Let's Make a QUICK RELEASE Camera Mount!
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- This episode on Blondihacks, I'm improving on our camera mount to make it rotational and quick-release! Exclusive videos, drawings, models & plans available on Patreon!
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15:20 ...
Must
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Hahah, that’s EXACTLY what was going through my head. “This could be a verrrry expensive moment”
I was thinking the same thing at the at 19:10
@@ottersdangerden Yeah... slightly different cost calculations, but both expensive indeed!
Your mistakes, especially the boneheaded ones, give confidence to others. Seeing someone knowledgeable and capable make those mistakes makes it easier to swallow and continue for the rest of us dummies when we do the same.
If I can do this stuff, anyone can. 😁
At least I don't think I'm the only one who makes mistakes one right after another, Thank you for being so honest.
Fiore Vitola We've all been there
Don’t take this the wrong way, but I do like seeing mistakes being made. So many folk on youtube are either ‘perfect’ and never make mistakes (yeh, right!), or never show them.
From one who can make a mistake by just deciding to walk into her workshop, I thank you.👏
That was heart-felt & sweet & HONEST !!!
Thank you for showing the whole process including the adjustments needed when things don't go as planned. Everybody makes mistakes but the person that can overcome their mistakes is the true craftsman.
You're at the top of my list now for most anticipated upload of the week. Love the content.
Aww thank you! 🤗
It sounds odd to say, but I enjoy your mistakes, not because I take any pleasure in anguish or frustration, but because the aftermath of correction or adaptation is thought-provoking and fun to observe. Many thanks for sharing all this.
Well expressed!
Clever mount design and great build video! I'm glad you undercut the camera mounting thread, rather than relying on rubber or star washers. :-)
Besides making super educational video, I find them very therapeutic. I cannot develop any irritation at your machining, planning or video. Kudos !
I would love one of these with the locking knob being spring loaded to release from the pin rather than needing to take the screw out. Awesome videos!
Quin you are rapidly becoming one of my favorite UA-cam machinists. Your video quality, sense of humor, the projects you make and the fact you show your mistakes all make for a very pleasant viewing. And you upload regularly, which is really nice. Do you have any video content just for Patrons? I'd love to support you if I can get more video content!
I do show “behinds the scenes” videos on my Patreon, yep! They’re not full videos like this, but sneak peaks of upcoming projects, and casual status updates on the shop, that sort of thing. I tell little stories about getting parts or other stuff that doesn’t make it into a full video.
I will never do any machining in my life, but I love watching these videos. They are the visual equivalent of ASMR.
I appreciate your Lode Runner avatar. 😁
Completed project, very nice! I enjoy the fact that you do not hesitate to show the minor mishaps and the corrective actions that you take to fix them! Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work!
this is golden idea, as for errors, we are all humans, everybody makes them, but few are ready to admit them, specially to present them in such nice way. Actually it is a good thing, so that we can see everything that can go wrong in a project that looks very simple to make. Thumb up!!!
I had a day liek this the other day where I was constantly making mistakes on a part to the point where i gave up and came back to it a few days later, and i thought to myself, there is no way that ThisOldTony, or BlondiHacks, Abom etc. would make this many mistakes on one part, how do they manage to keep staying on track and not make so many costly mistakes. Well... Now I know, you're all as human as me :) thanks for showing the mistakes Quinn and how to solve them, helps a lot for someone who is just learning :)
No worries- we’re all always learning! 😄
@@Blondihacks That's true so thanks for teaching!
That is an impressive little part. I especially like seeing the evolution from the relatively simple one from last week to the more sophisticated one this week. As a bonus, we got to see you working with brass, aluminum and steel!
Love the work you do and the even mistakes. One I noted is at 13:40 . The shaft is mounted a bit crooked, but you coincidentally found the area of the least amount of axial run-out where your gauge is. This is why you thought the parting operation caused the run-out immediately thereafter. One thing I would do is run the measuring device up and down the shaft if it's mounted on the carriage and turn the chuck to discover that issue. Looking forward to more videos!
