This was a long one, thanks for watchin! Outro music by a friend of mine, check him out: / badamericansofficial Montage music Prod. by Danya Vodovoz Royalty free music: • Urban Traffic - Hip Ho...
You have the hands of my late grampa. He was a welder his whole life. Worked at the paper mill for 45 years, and built golf cart trailers on the side in his home shop.
Love the burning wood. My final year student project (back in '74) was stabiizing a sealed CO2 LASER. Power supply was a 19" rack unit, 6' high. Working in a basement lab (on my own, all hours), I could tell if it was lasing properly when it would light my cigarette. Ah!, the good old days.
Amazing Build ! On the note of knowing if the water cooling is flowing, look into those "Flow Indicators" (or to be fancier/detect leaks or some error an "Inline Flow Meter"). I think they are pretty common in the PC Water Cooling community. Could probably hack one together easily, since it just needs to be something that spins/giggles if there is water flow.
What really impresses me the most, is that I had NO idea you could build all the components so 'simply' yourself. You broke the laser tube down into its basic essentials; I pretty much was convinced the only way was to Purchase a tube (which was 'mysterious'). The other cool thing is how you explained using a laser to internally align it: Brilliant. Thank you; subscribed, BTW :-)
Just a quick note (sorry, I know I'm quite "late to the party." At 9:37 in this video, you connect the HOT water feed (from laser to radiator) to the BOTTOM of the radiator, and the COOL water return (from radiator to tank) to the TOP of the radiator. While it will work ok like this (obviously, since you used it), it is a bit less efficient, as natural convection wants to move the hottest water to the top & the coolest water to the bottom of the radiator. Thus, you will likely see a performance boost on your cooling by simply switching the connections of those two tubes. Awesome DIY videos though, I've watched the whole series of your CO2 laser series now! ;-)
Awesome video, I would never have thought of diy'ing your own tube before I found your channel. Thanks heaps for the great instructional vids that are just thorough enough in detail and never drag on or get boring
Cut a hole in some 1'' round rod drill a hole in one end and turn down the other to fit your drill. Then cut some half inch round put a hole in one side and with a set screw you can hold a piece of high speed steel with an edge on it. Then either turn a point on the piece opposite your drill to stay on center, or counter bore it to hold a drill bit. Then you now have a hole saw that works better and can always be ground sharp again.
Pretty much binging your entire list. Very entertaining 👏. And I'm a carpenter who has avoided metal as much as possible my entire career..which is strange 🤔 cuz I went to tradeschool for tinknockin & welding. I'm diverging, Apologies. starting to learn metal stuff and basic electronics. And it's awesome seeing (you) a young hungry tradesman in development. There aren't enough of us. Keep creating. Great content. Learn every day. Teach every day.great job brother.
Very nice build man, you can monitor that flow with a hall effect flow sensor, they cheap as balls and you already have an arduino in there to hook it up to.
You should be very proud of yourself! I watched your YTs in part of pleasant afternoon. But I totally got the feeling for how hard you worked. Good for you!! PS. This is the only YT I have watched for which there are, as yet, no thumbs down. Only 407 thumbs up so far (that’s about 10% of the views, not bad!) but more should be coming. May Latush be loosed on anyone giving this fine YT a thumbs down. Great job!!
I just found (and subed) to this channel and I haven't figured out if this guy is a genius pretending to be an idiot or an idiot pretending to be a genius. Either way he is entertaining as hell to watch.
Great build! You got +1 subscriber. I'm thinking here that one major feature of the good water chillers i've operated is they have a nipple on the bottom to let flush the distilled water whenever the water builds algae inside. And it happens once in about 6 months of regular use. As I didn't saw an outlet in your build, I'm guessing how easy is it going to be for you to flush the water out of the loop. However, I'm guessing that a UV lamp made for aquariums might just do the trick, as your hoses are transparent. Best of luck and keep the kickass work!
I think they even make inline ones too. I need to look into if something like adding a little bleach, or ozone could work (corrosion is my fear i guess)
Idk if this was addressed already, but do NOT mix copper and aluminium in a watercooling system! Unless you're going to use specialised cooling liquid. Else you gonna fight with galvanic corrosion which will turn your destilled water into ionised I believe, which makes it very conductive.
Just electrically isolate the tank from the rad and make sure the water stays super clean. You could also add cathodic protection or else use oil or maybe Trichloroethane in the loop instead of water if it becomes a problem.
Thank you! havent gotten around to figuring out the output yet, but i'm thinking of using the arduino with a calorimeter(or something comparable) to optimize the gas flow autonomously.
add a flow indicator for the water. also, DuPont connectors on Arduino are no good for a final product, you will have issues with dust and possible oxidation, ire commend to can replace them with proper terminals (the ones you can screw)
Will a capacitor from a Microwave work? If not, why? (I see them by the curbside all the time on trash day.) They have have transformers too. Nice build!!
You could put a moisture sensor (just a couple wires connected into the Arduino analog in), and take readings to turn on a warning light if your water gets low. Also attach one to the bottom of the case to watch out for leaks. It's almost free! 2 leds and some wire. Edit: distilled water and wires/electrolysis might be a problem. Maybe use aluminum wire and only check (power the wire) once every 5 minutes. I check only every 30 seconds on my aquaponics pump and only change my copper Ethernet wires once a year. But that is dirty water! Not sure if distilled water will conduct for a reading.
@@TheRainHarvester you know, I'm sure a microwave capacitor would work, but it definitely wouldn't be optimal. And the last thing I need is to blow up a cap the size of my fist inside a box full of sensitive components hahaha
I want a PTZ mount for that, and stereo computer vision with neural network, and a do-not-trespass, due to ammo shortage we are using laser cannons sign, thats all good right? :P /sarcasm
I love it seems it might be a wee bit heavier than mine but my gantry is very very heavy i can ride on it has 3 nema 43 1600 oz steppers go big or go home in the thumb nail to the left i went with the direct approach i mounted the tube strait up/down on the gantry where the spindle mounts well it seemed like a good idea at the time less laser loss but now it lives on the backside of the gantry 3 mirrors later the beam is where it needs to be and i can run the machine faster that 20 inches per min how about 70 in per scarry stupid sumpin gonna break fast Hey i might feel the need to turn 2 sheets of 3/4 inch ply into lil heart shaped wood peices with dickbutts lasered on them lol hasnt happend yet but is nice to know i can Man i wished i found your yt earlyer mine is all windows based but i did try linux but later went with mach 3 that being said mach3 does not play well with a co2 lasers so i had to add a DAC to control the laser for photo work It did work fine for cutting/engraving with out the DAC again love the channel very well done on the (renina obliteratior) who says their is no truth in advertizing
I don't know if you're aware, but you can get a 40w commercial CO2 tube for around $100 with free shipping on ebay. No need to keep dealing with vacuums and gasses that way, you've already got the power supply. You can even buy a complete machine, with everything, including the cabinet, for around $400, brand new. The reason I mention this is because when you start firing that laser at any appreciable distance, you'll probably notice that the beam is not very round, and after it bounces off 3 more mirrors, it'll be extremely distorted. You're going to be spending a huge amount of time trying to solve this problem with a home made tube. Good luck.
