Milling Ceramic on a Haas 

I'm glad you like it 🤣. I have so much fun making it. it's like my favorite part of making videos now

just came down here to comment this exact same thing.

Agreed. I also enjoy the mix of shorter and longer videos on the channel.

You know, that isn't intentional, but I do have three young kids, so maybe it's just habit at this point 😂

True! That's a great idea! Thanks!

there's also diamond plated wire that can be fitted in a jeweler's saw, would probably last a while on this

Thank you! I'm glad you are enjoying it!

I promise I'll try to do more! The parts/customers I get have to cooperate with me, and sometimes I end up with long gaps, where there isn't anything worth filming.

@@AudacityMicro understood. I just really enjoy them!

Thanks!

I saw those numbers too. But I can tell you that it ran just fine cutting it faster. Not sure where those numbers came from 🤷‍♂️. I have to imagine they were originally intended for HSS?

@@AudacityMicro i think its only to incrase tool life and not its difficulty to cut it its probable that on parts that you need to remove a lot of matter, if you used speeds too high you would lose precision pretty soon even if it would cut just fine in roughing cycles

It's like 50-50 🤣

Lol, I noticed that when I was editing. The funny thing is that I've never actually smoked before.

@@AudacityMicro weird.

It really is!

I almost never take a job at face value, so the prices they give are pretty much irrelevant. I've seen a few less of the really good parts that I love (small precision plastics) but I've seen plenty of other good jobs. I've heard other chatter that the industry is a little slow as a whole right now, with the run up to the election.

@AudacityMicro from what i heard supposedly, they increased the premium and ultra premium group size by about 30% over the last month and it's what's driving the price down not lack of work but who knows for sure what's going on

Job Board? sound like you guys are doing Xometry. that explains why you don't care about machine time. You're not biding, you just taking what's given to you or what you accept. also explains why everything is due quick and why nothing gets sent back.

Correct, I do a lot of xometry work. I don't care about cycle time because both on and off xometry, I take high value, low volume work. My value proposition is largely that I take dumb parts no one else will touch. And stuff doesn't get sent back, because I don't send out bad parts 🙂

And you do bid on xometry work, sorta. It's a less transparent process, but you can submit a counter offer. Maybe 1 in 20 jobs I take at face value? The other 19 I'm submitting my own bid. I'm probably the only person bidding on a good number of the ones I get, since again, I tend to take dumb parts no one else will touch. So 5-10x xoms original asking price is pretty normal for me.

It's a blast 🤣. I use Suno.com. With their free plan you get five songs a day, which works for me.

Full disclosure, McMaster sells this stuff under the name "easy to machine high temperature ceramic" and they aren't wrong 😂. It really wants hard to machine

I mean it is ceramic but it's more like sand and elmers glue structurally

Based on my experience, that checks out 😂.

Adam the Machinist. I linked his RU-vid channel in my description

The parts went to the research department at a university if I remember right, so they are probably some sort of spacer for some sort of high temperature equipment. A lot of that experimental stuff is held to pretty tight tolerances to eliminate variables in the experiment. Scientists are fantastic customers, since they love to throw high tolerances on parts for no reason 😂. Now that I have machined the material, I'm much less excited about it. I thought it would be a lot more like glass, and a lot less like chalk. But I had no way of knowing that until I actually got to test it out.