Production Drilling in the Flex CNC 

lol

I was hoping for a 5 part job. I can't get enough of Abom.

Hope the guys in the field take as much care setting out the framing!

There’s a lot more a small job shop can do with $300k and 300 square feet of floor space.

@@zacharymihlrad1045 A shop set up for creating video content, having sponsorship, just have to run some demos now and then. An ordinary job shop needs to run the machines full day, and there is alot one can get done with 300K and 300 sqf for sure.

Or just use a heat shrink tool holder.

You are years beyond Abom. You have an understanding that he will never have. And as a result when you graduate to larger, more powerful equipment you will be productive right out of the gate. I doubt if after months of training, and more than a year of hands on, you would struggle drilling a few holes. Congrats on your initiative!

It was set up for video production.

Did you see him doing any programming? Ever?

@@jerrylondon2388 yes

@@walterhiegel3020 Right, he pushed Cycle On, then called Tech Support!

@jerrylondon2388 ok if that's the way you wanna characterize it. I see Adam as someone who has never done programming. Titan had the same issue and he turned out OK. Sometimes you just need a little help to get started.

@walterhiegel3020 I was an industrial trainer for a Fortune 5 company. I had 2 levels of students who attended class technicians and salesmen. Technicians would take one class, go back to work for a couple of months, then return for the next class. Rinse, repeat! Salesmen (like Abom) would take one class after another. They were there to learn the model number, and to be able to turn the product on and off. And perhaps learn some minor operations. Tech support was always on speed dial. Salesmen were never rated on their performance in class, basically just auditing. Technicians companies paid $5,000 - $10,000 a class, they wanted to see some results before spending money on further training. If I had "purchased" a $200,000 CNC machine and "paid" for training, I suspect, I like most, would be working my ass off to be able to get some return on "my" investment. If I had taken 3 or more classes, I must be the best, most advanced technician they had ever seen. Just not seeing it!

Exactly 👍

I would be deburring those holes while the next two were running. Most people are too lazy for that.

@@larryrobinson7492 i was also thinking about the deburring when they mentioned the galvanizing

Thats why slotted hole work in these situations

He did explain in a comment that it is the spacing between the holes that is important, while both ends of the angles will stick out into 'the air', having some +/- allowance

Or use a sealed collet or a nut with a seal.

​@@SUMOCAT86correct 👍

yea he has a induction device for heat fit tooling, it was one of his hour long advertisements a few month ago which has never seen the light of day since

@@osgeld other paid content to push out, presumably.

There are also dedicated thru coolant collets that will block the coolant to only travel through the tool. Both work well either way.

"That is too* easy....."

Those were the days.

They were doing it wrong. You need a $200k machine like shown here.

@@324atleD life's SO much easier these days for all those youngsters 😁👍🏻😉

It's a realtively low priced CNC, with a very large table. Can be customized for the individual customer. It is typically used by companies working with large structural beams. To those companies buying it, it saves them quite some time compared to the way they've done it earlier with more manual work and moving of the parts involved, accoridn to different videos I've seen. So the money they make, is often first of all the money the save by going for this machine instead of the old ways. It's a 3-axis CNC mill, which is the most 'basic' CNC machine. the money earned greatly depends on your products. One likely do not buy such a machine 'just like that', but have one or more specific tasks for it. I like the idea of this machine, and the not too high cost, and I can see it being usable to for many different tasks

He mentioned this, or the need to lift on/off with a jib crane (close enough!) didn't he? Or was it too long to watch for you by 6:30?

​@@silasmarner7586Just gave him a tip on what I've used in the past to do this type of stuff. It is always nice to see what others are doing to improve ones capabilities and efficiency. Apparently, you dont see it that way. But since you brought it up, then yes, it was a long winded video to watch a half a million dollar machine drill holes. One of the most lame jobs to do in a machine shop is to drill holes repeatedly. In which I shouldnt even comment as he doesnt read them anyways. And yes, I have more important stuff to do then fanatsize over someone elses videos. If ya dont want the tip to use, then keep it scrolling, it wasnt directed at you.

@@SteveColluns-hm2xx Welp, just looked up the flex vmc, and its listed starting price at like $194,000. I doubt delivery and setup/rigging is included in that. I think rigging he contracted gimself so. So that machine is probably coming in at a quarter of a million at least. Not my point, its just drilling holes so.....

@@SteveColluns-hm2xx I dont know what your going on about, as to my original comment, this has no relation to it. Im not judging him by any means, I dont care to as I dont know him, even if I did know him, why would I? What would I gain by doing that? Work ive seen him do, he does a great job. As far as these machines go, I dont know the contract they have and what is stipulated, and im not going go and guess upon it, it has no effect on me what so ever. I guess the only thing I would say, but its only my opinion, I wouldve taken a partial class in cnc before making any contact with any company to see if its something I wouldve pursued further. I dont know if youre envious, mad, happy or whatever the case may be over this, in either case, you could just as easily contact them and make a deal of sorts. For all I know, you work for a street dept, or fast food joint or whatever and have no shop of your own. Unless you have some type of tie / contract to what hes doing, which I doubt, then id just let it go. Nothing is stopping you from doing what he is doing. Back to my origional comment though in which this has taken a wild turn and way off my subject, sometimes its nice to know what other shops are doing for production efficiency one maybe hasnt thought of or tickles an idea. Thats all I had done was tossed a couple ideas into the mix. I don't care to know the rest of what hes doing in his shop. If he wishes to tickle the idea of a magnet and or covering the flex, then by all means, do so, if not, then don't. Im not her to to bash him, it foes me no good and or him. Thats really all I have to say on what he does.

@@SteveColluns-hm2xx And yet youre still replying. If ya cant get past the first period, then you should just move along. If i hurt your feelings, then i cant help ya.

Does it matter for the application? If holes are symmetrical end to end it won‘t but if it does Adam will be drilling the other side on half of the angles for free!

Hole location is center. Makes no difference at all.

Starting at 1 square side @4" and the 2 parts are unequal lengths ,when you turn the opposite side around to the correct orientation, the starting point of the first hole is no longer 4". Maybe it's not a huge deal for this application, but it is a mirror image part. Not identical.

Good call. But it seems like its probably screwing into 24" o.c. studs or purlins or something that is going to be +/- a half inch anyways. And if its a solid surface with self tappers or whatever, then it just doesnt matter. Someone engineered that 24" o.c. screws are sufficient so it will be "close enough" which in the building industry is pretty standard. This is ultra low accuracy work. My two cents.

Same here! Not puzzled, just wondering why they're still here. Although there aren't nearly as many haters/trolls as the used to be...

There are legions of do-nothings and keyboard experts who are generally miserable failures, and they want everyone else to be just as miserable as they are.

They are spoiled basement trolls who’ve never been denied anything in their entire life. They think the free content should be exactly what they want to see. If they don’t get it they fuss and complain.

No, Adam came out with really good contents for years that alot of old timers love. Now its just full of equipments that mfg give to him for reviews. Its not the same anymore. Try paying attention a little better next time before you open your mouth. I understand its Adam's RU-vid channel.

@@oceanlover1663 I started watching Adam back when he worked at Motion Ind. AND I'll comment where I want and when I want!

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Luckily this machine does not need to be paid for;)

Nope. About $20 each.