I made a bolt with MAZE threads - Don't strip these threads! - Can you solve the puzzle?
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- Опубліковано 31 сер 2023
- In this video I will make an even more complicated and difficult to solve maze bolt puzzle. I started by designing all of the parts in Fusion 360. Then I 3d printed each part using a plastic called PLA. Next I coated the 3d printed parts in a special ceramic slurry called Suspendaslurry. After that I placed the shells into a kiln and fired them at 1500° F to turn them into a ceramic. I filled the shells with bronze consisting of 92% copper and 8% tin. Once cool I broke off the ceramic shell molds to reveal the maze castings. Next I cast the bolt heads in a special sand called Petrobond. Once cast I machine all of the pieces on the lathe and milling machine to fit together.
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DUDE those castings were crisp as heck man. Absolutely beautiful details
this is the actual way to make art castings or other high quality ones
i never understood why some still use the a clearly outdated process that make low quality
@@darkplasmo7921 Whats the "Clearly outdated process"?
@@andrewsneacker1256 Sand.
Damn man I’m new here but you work is spot on!!
That's exactly what I thought! Perfect straight lines and no blemishes at all.
This is the future of anti-right to repair
lmao, I can already imagine Apple and Tesla acquiring a patent for something like this and calling it "user-protecting security screw" or some bullshit :'D
The shape of bolts to come
Yeah don't tell apple about this design.
Oof! Don’t speak it into existence! Horrifying.
I hit this with my big hydraulic ugga ugga impact wrench I will make all the threads go in one direction
This is one of those videos that I expect to just click through and see the end result but that whole process was beautiful to see start to finish. Such a cool project
I do the same
I can't believe how well the mould comes out. I expected bubbles and rough artefacts but those were perfectly straight lines. Amazing.
Awesome result. I can see how having all the “dummy” set screws makes it way more difficult
Thanks!
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You've really become a proficient machinist! Single point thread cutting is an achievement no matter how you look at it and as always your casting and finishing is stunning. Really well done on this puzzle it is beautiful.
100% agree!
Ive been single point cutting threads for ages, it never stops being a worry.
but it’s satisfying every time you finish! I actually find it therapeutic to single point thread on a lathe. Haven’t done it since college. I really need a lathe at home.
Thanks! I appreciate it!
my machinist teacher only taught us Single point threading and it was maddening. But hey now i know it!
The workmanship on display here is absolutly inspiring!
Super impressive results, amazing threading, and I can't help but envy the amount of detail captured by your maze cast! I'm now getting into pouring and forms, and man is this the kind of inspiration I needed!
wow, very impressed. i was a bridgeport operator for 20 years and your video brought me back to those days.
This is a great video and it shows how well you've progressed with your foundry work. The castings are so crisp and detailed they look as though they were CNC machined. And I love the way you incorporate the machine work into your projects - it's another layer of skill that most will never attain. Keep up the good work on these pieces of art and the videos that accompany them, it's always such a treat to open up UA-cam and find one of your videos waiting for me to view!
These turned out amazing! I'm always impressed with how nice your polishing always turns out!
Beautiful work, and great process to get there. I'm surprised how cleanly you got the detail of the 3D prints, and with minimal post-processing of the castings. Excellent craftsmanship and presentation!
Every single part you did was superb and great to watch. I audibly went, 'wow', when you sandblasted the left over ceramic, amazed at the detail. Really well done!
I've really enjoyed the videos you post. I'm definitely amazed at all the molds that you have been able to do using 3D printing techniques. Keep up the great work.
That's absolutely fantastic work! The maze type pattern as a surface texture alone looks stunning.
I cannot tell you how many wood working, wood turning, sword/knife making, Japanese bowl making and other videos I've watched. This is one of the coolest ideas and projects I've ever seen!! The process is extremely similar to how we dentists used to cast gold crowns and how jewelers cast gold jewelry pieces. Wax forms, instead of plastic. Different investment material and the gold is spun into the forms with a centrifuge. But, still, very similar. Really great job!!
It’s totally rad how awe inspiring you’ve become with machining. I loved that part the most about this video. More in depth than the foundry, which don’t get me wrong I love too. Last note, you should send one to Chris Ramsay and see if he could solve it. He’s a puzzle guy on UA-cam.
I was thinking the same, but I think chris may have done it before?
Another beautiful creation. I am a big fan of the way the set screw filled nut looks.
The workmanship on display here is absolutly inspiring!. DUDE those castings were crisp as heck man. Absolutely beautiful details.
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I hella copied the commemt above this one.
I think what's most impressive to me, is that beyond the immaculate craftsmanship and aesthetics of the objects in general, you also managed to design an entire maze, in 3d, on a *cylinder* and then just kinda glazed over it entirely like NBD.
There are tutorials for it. You just generate a maze on a website, import it into your chosen design software like Fusion 360 then wrap it around a cylinder.
Great job! You really turned your work into art.
