@@thatcoolkid367 Of course they don't have knees. Birds aren't real. Seriously though, birds definitely have knees. Their legs aren't just one solid bone sticking out of their hip.
The answer is more, more design and production to see for us, simultaneously more content for you. If it seems too off track for this channel consider making a secondary one for deep dives/detailed production/screwups and many of your viewers will watch that too.
2:30 it's actually the ankle! Birds walk on the equivalent of tip toes, so their ankle joint is where our knee joint would be, and their knees are up much higher
yeah, our common ancestor had legs too, so they can be talked about that way without much problem. Their legs and our legs are probably really non standard vertebrate legs lmao.
It is funny to look at the skeletal structure. It is usually well understood that bat wings are webbed hands that have very long fingers ... but the same is also true of birds!! And the structure of the leg of a horse is really the same as a dog, or a human... or a bird.
@samk2407 yeaaah, I think maybe he meant our leg structure (along with the other primates?) is the non-standard configuration, with more animals walking on their toes?
We need more of this type of step by step walk through. You got me excited about learning 5-axis CNC now. Thanks! It is really useful to see your design and fabrication methodology and design philosophy.
This is a very well illustrated back and forth of what the machining operations do and understanding the concept of 5 axes. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.
We don't see this kind of machining Small parts very often on UA-cam so I really enjoyed this video! The video about the copper rocket nozzle was also really cool in the same category (and copper looks sooo good)
At some point I learned that small parts are best done on a lathe. With a Y-axis. And live tooling. And a parts catcher. And a subspindle. Basically 5 axis milling machine with built in automation 😅
This was a super interesting video! I really enjoyed the format - you did great the pacing; also the showing off of actual machining footage and how it looked in the software was excellent. I'd love to see more videos like this in the future, hope it does well!
@@Bob_Adkins If he's fixed the Electron Microscope, be no problem ;) But seriously, if you want to see chips - Cutting Edge Machining, Abom79, bcbloc02, Inheritance Machining, Keith Rucker are all channels in my feed that do that. The chips were there, but I had to load the video in 4k on my work display to see them, no chance you'll see them on anything like a phone.
Thanks for all the effort you put into sharing your work and interests with us! I really enjoy watching your videos and feel like I've learned something after watching them. Keep doing what you enjoy!
1:33 that is exactly how we mostly use ours... but combined with a robot, it makes even more sense. Some parts we can finish in one cycle, so load up the robot, go home, come to a bunch of finished parts next day.
The beauty of machining is the people and the amount of creative problem-solving. While watching the video I came up with a strategy in my head on how to machine the whole part including all the chamfers on a three-axis mill xD
You had it right the first time. That's the ankle joint. Birds, cats, and dogs have what is known as a digitigrade locomotion. They move by walking on their toes. Conversely, humans and bears have plantigrade locomotion. We walk on the whole of our feet. The reason we sometimes think of that as the knee is because a lot of digitigrade animals have short femurs. Hope this was a fun piece of trivia to learn about.
For many years now, I have watched a ton of wonderful CNC machining videos but none of them offered the answers to why they do what they do. Your short but deep dive really filled in hte missing pieces for me! Love it!
Excellent! I really like both your content and the balance you achieve between concepts and practice. This is refreshing and difficult for a presenter. Like most people, I get sucked in by the novelty : bird robots, diamond milling. But I really want to learn about how this stuff gets done. Clever topics without learning about materials and methods is not enough.
Dude - I love the curiosity and plethora of content I’m blown away by what you know and do I feel like you could very well specialize in any of these but you’re exploring and creating and learning and brining us along and I’m here for it.. love your content very informative and looking forward to more always interesting the way you explain it
As someone with autism who regularly walks on the balls of my feet, that is the bird's ankle! Most animals that walk are digitigrade and transfer their weight through the toes and the metacarpals. Hominids inherited the plantigrade posture from our arboreal ancestors which you can blame for issues like tensor facitis and osteoporosis/arthritis of the knee and ankle. Neat and surprisingly important video! Science is all about reproducibility, so the little details like this are very helpful for anyone who wants to follow in your footsteps!
