I liked the NurdRage homage at the end

I stumbled upon this channel by accident. I am amazed on the level of detail you provide. Amazing content!

Thank you for the explanation. 750 EUR for such a machine is a steal. I envy you :)

Really interesting videos, thank you. Your explanations are models of clarity..

Your videos are great, please keep up the great work. I regularly fall down the "machining" rabbit hole in youtube, but these niche machines for optics are so cool!

Seeing the convex and concave surfaces pair so nicely together at the end... so good. soooo good hahaha And its just really cool that because its glass you can see just how nicely they're paired .. SATISFYING!! Onto the POLISHING VIDEO!!!

Good ol' Loh. I regularly work with Satisloh single point diamond turning machines for eyewear. Cool to see the other side of things out there.

Woo, best channel for learning optics component processing in YT. Thanks very much Sir!

Interesting. Thank you for the view. Thanks for the explanation why the cylinders are used instead of servos or stepper motors and ball screws. I wouldn't expect the system to be more stiff by using cylinders!

Thanks for sharing your work, extremely educational. I'm surprised by how strong that blocking wax is, I would've expected you would need to clamp down the blank to prevent it from moving during milling.

More videos please. Awesome work!!

What an awesome machine

This is amazing ❤❤❤❤

So interesting! Thank you for sharing!

It's from switzerland. Great machine

Many thanks for knowledge!

Wow! The machine looks amazingly well kept. Did you have to clean it up yourself, or was it already nearly perfect?

Subsurface damage is also increased by feeding the diamond wheel too fast into the glass. I could generate nice smooth radii on a Strasbaugh generator with a coarse wheel by just feeding a little slower.

Cool explanation, wonder if those diamond angle grinder cutoff blades could be used? Wanted to make some mirrors for PIR sensors. Optical quality is not really needed? Given me a few ideas.

Thanks for the video. Great information. What is the method for generating a parabolic mirror? Can the same machine be used?

The last part looks like the process for grinding telescope mirrors.

I imagine using hydraulics would also eliminate the backlash of a drive screw which would definitely help the the accuracy

Incredible

hello, Nice video , which sticking material you are using for block of a lens ?

750.00 €?!?!?! That’s about 1,000.00$!!!!!! I need a machine like that to experiment with custom camera lens 😂😂😂👍🏼

@HuygensOptics

4 жыл бұрын

It is actually $820 with the current excange rate of 1.09.

@Engineer_Stepanov

4 жыл бұрын

@@HuygensOptics Is normal price.

@mikeznel6048

2 жыл бұрын

@@Engineer_Stepanov No... No its not!

Many a fortune made out of military surplus!

Neat!

Have you ever done grinding of fluorite crystals on your Loh Spheromatic machine?

@HuygensOptics

4 жыл бұрын

No, I've just used it for glass and glass-ceramics. I guess it should be possible since it is relatively soft material.

hello super machine and incredible price :) what is the biggest side of glass you can grind on this machine ? very interesting video.

@HuygensOptics

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. The largest diameter this machine can handle is approx. 130mm. So it is more suitable for lenses than for example for telescope mirrors, which are generally larger.

@manuabecassis

4 жыл бұрын

@@HuygensOptics i was definitely thinking about telescopes :)

@Stihl_OK

4 жыл бұрын

@@HuygensOptics good afternoon, write your email address

@mikeznel6048

2 жыл бұрын

@@Stihl_OK No...

@Huygens Optics >>> 👍👍

If you wanted to make optical elements out of Silicon or Geranium ingots - would you take similar steps but use a different tool? Or is Diamond the solution?

@cooperrobt12

Жыл бұрын

It is similar except that the swarf left behind makes the cleaning of the machine a huge mess (been there, done that).

why does the larger base glass need to be centered?

@MadnessQuotient

2 жыл бұрын

because that glass base is the part in contact with the fixture in the machine. If you didn't have the blank and the base centred to each other then you would induce wedge in the blank and your radius would be off centre. If you were in mass production mode you would simply make a fixture the right size for the blank and skip the waxing altogether

CNC --- Computer Numerical Control

How pointless would it be to try to do this with a regular milling machine or similar, equipped with the right tools and coolant of course?

The Machine is not from Germany, but from Switzerland.

@syntaxerr0r1234

Жыл бұрын

nur weil die Rechnung aus der Schweiz kommt heißt es nicht das die Maschine nicht in Deutschland gebaut wurde. Die Firma hat in beiden Ländern Standorte und wurde ursprünglich mal in Deutschland gegründet.

Sounds like mads mikkelsen

750 Euros for an optics making machine, ironically you must have seen them coming

Some machine, must have cost 500k new

Look to be from Switzerland (CH-4702, Soloturn), not Germany.

@douro20

9 ай бұрын

Nowadays they are, but the company was originally from Germany- Wetzlar, to be exact.

so why is the audio like that in the last few seconds? Are you secretly some sort of demon? Not that there's anything wrong with that

I would advise to buy any future lenses on Aliexpress. Cheap and saves you a lot of work