I asked for a Martini, the bartender knew what I meant, and I got what I expected. But about fifteen years ago, that changed. Now if I ask for a Martini, it requires four or five qualifiers just to specify what the single word used to mean. It's as if "Martini" is now a piece of glassware with something liquid in it, even though "Martini" was the brand name of the Vermouth that was the origin of the name of the mixed drink, and most concoctions now called "Martini" do not contain any Vermouth at all. Of course, no doubt there are other people out there who believe that ordering a "Martini" means ordering a shot of Martini brand Vermouth on the rocks. Which makes ME part of the first corruption. Dang.
So yeah, I get it. The problem is this: I don't think "trolling" is at all described by the word "trawling", because while the [troll] may be fishing, that form of "trawling" doesn't characterize the malice involved. Similarly, verbing the word "troll" is a corruption of THAT word. BUT, if I instead describe someone as a "baiter", which seems both sufficient and complete, the inevitable follow-up seems to be, "what do you mean, like a troll?", so sometimes I just roll with it. Choosing my battles, you know. But thank you for your insights on the subject.
Stefan Gotteswinter, if you do drywall an oscillating cutter soon becomes your best friend.
Used Big Clive’s vice of knowledge I see.
If Tony's wife doesn't want it, he should go ahead and send it to the Isle of Man and let Clive perform some thorough reverse engineering.
Or send it to AvE and he'll let the smoke out along with all the angry pixies.
@@ytwdh Send it to Clive, then to AvE.
Both ToT and Clive know what vices are for...
This video convinced me to buy one, loved it used it for weeks, then my dog had a stroke.
I need to add the ultrasonic cutter to my home surgical kit. I am planning on giving free hysterectomies Mother's Day weekend. If it melts the CD, it ought to cauterize as I make the incisions. Super glue to close the incision. Viola!
I see u took inspiration from AvE with that title
or does AvE get it from this old Tony? i think they're neighbors
Ya'll beat me to it. I figure he is Son of AvE.
I wanted to see flesh cutting.
@@icyuranus404 I am sure the chain saw was AVE unboxing.
Cody's Lab title.
hopefully his channel goes like aves :/
Thermal camera on workpiece would be interesting?
And with your homebrew cutter, twiddle the drive frequency to find a frequency that results in a maximum (or a minimum, what do I know?) in supply current.
Nice tribute to CodyDon.
Charles Reiche did he die? :(
@@turbochargedbrick He can't die...
@@turbochargedbrick He slipped on butter one time. He was even jolted by a mercury vacuum pump apparatus, but that just recharged his borg shields.
14:18 "Why would they do that?" strange, it almost seems like they don't want you opening it up
Amazed you didn't throw in a "RULES OF NATURE" in there while cutting.
It seems to me that this tool is perfect for cleaning up 3D prints (e.g. PLA, ABS, TPU), because less force is needed and is therefore ideal for cleaning difficult places of a 3D print.
Cody would be proud :,D
also thanks for following up from that first attempt!
Do they do a fork too? I could save time eating my lunch and have more time for recreational activities. Thanks TOT, Dean in Oxfordshire UK.
Holy moly! Popped on amazon to check the price of this thing, thinking it would be $50-$100 (given the cheap plastic build and low power), but it's $350! Jeez.
I've done a little amateur Sonic horn making myself and it's non-trivial. The trick is that you need to shape the horn just right so it resonates at the frequency of your drive. Not only that, it needs to resonate in a suitable mode to do the things you want it to do. Things can resonate like a noodle, or in a twisting motion, but what you are looking for is straight in and out, at least that is what I wanted for spot welding. Fusion 360 has some FEA tools that you can use to identify what mode and frequency your design will resonate at. Then it's a LOT of trial and error to find a design that Should work. Then you make your horn and tune it manually with a lot more trial and error. As I said before, non-trivial.
But will it open those *%#! blister packs?!
We live in hope. $320 is a bit steep of an entry fee though.