No pun intended 😂
Thank you very much!
@@theorangebaron1595 Sorry, I dont get It.
Turned, as in on the lathe.
Wow man, the quality of work in every step of this project is truly impressive. I want one of those on my desk made out of solid copper and or titanium. Great work, thanks for sharing.
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A true craftsman at work. Thank you for sharing.
Polishing the high points of the maze came out amazing. Looks very good.
Sweet and polished outcome! I love the entire process from forming/melting/casting/polishing/finishing...the complete vision! And, the final product is a beautiful piece of art...well done!
Thank you for sharing your amazing work and artistry with all of us! Not only your creativity and excellent machine work but the quality of your video - such great shots and editing! It was very satisfying to watch you work even though I know almost nothing about these processes. Thanks again!
can bronze be blued? it would look nice with darker grooves
It can be darkened but not really blued.
@@robinson-foundryaluminium and anodise it ❤
Bronze is so purdy polished you don't want wreck.. brass even more but steels and aluminium you can anodise afterwards
Go ahead and do it yourself
It can be “blued” (turned black) just like copper and brass. But the term of bluing isn’t used for bronze.
I'd love to have a collection of puzzle bolts that would be so cool, physical puzzles like these are my favorite type of puzzle.
There's lots of them! Hanayama sells some great metal puzzles and I think they have a few bolt ones. Or if you want to 3D print something yourself, Oskar van Deventer posts lots of unique puzzles, and even some bolts ua-cam.com/video/V1H52Q9JLkI/v-deo.html
These things are *gorgeous* -- wtf.
Really well done on the process here, too. They're so complex but incredibly well made. Kudos!
These are beautiful. I print puzzles for my nieces and nephews for gifts with money inside, but this takes it to a whole new level of gorgeous. Wish I had the equipment (and skill) to do something like this.
Your talent is astonishing. This puzzle came out amazing. I thought you were making a custom puzzle for Chris Ramsay to solve. Truly a work of art.
Awesome work, the puzzle looks amazing and really shows off your attention to detail!
i love that you left the mahcining marks on the outside of the nut, it adds such a nice look to the end result. fantastic puzzle.
I love this! It was so cool watching you make these intricate mazes from scratch.
It puzzles me how one person can make something so amazing, on the first try too! Props to you sir.
They look great.
I just discovered your channel today. It is good to see that someone found a practical use for 3d printers. I noticed that on a couple of your videos your casting had voids in them. I remember seeing and old school craftsman doing castings years ago. He would push a broom straw through the sand mold to let air escape and avoid some of those voids. I don't claim to know anything about casting from a practical standpoint, that is just something I remember seeing and I thought I would pass that tip on.
Beautiful work. I have some cheap bronze puzzles that drive people crazy where you need to get an internal pin halfway through the inner cylinder before you can continue. Nothing as difficult as yours. I've done foundry work with bronze so watching your explanation of having a sprue for shrinkage was nothing I didn't know, but having the machine tools you do really kept me watching the video. Bravo!
I needed to see this. Thank you!
did you? really?
Really well made! Its incredible what pouring hot metal can create, especially if you have machinists tools for finishing. Maybe you should give away the extra maze. It would create more comments from your audience which increases engagement and youtubes algorithm loves that.
The overall outcome is amazing, and the finishing, and engineering are worthy of praise for this creation. All steps are meticulously planned. Kudos to you
Absolutely amazing skills. Beautiful craftsmanship.
Very impressed with the use of liquid porcelain, the outcome is spectacular!
You should collab with Chris Ramsey. This looks totally up his alley. 😁
Absolutely beautiful. Those look fantastic. I love all the detail in them. Great job on this.
Glad your process works so good
no channels clogged in the pattern
Supreme quality video! awesome 😮
Fantastic as usual! 🙂
Thank you!!
Amazing, I thought it was only a decorative maze, I didn't expect it would be a real maze escaping "toy". Such a beautiful work!
Lovely work - you make it look very easy (with the right equipment and knowledge!)
Awesome design! You should send the second one to Adam Savage, I'm sure he'd love having this oddity on his shelf and would give your channel a nice shoutout.
That is a great suggestion!
This is probably one of the coolest and most satisfying things I've ever come across. Almost makes me want to start casting my own pieces of art!
this is a beautiful puzzle design, when I saw it I could imagine it as an special key giving access to a locked door. Imagine using two o more of these keys as a combined locking system. Wonderful work, mate.
That's beautiful (and ingenious) work. Man I miss having my drill/mill/lathe set up . . .
Tip: instead of making 8% tin bronze, 10% aluminum bronze is notably stronger. Also, using water to cool them down quicker like that actually makes them softer.
The screws still look beautiful, and I'm sure there isn't really a problem with softer metal, since it's not undergoing much stress at all.
These look super cool! Actually thought this was gonna be a 4 axis cnc video lol. Any reason you chose not to cast the whole bolt as a single piece and put the spruce at the other end of the bolt?
