I think the best example of this is her shop organization video. Quinn has such a fantastic way of explaining theoretical as well as practical topics and that video displays both superbly!
I think it is great when people explain their processes assuming you do not know because you will either learn something new or a different perspective 👍
It's even greater when you DO know and their explanation is different from what you knew. Then you learn something when you weren't expecting it. Now you know two (or more) ways to solve that issue.
Quinn, thank you for the time and effort you put into your videos. I have a small woodworking channel, starring a CNC router and I want to expand my abilities and hopefully compliment the projects I make by buying and learning a metal lathe. I have been binge watching your channel now for the past few days and your stuff is so comprehensive, yet easy to follow that I feel this sense of confidence (I hope not false :D) to go ahead and buy the lathe. I'm excited to start this little journey and I'll be referencing your stuff on a regular basis, I'm sure. Thank yous and Kudos to you, lady!
Hint on the order of operations for the axles. to avoid the bad time getting the distance of the grooves of the second axle right, make the grooves for the first axle, then flip it around, cut the groves for the second axle and only then part in the middle
I so love your gentle voice, and in depth explanation of the process. The how and the why, and the oopsies, and the way to fix them. One of the best channels for me to learn this stuff. I've never been good with numbers, but I'm learning still. Not bad for pushing seventy! Thank you Quinn!
Great fun as always! The kit companies might do well to offer an option for perhaps 25% extra material for a fair premium, just to save the minor annoyances.
You do a very nice job explaining everything. Further, your hands are very clean to be doing machine work. I have no idea how you do it. I used to do machine work in a diesel shop and I never had clean hands. Good Show!
So Question. With both the axles and the pivots you parted off 1 part before starting it's partner, causing a more difficult operation on the 2nd part. In hindsight would it have been easier to flip the parts over and do the bulk of the work on the other part before parting off, and facing off the parted ends to length? Just curious. You do such a great job of describing your thinking on why you do things a certain way, and mentioning when another way may have been easier, I thought I'd ask about this.
I have been binge watching your videos, If you aren't a teacher by profession I'd be shocked. Great way of explaining things on your videos. so far enjoying this kit project. When I get a mill to add to my machine arsenal I will be looking into kits like this. Great videos.
After watching you set up your gearI had a horrible realization. After living in earthquake country for over forty years I thought about the hundreds of machine shop and oh I almost forgot Boeing,can you imagine all the hours lost recalibrating all that equipment. Holy schist!!!
For repeatability of your part in the collet, you should be able to set an end stop through the back of the collet Mandrel, they usually have this facility. Great work as always 👍👍
@@evanbarnes9984 You're very kind, thank you. Unfortunately it's been two years, directly related concussion issues resolve within 1 year so I'm waiting for them to figure out what's going on
Really enjoying your content blondie 😂 is there anything you cannot do. Your skills seem endless and I am new to this and have accelerated my learning because of your superb content so Thankyou very much 👍👍
I'm with you: I am not a fan of centre holes or other such op-only features on parts, exposed or not. Typically, if I have the time, I'll LASER or TIG the "blemish" and then dress down, clean up, or surface grind the redeemed part. I really do enjoy watching your videos and projects, especially at work. At the very least, I get a hearty chuckle but often your insights help me see my duties in a different light. Is there a more direct means of supporting you (that isn't Patreon)? (I guess I can always just buy loads of merch-- Haha! Where do you ship from?)
@@Blondihacks hey, hey! Just to let you know the main website "home" just isn't loading for me at home or at the shop, even in my mobile data. Oddly enough, my old bookmark to Furiosa's auto-feeder 'tankification' slowly loads but just fine. The home page currently just had the 7 dot spinning progress icon going and the shopping cart icon visible at the bottom right. Loading or stopped, the cart icon does not click through.
For less waste with the half-round clamping pieces: could you have made both at once, by bolting two bits of flat stock together and turning them as one square bar? Or would that not be strong enough for turning? I'm not any form of machinist so I'm probably completely off base with this. A bolt would get in the way of making the middle bit round, but I think you could still turn the round ends that sit in the semicircles?
