I’ve been a programmer for decades, worked with a lot of people on a lot of machines in a lot of languages, for a lot of different projects. In my view, you’re doing great, learning a lot at a good pace. Your intuition serves you well. Remembering details will always be a pain. Keep going.
@@jafo766 I agree he’s a great machinist. What I was trying to say is that programming is very different skill than machining; it requires different parts of your brain (though some the same), and intuition is an important part of it - being able to look at the problem, and construct a solution, maybe more from creativity than previous knowledge. It’s one of the things I very much admire about Adam - “figuring stuff out.”
I love me a spiral flute tap, such a beautiful process. And as soon as I thought "I hope they show it coming through the underside...", Abby panned down and made it so. Mahalo.
Tip to consider😉 When you made test part and you confirmed program OK✅ Save it to template and in new work pease you just hav to select hole locations again😊 That is cool tapping with Big boys tap💪
A toolpath i use quite often in Fusion 360 is the Bore command, It basically lets you customize a helical ramp into a bore effectively roughing out with less haystacking, Works awesome with corner radius endmills. Glad youre using fusion now 👍
Adam, You keep letting Abby to the tapping, she's going to rob all the fun from you! 😃Those flex arm machines for drilling, chamfering, and tapping are just awesome. They make it look so effortless. Thank you for sharing.
Don’t worry about remembering everything like keep tool down, there’s so much s+%# to learn, you’re doing great! Hell, we all have had smart phones for years and we’re still learning what they can do !!!
If you haven't already, consider using a ship's windshield wiper unit. The rotating glass throws off liquids, giving a clear view in even the roughest weather. I've seen them installed on CNC machines at Westec in Los Angeles.
Great video as always! One thing you may want to consider. I use to machine a lot of flat plate type projects(drilling, reaming, tapping, & milling) on a HAAS CNC Mill. The plate or flat bar was nominal in size(hot rolled, cold rolled) and saw cut. I found that if you measured each plate (small batch) length & width and marked the center with a scribe or if you can a punch; make that point your Origin point for X & Y. It will make your hole locations out to the edge or corner more consistent. Take care.
The drawing showed the holes dimensioned from the edges. I don't know if this was a choice for the CNC or if the end user did it that way on original drawings but picking the centre of a flame cut plate as your origin might mean having to reset the XYZ zeros for each plate. Using the edges against fixed mounting points on the machine means set the zeros once and that's it.
Anyone else find it ironic that Adam has one hell of an eye for details, wiping the smallest spec of dust off the work pieces, yet that Gorbel remote so was filthy he had to wear gloves 😂, appreciate all the time you spend explaining your thought process Adam, keep up the great work! Enjoying the ‘new’ cnc work too it’s inspirational that after working with manual machines for so long you are confident to share your learning experience. 👍🏻
Kevin does the drawings and the programs. He’s the programmer with the skill sets and Adam is the machine operator. Pretty much how most factories work. Bottom line is it takes a real commitment to CNC programming to be one. Adam is a great manual machinist and a just a CNC machine operator. But at least we see how most CNC shops really operate, with factory workers doing the machining
That is some comment. Does an operator change programs edit them and prove them out? Not in my experience. Your effort to devalue the training and learning process Kevin and Adam are going through is quite frankly piss poor. How many operators own their own shops and cnc machines? Don't bother answering no doubt it will be negative self justification
@@zorbakaput8537 operators find zeroes, and make adjustments (an operator is semi skilled). they don’t write programs and establish tool paths etc. now go Ahead and try to say Adam does that. He doesn’t. He tweaks at best and has to call Kevin about a lot of those tweaks. He’s a heck of a manual machinist but he’s not going to be a CNC guy any time soon. Even the CNC work he does is only drilling holes. Get real. Adams Channel was built on manual machining. This stuff is beyond his ability, or his time to learn fast enough. It’s been YEARS and he’s drilling holes with another programmer writing the programs.
