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Thanks buddy, I think I will start making more videos

I have some footage of the lathe making some toys to try my hand at tight-ish tolerances, just need to get around to editing it but I should make a video of me learning the little CMM as there isn't many youtube videos of these 90s until converted to modern software (I have looked and there are like 3 meh ones)

@@HuskyMachining Cool- Look forward to that.

thanks! I'll try to keep them coming

Thanks man! I'm learning these manual CMMs are very touch sensitive

lol, it funny you say that as the next video has my huskies in it. And EngineerScience was a name I picked when youtube first started like 10 years ago and I thought it was time for a change

lol, you should, you might want to remember what your shop use to look like! plus then I can see how you organize your shop stuff

@@HuskyMachining haha yup i used to have more space. But after getting more and bigger machines i get bigger parts. They fill up the shop 😂

@@nikolaiownz I got to ask, how many square meters is your shop? it looks huge to me but videos can lie

@@HuskyMachining its only 95 m2 it looks bigger in videos i think haha.

@@HuskyMachining plus i got 25 m2 in another part of the building where i have My raw material and saws

Thanks! the cmm cost me $2600 USD in total but thats only because I bought the larger CMM that the MicroVal is sitting on for 700 at an auction but I could not for the life of me get 2 of the encoders to work but then miraculously a local high school was selling off there metal working lab and I got the MicroVal for $300. It's software was unusable but I was able to salvage the computer (and more importantly the CMM manager software license) from the larger CMM and buy a board to make it work on the MicroVal (the board cost $1600)

@@HuskyMachining NIce solution. So you still have the mechicals of the big CMM with two unreadable encoders? Maybe you could put 1µm linear encoders on it, a mesa card and use it with LinuxCNC?

I do still have a lot of the internals as they just looked to cool to trash. I thought I would find some future use for the parts but the old cmm is currently my surface plate (and mini CMM table). You can buy 1 micron linear encoders? well, I mean to say, can I afford a 1 micron linear encoders? I thought they cost an arm and a leg

@@HuskyMachining Aliexpress. SINO brand offers 1µm resolution encoders with standard TTL output for small money. How do you calibrate the CMM? Rent a calibrated standard? I saw what looked like a tow ball on yours but guess that is a calbration standard.

@@RotarySMP The machine came with a tow ball style calibration ball but it really only tells you if something is way off. Luck have it, the first large CMM came with a "renishaw machine checking gauge", which is this funky tower crane looking device that lets you check the CMMs accuracy in its entire envelope (or most of it anyway). Thankfully this CMM was actuate and repeatable to 2.5 microns after I leveled it so I didn't need to pay for someone to calibrate it and I'm just using it for in-house measuring so far.

well it all started 7 years ago now. I graduated high school and my dad kicked me out (screw that guy!) so I started working as a welder. I knew nothing at the time but yourube was starting to get Machining videos and I just loved watching a lathe run.... just so pretty to see the metal fly off. So, I saved up enough to buy my first lathe (I still remember handing over that 300 bucks and loading the little grizzly lathe into the trunk of my car). And that's where that coolest part happened, I started making things and people were happy to pay me for them! So I made about 400 of that item (over about 3-4 years as a side hustle as I was still working my 8-5 day job). It literally funded buying every tool in my garage... then sadly last year a fire burnt my hole shop down and I lost it all.... I had insurance (although I was under insured so I lost out of 40k worth of tools thr insurance company wouldn't cover) so with every penny they did give me I rebuilt my shop and used the money at an auction to get the machine I have now..... So to sum it all up, my passion for making shit (I really do love it) and a bit of luck... I get what your saying man, I grew up homeless with my mother for the first part of my life until the state took me away.... I felt like a rich biatxh to be able to afford my first lathe back when I was 20.... Now I feel like a super lucky biatch!