As a fellow Machinist and engineer. This video perfectly encapsulates. Overthinking, and the point of making something so simple soo perfect. I love it

@adamdebowski2037

2 ай бұрын

😂

I appreciate your detailed commentary explaining why you do what you do. I'm a new mechanical engineering graduate and these kinda of details are really important to making good designs.

@adamdebowski2037

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you’re enjoying it - thanks for the feedback, SwimCube :)

I am getting golden information from this channel and i am lovin it. Nice work.👍

@adamdebowski2037

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Kaml! I’m glad you’re finding the videos helpful 👍

Great content. Commenting to help the algorithm!

@adamdebowski2037

2 жыл бұрын

:) thanks Chris! 🍻

Thank You for adding the feeds and speeds tab in your video, extremely helpful!

@adamdebowski2037

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback, Adam! Glad you’re finding it useful - I was hoping somebody would :)

Excellent demonstration. I just got an updated price list from my aluminum supplier today and was counting $$$ as you Super-Fly'd the bottom off your part. What used to be cents is now dollars! I totally understand your efforts to save material! I contacted the supplier and asked if they had a misprint on the prices. Nope, aluminum flat bar has doubled in price in the last few months.

@adamdebowski2037

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Richard - tell me about it! Everything’s up. Steel, too….

Very nice editing, with showing the speeds/feeds in a window to the side. Much appreciated!

@adamdebowski2037

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video! Cheers - Adam

Nice!👍 This has to be the most expensive drawer handle I've ever seen😂 Hope he knows and appreciates the time effort and money spent on this handle👍👍👍👍👍

@adamdebowski2037

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Catherine!

As always, thanks for making the videos you do. Appreciate it, Adam.

@adamdebowski2037

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you’re still enjoying them, pinklightfever!

the general practice in toolmaking would be to if at all possible ref from the dowel hole, referencing corners corners runs the risk of out of square parts and mistakes of what corner is the ref corner. So order of sequence would be machine bottom features , machine fixture referenced to vice stop then bolt part on , machine top side . in general dowels are .0002-.0003 oversize and would be a press fit into the fixture. fasten the vice stop down before you ref the part to it , sliding the stop up to the part makes for error as the stop clamp screw is applied. analternate method would be to only machine the holes and the finger slot before flipping then machining the whole outside and top making the chamfer right on location but your machining stiffness would suffer

@adamdebowski2037

2 жыл бұрын

I see we’ve got a real machinist chiming in. Thanks for the insight, Chris!

Good job!

@adamdebowski2037

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers! 🍻

great video/ One Thing I would of like to learn solid works!

Looks good. I'd put some clear coat over it to protect against light scratches.

@adamdebowski2037

2 жыл бұрын

Do you know of any good clear coat products/methods other than anodizing that adhere well to aluminum? You're so right - you look at aluminum the wrong way and it scratches!

@piccilos

2 жыл бұрын

@@adamdebowski2037 Ive been using krylon clear coat. Any clear coat or lacquer should hold the fresh cut aluminum shine.

Nice!

@adamdebowski2037

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Love your content buddy, somewhat unrelated but, I am working on converting a PM25MV right now and at a loss of a good electrical enclosure, size/supplier etc that isn't astronomical in price. Also, do you have separate power supplies per motor? Thanks for any help.

@adamdebowski2037

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Nicholas - you’re absolutely right re the enclosures. They sure are crazy expensive - which is why I built my own. Don’t know any cheap sources but it might be worth giving aliexpress a search. Re power supplies, no - I’m using a toroidal transformer to power all 3 motor drives with 60VAC. Check out my video in my CNC build where I talk about my setup and the details of my electrical cabinet if you’re interested. kzread.info/dash/bejne/lIKTppWHh9rKpZc.html Good luck on your build!

Personally i machine the fixture in the vice and dont remove it till the jobs done

@adamdebowski2037

2 жыл бұрын

How would you get at the bolts?

@forgeperformanceand4x4

2 жыл бұрын

@@adamdebowski2037 i have a few little ratchet set that i use in these cases. Ones a super slim one by snap on great for allen key bolts the other rotates the head by turning the handle so with a slim socket on them they work amazing. The other way ive done it is dowl pin and a pocket that the legs slip into and then a uniforce clamp that holds the sides. Depending how many or how big is how ill try and hold it

Looks like you are using solidworks and I am assuming you used their cam thats built in . Could you do a video setting the operations up in their cam software . Thanks

@adamdebowski2037

2 жыл бұрын

Hi R WA. I’m using solidworks - but not solidworks cam. This is the HSMWorks plug-in for solidworks developed by Autodesk. Check out this video for cam walk though if you’re interested: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qpmg26V9Ztanj6Q.html

@rwa7856

2 жыл бұрын

@@adamdebowski2037Thanks

@BrilliantDesignOnline

2 жыл бұрын

@@adamdebowski2037 I tried the SW integrated CAM and it is clunky. The Fusion 360 CAM has the same design based on logic that SolidWorks CAD so brilliantly does, F360 CAD not so much (still too immature). BUT, when I discovered that the HSMWorks 'plugin' module for SW is fundamentally the exact same CAM as F360, I (we) now have the best of both worlds with the (IMO) unsurpassable CAD of SW and the top notch CAM of HSMWorks, which is included in the hobbyist license for F360. Another brilliant video in every respect: keep 'em comin' :-)

@adamdebowski2037

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrilliantDesignOnline totally agree w your comments. I love solidworks and the HSMWorks plug-in!

I know you use solidworks. But my cam looks way different in solidworks. Can you tell me the differences between solidworks cam and cam works and whatever your cam runs on

@adamdebowski2037

9 ай бұрын

There are a few CAM plugins for Solidworks: Solidworks CAM, CAMWorks, HSMWorks, and i think Solid CAM. I'm using HSMWorks, and you must be using one of the others. I don't know too much about them other than I've heard Solidworks CAM is quite awful.

@tiotube7578

9 ай бұрын

Thanks i literally just saw in the next video that you are using HSM. To be honest my machine runs on GRBL which is not even supported by solidworks cam so the first thing i ram doing right now is installing HSM for solidworks, so i finally can do cad and cam in one software. Thank you @@adamdebowski2037

@adamdebowski2037

9 ай бұрын

How did it go? We’re you able to get it up and running?

@tiotube7578

9 ай бұрын

@@adamdebowski2037 it worked for one hour afterwards it crashes when I am doing the simulation of the cuts. Right now I prepare the assembly in solidworks export it as step and import in Fusions360 to use their cam. I kinda feel like the options there work a bit better because when it did work in solidworks I could not figure out how to use the remaining stock from previous op. And in Fusion 360 it worked fine

Great video, but you did not answer the main question. How did your father-in-law like his gift!

@adamdebowski2037

Жыл бұрын

Haha - good question! He loved it! 😊