And for all the news out there, there is positive news if you look. As China becomes more bellicose, a lot of manufacturing is moving back to the western hemisphere. We need skilled people to operate machines that will allow us to compete with cheap labor overseas and increasingly, in our hemisphere. There was a move several decades ago to remove shop classes from high schools and funnel kids into white collar work but that has been fraught with problems. There are people who will lead better lives in both white and blue collar jobs and if we're smart, we'll make available the training for young people to find their sweet spot in finding a career that will allow them to take pride and make a good living in their chosen fields. Content like this shows what's possible.
He Adam, just stick a clear view screen in front of the camera. They are usually found on boats to provide a clear view in rain etc, its a rotating window that just centrifuges the water or snow etc off it. Just the thing for this coolant shower ! Edit, stick it in the side door window and the camera can be outside of the machine ! (and you can see through also)
-12:40 Even in the production shop I worked at (where every minute counted), doing an "Air Cut" before each job was mandatory. Even when just loading a pre existing program we used weekly for years, we had to do an air cut.
Adam consider designing a lexan lens screen/inspection window, coat it in rainX and install a small low pressure air header at the top with enough coverage to clear the workpiece coolant and not make a lot of noise. I imagine it's frustrating having to clean the glass all the time.
I've been working on Cnc equipment since 2002, and watching Adam learn brings back memories of exactly how i used to think and overthink everything haha. Great job adam, you're going to excel at this
11:05 ... I love those giant indexable insert drill bits!!! .. they are actually cheaper than HSS Drill Bts,when you get into the bigger sizes too! .. As I've mentioned i the past part of my job used to be sharpening drills for the other employees. The inserts make that step unnecessary! too!
Cool to see some big metal in your shop. In some ways I miss the days of giant shaft turning. Haha. You know a guy has passion for his craft when he can say a thread tap is "most fun" :-)
I always get a kick out of watching Abby getting enthusiastic about doing a shop procedure. I guess in this case Abby's dance was a 'Tap Dance!" Love that beautiful tap, a thing of beauty in itself. Can't imagine having to crank it manually through all 8 holes, not at 82 at least. Perhaps in my 20's or 30's it would just be a challenge to find the cheater pipes and another beefy guy to help tap it straight.
That 3D sensor looks cool! Nice and easy way to find the real zero, it seems. Also thanks for leaving the cleanup on there too. Even though I kinda have a clue how it'd be done, I still like to see. Wouldn't have known to use a hammer on the slag.
WOW , e prima data cind vad un asemenea sistem de filetare atit de mare , se vede ca tehnologia a evoluat , e o adevarata placere sa lucrezi cu asemenea aparatura !
It's cool watching you learn this stuff. Far less chatter with the second plate. A CNC machinist on another channel I follow was asked how you know if you have the feed rate and spindle speed right. His answer was "If it sounds bad, something is wrong."
I work in the electrical transmission industry where we have parts very similar to this. Your drawing technique is good. Always use those TYP dimensions when possible and start from one corner of the piece.
Good evening. Thanks for the reply. I agree, if it was large batch production you wouldn’t have the time to line up to center on each one but, if it’s a small batch and you’re looking for symmetry center point has always worked best for me. Take care
Adam there are these little machines with a spinning piece of glass that spins up close to the windows and flings the coolant away so you can see. I'm not sure who makes them but I've seen them before.
A filming suggestion for you where coolant is a problem on the lenses. I imagine that you have protective filters over the actual lense to prevent any damage from chips and grit in the coolant? Try coating your filters with a product called “rainex”. I’ve seen it used at sea on the windows of lobster boats & it makes even sea water bead up and roll right off, much like what happens with raindrops when you wax your car. Give it a try, I have a suspicion you will have to stop program and clean lenses a lot less often. 👍 Enjoyed the video, keep it up. 👍👍👍🇦🇺
That is a beastly Flex arm! If you ever need to calculate thread dimensions (pitch, major, minor, root radius, etc), give my app a try. It will calculate all UN threads, including specials like UNS, UNJS, & UNRS, per the requirements of ASME B1.1-2019. There's an option to allow for anodize or plating, and it provides over wires dimensions for external threads. Just search for "CNC Machinist Calculator Ultra" in the App Store or Google Play (you can also create & export thread milling programs, not that you need to with that Flex arm).