I'm relatively new to your channel, but wanted to take a moment to thank you for showing all your mistakes. Unfortunately it's been years since I've had access to machines, so I live vicariously through channels like yours. I remember making a lot of mistakes when I was learning, and continued to make a lot of mistakes as I expanded my abilities to do more operations. It's part of growing, and we're all human. No matter how many years of professional manual machining anyone does, their scrap bin isn't often empty, but many don't show their mistakes. Nice part by the way! I could use one of those someday, although I'm a little concerned about the camera base having only a few threads made from brass with a heavier SLR. Steel may be a better choice. Love your videos!
Thank you! We’ll see how the brass holds up. I was concerned about weight- the whole assembly is pretty heavy as it is, and I didn’t want a big lump of steel on the end of the arm. Modern DSLRs are surprisingly light, honestly, as long as you’re not using huge telephoto lenses.
I like the way you don't mind making a funny once in a while, it actually makes me pay more attention to what you are doing. thanks
it's like jazz music
no mistakes, just new parts
I enjoy your videos, many thanks to you!
Gday Quinn, it’s really nice how you show the mistakes, it’s frustrating to when I watch videos that you no quite well that mistakes have been made but never mentioned, we all make them so it’s a part of life, thank you for another awesome video, it really is a awesome camera mount idea, Matty
I've always found that it's way harder to include the mistakes than to edit them out. There is always so much pressure on what is shown and what is cut to keep the length watchable. You did a good job of including the mistakes into the story. It gives the video a stronger narrative flow and makes it much more interesting. Well done!
Pulling the chuck by hand with the endmill already in the bottom of the hole with light pressure is enough to square up a hole that size. This works well, doesn't ruin the bore. 7:01
The form tool turned out really nice and appeared to work well in the mild steel. Grind yourself a 1/16" wide parting tool to create that needed thread relief at the base of the camera mount threads.
The mistakes are REALLY appreciated. This channel is such a fantastic resource. Many thanks!
I have to admit, I freakin love this channel. So many interesting and useable projects and the fact that you leave the mistakes in the videos makes it even more wholesome. Lookin forward to more projects. Cheers mate
I have to admit, I freakin love this comment. ☺️☺️☺️
Grinding the tip off a drill works well to get a flat bottom. The only issue is you start going through a lot of drill if you do this on a couple of projects
Sticker over the dirty sticker. Love it
All worked out in the end. Thank's for being honest and sharing it with us. As we get older, we become a little more forgetful. Now don't forget that. What did I just say ? Oh' well, Thank's again, always enjoy your videos !
Machinist Bingo. 🤣 I'm loving your channel. Been hearing your name for a while on the Making It Podcast. Love it!
Thank you for showing your mistakes . If I learn from your mistakes then I will not have to make the same mistakes myself. You are always educating and entertaining. Shalom
This one time, at band clamp... 😁
I find your videos have a very relaxing effect, your very chilled demeanour is really obvious and calming. Made an error? No worries, just calmly learn from it, rectify it and move on. If only more people had that attitude the world could be a much nicer place.
I remember, many years ago, on the odd occasion I had to work with brass I found machining it very satisfying, I believe it was something to do with its lubricity from the lead in the alloy (do they still add lead to the mix?), a very similar feeling with cast iron.
Thanks very much for the time and effort you put into entertaining and educating us, keep up with the great vijayos. 👍
I'm learning alot from you Quinn, thanks! I find when I replay the events in my mind I make the same mistakes you do.
Once again, very slick video. Thx for posting.
Thank you for the machinist adventure Quinn! I appreciated all aspects of this journey and found the final locking result super satisfying. As a former professional photographer and a budding hobby machinist....this ticked all my like criterion.
Fantastic video and thank you for showing your mistakes. I recently acquired some brand new apprentice marks on my 3/4 inch 5C collet because apparently I can't add. Like you though I kept at it and thankfully now have a much nicer chuck key for my three jaw than the junky thing that came with it. O1 tool steel, hardened and tempered the square drive portion after I finished the cutting. Every time I turn annealed O1 I am surprised at how well it works in a small lathe.
Awesome project. It's amazing to me how much useful things can be built with a lathe. Great job and well explained. Someone should write a book "Everybody makes mistakes" If you don't, you're not trying to push yourself at all.
Nice vid, thanks. It's really common to use a flat bottom drill in industry. You drill the regular hole first, then clean up just the bottom with a flat bottom. You have to grind it from a second drill.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I’m glad to discover that I’m not the only one making mistakes along the way compared to other U tube channels that make you feel that you need to go back to your janitor job cleaning toilet bowls and never touch a cutting machine ever again.