Here's a bit for you Quinn: When face off bar stock you could put a little sound clip from fiddler on the roof where Tevye proclaims "tradition!". That's what I'm hearing in my head anyway.
Cool lathe tool holding insert. Where might I find something like that where I could hold a piece of HSS vertically in my qctp? Seems like it would make sharpening hss cutters faster. Thanks again Quinn and where’s sprocket?
From this day forth, Quinn's "Nom de plume" online should be........ "Foxy Hawk" ! :D On a different note. Quinn, if you machine something slightly unusual, like that turned circumference that seats into the radiused cut out on that clamping finger bit, and when testing the fit you find it's an almost scarily perfect, do you still get that little fluttery feeling ? Or are you now to a point where you think "I made it to fit, so it fits...... What's the big deal?" these days? For most of the quick and dirty hobby machining stuff I do, I tend to work to the tolerance of "It doesn't wobble THAT much in it's hole, so it'll be fine". I CAN work to tolerances, but most of the time don't bother if it's not critical to a parts function. A few months ago I turned a couple of chunky pin hinges for my utility trailers ramp. As a nod towards preventing the rough finish on the parts from chewing into each other too quickly, I reamed the blind bores in the female part of the hinges, and polished up the intentionally slightly oversized male parts with a few different grades of emery cloth to get them smooth and fitting good enough not to rattle too much, but entirely by accident, they were both perfect sliding fits. There was something almost hypnotic about sliding the dry pins into the blind holes in the hinge blocks and feeling the bouncy resistance as air was forced out of the void, then pulling them apart again to hear the pop. I got a feeling I hadn't felt since when I started to get the hang of hitting tolerances back when I was trained as a metal machinest many years ago......... It made me wonder when I'd become so slapdash with non critical tolerances? 🙄
At the 15:00 area, you flip the piece over and tap the other side: I have trouble understanding how you could line up the threads from both sides. How do you know they are lined up?? thanks!
Hold on! What is that totally cool holder you are using? Ingenious design using the ends like that. Makes for potential endless use of 1 cutting blank. Ok back to the vid.
I do watch every video, but remembering them all... that's another story. I mean, when i woke up today, I thought it was Friday, so remembering how to cut a good shoulder is unlikely at best!
Out of curiosity: would it have made it any easier to make both of the knurling pins (flip the stock), then split them and face off where they had met, or would that be equally difficult?
Love the video I really like the way you explain all the machineing steps I will definitely be ordering the kit BTW I like that tool holder where did you get it I definitely want one
Another great video ! Where can I get one of those HSS tool holders ? its used at around the 1 min mark of the video. I've never seen one before, it looks extremely rigid with the HSS bit in that unusual orientation.
Seems like an EDM cutter with a sufficiently fine wire would be pretty close to a zero-kerf cutting solution. Slow as Christmas, sure, but maybe within epsilon of zero?
Hi ,starting our retirement buy buying a second hand lathe and mill. I’m watching your beginners videos . The videos are great thank you. I have 3 questions First on video 7 turning a shoulder you said to get rid of the fillet go in an extra couple of though. I presume that’s added to the final depth ,then you come back out 2 thousands before pulling the tool out to face the shoulder? Q2 I have a set of banggood carbide insert tools which shaped tool is used for turning a shoulder and which tool is used for facing? It’s hard to tell how or where the tips will cut. Q3 last but not least can you recommend a video that explains imperial for lathing! I get what a thousandth of an inch is (1 1000th ) And I get a ten thousands But is 5 thou 5 1 thousandths or is it half of a 10 thousandth. You also said the first pass of a 4 jaw chuck will get you to 20 thousandths 😮 Sorry I’m from the uk so I use metric I know a thousandth is about 0.25mm ! Many thanks Paul
5thou is 5 x 1thou. 20thou is 20 x 1thou. Half of a thou is 0.5 x 1 thou... or bugger all. 39.37thou to a millimeter Inch is 25.4mm If you're talking ten thousandths... that's beyond the precision that my lathe can do. First pass of a 4 jaw dialing it in, you can get pretty close when you know what you're doing. 20thou is ~half a mm.