I have this problem as well, in that I love the accuracy and forwardness of metric, but can only think of PCB tracks and their spacings in 'mils' due to most fabrication houses specifying in those for standardized simplicity.. it truly is a curse that forces one to keep switching around depending on the thing being checked.
I found this interesting for sure. I'm tiptoeing around converting a small metal lathe to 2 axis CNC for wood turning (of all things). It's quite the learning experience so far...
Nah bro you don't cosplay the machinist. Dude with supposedly 50 years of experience at my workplace does, he took like one year to learn to how operate the 3-axist CNC and he still can't use CAD CAM software. He also always gets stuck on having to have a fixture for almost anything, he refuses to do break off tabs.
Oh yeah, good point! Should have mentioned that, I deburred those holes by hand. There are ways to debur the bottom edges (slot all around partially, deburr, then finish slotting) but backside holes are tricky to do. Backside chamfer and lollipop tools could do it, but you'd need to also remove some material for clearance with a t-slot cutter or something. Usually not worth the hassle, easier to do those few features by hand.
Love it! Can’t wait to see it run! Back when I used to do this kind of work, I would run all those parts in a vibratory tumbler containing ground walnut shells and a polishing compound. The resulting finish on aluminum was like a mirror, although the media could be a bear to remove from small bores.
All mammals have the same basic set of bones and joints, although some have evolved to become vestigeal, such as whales' legs. For instance, giraffes have approximately 7 cervical vertebrae, same as humans, although each of the giraffes' are much longer. Birds also have a very anomalous skeleton to mammals. Birds upper limbs are the wings. The joint of the hind leg that bends forward (in all of these animals) is the knee. The main joint that bends backward is the ankle. Horses "walk on their toes" similar to birds.
What CNC machine are you using? What software are you using? Is this mastercam? This is really cool. I especially like the tip of machining up a breakaway zone using the slitting saw. I'm amazed that didn't wobble and scrape the surface.
Fun! Were it not for the fact there aren't any threaded holes in it, this is actually the first video I've seen on your channel that runs an actual risk of breaking a tap!
Greatly appreciate this, and your other neat videos. I like CNCs, I have 4. But am curious whether 'high performance' SLM printed materials would be 'good enough' for your bird robot thing?
Probably! I just wanted to do some machining :) I'm also investigating nylon SLS and a cool CF-PEEK additive technique to see if they will work for future iterations. The first prototype I made with resin SLA and honestly it's probably fine too, I just don't have a good/reliable SLA printer right now.
This is nice, but most of the time you can desing the part so that it is machinable on a standard 3 axis machine, while retaining all of the functionality.But of course 5 axies allow for fancier designs and might be faster in some cases.
Reminds me a bit of the mechanical art pieces from MB&F M.A.D Gallery. Nice work. Also wondering what CNC machine you use? And does using simultaneous 5-axis machining lose some precision given multiple motors are running vs 3-axis? Cheers
What cad software is this? Are there other videos or playlist like this video you've done or that you recommend so I can learn more? If not will you? Really informative video for someone who knows nothing about this.
Yep, what @leobla744 said! Fusion360. I probably won't make tutorials, although if there's interest I'll do more videos like this. NYCCNC has a good channel with a lot of fusion CAD and CAM video tutorials. They are a bit older at this point but the basics are all still very relevant. I think he might also have a Fusion course somewhere, but that's not free
It has been on mine to, but to expensive, to small and generally being a toy has led me to just make my own 5-axis It was NOT cheaper, or easy, but it's WAY better😂
Next video you need to do the apple keynote thing where you have custom chips, tiny robot parts and tiny rocket engines and switch through them a few times only to reveal the first DIY self-replicating nanodrone and finally start the technocalypse.
Have you considered using metal 3D printing? You can print the part and finish the holes with a reamer, or design the part with an additional arm so that it can be machined in a CNC with a single fixture, significantly reducing milling time and waste. Small parts like these, when 3D printed, cost only a few dollars. If you're a hobbyist(with a 5 axis cnc😆), there's a chance that the printed part will cost you less than the raw metal piece
I've thought about it! Biggest issue is just turnaround time. Most affordable metal printing is in China still (last I looked anyway), so it's just faster/easier for me to machine or FDM print something in my shop than wait for a part to arrive from China. Material cost of aluminum at this size is basically pennies so it's not a big deal to iterate through a few designs. I'd like to do some metal printing work at some point, just haven't found a project where it made sense yet and really used the capability well.