I appreciate your Big Girl sense of humor
:)
Thanx for sharing this with us, warts & all
Turned brass always looks so nice.
Hi Quinn, no such thing as a mistake, its just another way of doing stuff you did not mean to!
I would have used a "D" bit to make a fairly flat hole. They can also produce very close to tolerance diameters too. Maybe not as good as a reamer but nearly.
I particularly like your copper soft jaw adapters, must have a go at making some for my chucks!
BTW, nice vid as usual.😎
This system reminds me of the Tiltall tripods. They’re all aluminum and have very simple clamping mechanisms with slits for each axis of the tilting head.
Hi Quinn,
I wouldn't call them mistakes, just learning experiences. When you were using the 1/4"-20 die on the brass, turning it around will let you get the threads about a half thread closer to a shoulder.
Not on these dies. Not all dies have that feature.
Hi Quinn,
Guess you were using adjustable dies. I have a set of dies that I keep around for those instances where I need to get the thread a little closer to the shoulder. Getting caught up on your other videos. So far so good. :-)
In a pinch, a smaller diameter ( than the hole) end mill in a tool post mounting can make a decent job of flat bottom. I have tried that a few times with success. Tool alignment is critical, of course.
There is a July 2016 video by Franco on using an endmill as drill and boring bar for some tips.
Yeah, I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong. HA!!! Yeah, didn't think I could say that without laughing.
What a beautiful little part. This is the Quintessential (see what I did there?) Blondihacks video. Funny, informative, entertaining, just great.
Thanks for all the work you do for us.
And Meow to Sprocket.
John my buddy always tells me I may not be right but I'm never wrong. What I thought of when I read your comment :-)
They also make flat bottom drills to clean up the bottom of holes they work pretty well
I'd love to have one (or more) of your stickers. As a newbie machinist, I love that you make things easier to understand
My stickers are reserved for my Patrons, sorry! 😀
@@Blondihacks I understand completely. no worries
One hack for turning undersize is to knurl the part then turn back to size. Not as strong but ok for light work. Have done it a few times. Got the idea from automotive heads where they knurl worn valve guides the re-bore them. Was a cheap way to fix the heads on my Mustang with no replaceable guides.
My machinist books must be old; they don't have Yatzee defined as "Parting done" ;)
Enjoying your channel and your sense of humor.
For sure! I almost knurled that part to tighten it up in the bore, but decided I could make it again quickly enough that I might as well. I already had all the tooling ground for it, so the second one went very fast.
Awesome work!
Holy crap..the isopropyl alcohol works super as coolant. Just tried it. I always have a bottle of that around for a zillion other purposes, but never heard of this one. Thanks, great tip. Have also tried antifreeze in a pinch on some CNC milling. Works , but I wouldn't use it if you have pets running around. They tend to like the taste...bad news.
Thank my viewers! 😁 Regarding antifreeze, yah, very very bad news around animals. I have two vets in my family and they’ve both dealt with that a lot. As you say, it tastes sweet to them and is extremely poisonous. Can cause death in minutes.
When reversing a part in the 3 jaw I face jaw 1 upwards, then undo the part, now carefully end for end it such that the 'top' that was opposite the jaw1 is now facing down (opposite jaw1). This keeps 'pretty good' concentricity for matching 2nd ops to 1st op surfaces. My 3jaw is some 70 years old and though I have reground it it is not perfect at all diameters.
I prefer the Arca Swiss style. It's basically a dove tail, shouldn't be too hard to make and you can even abuse it as a short rail of sorts, to adjust the shot a little. You can make super tiny, form fitting counterparts that remain on the camera at all times, there's a company called RRS (Really Right Stuff") that started manufacturing these back in the day.
I thank you, Lady Quinn, for all your work and expertise !
Please let an old Tool & Die Designer/Maker pass on to you a very KEWL trick, that works quite well...get an ARGO Corn Starch 35 ounce jar, with lid; and put water in it, and set it next to your bench grinder. (it is a short stubby jar and has a very large opening in the top that is very easy to use as a quench. Put the lid back on it when not in use. I have one by all my spots where quenching is needed).
