I've always wanted a CNC mill, so now I'm building one. This episode dives head first into the fabrication and machining of my heavy-duty DIY CNC milling machine, with a splash of paint at the end. Patreon: www.patreon.com/NotAnEngineer
Hey everyone, I'm delirious. Part two is out now! Never in a million years did I expect to get this kind of response. Just wanna say I'm here to stay; this is just the beginning!
Hey I haven’t been watching your channel for very long so I don’t know your core audience but I feel like a “making a cnc with a cnc” video would be very amusing and help people without your tools or machining ability rent out a cnc to build their own cnc.
@@NoEngineerHereOr over-overestimated. My dad always said "the power of a shiny coat of paint should never be under or over-estimated. If you're going to estimate be precise about it. Otherwise why bother?" He took guesswork very seriously
Awesome to see more Australian makers in the scene, can’t wait to see it up and running. Just be sure to use the CNC Mill to build another, smaller, CNC Mill!
@@friendlysnoworb6091 people like you are going to save the world one day. It’s your washing machine box thinking that makes my shoebox thinking obsolete.
If this compliment from a non-machinist even matters: This is a promising inaugural video, and I am looking forward to more. Subscribed, and greetings from Germany. 👍
And they say that the algorithm is flawed but here is a brilliant new channel - top of my recommendations! Totally identifiable and with more than a little of the This Old Tony about it - the next in the series is eagerly awaited!
I made sure to sacrifice a collection of endmills to appease the machining gods before uploading; the algorithm is feeble before their might. A likening to ToT is the highest praise I could hope for! He's really set the bar.
I would suggest that it's a wonderful yet original Australian blend of TOT and Inheritance machining. As someone else above mentioned, feels as though I'm getting in on the ground floor of something special.
Nice build- but more importantly your style of narration and the layout of the video was great. Really looking forward to more of this build and any vids you publish 👍
absolutely bonkers that you dont have more videos already, by the quality of your editing and narration i was expecting to binge like 100 episodes of you making random stuff
There's a great Machining channel BlondiHacks that goes over a lot of the basics, and they had a comment that led me to subscribe. They said "And now we deburr, because that's what separates us from the animals". Your version of being reminded of your fleshy, animal insides is also valid.
I never thought I would be able to put together a 3d printer but now that I have I am hella confident I can build a light duty CNC for thin aluminum and wood considering all the free software that runs on PC with cheap CNC Boards options. The stepper drivers for NEMA 23s are steep price since you have to get one for each motor :( .
This video is great. Really polished, feels like you have done this for a long time already. I really like your style of edit and humour this far. Longing for more. 👍🏽🙂
This guy may not be an engineer (just like me), but he knows damn well how to fall down a rabbit hole. Thanks for sharing with us, great project, great video! subbed
HELL YEAH! you know you're an enthusiast when 2 a week old video from a channel that only has one video gets recommended to you lmao. I share the sentiment in your channel description, just gotta build up the capital to afford to do something like this. I really cant wait!
I'm way too stoked about this! Killer skills in fab, design, framing, design Yada Yada, looking forward to seeing more! Also I do need to throw this out there, but go invest in some more lighting, a lot of these shots were pretty dark, and at least in my experience, it's way easier to build stuff with good lighting. Regardless really happy you made this!
This is awesome stuff! I ventured into building my own CNC from the ground up when I studied. This requires an enormous amount of planning and actual building. Kudos!
It makes you wonder how few tools you really need to build an entire metalworking workshop of your own, power tools included. In the blacksmithing world pretty much this is the spirit: start with an anvil, hammer, forge and iron bars. First thing you'll do is a pair of tongs, then another, then you make another hammer and so on. As a prospecting hobbyist I find building the machinery you'll use significantly more interesting than trying to find ideas of what you could make with all the tools.
I really think tool and machine building is its own hobby, and a self replicating one at that. "Think of the tools I can make with these new tools, and the tools that these tools build, I can use to build more tools!"
This machine looks decent! I love the fact that you use steel rather than aluminium. And yes, I instantly subscribed to your channel, because I wanna see more!!!!
Dude for the first video of your channel, you've done really really great! Love your humor and personallity. it just works in this kind of content. cheers mate ;)
Sir, I want to commend you on your presentation skills, especially your economy with words. Combined with your calm delivery, i found a great deal of humor in this video about a topic nearly as exciting to me as whatever it is I'm ignoring on the popular video. May fortune find you, and rabbit holes be ever worthwhile!