Did you write a custom post for your machine? I have the exact same machine and have been limping along with a modified fanuc post for fusion. Awesome setup!
Oh no, that doesn't sound fun at all 😢 I post through CAMplete (it came with a year subscription when I first got the machine, and just kept using it). So the workflow is Fusion -> CAMplete post -> Simulation -> gcode from CAMplete. I think the CAMplete post was made by Kitamura, maybe ping them and see if you can get a copy? It's not perfect, there are some quirks like jerky repositioning moves on some toolpaths. Can see it a little when the deburr path is repositioning. But I think that's more of a CAMplete issue than anything, I'm not super familiar with tweaking that software. I did buy a native Fusion post from DSI (since probing in CAMplete sucks) but honestly haven't used it yet, so not really sure if it's any good.
The airplane factory I worked at achieved 5 dimensions of working by simply having four CNC machines linked by a robotic assembly line, but I think the seven figure price tags of those bad boys are beyond what most people here can hope for.
@@BreakingTaps I’m a bit old school with two 70’s desktop Emco lathes, a desktop CNC Shapeo, BamboLabs X1 Carbon multi filament printer and a desktop Snapmaker laser / CNC / 3D printer. I really enjoyed your video! I was wondering how the two smooth side holes were going to be finished, then how entire final piece would be released. I’m in IT, not a CAD designer or 3D designer. Thank you!
This helped me. I had some intro CAD classes but no CAM or even consideration of manufacturablity. I can handle home 3d printing ok abut always felt too guilty to send off for machined parts. BTW, feel free not answer if it isn't the public's business, but how do you afford so many cool toys? Do you work them into your day job?
Glad it was helpful! So I'm mostly fulltime youtube now, but previously I used all this equipment for client/prototype/jobshop work, making parts and assemblies for customers. And analysis/consulting with the microscope stuff.
0:42 someone could set up a manual mill for 5-axis machining by mounting a rotary table on an indexing head. Granted, there are probably more efficient ways.
the cutaways showing the actual operations were a bit confusing since almost all of them showed the part in a different state of completion to what it should be if following the order you were describing in your narration
Apparently 5x machines have to be registered in the USA because they are critical in the manufacture of defense specific things I don’t want to mention due to algorithms.
Interesting design for a prototype. I feel like if you had to build a bunch of those parts it would have been cheaper to make this part from 3 different components: You can sandwich it from two identical pieces of flat steel (very cheap, easy and fast lasercut) with a small block or even a turning part or round material in the middle. Then add two or more holes for pins to align the parts (with great attributes for shear force) in this way you can safe a lot time in machining, chose the parts for your needs in strength and you can be more flexible in design changes later. And you eliminate the need for a 5-axis machine in general!! However for demonstration purposes and for prototyping good enough of an example
* after further investigation: The middle part is so small, it could be easliy lasercut as well and only needs the two holes on the bottom for your design plus the holes for pins.
I hope this is not to confusing haha😂 Maybe its an interesting video-idea to compare both manufacturing ways and talk about the differences: i am most certain that send cut send would cooperate in this project.
I'm glad this video came out. My dad never taught me about the birds and the knees.
this video is the birds knees
They don't have knees?
ba dum tis
@@lizardkeeper100 What's the joke ?
@@thatcoolkid367 Of course they don't have knees. Birds aren't real. Seriously though, birds definitely have knees. Their legs aren't just one solid bone sticking out of their hip.
Given how old that reference is and the likely age of the audience here, I'm surprised to see it getting this many likes.
The answer is more, more design and production to see for us, simultaneously more content for you. If it seems too off track for this channel consider making a secondary one for deep dives/detailed production/screwups and many of your viewers will watch that too.
Great format! Really enjoying it
Heavily inspired by your DFM series! For a channel named "breaking taps" it's a crime this is the first real machining video I've done in years 😅
2:30 it's actually the ankle! Birds walk on the equivalent of tip toes, so their ankle joint is where our knee joint would be, and their knees are up much higher
yeah, our common ancestor had legs too, so they can be talked about that way without much problem. Their legs and our legs are probably really non standard vertebrate legs lmao.