Kinda funny how Adam Savage put out a video this week about his own shop built clamp knurler. I see the flat part in both projections, granted in the left drawing it is just two lines but they are there.
The problem with kits as far as I'm concerned is that they don't contain at least three times the amount of stock needed. You know, a couple of practice runs and a final 'oh my god, better get it this time'.
In that first mock-assembly at 0.27 I thought, "Uh-oh, that's gonna push those knurling wheels apart." Good thing those parts are all symmetrical (except for the saddles). ;-)
I had to back up and look twice because I thought you put the flat in the wrong place… another vote for studying the drawing until you really get all the cuts needed. 😮
I cannot believe how well you explain things. Your thought process, camera work, clarity of operations is unparalleled. Thank you.
I think the best example of this is her shop organization video. Quinn has such a fantastic way of explaining theoretical as well as practical topics and that video displays both superbly!
Check out her bio! You will then know why she is proficient at explanation! Ms Blondihack is quite an accomplished person!!
I think it is great when people explain their processes assuming you do not know because you will either learn something new or a different perspective 👍
Yeah! Even if you know something inside and out, you never know when you'll have a blind spot.
It's even greater when you DO know and their explanation is different from what you knew. Then you learn something when you weren't expecting it. Now you know two (or more) ways to solve that issue.
Lots of good tips in this video - I learned a lot. Let me know if you ever run out of zeros - I have a few extra that I keep in a special drawer.
Is that where they went?!? ;)
@@ChristopherHallett haha, relatable!
Quinn, thank you for the time and effort you put into your videos.
I have a small woodworking channel, starring a CNC router and I want to expand my abilities and hopefully compliment the projects I make by buying and learning a metal lathe.
I have been binge watching your channel now for the past few days and your stuff is so comprehensive, yet easy to follow that I feel this sense of confidence (I hope not false :D) to go ahead and buy the lathe.
I'm excited to start this little journey and I'll be referencing your stuff on a regular basis, I'm sure.
Thank yous and Kudos to you, lady!
"Quinn Dunki, Crazy Hawk-Fox" That's the greatest title ever. You should get business cards made.
Hint on the order of operations for the axles. to avoid the bad time getting the distance of the grooves of the second axle right, make the grooves for the first axle, then flip it around, cut the groves for the second axle and only then part in the middle
Aauuggh! I was SO not prepared for "that's all the time I have this week..." 😆
I so love your gentle voice, and in depth explanation of the process. The how and the why, and the oopsies, and the way to fix them. One of the best channels for me to learn this stuff. I've never been good with numbers, but I'm learning still. Not bad for pushing seventy! Thank you Quinn!
I'm soooo glad you were watching like a hawk-fox!! ..thanks Quinn, helps a lot!
Great fun as always! The kit companies might do well to offer an option for perhaps 25% extra material for a fair premium, just to save the minor annoyances.
That's a great idea. The premium could also be used to cover the costs of having to stock a larger number of the pieces and kits.
I see a notification from Blondihacks, I click immediately! Really cool tool!
Yay!! It's Blondihacks time!!
Nice quality knurling tool for your future projects. I like your new workshop it’s very tidy.
I'm not sure but I think I caught a glimpse of an empty flat spot. 😱😱
You do a very nice job explaining everything. Further, your hands are very clean to be doing machine work. I have no idea how you do it. I used to do machine work in a diesel shop and I never had clean hands. Good Show!
So Question. With both the axles and the pivots you parted off 1 part before starting it's partner, causing a more difficult operation on the 2nd part. In hindsight would it have been easier to flip the parts over and do the bulk of the work on the other part before parting off, and facing off the parted ends to length? Just curious. You do such a great job of describing your thinking on why you do things a certain way, and mentioning when another way may have been easier, I thought I'd ask about this.
Always impressed with your detailed explanations along with the "why" things are done a certain way. Thank you.
