Machining a Diamond shape with a Spin Indexer
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2019
- This video demonstrates a creative use for a 5-C spin indexer. I'll side mill one end and use a flycutter on the other to show a few milling approaches that can be used on your mill. The final "one way part" is very creative.
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It's rare to watch one of your videos where I don't pick up a trick or two. And in many I learn a whole lot. And thank you for sharing your knowledge in this way. But this was one of those rare ones. For a change thanks to already using my own spindexer a fair amount I got to sit back and relax while I watched something a bit different take shape.
Part of what I like is the pacing of your videos. Not filled with time wasters and yet there's a touch of machining art to them too. And typically with lots of gold nuggets of knowledge and experience being shared. Your channel is one of the first I tend to suggest or to check that other machine shop guys watch. And when I run across a fellow Joe Pi fan there's always a big smile of appreciation for good quality time spent on YT.
I hope you enjoy making these as much as we enjoy watching them.
I do. Thanks for the feedback.
Joe you are an amazing machinist... great teacher you always amaze me. Thank you for your time and effort to teach us new stuff. I really look up to you I'm a home machinist. I have learned so much from you.!!! Keep rocking out the wonderful videos they are greatly appreciated.
I am a retired machinist, from a one man, company owned shop. I wish that I had found your channel while I was still working. If I was the owner of a small shop, I would require / pay for each new employee to watch all your vids. Even a small tip - using banding to hold parallels - makes time spent watching vids worth every cent paid. - I used to use folded packing styrofoam, but it got ragged and needed to be replaced often. - Thank you Joe, your experience / patience is appreciated.
Your ability to take something that seems complicated at first glance and make it appear so easy never stops to amaze me. I would love to see how you would approach making something like a 20 sided die. I have thought about it a few times and don't see a way without some special work holding setup.
I always discover a different way to look at something with your videos. Thank you!
Great. thats the underlying message.
Wish I had a spin indexer before I got engaged... would have saved me a whole lot of cash!
I made one! And it came out right the first time! All the women in my neighborhood want one! I gotta say, this is one of the coolest things I've made. I got real pleasure out of it.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks Joe! I always appreciate your videos and learn from them.
As always very nicely explained and beautifully made. Thank You Joe 👍
Awesome demo on using the spin indexer!
AS someone who appsolutely nothing about this sort of work . I find it fascination what you can make . Thank you for posting !
Thanks for the anniversary gift idea.
Why would anyone downvote this vid? Great content Thanks Joe!
Diamonds are forever Joe, Nicely done!
Spin indexer, yet another accessory to purchase on the long list. It was good to shake your hand and say thanks for sharing your knowledge here on UA-cam at the Good of the Land Fest.
The tool list will always grow. It was good to meet you all as well. the Good of the Land festival is a great place to explore and meet people. Justin, his wife and support team did a great job.
Perfect Joe as always, my spin indexer just arrived today, so obviously I searched for a video by your good self
Thank you Sir
Indeed, out of the box. It's magnificent.
Thanks. Fun project.
Excellent project and tutorial Joe, many thanks for sharing.
Sweet plumbBob. Thanks for sharing. Needs a line cap.
Good Idea.
Loved that. Thank you Joe!
Great idea. I do have one, used it a few times only. I really learned something
Thanks for showing.
From good to good job as always , you are a master sir.
Thank you for sharing
Always learning something new from you Joe. I've never used an indexer but now I have a hankering for one...
Very nice work Joe. I like it.
Thanks Joe, that was very interesting 👍
Awesome little project. I'm definitely going to give it a try. I'm going to try it with some clear acrylic. Thanks for great tutorial! 👍
Love the way you play! Great job!
Pretty slick Joe it's great to think outside the box
cool as usual Joe. thanks for taking the time
Hello Emma. thanks for watching. Fun project.
Makes me think I really ought to 'play' with mine again sometime - not used it a whole lot. Nice demo Joe, thanks. :)
Great video! Love your approach to machining always learn something! Thank you.
Awesome demo Joe!
thinking outside the box, very nice job
I love it.