Great content! As others have already said, your humour and pacing is spot on. Not to mention your craftsmanship. If I were, and I am, to suggest one thing it would be to balance the lighting a bit more. Some shots were a bit too ... romantic to really convey the structure and work being done.
I cried a little at "finding metrology equipment in Australia is about as hard as finding metrology equipment in Australia" Truer words have never been spoken. 😭
Just going to have to make your metrology equipment. Yes it can be done. The 3 plate method will get you excellent reference surfaces, and you can go from there.
Thanks for putting this together mate, I literally lie awake at night staring at the entrance to the rabbit hole of building my own cnc mill. I can't let it go even though I know where it's going to take me.
thats why i create. to escape the mundane. !! much love borther from another mother. Thank you for your creative spark and dedication that you bring to your work!!
New favorite channel. Old dudes run machining tube and I'm just a young welder but your living my dream (nightmare?). I just want to build anything. Big ole sub. Keep em pumping and ill be here.
One day the boss says to me "Tomorrow we'll have a new tool to work with. The interface is as frustrating as it is incomprehensible, it requires constant babysitting, parts never come out the way you want, and if there's the slightest hint of complexity in your instructions it'll refuse to do anything." "Great," I says, "I've always wanted to learn CNC." "CNC? No way can we afford something like that. I'm telling you I hired an apprentice."
love this video, also the dry humor. this just proves that videos can be entertaining without someone talking really loud and overmotivated to somehow keep the viewers attention. Keep up the good work.
Hell yes! I love that I'm still one of the early ones to sub :). Exactly the kind of content we need here, if you keep going you'll reach a million in like 14 months
Eugene Stoner was once asked in one of the interviews - why the third reich had so many outstanding mechanical engineers. He said that the reason is, that they started to pick talented machinists, and giving them opportunities to make what they wanted to make. He also said, that ability for visualization of mechanisms, and "feeling" physical materials in your mind, and organizing everything in your mind is an inherent talent some people have, and in different amount, and some simply don't. And that most people who finished engineering schools in USA, and had no such talent, simply sucked, no matter how well they could crunch numbers ( and they mostly crunched numbers at universities ). Solving simplest engineering problems was either a tremendous mental strain for them, or impossible. Something along the lines that per 10 graduates, one was decent, and per 100, one was good. You either can make something, and it works, and it works well, and is safely operating. Or you don't. Some talentless engineers get extremely butthurt when a machinist without a degree comes in, and wipes the floor with them. Their ego can't take it. They resent them because, they themselves spent so much time in education, for practically nothing. If someone can think up something in a better way than me, all I get is excited. Because I can see how it's done, and improve my thinking. It's fun.
I've shared this video with my tradie mates. It means that they get to watch something cool while also thinking higher of me for actually finding this. Looking forward to your future work.
Easily one of the best DIY projects I've seen. I'm just opening the door into hobbiest machining as an early retired ex soldier. You are real proof that qualifications are not needed, and that natural talent still rules the industries. Keep up the great work. From qld.
This type of build is a dream come true if money and everything else that's needed would been available. But since it's not this is the next best thing. Keep 'em coming!
"What are you going to use it for ?" Hahaha. exactly the same thing my wife said when I bought a lathe...making round things... DUH! At least your not limited to round. Subbed here.
This title is the meaning of life. Every great thing I've ever accomplished COULD be called the result of dedication, hard work, or discipline. But really, I'm usually actually just being an obsessive idiot and things happen.
Been in that rabbithole too many times since I landed in New Zealand from India. I have so far built a CNC mill, CNC plasma cutter, and a CNC laser cutter, only to sell them all because once I built them, the tasks I would've used them for turned out to be far trivial than what I had just done. Though, in my experience, it was cheaper than buying new (not the mill though, that was exactly like yours). Yeah, I'm just like you.
In future I can easily say that I’ve subscribed from the beginning of your journey. I love the humor you’ve, keep doing, what you are doing, with that narrative. Measurements and reading texts are great idea. It’s unique from what I’ve seen before. Enjoy the journey.
I don't know how this channel and Cranktown City could be so different, yet so absolutely the same. Solid call on the hammertone -- looks like you got some nice even coats. Can't wait for the next video!
I got recommended this video a couple months back but decided not to click for whatever. Came here after the I Did A Thing collab and mate I should have clicked months ago. Excellent work. I work with a CNC machine and I'd love to build my own though no idea what I'd use it for.
