Yep! If you go to the link in the description and find the drawing packet for this project, there is a detailed bill of materials including item numbers from McMaster-Carr and Surplus Shed.
It turns out the easiest way to get an ultraprecision turning machine is to get one donated by a local industry partner. Which is exactly what happened to our shop, so I no longer have a need to DIY such a thing. But I'll eventually finish the air bearings video series and show some DIY inspection fixtures that use the technology.
I considered using dual dimensioning on the drawings, but it quickly became cluttered. It wouldn't make sense to do metric in our shop because all our equipment is inch and it would require hundreds of thousands of dollars to re-equip the shop. But I may release a metric only version of the drawings in case self-learners and instructors in other countries want to incorporate the project into their curriculum.
Great video production/discussion/demonstration of all the steps in machining this part
Thanks Chuck!
I for one have always been a fan of comically large conical enlargements.
nice filming. Thanks for the content. If I wanted to build this is there a link list for lenses and other harder to find parts
Yep! If you go to the link in the description and find the drawing packet for this project, there is a detailed bill of materials including item numbers from McMaster-Carr and Surplus Shed.
If you make the first timestamp 0:00 then the chapter markers will appear in the scrub bar on the video.
I did not know that! Thank you!
Two videos in 5 days? Are you drinking more coffee?
Up to 12 cups a day!
Are you ever going to finish the autocollimator project as promised?
Yes, eventually. Many other priorities competing right now.
what happened to that super precise lathe you were working on?
It turns out the easiest way to get an ultraprecision turning machine is to get one donated by a local industry partner. Which is exactly what happened to our shop, so I no longer have a need to DIY such a thing. But I'll eventually finish the air bearings video series and show some DIY inspection fixtures that use the technology.
@@LaneyMachineTech cool
Metric
Both systems are used globally. If you are serious about being in the industry you are money ahead to discard such silly biases.
@@ShainAndrews 🙄I was working more on metric so expected video to be metric
I considered using dual dimensioning on the drawings, but it quickly became cluttered. It wouldn't make sense to do metric in our shop because all our equipment is inch and it would require hundreds of thousands of dollars to re-equip the shop. But I may release a metric only version of the drawings in case self-learners and instructors in other countries want to incorporate the project into their curriculum.