Here on the Artisan Makes channel I create home machine shop videos. With a small workshop and modest equipment, I will show that almost anything can be made with an import lathe, and a small milling machine. I hope you learn something new and enjoy your time here.
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Big Lathe: Hafco Al 250G Red Lathe: Sieg C3 7x14 Mini Lathe Small Lathe: Sherline 4410 CNC Vertical Mill: Sieg X2.7l
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The bigges tap i have at home is M45x1,5 and i thought this was huge. Why did you make a Fly press and not a ratcheting arbor press ? Does this design of yours have Advantages over a ratcheting arbor press or do you just like fly presses more ?
I have noticed that you often 'apologise' for using 'wood-working' tools on Aluminium - don't! It is widely known that one of the advantages of constructing things from Aluminium is that you can use your wood-working tools on it.
I have made "field taps" from grade 8 and 10.9 bolts that worked flawlessly. I give them straight, forward and neutral rakes in the three main cuts. I'll also make shallower cuts on the front in addition to the main cuts.
9:30 Handy power for a coolant pump. Or something running off a small servo motor maybe. Also get a drill n socket that fits the lock nut for moving the head. Stick it on there and pull the trigger * may pay to add a balancing weight opposite the handle. Id also dampen the resonant frequency of the table by putting some long, exposed bolts poking up through it, then form up the perimeter and pour a decent thickness concrete to onto it and fix the mill to that. Could do the samw with the legs, either filling wil sand/concrete or using them as a rigid brace for forming them up and surrounding with a pillar of concrete. Or, if you have access to heaps of batteries, making a shitload of small-medium spheres and filling the legs with those plus sand. (or attacking with an acetylene torch and melting the lead to conform perfectly with the cavity inside the legs...) Permenantly seal them then engrave a warning plaque to spot weld on informing the reader of the structure containing lead inside.
That is one massive project! You should be proud of yourself dude! That may look overengineered but that's gotta be way stronger than anything else save actual cast steel. You may have inheritance machining beat on the number of side projects for this one 😂
Can you please explain why the tool is tilted at an angle, if it was flat to the bed the insert edge would still be the lowest point. I think cutting the tool on an angle is a leftover idea for when there were flat HSS toolbits. With the insert protruding beyond the toolholder body on insert type tool you are using, is this angle required?
Can you please explain why the tool is tilted at an angle, if it was flat to the bed the insert edge would still be the lowest point. I think cutting the tool on an angle is a leftover idea for when there were flat HSS toolbits. With the insert protruding beyond the toolholder body on insert tools you are using, is this angle required?
Don't want to seem critical, but MIG welding is wrong here - at least use a "dualshield" type gas shielded flux core for thick steel! I highly recommend doing some weld tests if you never have. When it's thick, use a stick, if you want it to stay stuck.
Did I leave that part in where I said mig welding probably wasn’t the best. I can’t remember if I did but yeah I know it wasn’t the best. But 5 tones of force ain’t going to be breaking that welding
😂 This was so awesome to watch and wonderfully presented. The oversized tooling was just perfect. The tap holder looks like something Abomb79 would love. You definitely get your moneys worth out of your machinery.
I have a set of them but I don’t think they would be much use here since I was dealing with a non sphere which I couldn’t accurately predict how evenly it would expand. Cheers
@artisanmakes Love the channel, really enjoying the videos! Saw a great video for something you might want to build as a project. Have a look at the channel “Jeremy makes things” for the 1950’s Power Hacksaw Restoration. When I saw it I thought of your channel and cutting metal.
4:50 drag welding isnt the best would u wash a basket ball court full of leaves by walking backwards with a hose ? or walk forward spraying the hose at the leaves.
I find button insert face mills with high rake aluminum grade ground inserts are far superior to single point tools. The obvious benefits include, faster spindle speed, balanced tool, much faster feeds, multiple insert contact eliminating chatter, vastly reduced impact on the part and spindle bearings. Sub micron finishes on brass, as shown on the 28 part fixture demonstration. This method shows tandem milling that reduces cutting toolpath length, doubles edge life & eliminates any backcutting. They may be worth a try.
Thanks for putting together a video dedicated to the fabrication of your fly press. I really enjoy watching you work on a project. If I may make a suggestion for an improvement if practicable. If you were able to increase the amount of grease on each side of the moving part of your fly press, you may gain greater effective output. If it's practicable, consider installing Zirk fittings to feed more grease to the existing channels. I look forward to your next video. Best of luck!
I think the giant taps plus the tap wrench are my favorite project of yours. Just as a spoof they'd be awesome, but the fact that you actually purpose built and used them for a project elevates it to top tier for me. While I love the fancy pants machinists of YT like ToT or IM to death, you've quickly become my favorite machining channel on here. I really admire your dedication and commitment to playing the long game.
Im used to watching youtubers that have every single possible tool they could want and a great large lathe, its nice to see normal makers that probably dont have everything
Indeed. You can't throw a rock on youtube without hitting some channel showing off the zillions of $ some guy spent on his workshop equipment. I like this modest approach, it's more relatable.
Honestly my biggest takeaway from this series was that you're in desperate need of a bandsaw. I shudder at the thought of those angle grinder cuts and it would have made those v-blocks so much faster to mill out.
At 24:30, Could you have put those big chunks of steel in your oven and heated them to 500+ before welding and then back into the oven for slow cooling? Would it be stronger, especially for the over arching screw mount? It just seems to me that one day when you least expect it, a big bang will happen and one of those welds breaks because of the extreme twisting/bending force the screw applies to the overarm to base connection. plus the inherent stress of the welding process in which such dissimilar temperatures/heat affected zones now exist. I enjoyed the series and this recap. Thanks for making this video!
At 36:08, you could bolt it to a piece of wood big enough for you and it to stand on together. You could even place extra weight (Poured, molded & cured cement?) between the legs for more ballast. Just a thought.
My dad had a floor standing manual fly press that stood as tall as him. It always amazed me that with one man/kid power we could fold 2mm thick plate steel. And it was the first "machine" he let me use in his commercial tool shop business. So yeah, I totally get the joy of using it thing... but getting donked on the head by that fly ball is no fun at all.