That sounds painful, but it does work exceedingly well!
It is funny to look at the skeletal structure.
It is usually well understood that bat wings are webbed hands that have very long fingers ... but the same is also true of birds!!
And the structure of the leg of a horse is really the same as a dog, or a human... or a bird.
@@crackedemerald4930 i have actually no idea what you mean by that
@samk2407 yeaaah, I think maybe he meant our leg structure (along with the other primates?) is the non-standard configuration, with more animals walking on their toes?
We need more of this type of step by step walk through. You got me excited about learning 5-axis CNC now. Thanks! It is really useful to see your design and fabrication methodology and design philosophy.
I agree. Love seeing how things are made from micro to the macro!
Don't waste your time if you live in the states. Materials will cost you more than finished parts from over seas.
This is a very well illustrated back and forth of what the machining operations do and understanding the concept of 5 axes. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.
We don't see this kind of machining Small parts very often on UA-cam so I really enjoyed this video!
The video about the copper rocket nozzle was also really cool in the same category (and copper looks sooo good)
At some point I learned that small parts are best done on a lathe. With a Y-axis. And live tooling. And a parts catcher. And a subspindle. Basically 5 axis milling machine with built in automation 😅
live tooling and sub spindle da real mvp
This was a super interesting video! I really enjoyed the format - you did great the pacing; also the showing off of actual machining footage and how it looked in the software was excellent.
I'd love to see more videos like this in the future, hope it does well!
Awesome video but you can't leave us with just tradeshow air machining footage. We want to see chips!
Good luck seeing those little chips!
@@Bob_Adkins If he's fixed the Electron Microscope, be no problem ;)
But seriously, if you want to see chips - Cutting Edge Machining, Abom79, bcbloc02, Inheritance Machining, Keith Rucker are all channels in my feed that do that. The chips were there, but I had to load the video in 4k on my work display to see them, no chance you'll see them on anything like a phone.
I think the shot of the saw shows why it's done that way -- you can't see much through coolant.
@@SpriteGuard I want to see coolant 😅
Thanks for all the effort you put into sharing your work and interests with us! I really enjoy watching your videos and feel like I've learned something after watching them.
Keep doing what you enjoy!
One of the best videos I've seen on Design For Manufacturability. Fantastic work, man!
1:33 that is exactly how we mostly use ours... but combined with a robot, it makes even more sense. Some parts we can finish in one cycle, so load up the robot, go home, come to a bunch of finished parts next day.
The beauty of machining is the people and the amount of creative problem-solving. While watching the video I came up with a strategy in my head on how to machine the whole part including all the chamfers on a three-axis mill xD
"Some mistakes have been made" *soul leaves chicken leg* haha Love the machining videos.
The magic smoke has been released!
Machining content is always highly appreciated, specially coming from your channel!
You had it right the first time. That's the ankle joint. Birds, cats, and dogs have what is known as a digitigrade locomotion. They move by walking on their toes. Conversely, humans and bears have plantigrade locomotion. We walk on the whole of our feet.
The reason we sometimes think of that as the knee is because a lot of digitigrade animals have short femurs.
Hope this was a fun piece of trivia to learn about.
TIL, thanks!
I'm a long time fan for the science and micrography, but I also like machining videos and love your take on the genre. Don't hesitate to post more :-)
An useful tip for converting inch fractions to metric: 1/16th of an inch is about 1.6mm
The thickness of a standard PCB !
For many years now, I have watched a ton of wonderful CNC machining videos but none of them offered the answers to why they do what they do. Your short but deep dive really filled in hte missing pieces for me! Love it!
Excellent! I really like both your content and the balance you achieve between concepts and practice. This is refreshing and difficult for a presenter. Like most people, I get sucked in by the novelty : bird robots, diamond milling. But I really want to learn about how this stuff gets done. Clever topics without learning about materials and methods is not enough.
Dude - I love the curiosity and plethora of content I’m blown away by what you know and do I feel like you could very well specialize in any of these but you’re exploring and creating and learning and brining us along and I’m here for it.. love your content very informative and looking forward to more always interesting the way you explain it
As someone with autism who regularly walks on the balls of my feet, that is the bird's ankle!
