@@vcedge9466 Honestly, I can't imagine how you could improve on the Interface, but imagine if you had Grimsmo's machine shop. State of the art and a product I'd actually buy! :)
Love the videos man keep them coming. Did you see how grimsmo installs his knife bearings? Basically dips the piece the bearings go into a cup of bearings and that fills holes with bearings. Then uses a piece of flat stock pushes all bearings in at the same time.
Yeah, I can't really do that with mine the way they are since I have unpopulated holes. Maybe if I oversize the ones that don't get balls so they could fall through. I'll update the design and to give it a shot next time I need more bearings, it would definitely be faster and easier.
Thank you! Those were some good times. Had some great conversations in the shadow of the fuselage. Working with good people makes things so much more tolerable.
I think you can have a better time if you use a tormach 24r router for carbon and use the mill for mainly metal. You need way less cleaning and since that router is huge you can have a lot of part made at the same time. But great stuff keep going.
I'm not sure the router would have the precision and repeatability necessary for the parts I'm making, plus there is no automatic tool changer for it. It would be very nice to have another machine dedicated to just carbon though. Glad you like the videos, I'll try to keep it up.
@@vcedge9466 yeah having a second one for those is better than you can have a bigger tombstone like as big as the actual table so you don't need to cut the carbon any more just a sheet goes in and a lot of parts comes out. So happy to see your channel grow
Have you consider a slitting saw to cut your stock - the edge is very clean (I must admit I never tried Ti). Also you probably already know that but when you prototyping you should consider running only one part to reduce your cycle time
I have some carbide slitting saws that I've used to cut Ti with before, but I'd rather have a way to prepare stock outside the machine. These weren't exactly prototypes, just highly updated. I've made some like them before but new machine and lots of changes to the cam operations, so yeah would have been a good idea to do just a couple at first.
Great to see some smaller tooling on the Tormach. If you get a chance sometime, would be really great to see some surface finish closeups on those micro ops on the Tormach. We use a binocular stand scope for inspection of 28mm scale 3D prints. Haven’t fitted a still/video camera to it as we don’t make RU-vid’s ☺️. Which op did you use the ..020 endmill for? Nice vid! Thanks for putting it together.
I used the .020 end mill to dial in the diameter for the bearing balls to fit through but now that I know what works I'll just use a drill that size. I would love to get a scope to show more of the details. It'll probably be a while since I'm sure they aren't cheap but do you have a recommendation for one?
Thanks for the quick response Jason. When we get our Tormach it’ll be mostly micro machining,so 20 thou perks up our interest. Have yet to come across anyone showing surface finish/tolerances they’ve gotten with those sized bits on an 1100M/MX. Scope. Our criteria was affordable, decent enough optics, trinocular and heavy. While you can spend tons more, we ended up with a Amscope trinocular with a extended post and led ring light. Got it back in 2014. It has served us well, have never upgraded to the Zeis gods of optics 😃 A buddy of mine liked ours and bought a boom version for soldering. Hardest part of Amscope buying is figuring out which of umpteen billion versions to get.
Yeah, that was still the 25 micron, I have some 50 on the way. It's interesting, from what I've been reading as it gets more full of carbon fibers the effective filtration gets finer and finer. the 25 micron can run for about 4 hours, on the stuff I'm doing, before I start to consider changing it out. We'll see if that translates to the new stuff, maybe I'll be able to get 8 hours or more.
Thanks. I started slowly learning CNC machining about 7 years ago but I've been making things since I was a teenager. I've also been working in the aerospace manufacturing industry for the past 13 years so I learned a lot there as well, some of that stuff translates.
These were designed specifically for the Interface knife that I make and aren't for sale alone. Besides, I don't think they would fit many other knives with the dimensions they have.