These are beautiful. Amazing job!
VERY NICE video! My dad worked on huge brass and stainless centrifugal castings and I worked in plastics. This video was a perfect application of both. I especially appreciated you melting most of the plastic out before burning the remainder. Even though the plastic is pretty much unusable, it wasn't dispersed into the air. KUDOS!
Well done bud!! They look fantastic. If I didn’t know any better I would have thought they were all machined out of solid brass stock. You’re very good at machining. Keep it up!
I think you just invented the lock picking lawyers worst nightmare, the maze keyway! Just imagining trying to complete the keymazeway from muscle memory at 2am is dreadful 😂.
This is real art. Refreshing. Nice work.
Cool project. Very clean. Great attention to detail!
This is such a cool project! Question from an aspiring amateur machinist: at 04:31, the bolt is protected from the chuck jaws by wrapping it in a metal sheath. That sheath overlaps itself a short distance, so that there are two layers of that metal between one of the chuck jaws and the bolt, while the other jaws appear to only have one layer between them and the bolt. Does this additional layer of material affect the precision of the lathe in any way, e.g., situating the bolt off-centre on the lathe by the thickness of the metal sheath? Or is this something that can be corrected for by individually adjusting the chuck teeth? Thanks to anyone that's willing to provide some guidance!
From what it appears, you could adjust the other jaws to account for it. However, we are probably talking of a 1/1000 shim (0.001 IN) so it would be a negligible difference for the accuracy you need on a project like this. I could be wrong though.
@@Twitchy239 Thank you for the insight! I guess it makes sense to use faster and easier techniques in cases where tolerance is less of a concern.
Chris Ramsey would solve it
Absolutely riveting.
Looks like a real nut twister to solve.
The inspiration must have came like bolt from the blue.
Wow. I love it. As a fan of puzzles and machinery this was incredible to watch.
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Great video! The lost PLA method to cast is so cool! I love the final result!
Awesome work man, this is incredible.
Nice one. Just a no handcrafting man here who's interested in puzzles. I like the logo like impregnation on the screw nut of the old one. This would also add to the new ones. And the round bottom of these two could hold some Jumanji like text which lures you into the maze. Could be something like this: "Holding this in front of you makes a more stronger you. But giving it some twists and once or twice or more a turn could help to start your brain burn, old energy within your body's corners to find an escape from this transformer..." ;-)
But what's not so nice for a puzzle solver is that this is a one time pony. Maybe it is not too hard to make a maze holder containing 3 or more of these maze roles which than could be interchanged with one another or more ones you could make in the future. Like a long screw with 3 or 4 or 5 nuts on it. These just have to have something holding them in place when attached to each other. They could also be different materials/colors/themes/... .
Same goes for the screw nut to solve the puzzle. You can imagine it a bit like the hero going into the maze. So beside the maze line logo of the old one one side could hold a hero picture like a tiny Mega Man or the Transformers logo or the Zelda Triforce. So multiple nuts mean multiple heroes to choose 1 from before you start.
And another idea I have is to add a hat with a screw for this so the screw nut can only go back to the start at the bottom until you twist the hat until it is removed to change the hero/screw nut.
You can use all this inspiration for free but maybe I will do something like this in the future myself. ^^ Or more precisely: Let it be done. 🤣
So relaxing watching the machining of the parts, beautiful video and end product
Absolutely magic job. well done.
Looks a-maze-ing!
Beautiful machining. They look great.
Wonderful process and thank you for this refresher of sculpture procedures with metals. Just satisfying and a beautiful result.🕊
Beautiful work!! Congratulations!
Very cool project. Great job! The attention to detail is 10 out of 10.
Amazing craftsmanship!
Ohh wow, these casts came out perfect. Nice job!
Fantastic Job. Just love the skill sets you present.
Awesome project! Nice casting.... great craftsmanship!
THIS IS CRAZY. Another level of skill!
Amazing craftsmanship! 👌
Beautiful work!
Amazing project! looks great.
Amazing craftsmanship.
What a piece of art you have done and with impressive techniques. Thanks for sharing!
Nice build!
Absolutely mesmerizing.
This is one of the best things I've ever seen to have lying on your coffee or end table. Brilliant work.
Amazing well rounded skillset and creative genius! Hats off to you!
That sand blaster was a great addition to the foundry.
I'm only half way through and I must say Thank you. This is a lot of work.
Its wild to see you machine castings. I've worked in mechanical manufacturing and we always worked from ingot rods. To actually see you start from raw metal is just kind of nuts.
Thanks, great workmanship and technique!
Nice work, Sir!
nice craftsmanship!
awesome castings, the alloy you made looks amazing and your machining is really well done. nice results!
i like 3D printing puzzles for my nephew but the with PLA, they have too much friction sometimes and dont run as smooth as metal
Instant follow and amazing video! I love this. Thank you for sharing your process!