You make it look so easy.
We called it the "Whirligig" in our tool shop. Very useful piece of equipment. Gave you a thumbs up for this one. Work safe.
I've called it that as well. Have you ever seen the Harig indexer. Next level stuff. www.harigmfg.com/grindall1g.html
Love your Tips Joe. Keep em coming.
You bet.
Beautiful
Great tutorial. Good teachers use interesting visuals when teaching. You sir are a good teacher.
Thank you for your continued support.
That was such a joy to watch.
Just having fun.
Joe! I have a 16 tooth gear, its 22.5 degrees between centers in teeth. I need to cut the center between each tooth. So i make a fixture to line up the gear in the collet. I cut every other tooth, 45 degrees, then remove the gear and line it up with the fixture to cut the odd number teeth. I have now cut at every 22.5 degrees. 😁 Machinists will make it happen!
DIAMOND GEEZER. that is a complement from an old engineer here in the UNITED KINGDOM., Thank you for a great demo. i have milled slots in the base of the indexer also my indexer came with E-R 32 Colette chuck.great bit of kit.
Absolutely brilliant!!!
Great demonstration! I might have to try this.
Decent as hell - Gonna take a heck of a ring to hold that "Rock." Thank ya for demoing that process.
Awesome technique Joe!! I use a spin indexer almost everyday for grinding relief on endmills. Very handy piece of equipment! Take care!!
Very creative, thanks for sharing
Your so amazing joe a true master ,I so appreciate you sharing your knowledge,Thank you from Canada 🇨🇦.Tony
Thanks Tony.
Nice. Very good Joe.
Never seen a part with so much geometry awesome buddy
Thanks, Joe. “Meatball Setup” & “One Way Part” added to the lexicon! ^___^
Right next to " Unloosen"
from someone new to mill that would be a great practice part..thanks
good lesson, as you mentioned my spin indexer base has been machined square.....never the thought of mounting to the rotary table, but now one to remember
Meatball! Lol kinda meatballed my last mill project too. Love the techniques you use here. Never would have guessed how this was done on manual machines.
I just made one Joe. It was easier than I expected but still a bit tricky as my mill is not very big. I used the Spindexer in my vice and tipped it up at an angle of 30° for the first cuts with a Flycutter, then repositioned it in the vice 45° downwards and used an insert mill. Thanks for the Video! 😉
yeah! pretty good keeping your (and our) minds on problem solving, the tough to machine parts. Dos'nt get better than that thanks again Joe love nerdbydesigns rubber tube idea too
love your safety tips
Thanks. They are very important.
As we have come to expect, an interesting and different take on an old subject.
For mounting the indexer, I milled an open ended slot in each side to take hold down bolts.
Awesome work Geezer
This geezer still has a few tricks up his sleeve.
I had a spin indexer, a cheap Chinese one, actually did some fairly critical work with it. I actually had considered retro fitting a couple angular contact rollers to it. I was working in a shop around 2006, the recession hit, when I got laid off, I left it behind. Not as stupid as getting addicted to cigarettes, but close. Nice tool. Never leave yours behind!
Hey I have been subscribed to your channel foor several years now. I really like the videos and I appreciate the Metric values you report. I am sure the british people watching would appreciate but so do I, Regards from the Netherlands! I like the instruction/tip video's keep them coming.
Thanks for the support. Tell your coworkers.
That looks like fun, Joe. I'm overdue for some non-production work in the shop and stuff like this is just what I need. Thank you, sir. Hope all is well! - Tom Z
Hi Tom. Make a big one and use it for a paperweight. Fun project.
very cool , thanks for the video and lesson,,
A modified pin end when spun 45 degrees can give you 1/2 degree directional movement.
pretty cool! that took some imagination.
Well Thanks again Joe Pie.. been trying to fit a decent sized rotary table into my budget for a new concept wind turbine project I'm currently scaling up from a very successful model, my favorite tooling and equipment store has a spindexer on sale but I having never used one felt reluctant to spend the money, nice job on the vid. I look forward to more vids and to using my new Spin Indexer. Cheers!