Most animals that walk are digitigrade and transfer their weight through the toes and the metacarpals.
Hominids inherited the plantigrade posture from our arboreal ancestors which you can blame for issues like tensor facitis and osteoporosis/arthritis of the knee and ankle.
Neat and surprisingly important video! Science is all about reproducibility, so the little details like this are very helpful for anyone who wants to follow in your footsteps!
TIL, thanks for the extra context!
Interesting mix of metric and obsolete units!
My brain is cursed 💀
I have this problem as well, in that I love the accuracy and forwardness of metric, but can only think of PCB tracks and their spacings in 'mils' due to most fabrication houses specifying in those for standardized simplicity.. it truly is a curse that forces one to keep switching around depending on the thing being checked.
I was today years old when I learned what a Turbine Blisk is!
Whoa, did this guy get hot since the last video? He is pretty cool
😎
I found this interesting for sure. I'm tiptoeing around converting a small metal lathe to 2 axis CNC for wood turning (of all things). It's quite the learning experience so far...
Fantastic foundational info. Thank you for making this.
Nah bro you don't cosplay the machinist.
Dude with supposedly 50 years of experience at my workplace does, he took like one year to learn to how operate the 3-axist CNC and he still can't use CAD CAM software.
He also always gets stuck on having to have a fixture for almost anything, he refuses to do break off tabs.
8:05 lol, being able to precisely bore with an end mill is *sweet af.*
Such a fascinating process, thanks for sharing. :D
The bottom holes didn't get deburred/bevelled. Did you do that by hand? Or does the slitting saw somehow not leave burrs?
Oh yeah, good point! Should have mentioned that, I deburred those holes by hand. There are ways to debur the bottom edges (slot all around partially, deburr, then finish slotting) but backside holes are tricky to do. Backside chamfer and lollipop tools could do it, but you'd need to also remove some material for clearance with a t-slot cutter or something. Usually not worth the hassle, easier to do those few features by hand.
@@BreakingTaps This isn't really necessary in aluminum with a double-sided bevel cutter if you don't go very deep. I do it all the time.
Show us all of your work
It’s fantastic thank you
Future video headline. "Breaking taps saves a bird with homemade implants."😁
Awesome video as always ! I always get exited when I see that you have uploaded something.
That looks great.
Love it! Can’t wait to see it run!
Back when I used to do this kind of work, I would run all those parts in a vibratory tumbler containing ground walnut shells and a polishing compound. The resulting finish on aluminum was like a mirror, although the media could be a bear to remove from small bores.
Honestly you mostly talk complete and utter Engineering, this stuff is an awesome watch !
loved this video! I'm always interested in the interface between STEM and Arts, and Machining is definitely such a craft and practice
Really enjoyed being walked through the basic process.
As someone currently looking into a hobby CNC machine -- this video might have convinced me to splurge for a 5-axis :p
love this format!
Very insightful ! Thank you very much 🙏🙏🙏
Bird legs have almost the same joints as we do. It's just that their placement is a little bit unexpected for us.
Yeah, it really shouldn't considering we are only among the small minority of animals which walk (not climb) with a plantigrade posture.
Thanks for the great video! I enjoyed all your videos; however, oddly, I really enjoyed this one most. Thanks for sharing your thought process!
@13:17, I know you mean 5 tenth(ousandth)s of an inch, but for some reason it's very funny to me to think of it as 5/10 of an inch.
Same
All mammals have the same basic set of bones and joints, although some have evolved to become vestigeal, such as whales' legs. For instance, giraffes have approximately 7 cervical vertebrae, same as humans, although each of the giraffes' are much longer. Birds also have a very anomalous skeleton to mammals. Birds upper limbs are the wings. The joint of the hind leg that bends forward (in all of these animals) is the knee. The main joint that bends backward is the ankle. Horses "walk on their toes" similar to birds.
Good stuff. Thanks for doing this video.
Nice vid! Adam is definitely the real deal. I think I’m also a cosplay machinist 😅
I need more axis in my life.
Slap a spindle on your robot arm and you'll have a 6 axis machine! 😇
This is such a silly comment because i appreciate the machining but that's also a nice shirt :)
Thanks! New acquisition for end of summer/fall, really like it so far!
