I am a homebuilder. I do plumbing, framing, concrete work, drywall etc. etc. are use my oscillating tool 2 to 3 times a month for different jobs. It is an extremely versatile tool capable of reaching tight spaces where you would not think of using a saw saw/reciprocating saw. I remember when I first saw the tool I was extremely skeptical, now I wouldn’t leave home without it.
This exactly, when you need to make a slit to wood for cabling, cut a small piece off sheathing board to fit a girder, or flush some wooden structural beam with a doorstep, that is your tool. I cant imagine it having any use in the shop, but on a construction site? Hell yeah.
@@Sup3rman1c I agree in the shop there are more tools at hand, but in the field we find ourselves in some odd situation. Like cutting the bottoms of door jams when you’re installing flooring.
ack, just give the blister pack to some young child, they can open anything. Seriously though, that was one of my first thoughts when he was putting it through it's paces.
I'd like to see an ultrasonic kitchen knife, or even a fillet knife or "hunting" knife. Ohh, ultrasonic razor. Just don't get it confused with your Sonicare toothbrush.
Valentine's day is coming up next month. Nothing says I love you like a full sheet plasma table. And don't skimp on the features, they notice things like that.
DoRite Fabrication my mom is crafty and I’ve been trying to convince her she needs to buy a glowforge too since it’s not exactly in a college kids budget 😂😂
like This was at 420 likes, and I can't ruin that. Given the recent change removing the dislike count on videos, I'm starting to just comment "like" or "dislike".
This device was invented to make use of the vast surplus of coily cords for telephone receivers. Since nobody has a phone on the kitchen wall anymore, all those the coily cords would've ended up in the ocean and choked dolphins or something. THANK YOU to the Greek people for saving the planet!
untill you used the "manual" exacto knife, I thought it looked like the ultrasonic cutter was just a regular knife. thanks for doing that, it calmed my skepticism and now I think maybe I might play with one of these!
Man, I still think someone needs to go after building a ~400 kHz transducer. I've heard you can boil water at that level and use it in energy production, but it's nigh impossible to get a transducer at that range without paying an arm or a kidney...
Well I am sure you can use it for more than you think. If you are working with very small objects like figurines it's way easier especially with tough materials. I don't believe you do figurines but micromachines and the likes are very tough.
USW-334 超音波小型カッター (Ultrasonic Wave Cutter) 毎秒40,000回の高速振動でクラクラカット！きれいな仕上がり！ (Vibrates 40,000 times a second for dizzying cuts! Produces beautiful works!)
I have but one question: what kind of otherworldly willpower did it take not to make a joke about grabbing a piece of felt just because you felt like it?
Thank you so much for buying something and playing with it a bit so I don't have to. I just use a craft knife whilst standing on a washing machine spinning with an anvil in it. Works a treat but hard on the smaller gaskets.
Here's a thought.... I'll bet if you put dull xacto blades in it you could get them insanely sharp by turning it on and using the right ceramic stone(s). I'd give it a shot.
it's actually really interesting I had an almost exact same idea I thought if he can't cut the ceramic that would be like him doing 10000 passes on a ceramic object it's so weird that you mention that because I thought the same thing. then again most people that have sharpened something on the bottom of a coffee cup probably thought about it. Matter of fact that might be really ingenious way to make a sharpening device.
Hi, I'm an ultrasonic tooling engineer at Dukane IAS. I don't know too much about cutting, since that is handled by a different engineer, but I do know a decent amount about designing a horn to weld plastic components together. If you have any questions about ultrasonic welding, I can try to answer to the best of my knowledge, and what isn't covered by an NDA. Additionally, I know that we sell hand probes and generators for welding but those can be pricey and I'm not sure on how to order them, there's an online store, but it doesn't offer a whole lot. There was a comment below by Jason Goodman that had a point about why you need to mount at the nodal point, and all of his reasons are right. The only addition I want to make is that the nodal point will still vibrate, but it will be expanding in and out rather than moving up and down, which is why the cutter needed some padding around the transducer. If you try to grip firmly to the nodal point of a tool with a vice, you'll end up cracking your tool, and if you do it with your hand, you'll get burned. One last thing, ultrasonic cutters are used in the food industry too. Here is a link to a video posted by our Japan office of them doing some cutting with a horn: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-klBH1HHZx2s.html It's a really neat process and leaves a terrific cut in the food, think things like snack cakes, candy bar centers, and cheese.