Haven't been here for a while. Good to see your improvement in skills with this beast. I enjoyed watching the high speed clean up segment. Always tricks to be learned watching mundane tasks. I see your little passel of haters are still here. We should all go down to their channels and watch THEIR videos . . . Ya right. 19:30 So the head does the + & - X and the table does the + & - Y ? Was not expecting that table motion. Perhaps it was not the table but the carriage. Table moving doesn't make much sense.
When you're getting materials delivered to your shop with ABomb scrawled all over them I'd be surprised if there aren't some government agencies watching the place now under the suspicion of a 2nd Manhattan Project 😉 🤣 and I love that Abby is getting almost as interactive as Mrs.InheritenceMachining. Keep up the good work Abby, you'll soon be as good a machinerist as Adam 👍
He's still learning. He did a lot of test runs over many hours and days, and still made at least 3 mistakes (that he showed and admitted). Luckily none of them were costly or catastrophic.
I was going to suggest the same thing. Even make a small flat thin nozzle and you maybe could make an air curtain that would blow any fluid down and away before it even got to the camera.
If you wanted a bit more fancy, and a nice side project, make a plexiglass disk clearview window like on ships. It could mount on/with the GoPro and help protect it from spray and keep the lens clear.
@@karlbeckmann8865 you single point the threads. You don't need much torque. That 2 inch tap, needs a bunch of torque. Even the multi tooth thread mills don't need much torque.
Great work. Maybe you could try a small underwater enclosure for camera with rain-x on lens cover and an air nozzle positioned to continuously clean windshield/lens cover? This would allow for you to get clear video w/o worrying about coolant messing up content and give camera extra protection. How much for that massive tap and seperately the flex-arm system, it's very impressive it did not visibly hesitate with a 2" tap, that's a lot of torque. I could watch this type of tapping content much more? More Abby! Ray PS Extra "B" in your name may make sense.
I agree that this is probably a job for a threadmill. That tap looks REALLY expensive and if were to break it's probably a scrapped part. Threadmills arent cheap either, but they can be offset and re-run to suit the application.
Adam, Great video. At 40:10 and elsewhere, those are some gnarly chip curls! From the perspective of a former plumber, I sure like flooding such taps (and dies) with dark, sulfurated cutting oil. Your "foamy" cutting lube is a whole lot less messy.
That’s one hell of a tap; I bet that single tap costs more than my entire tap collection. Let’s not even discuss the cost of the flex arm machine itself which probably costs more than my house. Excellent product placement!
Adam, check this out. Have you ever thought about maybe doing a demonstration with interpolating thread milling on some parts, your software should handle the programming, and I've done it on difficult materials before (single point in titanium that was being difficult and breaking taps, 4-40 thread, boring them to the high end of the tolerance, plunging to the bottom of the holes, feeding out and interpolating up and out, you can control pitch diameter very closely doing that) or using the multi tooth inserts that are available now also. It really shows the capabilities of CNC machining as far as really precision thread machining. Just a thought.
At one point AvE put one of those spinning windows you see on boats on his cnc mill. That way it stayed clear even when it was getting splashed with coolant. Might be a nice modification at some point.
ABom! Thanks for the videos man! Hey I was thinking about the issue of the camera lens getting coolant splash back on it. Would a wall or stream of compressed air blowing in front of the camera lens keep coolant off the camera? Anyway thanks for the videos and the content! Saw some dumb comments ragging on the content. Just wanted to counter those comments with a positive one and say thanks!
Ein Profi macht die Fase auch an die Rückseite der Bohrungen und nutzt die Maschine für die Gewinde. Programme auch mal alleine machen. Direkt an der Maschine selbst eintippen. So lernt man am Besten. Lieben Gruß aus Old Germany
