Part 2 (of 3!) of the CNC router build. Hit a snag with the table that's set me back a bit. CAD is coming once I get the table figured out and the model updated. Enjoy!
watching this, your son pouring sand really got to me. my mom passed last year and its made me realize just how little 'history' i have records of from my family. decades from now, your son will be able to see himself and his father building these memories - archived in video... how lucky he will be to have this, this skill set, experience, and history.
No kidding! It's not just "Wow! Look what it can do!", but even, "Wow! We did that!!" My son is very interested in helping me, but has the attention span of a gnat. But then again so did I when I was his age. Thank heavens for ADD meds. :) By the way, no one who saw the work you did to rebuild your surface grinder could fault you for using it every chance you get. :)
great vids , the best! and the build , superb! can I be nosy and ask, what is/was a ballpark figure, price wise to built one the size you made? inspirational! tanks!
@@tcseacliff I can ballpark guess but you wont like it, motor+rails and all the other cnc gizmo's (add/subtract according to what brand names are actually shown in the vid) = 300-400 bucks off ebay (assuming you have a computer for doing the programming bit, if not, add 200) Raw materials around 200-300 bucks. The costly part is having a lot of the stuff to machine it, you need a good size mill = 1000 bucks since every barn is already cleared out, good size lathe = 1000 bucks because same, surface grinder = 1000 bucks because same, not to mention accurate indicators (150-200 bucks) collets (300-400 bucks), chucks (1000 bucks), end mills+flycutters and boring head+shanks (400-500) and so forth for all of it, not to mention paying someone to machine the stuff your machinery isnt big enough for. Unless you can purchase already surface ground materials that you only need to combine a lot of cutting, welding, drilling and threading = Buy a router and be done with it.
I've been welding/fabricating since I was 14, I'm 56 now, I am a trained Navy welder and fabricator, I'm not easily impressed, I'm impressed, this vid speaks volumes as to your knowledge and skill, you even had me going "wow".
I watch a great many machining/fabricating videos on RU-vid and while there are plenty of good ones out there your videos are on a completely different level above the rest. Your video creating and editing skills are on par with your skills in the shop and that's Really saying something. Very entertaining to watch thank you for do it.
This should be in the parenting advice section. But I'd bet the people at RU-vid would think it verges on child abuse. Great job Tony I really do admire you.
Tony, your videos are so fun to watch. Everything about them are perfect. The subject matter, story line, comedic timing, annotations, scene compositions and strategic use of fast forward are all first class. I really appreciate all the time and effort you invest to share all this with us! And your little boy looks to be a chip off This Old Tony. The expressions you capture of him are priceless. Thank YOU!!!!
You know the thing I like about this build......it's relatively simple basic engineering with a fix and true up as you go.....that's how I learned my apprenticeship, out in the desert with a couple of guys who had done all that before, working on frame work using their acquired knowledge to get it square and true........nothing compares to that final stand back and see it working feeling, apart from a quick brew up and clean the tools before heading back to the shop at the end of the day.
Dear Mr. Old, First I want to thank you. Your video is brilliant for so many reasons. I would like to just mention a few. Video editing is perfect just enough to see and understand your process, not a boring moment. Your narration, what and why you are doing things is perfect. Your sense of humor and your son are very entertaining. This project is so over the top it combines designing, planning, welding, machining, mechanical moving parts, electrical, electronics, motors, programming, quality control, material considerations, anticipating things that might go wrong, just to name a few. Whow, just awesome!
I'm more than impressed. Very nice design work and fabrication. As an equipment operator part of the pre-operation check is walking around the machine and weld inspection is just part of the daily routine. So I've seen a hell of a lot of welds over 40 plus years. Yours are right up there in my opinion.
Your videos are amazing Tony. My father was a film writer for the US Navy for more than 30 years so I learned to appreciate professional editing early and often! Your content has the perfect balance of explanation/talking, effects, humor, good camera work and proper lighting, etc. So incredibly professional! Thanks for sharing all that you do.
Love your builds man and what an awesome dad you are! When my dad wasn't at work and I got to see him all I got was the back of his hand. Would loved to have had a childhood like that.
I've seen this video series about thousand times...and I'm here again. I was thinking (after you already ended up with fabricated table) if something similar to those "puzzle" welding tables would be usable as table for this style router. Honestly, I have no idea what tolerance those tables end up in but it striked me as an interesting idea. Also, Tony, I love what you're doing so much. Keep it up! Tomas
I am an amateur woodworker/metal worker, and I am just amazed at your skill and level of detail and precision you put into everything you make. Very inspirational.
I really enjoy your videos; they're really well done and thoroughly interesting. Thanks for taking the time to make them for us. Seeing your son kicking around in the shop from time to time-and how engaged he seems to be-is a great bonus.
For anyone who is saying that the sand won't do anything... I don't think you have had it installed by an expert like this one here. And no, I'm not talking about the guy who clearly wanted to take an extra break with rigging up that motor. I'm talking the guy with his hammer in his hand, whacking away at it. I mean the smile at the end surely shows how much of an expert they are.
Dude, keep that little feller in the shop working next to his Dad. I loved nothing more than working shoulder to shoulder with mine. He will love you forever and love getting dirty while making something, something rare these days!