Yes, it can open blister packs!
Unfortunately they just started packaging these ultrasonic cutters in blister packs.
@@stephen1r2 Well worth it as a proper sword costs more than that.
After some involuntary blood sacrifices to the blister pack god, I learned that sheet metal aviation snips work WAY better than scissors or knives.
ack, just give the blister pack to some young child, they can open anything.
Seriously though, that was one of my first thoughts when he was putting it through it's paces.
Nice Cody’s lab intro!
I wonder if any of the young folks got that Dial tone joke.
or that Come On Eileen bit but I bet they got that Game of Thrones reference :-)
ua-cam.com/video/oHNEzndgiFI/v-deo.html
If this is any evidence, probably not.
@@rolans.2073 There was a GoT reference?
@@Shaun.Stephens 0:58 "the North remembers"
@@rolans.2073 Ahhh, a quickie. Thanks for the pointer.
Really love the casual humor, without it this would just be 20 minutes of a fancy knife. Turns out it was actually a stand up show. :D Highly entertaining thank you.
You don't see them often, but there are harmonic scalpels used in surgery. Foot pedal activated. They would position it and then activate the scalpel. I repaired a few of them. Not much to them. Although it was more complex than this one.
I cringed at the ceramic, not because of the sound, but out of empathy for the blade...
for me it was the sound! nails on chalk board and got nothing on that!!
Damn you ToT!
I was wearing headphones, and that ceramic bit had me doing the same thing as your son! 🤣
I'm pretty sure it's not his child but himself as a child he pulled from the past.
Vaasref It’s both, ToT is his own father! 😱
Yeah. Me too
Thank you, as soon as he said ceramic I tore my earbuds out
@@Nevir202 u callin TOT a MF??! 😂
I just blank out tracks I don’t like with a Sharpie...
Mark Bunds Cool. I use white out.
It works because it is producing sound waves to cut. That is why they choose a phone jack hook up. Take a speaker and hook it up to the two main wires in the knife that are hooked to the magnets. If you replace those magnets with some stronger magnets, it should be stronger in cutting.
You're humour never ceases to entertain me.
Thank you 😊
"I bought a small drill or endmill" has 2 foot tool sheath
I'd bet tig filler wire is what came in the stick of butter
OMG I was waiting THE WHOLE VIDEO for that phone cord joke.
actually I was hoping the tone would have been four beeps … then he would have had a voice message waiting
I wonder if modifying the cutting edge of the blade would improve performance?
Perhaps try decreasing the sharpening angle of the blade. Then make the blade symmetric by adding a second sharpening angle to the opposing side. (Single sharpening angles on one side make the blade veer in one direction.)
I have a specific use for one of these: cutting a ⅛" x ¾" connector opening into tool battery cases when upgrading to, or replacing the lithium cells. I use small circular saw blades, (1" diameter, or less), right now, and they're kinda squirrelly. If the sonic knife would cut the case material easier than a regular blade, it should be less squirrel impactful.
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Watching you try to get the sonic knife apart reminded me of myself before I ventured into the merky world of jeweler's bench tools.
We all see one guy, (yeah, you know who you are!), leave "apprentice marks" using a screwdriver, or others risk the razor sharp edge using their pocket knife to open the snap-lock shells of tools or consumer goods. (To say nothing of what that same razor edge could do to fingers).
To stop leaving evidence of entry, or risk lowering my blood level, I braved the jewelers' world to buy a back knife, the tool jeweler's use to remove wrist watch back covers.
I found Esslinger, a company specializing in watch & jewelers tools. Here's a link to the back knives on their site:
www.esslinger.com/snap-off-back?sort=priceasc&page=1
(NOTE: I make nothing referring you to Esslinger.)
My purchase timing was pure luck; Esslinger was selling a clone of the $26.48 Bergeon 4932 back knife, (Bergeon makes the Swiss Army Knife). The clone was a promo piece, (it has Esslinger in the company color, sky blue handle).