Take the drill bit and grind, straight in, on your rough wheel. DIP EVERY 2 SECONDS into the Quench tank, or you'll loose the quality of your bit !!! You want to push very gently, but evenly. You want the end of the bit, SQUARE . Then counter grind the edge, but NOT real steep, or it will dig really bad. Do your final grinds on a very fine stone, that has been dressed. Being sure to quench very frequently ! You DON'T WANT any blue in the metal. That drops your Rockwell in the tip !
Chuck it up, oil the tip, and run it in, to bottom your hole. It WILL cut deeper if you please, but don't push it ! This is mimicking an endmill grind. I believe you'll like this trick. I made an entire set. The main thing is to Quench alot and keep END-MILL in your mind when grinding the tips. (fine drill bit can be done on a SpedeCut, but it needs to be mounted in a bench grinder with turned spacers on each side for thickness and clamping balance. NEVER GRIND ON THE SIDE...it will come apart!
Bill, from Tn. 🇺🇸
Quinn, the mark of a competent machinist, is the knowledge as to how best hide and fix your screw-ups... not mistakes, "screw-ups..."
What's the difference? Mistakes can't be helped. Screw-ups are when you do something that you know you shouldn't have done. ;-)
I want to go out and buy an expensive camera :-) just so I can make one of them that's pretty cool Quinn. I like the fact that you showed your mistakes to it makes me feel like that I can actually achieve something with a slave once I get mine situated and up and running. Planning on spending about a month once it's in a spot just trying to level it and turn different things. My buddy who's been a machinist for about 40 years is going to come down here and bring a bunch of gauges and dial indicators and all kinds of stuff like that that he's going to give me cuz he's got duplicate everything. Thank you so much for being such a wonderful teacher.
no need to buy a camera, she'll show us how to build one soon
@@brianwalk108 I am not kidding you I think she could seriously given the right amount of tools and enough books on how they operate and the drawings and measurements I will have no doubt in my mind she absolutely could do that.
Love it! Looks good and works good too!
That is a really nice simply bit of grip. A shame most of the commercially made stuff isn't manufactured to those kind of tolerances.
Just a small note about using brass, it is possible to get enough leverage out of the camera and lens to break the 1/4 in mount clean off.
I like mistakes, I mean I don't but I do when other people make them! Makes me realise it's part of this hobby. Thanks for sharing yours with us Quinn. G :)
I am so impressed you got the threads on that body to be so perfectly aligned that the knob faces rear so nicely ;) :D
I wish I could take credit for that, but it was luck, as you surmised. 😅 However the length of the knob was chosen so it didn’t matter where it landed. It wouldn’t interfere with the camera no matter what.
I admire your candor as much as your work. Maybe in the future cameras will come with four little screw threads in a standard pattern so they don't need a lot of tension to keep a camera straight, wouldn't that be fun?
I am at a loss to understand why anyone would dislike this video and yet there are some ,Why?????
My thoughts too!
Nice project! Having tried using an endmill in the lathe for the same purpose, I learned that endmills do not cut flat bottom holes. The center of endmills are actually slightly relieved, even in center cutting ones. So you end up making a very slight point in the bottom of the hole. This probably happened on your counterbore for the clamp screw as well. You could get around this there by milling sideways away from the center of the hole so the perimeter of the mill cuts the entire counterbore surface, but of course you'd lose the round edge of the counterbore. Also, I was watching one of Tom Lipton's videos and he recommended slitting to full depth in one pass. His explanation was that this prevents chips from packing in the groove ahead of the blade left by a previous pass and causing problems. He said it also helps the blade not wander as much. Check Monday Night Meatloaf 15.
You should watch my video on endmill geometry 🙃
This whole video is *oddly satisfying*
Look at it this way, it's not mistakes it's Research and Development for us learning the craft...lol. great video, thanks for sharing...Vic
Having made pinch clamp mechanisms like this before, let me add my $0.02.
The wall thickness of the clamp body has to be thick enough to create a thread and counterbore/seat for the pinch bolt. It also has to be thin enough on the opposite side that it can flex under a given amount of torque applied to the pinch bolt. The solution is to turn the OD of the clamp portion eccentric to the bore. That way you can tune those dimensions independently.
Great Idea, as you mentioned that gives you more room for the thread seat operations and easier to pinch on the back side! Thanks!
Yeah, this is a really good job. Nice work.