Thanks for a very informative and entertaining video! I watched because I'm in the throes of fabricating a similar CNC router, albeit made out of baltic birch, aluminum and phenolic. I've been building all kinds of things for over 50 years (but not so much of steel), and it's so astonishing that the old adage, "you learn something new everyday", is so true. I picked up a number of neat ideas from your presentation, but one that I'll use right away is scanning/indicating with a "last word style" indicator to test/align for parallel. Thanks again!
Nice work Tony, that is one rugged machine! It is nice to have such a fine assistant in the shop. Hopefully, he will pick up the torch and become a fine craftsman.
Really interesting project. I'm really impressed with your knowledge about how to set up the electronics. Plus the homemade vibrator to settle the sand was pretty clever. Looking forward to watching the next one.
So happy to find this, me and a friend are looking at making a tabletop CNC, I’m trying to figure out how to make a frame that’s actually precisely square and this video is full of good knowledge
Thanks Tony for a great video, as always. I'm always thrilled to see you have posted a new video and never disappointed. I really appreciate your honest presentation style in showing the problems or errors you encounter and how you deal with them as best you can. It's great to see your son enjoying some fun time in the workshop with you. I look forward to many more great videos.
Another great video! Editing is easily as good and probably better than any professionaly produced video. Nothing important is skipped and no time is wasted on unimportant stuff, and I love your sense of humor in all your videos. I'm totally envious of your shop and the equipment you have - awesome set-up!
Freakin Awesome! Nice shop! I like the way you describe what's going on (very informative for me). And you come up with lots of creative solutions. Very inspiring and all in all, very nicely done, Sir! Thank you!
........boy are you going to love this when its done!......very nice work and great tips with your tutorial...your videos have such a fresh style and the narration works great, and your helper........he a star of the show!
Having seen the solution you found, I still can’t help but wish you’d gone off the reservation and built up an epoxy-granite bed. They’re nothing but trouble until the mix hardens to working consistency. But then.....we’ll life is very good from there on out. Used in a moving table? Well, that introduces a whole new world of motion management concerns. Enough to make one consider a moving gantry and fixed table.... So there ya go....trade-offs are everywhere. Designers get to pick which ones they prefer.
I was thinking: You could maybe use the machine itself to make whatever table you choose flat. Just run an endmill across the whole table, and it will be square to your other 2 axis.
+RGSneaker You could, and plenty of people do, but my table will be steel and I'd probably burn out my ebay spindle 1/4 of the way through if I even got that far!
I've watched several of your videos and there's no need to say how good they are! Fantastic job! It is even better than a professional channel because you can do things your way and take as much time as you want or need.
3:50 Loved it, I was stuck in same situation, thanks for teaching me this. someone told me 1mm in 10cm is good enough not thinking that would be 1cm in 1 meter! 17:41 and that was my face when I didn't hear clunk clunk sound while you were moving gantry.
A friend, unsatisfied with fabricated aluminum structures, built another CNC with a Starrett granite surface place, 3x3 steel uprights and epoxy laminated granite slabs for the gantry. It's the vexing problem with DIY CNC, the reason commercial CNC uses huge cast iron structures.
Love the videos. One observation... Best practice is to mount your prox. switches so that the sensed part travels across the face of the sensor. When the sensor fails, it would pass by the sensor and hit a mechanical over travel limit. It is rarely a good idea to mount a prox switch looking at the oncoming part. The sense distance can also be a little different from one sensor to another. Prox mounted to sense the side of the block as it passes by then a mechanical over travel then a bumper of some sort then the drive trips due to over current no damage ,
If i would build that awesome router i would need forever because with your machines i would not resist to machine and grind every single surface of every part 😅👍
I think this is probably the most rigid CNC router I have ever seen. Awesome stuff! I think I'll go ahead and sub for future updates. Can't wait to see the first chips from this thing ;-)
Can you give us a model number and perhaps a place to buy that spray bottle. Great vid. A joy watching your son help out. He will know more than most adults in the next 5 years....
Had me worried when you showed the slow mo clip of your son whacking the frame with the hammer. Steel frame, steel hammer, was expecting it to bounce back and whack him! Then, "Oh, it's a deadblow hammer...." Smart move! Ten Dad points for you!
Excellent video: Great presentation, lots of information and entertaining! I am contemplating building a similar contraption and you vid gave me lots of good advice. Thank you for sharing and please keep the vids coming! Cheers, Bernhard
Dangit... Friends invited me over, so now I don't have time for part 3 :( Stupid friends! BUT I really enjoy your videos and I hope someday to be able to have a workshop of my own. These videos will help out a lot! You're kind of living my dream there buddy ;) Cheers!
superb! if you are open for comments i think any option you follow other than buying a new table for xx machine you will have to grind the surface for flatness. but... i would take a good look at the slat type welding tables from förster or the likes there you have maybe just 10 points to level and the tensions of a welded contraption are not that much relevant, slats can be obtained nitrided finish, ground, fixing points etc... thanks again for sharing. if we just don`t lose that face of joy your little one showed this would be a better world. cheers. pete
That's a nice build, well done. I'm going to guess you're in the north of Italy, so I've got nothing as far as suppliers for that table. You've probably already got it sorted by now anyway, but if the old potato chip is available and it's just being used to prop open the door, you could try pulling it in with the TIG. No idea how well that would work on such a big surface, but with nothing to loose, hit the low spots with a TIG and see if they shrink it. That sucker will be wound up like a spring by the time you're done, but it could get you cooking until something better comes along and allow you to mill a sub-plate on the machine itself.