My dad used to work for System 3R - the "chuck" in the five axis cnc. Very cool, haven't seen that logo in twenty years.
What CNC machine are you using? What software are you using?
Is this mastercam? This is really cool. I especially like the tip of machining up a breakaway zone using the slitting saw. I'm amazed that didn't wobble and scrape the surface.
The machine is a Kitamura Medcenter, and I'm using Fusion360 for CAM (with the machining extension)
@@BreakingTaps Thank you.
more machining please!
Machining content is always welcome :)
you could try using a jewelry vacuum caster to cast the parts and then just use a drill press to make the important bores
Fun! Were it not for the fact there aren't any threaded holes in it, this is actually the first video I've seen on your channel that runs an actual risk of breaking a tap!
very interesting, thank you!
I love that mug!
Greatly appreciate this, and your other neat videos. I like CNCs, I have 4. But am curious whether 'high performance' SLM printed materials would be 'good enough' for your bird robot thing?
Probably! I just wanted to do some machining :) I'm also investigating nylon SLS and a cool CF-PEEK additive technique to see if they will work for future iterations. The first prototype I made with resin SLA and honestly it's probably fine too, I just don't have a good/reliable SLA printer right now.
This was interesting, thanks.
Very interesting and useful, thanks a lot for sharing!
And of course the three holes opening onto the last flat face will need to be deburred by hand- but that greatly reduces the manual operations.
This is nice, but most of the time you can desing the part so that it is machinable on a standard 3 axis machine, while retaining all of the functionality.But of course 5 axies allow for fancier designs and might be faster in some cases.
1:40
Also called 3+2 (three plus two), or 3++
Never knew Thom Yorke could machine 5-axis parts! 🤟
Reminds me a bit of the mechanical art pieces from MB&F M.A.D Gallery. Nice work. Also wondering what CNC machine you use? And does using simultaneous 5-axis machining lose some precision given multiple motors are running vs 3-axis? Cheers
What cad software is this? Are there other videos or playlist like this video you've done or that you recommend so I can learn more? If not will you? Really informative video for someone who knows nothing about this.
Fusion360
Hf learning :)
Yep, what @leobla744 said! Fusion360. I probably won't make tutorials, although if there's interest I'll do more videos like this. NYCCNC has a good channel with a lot of fusion CAD and CAM video tutorials. They are a bit older at this point but the basics are all still very relevant. I think he might also have a Fusion course somewhere, but that's not free
What do you think about Fusion?@@BreakingTaps
Love it
Really good stuff
A pocket NC has been on my wishlist for like 10? Years 😂
It has been on mine to, but to expensive, to small and generally being a toy has led me to just make my own 5-axis
It was NOT cheaper, or easy, but it's WAY better😂
Next video you need to do the apple keynote thing where you have custom chips, tiny robot parts and tiny rocket engines and switch through them a few times only to reveal the first DIY self-replicating nanodrone and finally start the technocalypse.
Have you considered using metal 3D printing? You can print the part and finish the holes with a reamer, or design the part with an additional arm so that it can be machined in a CNC with a single fixture, significantly reducing milling time and waste. Small parts like these, when 3D printed, cost only a few dollars.
If you're a hobbyist(with a 5 axis cnc😆), there's a chance that the printed part will cost you less than the raw metal piece
I've thought about it! Biggest issue is just turnaround time. Most affordable metal printing is in China still (last I looked anyway), so it's just faster/easier for me to machine or FDM print something in my shop than wait for a part to arrive from China. Material cost of aluminum at this size is basically pennies so it's not a big deal to iterate through a few designs.
I'd like to do some metal printing work at some point, just haven't found a project where it made sense yet and really used the capability well.
Did you write a custom post for your machine? I have the exact same machine and have been limping along with a modified fanuc post for fusion. Awesome setup!
Oh no, that doesn't sound fun at all 😢 I post through CAMplete (it came with a year subscription when I first got the machine, and just kept using it). So the workflow is Fusion -> CAMplete post -> Simulation -> gcode from CAMplete. I think the CAMplete post was made by Kitamura, maybe ping them and see if you can get a copy?