Well, all in all it turned out great 😁! In my humble experience learning to roll with the punches is a big part of designing and/or machining your own stuff (and making it work of course 🤣). My whole channel is pretty much based on that 😅. Thanks for the share, Quinn! 👍😊👍
You could grind a D drill to cut a flat bottomed hole, probably wouldn't need to harden O1/drill rod for a single hole in brass.
OR
Simply match the drill angle on the tip of your pin.
20/20 hindsight?
Regards, Oz.
Have you considered making a mount for your hand held band saw? I have found the the top handle is the pivot point and it is really easy to just set it up on a frame by clamping the handle to a pivot bar...then you can use it just like a normal horizontal band saw. Also Mr Pete has a nice little mount video to hold it upright as a vertical band saw. I have a portable hand saw also and used to as a horizontal rig made from an old round steel tubing chair...but I threw it out because it was ugly. Dumb move, It worked perfectly. I put a machine vise on the seat of the chair that was at the right height and it worked well.
Yah, it’s actually a space problem for me. I don’t have anywhere to set up the saw permanently right niw
What a cool project.
Great project and great video.
Nice project! Suggestion for mkII: maybe make it so that you can pull the camera off by just loosening the knob instead of having to remove it?
Micro 100 boring bars are really nice! I buy mine on Amazon. They're about 26-35 bucks.
love your attitude don't panic
Nicely done...
Quinn, in this video it's cristal clear you're having one of those days where murphy's law is working over time!
Sounds like a good day to stay at home and watch the world go by 🤣🤣
my favorite video yet
becuase of the miztakes
Geeze, Quinn... you work the way I do.
always learning. THANKS
That was full panic mode on:) Looks likes thas lathe is in a great shape and loves you:)
Thanks for showing your mistakes they are an encouragement to me as I make my share of "extra" parts. Mark
Interesting, a good how to video, thank you.
Is there a collet chuck you could put in the lathe to save the time of squaring it in the four jaw, since you designed the part to be machined in a collet?
I grind flat point drill bits to make flat holes bottoms. It is a lot easier than you may think.
Interesting. Great idea.
Good idea. Unfortunately your last video had me mounting a metal plate on my ceiling and scouring the internet for a 7ft long noga arm to mount the camera above my lathe 😂😂
wonderful work ...😊👍👍👍
Super cool thing... I want a camera rig like this now! Must... get... lathe... :)
Yep, we've all had our share of days like that... nice thing about mistakes is they make everyone else happy.
Glad you found the dye dobber
Nice👌. I'm needing to make a better camera system so always enjoy other ideas
This one time, at band clamp...
I was definitely going to make that joke, but had to cut it for time. 😂
@@Blondihacks The punchline would have got you demonised anyhow...
I came here to say this.
thank you for the video, you gave me an idea for a different part, you're funny
Have you thought about making a table for your portable bandsaw? I've been thinking about that a lot myself. Great video 👍
when you describe the MT2 endmill holder in the tailstock, I start doing my impression of a Kardassian I am wincing so hard. I'm going to press 'play' now and hope that the fact that the video is posted means that you were not injured.
Oh wow, I honestly thought that the cutting forces on the endmill were going to yank that holder out of the tailstock. I've never been so relieved to be wrong!
Is your chip tray q baking sheet? Where do you put it? Great idea I need a removable lathe bird cage poop tray, should make routine cleanup easy enough that I actually do it
Yup! I just went to Target and measured them all to find one that would fit in the space. It was the best $5 I’ve spent on the machine. 😀
What type of wheel and RPM are you using on that grinder? Seems to work really well on HSS!
That’s a 60 grit aluminum oxide wheel and I’m not sure what the RPM is to be honest. It’s a basic consumer bench grinder, although it’s 8” instead of the usual 6” which helps (higher surface speed on the wheel). It takes a looong time to remove that much steel though.
@@Blondihacks Thanks! I will give alu oxide a try. Not sure what my current wheel is, it's good for roughing but leaves a horrible surface.. Looks like aluminium oxide could be a good "middle step" before honing.
Always love your vids. I was wondering how long have you been running a lathe. Have you checked on the bush you set free hope it's OK.
Not that long, to be honest. A few years maybe?
Did you intend to clock the tripod/camera threads so that the knob was facing directly back? Or just a happy accident?
Entirely an accident, but the length was chosen so it wouldn’t interfere with the camera no matter where it landed. That’s why the knob is so long.