I have been binge watching your videos, If you aren't a teacher by profession I'd be shocked. Great way of explaining things on your videos. so far enjoying this kit project. When I get a mill to add to my machine arsenal I will be looking into kits like this. Great videos.
3:23 Like a Fawkes. Boom!
This looks like a super little project. Excellent as always Quinn 👌
Your videos are always a pleasure to watch. Thanks Quinn!
Been waiting all week for this one!
Great to see you using the tangential (diamond) tool holder. 👏👏👍😀
Great video, Quinn. I can't wait to see it completed!
After watching you set up your gearI had a horrible realization. After living in earthquake country for over forty years I thought about the hundreds of machine shop and oh I almost forgot Boeing,can you imagine all the hours lost recalibrating all that equipment. Holy schist!!!
Excellent as usual. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎
0:24 Terminator claw, from the Cyberdyne T100 model
For repeatability of your part in the collet, you should be able to set an end stop through the back of the collet Mandrel, they usually have this facility. Great work as always 👍👍
5C collets do, ER collets do not
I see you have your tool height dead on centre! Like a boss.
Looking good.
That ground tool steal work was awesome. The tight tail support and gage block measurement was cool to see.
Beautiful work. If you don’t like see the center hole, consider drilling it out and putting in an interface fit pin. I enjoy your videos. Thanks !
Awesome! Got a migraine today, so a new Blondihacks video is just what I need for a bit of a distraction
I have an ongoing concussion, and my crappy days are also made better with Quinn's videos.
@@jasongreene303 oh man, I've had a few of those. I hope your recovery goes quickly and smoothly!
@@evanbarnes9984 You're very kind, thank you. Unfortunately it's been two years, directly related concussion issues resolve within 1 year so I'm waiting for them to figure out what's going on
Really enjoying your content blondie 😂 is there anything you cannot do.
Your skills seem endless and I am new to this and have accelerated my learning because of your superb content so Thankyou very much 👍👍
Looking good. This is going to be a very nice tool when done. Thanks for the video keep on keeping on.
So Close to the end... Looking good. Can't wait for the next episode.
2:05 I watch every video
Like the time you put in the little things...helps a lot...keep up the great work.
Thankyou👍
I'm with you: I am not a fan of centre holes or other such op-only features on parts, exposed or not.
Typically, if I have the time, I'll LASER or TIG the "blemish" and then dress down, clean up, or surface grind the redeemed part.
I really do enjoy watching your videos and projects, especially at work. At the very least, I get a hearty chuckle but often your insights help me see my duties in a different light.
Is there a more direct means of supporting you (that isn't Patreon)?
(I guess I can always just buy loads of merch-- Haha! Where do you ship from?)
I have PayPal options as well on my website: www.Blondihacks.com Thanks for the support!
@@Blondihacks hey, hey!
Just to let you know the main website "home" just isn't loading for me at home or at the shop, even in my mobile data. Oddly enough, my old bookmark to Furiosa's auto-feeder 'tankification' slowly loads but just fine.
The home page currently just had the 7 dot spinning progress icon going and the shopping cart icon visible at the bottom right. Loading or stopped, the cart icon does not click through.
For less waste with the half-round clamping pieces: could you have made both at once, by bolting two bits of flat stock together and turning them as one square bar?
Or would that not be strong enough for turning?
I'm not any form of machinist so I'm probably completely off base with this.
A bolt would get in the way of making the middle bit round, but I think you could still turn the round ends that sit in the semicircles?
Hey New blondihacks vídeo droped hypeeeee
Can't wait to see it in action!
I really need to get one of these kits. Great video as always! Your energy, explanation, and experience are very encouraging to us greenies
Thanks Quinn
Here's a bit for you Quinn:
When face off bar stock you could put a little sound clip from fiddler on the roof where Tevye proclaims "tradition!".
That's what I'm hearing in my head anyway.
Perhaps I haven’t been paying attention, it I don’t recall seeing that tangential tool holder before. How do you like it?
Using gage blocks to measure the groove was a "forehead slapper" for me! Would be good for ID grooves as well.