@HappyJackington cool video on the food processing!!! Just a few days ago at work, we were thinking that it might be easier to weld together thick webbing tapes instead of trying to sew them together for a certain product, hope ultrasonic welding is the solution.
It's actually very handy for model builders. You can cut various materials with it like Depron, Styrofoam, Lexan, Fiberglass and Carbon sheets, Gaskets and so on! These things are awesome if you build R/C Planes, Cars and Boats or have a model Railroad and have a few things that you want to trim or add details to. My fiance also used them to trim Resin jewellery or for crafting delicate sculptures. It's really useful Micro tool. Oh and for people who like to tinker with electronics, this thing is capable of cutting circuit boards nice and clean!
So this is Cody's second channel that I keep hearing about. Glad he's taking on the ultrasonic cutter project. He uses enough duct tape and explosives to pull it off properly.
For you younger guys, telephone - not your cell phone, used to be this thing you hung on the wall in your house. You'd use it to call people, talk, that sort of thing. When you were done you need to hang it back up on the wall and return to everyday life...
Man, I do a lot of modelling and craft stuff and I can tell you that I would love this thing. Just not enough to spend $300-$450 on one. If somebody could make a good working model for around $50, I'm sure that they would be *very* popular with the crafting crowd. To be honest, I can see no reason at all that this thing costs so much.
So here's why the mounting point is in the middle, physics-wise: it's all about resonance and damping vibration. The piezos make the moving part longer and shorter, but they do it so fast that one way or another, both ends are gonna move in opposite directions. If your mounting point is at the back end, the vibration gets transferred to the handle of the tool and your hand, and the energy gets absorbed. If you mount it at its center of mass, the CM doesn't move, so the handle doesn't vibrate and no energy gets lost. It's like a wine glass: if you hold it by the stem, it rings nicely, but if you hold one side of the rim and hit the other, you get nothing. Since it's all about resonance, the shape and size of your tool bit matters a lot. I think you'll get the best "ring" when the vibrating thingy is about half as long as the wavelength of sound in the material it's made of. So for 40 khz in steel (6 km/s), you want a resonator 7 cm long, which looks like just about what you've got. For your 60 khz ultrasonic cleaner, you need a *smaller* vibrating element.
What about changing materials to something that transfers the waves faster and dampen less? Wouldn't graphite be better than steel? If it is anything like rf theory then thickness plays a part as well. Fattening your conductor will lower and broaden your band but reduce the selectivity. Does Jacobi's law of power transfer apply here?
I hadn't heard that song in years. I watched this video, saw your post and guess what's playing on the radio right now? Ted Nugent Stranglehold. Just kidding. Come on Eileen.
@@REDSIX Ditto, I was thinking this is not useful for me, well, not anymore. Though this is a bit more expensive than I would be okay with paying for it.
I immediately subscribed to Cody's Lab, such a great channel, unfortunately had to unsubscribe from some other channels , you have to be picky right. Channels like oh, This Old Tony ;)
"unfortunately had to unsubscribe from some other channels , you have to be picky right" oh, that is what you have to do? no wonder my subs list is so long. "Channels like oh, This Old Tony" Yeah, that channel is the worst. All that playing with razor blades and not even one little finger cut. Guy has no idea what the internet wants to see.
Ever check out ave? My favorite channel so far. This old Tony; I watch him when I'm bored, and whatever he's talking about sounds interesting. Cody's lab is awesome though, isn't it?