The promo clone was
As a bench jeweler I approve of your venture into our murky world 👍
@cmac
Then you already know how handy a back knife is.
Then there's my other fav tool, but it's more of a jewelry fab kinda tool, I think. It's a 6" x 2" arbor mount drum sander. Takes the 3.14 x 6" long 'belts'.
I had a couple I got at an estate sale, for nothing, then discovered what they were.
Not long after, I was caught in the YT time loop, watched an industrial grinding stone safety film. It scared me enough I swore off vitreous grinding stones on a bench grinder. And I been doing fab work for 50 years. LOL
I do love the drums on my 1 hp grinders.
Your comedy style and timing are great! You crack me up in every video. Keep up the good work. (The dial tone cracked me up!)
Your commentary is brilliant. Love your videos and keep it up. Cheers
The angle of attack has to do with you still needing to create a kerf (space) for the thickness of the blade. Most of the time you're melting a kerf when cutting the thicker plastics. It looks like you were loosing some of the energy while cutting the thinner and unsupported material. The need for cutting on an angle was more pronounced. Try cutting cardboard with a regular thick knife at 90degs and then at an angle.
As always Tony, love your youtube clips mate! It's not often that I come across a youtuber where I constantly learn something new.
FYI, I'm sure you already knew the above info.
13:58 I literally cried when he put the phone sound over it :'D
My wife wants to know if it works well on craft foam. Please answer quickly as she is watching over my shoulder.
Thanks for the well made video. Your humor is spot on. Patrick McMantus would be pleased the way you slip in the funnies.
Your channel is just what I’ve been missing in my life.
Interesting... my grandpa told me stories of needing to connect one of those to a crank power generator so that he could send smoke signals to the other side of town or something...
I stopped and restarted this video 5 times within the first 5 seconds. Thought my UA-cam app was screwing up and playing Cody.
Love your videos Tony! I would love for you to make a basic machining video, mostly how to mesure complicated cuts and whatnot, how to find the center of parts. just basic stuff us newbies struggle with
Find another UA-camr he wont do it lol..
Try MrPete222. He's a former shop teacher and his channel has the type of content that you're looking for.
the box says 'ultrasonic small cutter' and '40,000 high-speed vibrations. cut beautiful finish!' The back of the box has the usual warnings about not sprinkling it with water or dropping it. The side lists its features; safe and compact, beautiful finish and "I'm not tired. Work can be done with little force." Made by Honda
I have a feeling the reason you've got two different feels for the HDPE is due to the rigidity of the plastic being cut. The softer it is, the more give under the ultrasonic vibrations thus less effective cutting... that probably wasn't too clear. I like to think it's like the blades that vibrate that won't easily cut your skin but do cut hard cast material.... because your skin gives under the vibrations.
Oh jesus. I started the video and immediately forgot I was wan't watching a codyslab video so I settled into my start of video routine (i guess) and glanced and and saw the metal not changing and though "oh sweet he re did it." Then the "son of a" part broke my reality. That was weird and hilarious.
If you had another one of those, you wouldn't get stuck at 16:10. I'd have a hard time keeping myself from using the blade to cut the main case, holder, etc.
Great video. LMAO on the dial-tone bit! Too Cool Tony
Hi Tony. You should have bought the second ultrasound cutter to cut open the first one.
How did I miss this. Really enjoyed this Vice if knowledge always helps.
JUST HOW MANY REFERENCES CAN TOT CRAM INTO ONE VIDEO!?!??!
When did CodysLab start doing BOLTR videos?
Most excellent Tony! (like thats a big surprise)
ATB, Robin
Can you please say "Hi-ho, kermit the frog here" in a video? Thank you kind sir.
Then say, “my voice is my passport, verify me.” Thanks!
I kept seeing references to you on AvE's channel and finally checked you out. You had me cracking up man! I love your humor!
I especially loved the call tone when you plugged in the cord. Subscribed!
welcome. pull up a seat.