Yea! New video! New video!
Cool lathe tool holding insert. Where might I find something like that where I could hold a piece of HSS vertically in my qctp? Seems like it would make sharpening hss cutters faster. Thanks again Quinn and where’s sprocket?
I was going to ask the same thing!
I found it!!! It's "The Diamond Tool Holder" by Eccentric engineering
Awesome thank you!!!!!! I’ll take a look
Nothing like playing with fiddley parts.
Would you have been able to machine both ends of the part to make your pins and then part them off?
3:10 reminds me of "I'll be watching you like a hawk. That's been bred with an eagle... to produce some kind of eagle-eyed superhawk... with a badge."
From this day forth, Quinn's "Nom de plume" online should be........ "Foxy Hawk" ! :D
On a different note.
Quinn, if you machine something slightly unusual, like that turned circumference that seats into the radiused cut out on that clamping finger bit, and when testing the fit you find it's an almost scarily perfect, do you still get that little fluttery feeling ? Or are you now to a point where you think "I made it to fit, so it fits...... What's the big deal?" these days?
For most of the quick and dirty hobby machining stuff I do, I tend to work to the tolerance of "It doesn't wobble THAT much in it's hole, so it'll be fine". I CAN work to tolerances, but most of the time don't bother if it's not critical to a parts function. A few months ago I turned a couple of chunky pin hinges for my utility trailers ramp. As a nod towards preventing the rough finish on the parts from chewing into each other too quickly, I reamed the blind bores in the female part of the hinges, and polished up the intentionally slightly oversized male parts with a few different grades of emery cloth to get them smooth and fitting good enough not to rattle too much, but entirely by accident, they were both perfect sliding fits. There was something almost hypnotic about sliding the dry pins into the blind holes in the hinge blocks and feeling the bouncy resistance as air was forced out of the void, then pulling them apart again to hear the pop. I got a feeling I hadn't felt since when I started to get the hang of hitting tolerances back when I was trained as a metal machinest many years ago......... It made me wonder when I'd become so slapdash with non critical tolerances? 🙄
At the 15:00 area, you flip the piece over and tap the other side:
I have trouble understanding how you could line up the threads from both sides. How do you know they are lined up??
thanks!
Nice project and detail ! Enjoyed !!
Great video as usual, picked up a few new things I didn't know.
Quinn, a thought for a future video. Can you explain gauge blocks? Both how to use them and the black magic about how they ring together!
*wring
Hold on! What is that totally cool holder you are using? Ingenious design using the ends like that. Makes for potential endless use of 1 cutting blank.
Ok back to the vid.
I do watch every video, but remembering them all... that's another story. I mean, when i woke up today, I thought it was Friday, so remembering how to cut a good shoulder is unlikely at best!
I “almost” left a dislike because the video ended too soon. ;P
Looking forward to the next one! *pressed like*
Out of curiosity: would it have made it any easier to make both of the knurling pins (flip the stock), then split them and face off where they had met, or would that be equally difficult?
Love the video I really like the way you explain all the machineing steps I will definitely be ordering the kit BTW I like that tool holder where did you get it I definitely want one
Another great video ! Where can I get one of those HSS tool holders ? its used at around the 1 min mark of the video. I've never seen one before, it looks extremely rigid with the HSS bit in that unusual orientation.
Marvellous 👍
Great video , thank you Quinn
14:58 We will never run out of zeroes!
Seems like an EDM cutter with a sufficiently fine wire would be pretty close to a zero-kerf cutting solution. Slow as Christmas, sure, but maybe within epsilon of zero?
I ordered some 12L15.
It is barely available.
Hi Quinn where did you get your diamond shaped turning tool
thanks for sharing. another great video!
Nice Tangentual turning tool.
What’s the best way to fight a terminator claw?
Old foundry 👍
Looking really good. Quinn, do you know if D. Gray Drafting is in Winnipeg? I live an hour north and should look into his kits.
Yes Winnipeg. Let me know if you want a kit and we can meet up and save postage!
