Simple Meets Shiny, a Shapeoko HDM story 

This is great! Thank you. When I posted that on the forum I never expected someone to take the project and run with it. This has been beyond helpful, and I’m in the process of putting an order together for everything you used in the video, including those clamps! They look amazing. Thank you so much for taking this on.

Great vid Vince, looking forward to 2022

Did you notice the part deflection in the drilling? Lotta forces there! Nice video..nice little hobby machine!

This machine is great, thanks for the video and your participation on the FaceBook group.

Always enjoy your content mate, keep it up.

Love your content, dude. You deserve way more subscribers.

Fwiw, any time I’m doing an adaptive with a helical entry I try to predrill. If you drill larger than the end mill and specify the pre drill point in the proper tab on the adaptive it will just plunge into the hole without the the helical bore. Faster and saves wear on the end mill. But even if I am using a drill smaller than the end mill earlier in the process I’ll still use it to predrill and then specify that point as the entry point. It will still do a helical bore but at least some material is gone from the center so it’s not cutting full width of the end mill. Enjoyed your video!

Looking forward to 2022 and seeing more of what you share! Appreciate you and SMW! Also got a ProvenCut subscription for Christmas, and I’m hoping my HDM will ship next week!

Would absolutely love it if you listed the endmills used in this video. Been following you for a LONG time man - this is GREAT to see!

Very nice 👌

That's badass.

Thanks for the group shout-out. :) Grab yourself one of the Rii mini keyboards. The jogging is so nice with one of those. Not as good as an encoder wheel, but still better than a laptop keyboard.

Would still be interested in a speed and feeds video follow up un this !

Hey die the drilling check out Helical or Fullerton 3 flute drills for aluminum. They will dramatically improve the cutting action and improve the accuracy of your holes 😁.

Beautiful work. When's part 2 likely to drop?

Awesome video! Are you using the 1/2 fixture plates?

What is the brass collar seen around the facing mill- 14mm datron?

Where did you get the Vice? Nice video

Does the tool for probing the corner work on the HDM?

How would I go about learning how to cnc on a cad cam software. I know how to 3d design I just don’t know the cam and tool selection process.

Did you ever do a video on the feeds and speeds? I cant seem to find it.

I currently have a bantam tools machine for machining aluminum and having some reservations. Would you say this is a better machine? Any others I should look at that are comparative or should I just bite the bullet on a tormach 440?

Awesome, an observation I made is that the part was flexing through some of the processes, on the initial facing and then during the drills. Is this a concern? I'm looking to import one of these machines. I've been an avid follower of you for some years over in Instagram and your content interests me the most as there is a lot of automotive performance based content with this machine.

What I don't get about this machine, is how the spindle is mounted. The holding clamp is pretty high up on the spindle body. Would it not be better to add a second clamp or at least keep the distance to the actual tool from the clamp smaller (for rigidity, resonance, flexing etc)?

Where is part B ?????

So the part moves quite a bit axially, you can see of the back left corner when drilling, was this because of the work holding? The mod vise should be plenty strong for that, or was it the tape and superglue and the bow in the part itself?

Is this video a sponsored video or?

I've got an HDM as well. Did you make the extra large red E stop button? If so, would you mind sharing the drawings?

Please: What breed of dog appears in your video

12:40 can visually see the part sag