@@lucusloc You don't need razor blades to cut fingers. A cheap steak knife and cutting food without a surface is more than sufficient. _posted two days after lopping off a small slice of my fingertip like an idiot_
@Awakened2Truth - Disciple of Jesus the Christ Okay, I understand the whole argument, and I'm usually on the same side you are, because often the misuse of words ruins the distinctions between those and other words that USED to make them elegant. It used to be that if I asked for a Martini, the bartender knew what I meant, and I got what I expected. But about fifteen years ago, that changed. Now if I ask for a Martini, it requires four or five qualifiers just to specify what the single word used to mean. It's as if "Martini" is now a piece of glassware with something liquid in it, even though "Martini" was the brand name of the Vermouth that was the origin of the name of the mixed drink, and most concoctions now called "Martini" do not contain any Vermouth at all. Of course, no doubt there are other people out there who believe that ordering a "Martini" means ordering a shot of Martini brand Vermouth on the rocks. Which makes ME part of the first corruption. Dang. So yeah, I get it. The problem is this: I don't think "trolling" is at all described by the word "trawling", because while the [troll] may be fishing, that form of "trawling" doesn't characterize the malice involved. Similarly, verbing the word "troll" is a corruption of THAT word. BUT, if I instead describe someone as a "baiter", which seems both sufficient and complete, the inevitable follow-up seems to be, "what do you mean, like a troll?", so sometimes I just roll with it. Choosing my battles, you know. But thank you for your insights on the subject.
I swear, I actually bought it because Acme Tools and Makita had a deal going where when you bought two "tool only" LXT tools, you got two 5Ah batteries. The Oscillating tool at $99 seemed just as useful as anything else they had on hand at the time. I have not tried using it as a cast saw.
I use my oscillating multi-tool about every other day some months and then not at all for several. Trim work, frame notching in tight places, blind severing nails, cutting out clean holes in drywall or cabinetry, etc. I was the opposite I didn't see a need for it when I was gifted one by a friend; but now, while I don't need it all the time, it's a definitely a hardship not to have it when I do need it.
I bought the cheapest one I could find at harbor freight and used it a bunch installing a laminate floor, and now it sits in the garage. Easily got my money's worth from that project though :)
These things are super versatile! You can turn this ultra sonic cutter into an oscillating multitool by simply plugging the cord into a phone and letting the dial tone do the work. I even use mine as an air chisel by rigging it up to the headphone jack on my boombox and cranking up the bass.
Memories broken. The truth got unspoken. I’ve even forgotten my NAMMMEEE. I don’t know the season or what is the reason. I’m standing here holding my BLAAAAADEE. A desolate place. Without any trace. It’s only the cold wind I feel.
If Tony's wife doesn't want it, he should go ahead and send it to the Isle of Man and let Clive perform some thorough reverse engineering. Or send it to AvE and he'll let the smoke out along with all the angry pixies.
Holy moly! Popped on amazon to check the price of this thing, thinking it would be $50-$100 (given the cheap plastic build and low power), but it's $350! Jeez.
3:14 of all the cds, your cut a jawbreaker cd?! And unfun at that?! You know if that had the original case collectors would have been all over that, right? Hahaha ok, I’m editing because the second after I typed this and unpaused, you had to call me out as one of those two people. 😂😂😂 (cut the vinyl though, and I’ll hunt you down!)
Hey Tony, I work as a injection moulder and I think you got the thing about the small number 2 wrong. Most likely bottle caps are produced with a injection tool with up to 50 individual cavities. All of them are numbered through, so if something goes wrong with one of the caps it's easier to find which one. Instead of sprues these cavaties have hotrunners to fill. Basicly a heated channel that leads direct to the surface of the part. Once you identify the cap that has a problem you can simply switch of the electrical power to the heating element and keep on producing with 49parts falling out of the tool, until a toolmaker has time to fix your problem. About what material is used, my best guess would be PE for those caps. All the caps we produce are PE. We manufacture 300-1000Liter IBC (intermediate bulk container) and heating oil tanks up to 4000Liter. The tanks are blowmoulded hdpe and the valves and fittings for the caps are too. This is necessary to make it possible to weld them on, since you can only weld alike plastics together. But there exist differently blended mixtures of HDPE. One for blow molding and and a special blend for injection moulding. The injection moulding blend is slightly more fluid in it's heated state and its easier to form filigree shapes with it.