@@d.graydraftinganddesign361 Thank you for the reply. And very kind of you to offer.
Hi ,starting our retirement buy buying a second hand lathe and mill.
I’m watching your beginners videos .
The videos are great thank you.
I have 3 questions
First on video 7 turning a shoulder you said to get rid of the fillet go in an extra couple of though.
I presume that’s added to the final depth ,then you come back out 2 thousands before pulling the tool out to face the shoulder?
Q2 I have a set of banggood carbide insert tools which shaped tool is used for turning a shoulder and which tool is used for facing?
It’s hard to tell how or where the tips will cut.
Q3 last but not least can you recommend a video that explains imperial for lathing!
I get what a thousandth of an inch is (1 1000th )
And I get a ten thousands
But is 5 thou 5 1 thousandths or is it half of a 10 thousandth.
You also said the first pass of a 4 jaw chuck will get you to 20 thousandths 😮
Sorry I’m from the uk so I use metric I know a thousandth is about 0.25mm !
Many thanks Paul
It's 0.0254mm, I think.
5thou is 5 x 1thou.
20thou is 20 x 1thou.
Half of a thou is 0.5 x 1 thou... or bugger all.
39.37thou to a millimeter
Inch is 25.4mm
If you're talking ten thousandths... that's beyond the precision that my lathe can do.
First pass of a 4 jaw dialing it in, you can get pretty close when you know what you're doing.
20thou is ~half a mm.
@@kieranh2005 this is brilliant thank you
I’m assuming 1x ten thousandths is .5 thou?
It sure would be nice to have a DRO on your lathe
Quinn, you are cutest machinist on UA-cam, so I guess that makes you a fox.🦊❤
Kinda funny how Adam Savage put out a video this week about his own shop built clamp knurler.
I see the flat part in both projections, granted in the left drawing it is just two lines but they are there.
I had no idea you were allowed to use wide part of the edge finder...
Yes, they're usually .500 diameter. Even metric users have to admit this is an easy round number to divide.
@@ellieprice3396 yeah I’m used to dividing 12.7 by 2 and getting 6.35 ;)
Been watching your videos for a little while and got weirded out by all the open space on the walls in the new place
What lathe is that? I’d like to buy one that size
Does anyone know what the tool holder Quin is using to turn at the beginning is called? The one that just holds a HSS blank? Thanks in advance.
I managed to find it myself after trying various search terms on google. It's the eccentric engineering diamond toolholder for anyone else looking.
Excellent content!
The problem with kits as far as I'm concerned is that they don't contain at least three times the amount of stock needed. You know, a couple of practice runs and a final 'oh my god, better get it this time'.
Oh my gosh Quinn,,,, marry me please! We could manufacture so many things together. Great Excellent videos! Rudy 🇨🇦👋
In that first mock-assembly at 0.27 I thought, "Uh-oh, that's gonna push those knurling wheels apart." Good thing those parts are all symmetrical (except for the saddles). ;-)
Not being a machinist, how do you know critical dimensions from non-critical dimensions?
@@wolf310ii Thank you, that answers a lot of questions. I've been trying to figure that out for a while.
Always hate it when your videos end.🙂.
Run out of zero's 😂
By a tenth or ten miles, clearance is clearance!
Remember, clearance is clearance, Clarence.
Quinn, are you ever gonna make an Eric Whittle V8 Aero engine?
Maybe cut all four snap ring grooves before cutting the axle in half, next time?
"Poopknuckles" is my new favorite word!
I had to back up and look twice because I thought you put the flat in the wrong place… another vote for studying the drawing until you really get all the cuts needed. 😮
Most people don't watch every video? Lunatics!
No hawks, foxes, or hawk-foxes were harmed in the making of this video. This video has made me hungry like the wolf. 🤨
Poop-knuckles! It's been years since I've heard that saying!
You crazy Hawk Fox, you. LoL
gnarly gnurly
"Most people don't watch every video" ?!?! What sort of madness is that?
woodworkers favorite number is also 0 (km…) 😅, kidding, they are great