Love your channel Joe. This video inspired me to cut some diamonds myself. Wish I could send you some pictures.
Hey Joe, looks fantasic on the surface finish, always learning new stuff, and really like your comments on hold down and saftey in the shop. I could watch your vids for hours on end. If you would be so kind as to make another one in a very hard material in a video for us in the future try having all the fly cutter facets 15 degrees off from the facets made on the lathe. lets see how the edges turn out and see what kind of burrs occur on a corner having three facets meet instead of four.. Thanks for all your hard work and careful thought..
great project
Hey there Meatball - cool indeed. I used to cut sapphire into stone facets like that but I held one end in hard wax on a stick and lapped it down with diamond. Almost 60 years ago.
Somewhat smaller I imagine.
Genialne, wygląda pieknie, powodzenia kolego
Nice work.
Joe, there is Norwid's poem about Ashes and Diamonds and you are definitely a Diamond
Amazing!
Diamonds are forever !!!
I've faceted many hundreds of stones , & designed quite a few 'cuts'. . . Try indexing several times with each facet ; roughing in , then medium & fine cut before polishing ! Sometimes it takes several days to cut just ONE design to completion . . . but then , I'm talking about a one of a kind cut . . . with hundreds of facets ;) * I don't think the refractive index of brass is very high , ( regardless of the facet angle) ! Great demo of the spin indexer though , thanks Joe !
Fun stuff ! You COULD 're-machine' any one of those facets , but you'd need to make a pair of dops , then a transfer block ( you could use a pair of 'V' blocks for the transfer . . . to swap ends for cutting / polishing the other facets ) 'nothin to it , like eating lettuce !
I have the same indexer and I like it.
Interesting and a pleasure to watch Joe TFS. G :)
That was really cool. It looks like you could use this kind of setup for making the precise angled plates to assemble a brass icosahedron or dodecahedron box.
Nice job.
Very Cool !
A piece of soft rubber tubing on the part makes a feature that a rod or dowel in the tail stock can catch. It is basically a temporary bore hole that is easily put on or removed. That was a little trick an old timey machinist taught me.
Great idea, thanks!
@@ferrumignis no problem
I have been known to make a small cup my drill chuck holds to catch small parts if I have a bunch. Even small parts get hot.
Awsome video joe.. thanks karl from Malta
Greetings from Austin Texas USA. Thanks for stopping by.
@@joepie221 almost every video I saw from you channel.. you thought me alot how you should work and do things the right way... Always appreciate your time to do videos....
Very cool. I'm wondering if I can make up one of these with the 12 sided collet block that I've just ordered. I think it will be possible.
Fun video
Good God! I thought you were cutting brass... all the way until 11:40.
Neat video, thanks again Joe.
Very nice!
I will try same one! :D thank u for idea
That's a whole lot a carats! Neat. Thanks.
Brilliant!!!
My father made me a couple of custom tie rod ends for my 1985 Mustang GT and he used one of these indexers to machine the hex nut on one end of the rod end.
Thats one of many uses for sure.
great short and fun video Joe. nice. would be good content seeing how to square up and grind in the spindexer base too. just sayin'!
The front face is true for use on a grinder. But how hard would it be to do all 4 at the factory? Right. I may finish it out. If I do, I'll film it.
Great show Sir Joe, new mic I think👏👌
very nice!
Nathan,
Joe has the smaller version of my Clausing Colchester 15.
They are incredible lathes. The clutch is great. They have a clutch in the apron as well. Turning to a stop is easy.
Excellent video, there is not many on spin indexers ,even the instructions that come with one don't always explain how it works, I have 2, with my Phase II the operation was explained better , it is a handy tool if you don't have to split degrees,
Awesome 👏
Awesome
Tom Lipton (Oxtools) has a video series from a couple years ago demonstrating how to adapt various and sundry hole plates for the Phase II spinner.
Pretty cool diamond - thanks.
Just got my own Spindexer! Second time watching this video LKD &SBSCRBLD the first time
Thank you very much. Welcome aboard.
Cool. thank you