One additional info I forgot: if the number is printed inside the three arrow recycling symbol, than it's a key number for the plastic used. Search "recycling mark numbers" on Google.
What PE exactly is used for plastic caps? (the soft flexible kind). There are a few kinds to my understanding. The sales person was no help at all. Can you help?
@@danl.4743 There are MANY different materials used for closures. LDPE, HDEP, PE, PP homo copoly nucleated slip agent blah blah and MANY different grades of those materials... Depends on the application food, medical, push on, screw on , living hinge etc. Technical sales from a resin compounder should get you in the ball park for a specific application. If you check online with a closure manufacturer they'd probably have a selection guide of their stocked resins. Been too many years but I *think ldpe is a soft type for say push on one use applications. There are soft PPs as well. Matweb website might help you pair down the 1000's of PE and PP grades available by physical characteristics. TMI, molders sometimes lie with the cavity numbers to fool competitors with their production capacity/cost. :)
@@anullhandle That's informative. Thank you. Specifically I am looking for this material in sheets, so that I could cut flat spacers or shims to custom size, to use below and around the glazing in windows. They need to be firm, but still somewhat soft in order to absorb shocks like when smashing a door or a window shut. Buying these shims ready made to the sizes I want is too difficult. I just want to cut them myself, easy. The consistency of a plastic cap is perfect. So do you know what material I should ask for?
Can it cut through the thick wad of plastic at the bottom center of a two liter bottle? That's one of my tests for any cutting device. Powered or manual. Strange but true.
For plastic that’s been solvent or even sonically welded, some time in the freezer followed by a series of sharp taps along the seam will usually separate the welds.
Thermal camera on workpiece would be interesting? And with your homebrew cutter, twiddle the drive frequency to find a frequency that results in a maximum (or a minimum, what do I know?) in supply current.
Very interesting and well-presented video. Bits and pieces of humour were on point! You got an instant new sub there. Cheers! :) Quick question: does it give a tingling feeling on the fingers while using it (probably more so on harder materials)?
Come on man. Jawbreaker deserves better. I've got a friend named Boxcar who protested quite loudly to your actions. Her hair may be blue, her eyes may be green. But I love her mind and she HATED that scene.
"Supersonic cutter With a max speed of 40000 vibrations pervseconds the cutting is easy! Beautiful finish!" That is the front, the back I cant be arsed to translate, but it is the standard info on usage etc..
It seems to me that this tool is perfect for cleaning up 3D prints (e.g. PLA, ABS, TPU), because less force is needed and is therefore ideal for cleaning difficult places of a 3D print.
Love your content Tony! I work for an ultrasoincs company that makes plastic welders, (soft) metal welders, cutters and cleaners. Its so cool to see someone home brew an ultrasonic horn and get something that works well. The tune length of your horn is going to horn is play an important factor in how much vibration you get out on the business end of things. @Jason Goodman has got it right that the frequency of of the tool is going to dictate this length. The area were the tool is being held is the node where no vibration occurs. There should be an another node in the center of the horn where you no vibrations occur. If you run your finger there while the piezo is one you'll feel a dead spot. That should be a quarter wavelength. If you measure that distance from the holder to the dead zone it could be a good way to experimentally find the half wavelength you need on your homebrew horn. You can even keep growing the horns by half wavelengths to get longer tools if you need. A big factor in the output amplitude of these tools is the amount of gain in the horn/ system. The larger the mass ratio on the different sides of the horn's node, the more vibrations you will get at the business end. Your homemade horns seems to have a lot of gain, where as the straight necked horn you bought seems to have a 1:1 gain. If you put too much gain in the system you can over stress the material and crack the horn. That nice 40 kHz sound will make a terrible squeal. Fortunately I think that the little power supply would break before you got that far. A place where these cutters shine is in food cutting. The vibrations prevent the food particles from sticking to the horn and you are left with a nice cross section. Try cutting a Twizzler
Man, you nailed the oscillating multi-tool on the head. I literally used it twice, once to plunge cut some slot in wood, and a second time to cut the cast of my wife's arm (no joke).