It's not perfect, there are some quirks like jerky repositioning moves on some toolpaths. Can see it a little when the deburr path is repositioning. But I think that's more of a CAMplete issue than anything, I'm not super familiar with tweaking that software.
I did buy a native Fusion post from DSI (since probing in CAMplete sucks) but honestly haven't used it yet, so not really sure if it's any good.
Oh interesting. Thanks so much for the detailed reply, I'll check out CAMplete first
The airplane factory I worked at achieved 5 dimensions of working by simply having four CNC machines linked by a robotic assembly line, but I think the seven figure price tags of those bad boys are beyond what most people here can hope for.
Excellent video! What 5 Axis machine are you using? Thank you.✌️
Thanks! It's a Kitamura Medcenter
@@BreakingTaps I’m a bit old school with two 70’s desktop Emco lathes, a desktop CNC Shapeo, BamboLabs X1 Carbon multi filament printer and a desktop Snapmaker laser / CNC / 3D printer. I really enjoyed your video! I was wondering how the two smooth side holes were going to be finished, then how entire final piece would be released. I’m in IT, not a CAD designer or 3D designer. Thank you!
Awesome run down, I can just send this to people instead of explaining things badly haha.
This helped me. I had some intro CAD classes but no CAM or even consideration of manufacturablity. I can handle home 3d printing ok abut always felt too guilty to send off for machined parts. BTW, feel free not answer if it isn't the public's business, but how do you afford so many cool toys? Do you work them into your day job?
Glad it was helpful! So I'm mostly fulltime youtube now, but previously I used all this equipment for client/prototype/jobshop work, making parts and assemblies for customers. And analysis/consulting with the microscope stuff.
Cool to see Adam the Machinist pop up
Great video!
But we want to see chips flying!
Do you know about the Cogsdill internal chamfering tools? Very handy and it will replace the 'lollipop' operation.
Oh interesting, no I hadn't seen those before. Might look into picking one up, they seem very handy indeed
The man is literally building a robot chicken!
very cool
0:42 someone could set up a manual mill for 5-axis machining by mounting a rotary table on an indexing head. Granted, there are probably more efficient ways.
Do you have any recommendations or advice to do with buying or building a basic CNC machine for small parts like this?
Can you make a video about the voice coil actuator? I haven't found much about them other than the vendor.
I'll talk about it more in the upcoming video! It's essentially going to be a video about voice coil actuators and rotary solenoids :)
Well, sleep can wait 24 more mins 😅
Seriously! 😂😂
And you have 5 seconds left to brush your teeth :D
UA-cam cookie; and also : how TF in 1 video out of nowhere you manage to be competitive with Titan of CNC !?
Looking more and more like a mad scientist 😂
Shop tour when?
the cutaways showing the actual operations were a bit confusing since almost all of them showed the part in a different state of completion to what it should be if following the order you were describing in your narration
Noted! Will keep that in mind if I do something like this again.
Alright fine I'll go look into machinist apprenticeships tomorrow, I get it UA-cam algorithm, you've made your point.
Always interesting.
Now spend 3 days hand-engraving intricate classic patterns on each flat side of each part
At 4:47, I would love to see @titansofcnc take you up on that. Even with your note about 5 machinists/10 opinions, haha.
Apparently 5x machines have to be registered in the USA because they are critical in the manufacture of defense specific things I don’t want to mention due to algorithms.
Shame on you for not closing the video with a full Timelapse of an actual part being made…..
Interesting design for a prototype. I feel like if you had to build a bunch of those parts it would have been cheaper to make this part from 3 different components:
You can sandwich it from two identical pieces of flat steel (very cheap, easy and fast lasercut) with a small block or even a turning part or round material in the middle. Then add two or more holes for pins to align the parts (with great attributes for shear force) in this way you can safe a lot time in machining, chose the parts for your needs in strength and you can be more flexible in design changes later. And you eliminate the need for a 5-axis machine in general!!
However for demonstration purposes and for prototyping good enough of an example
* after further investigation:
The middle part is so small, it could be easliy lasercut as well and only needs the two holes on the bottom for your design plus the holes for pins.
I hope this is not to confusing haha😂
Maybe its an interesting video-idea to compare both manufacturing ways and talk about the differences: i am most certain that send cut send would cooperate in this project.
It's like Joe Pie CNC!