The secret to precision is to wiggle it until you see the number you like 😂 Pretty sure that should be Metrology 101 Brilliant as always.

@mapgeek6

3 ай бұрын

My favorite quote from the video as well!

@Wachuko-1

3 ай бұрын

🤣exactly!!!

@johnsherborne3245

3 ай бұрын

Oh dear! Guilty as charged.

@KCadbyRacing

2 ай бұрын

That and her narration of "your gonna want tail support", "as you can clearly see" had me laughing = Quinn is both educational and entertaining ❤

15:15. “If you want to feel bad about yourself, get fancier measuring equipment.” Made me laugh out loud 🤣 Great stuff!

As a lifetime user of Imperial measurement, I started purchasing metric nuts, bolts, and inserts for some homemade router accessories. I'm starting to see the advantages of working in tenths! 13/64 isn't something that needs to exist in a drill set for me anymore.

I love this being a metric project. Much more relatable to me. Metric horns of victory! 🤘

@troglokev

3 ай бұрын

It’s good to see Quinn using that micrometer as nature intended: to measure in micrometers.

So good to see you working in metric - much more understandable for many of us.

The dedication to doing 6mm radii and not 1/4” is just another example of how much pride Quinn takes in her work. As we all should aspire to do.

As a British subscriber from over the pond - having had an engineering apprenticeship back in the early 80's - it's refreshing revisiting your educational tutorial videos. 👍

Oh God I've never seen that Canadian measurement flow chart but as a Canadian, it's 95% accurate. Long distances are more measured in hours. Calgary is 12 hours from Vancouver, I've driven it at least 15 times, and I have absolutely no idea how many kms it is.

@OutbackCatgirl

3 ай бұрын

I mean to be fair in most casual cases knowing how long it takes on average to get somewhere is more immediately useful daily than knowing the actual distance. Here in Australia you get a mix of both depending on the person. For distances below ~10km people often use kilometers or meters. Most often we use the following multiples: 5m, 50m, 100m, 250m, 500m/half a click, 750m, 1000m/1km/a click, 1.5km, 2km, 5km, 10km Above that we switch to transit time usually, though some folk go up to 100km before going to hours singe transit time in suburban city areas is very different from city to city highway transit. For example, it's about 2 hours +- half an hour to go from Perth to Bunbury depending on traffic, a distance of roughly 170km. I had to look up the kilometer distance, but I knew it was about two hours on average! It's apparently pretty common.

@OutbackCatgirl

3 ай бұрын

I think a big part of the reason behind this is that if you live in a city or suburban area you are more likely to measure things based on how long you take to get there as theactual distance to get there doesn't necessarily communicate the effort required to get there. Like there's a corner store fish and chip shop across the railway tracks from me, a distance of less than a kilometer, but to walk or drive you have to take a 5km detour due to the tracks so it's easier to just say it takes 10 minutes to get there (traffic plays into it too!). Shops are 5 minutes away, better shops are 10 to 15 minutes, etc.

@EngineerMikeF

3 ай бұрын

For better accuracy on long distances, I recommend switching from hours to bathroom stops. Or better yet, estimate in hours then adjust for the absolute value of bathroom stops +1.

@UncySpam

3 ай бұрын

I’m an Aussie and distances here can be taken in terms of number of days taken to get somewhere 🤣 Seriously though, I find most people can’t grasp big distances. Once it’s more than a couple hundred k’s I think most people think in terms of time taken.

As I don't have time or money to get into hobby machining, I must live vicariously through others. A few other channels are great but yours is just the right combination of methodical and explanatory. An added bonus is the humor and you have an adorable cat mascot. :)

@MelBrooksKA

3 ай бұрын

If money is tight but you wanna get in, I'd take a look for any makerspaces around you, some of them might have a machine shop and might even host classes.

This will be a great series. The manufacturer twice started a series of how to build it videos on the project, but stopped both of them before the project was finished. He’s a one man shop, so not surprised. Looking forward to your slant on the build!

Super cool. An elegant way to lock the cinch bolts would be to mill the back side of each head to a square and broach the holes in the angle brackets to match.

@PatrickKQ4HBD

3 ай бұрын

But then you can't fine tune the locking handle angle. It works just like a bicycle quick release hub.

@generessler6282

3 ай бұрын

@@PatrickKQ4HBD Sure you can. It will take a few more seconds. Then it's right for a very long time when wear might make it worthwhile to clock an extra quarter turn. Certainly better than welding, which she proposed. I guess if you need better than 90 degree resolution you could broach a double square.

@kerringalvin1240

3 ай бұрын

I have one of these, no issue with the bolt revolving, and handle is spring loaded just pull it out, it has a hex head behind it & rotate the handle to where you want it release & tighten. The table is nice & stable

I wanted to thank you for the tip about dropping one's hand when filing a smooth curve. I hadn't encountered a lot of hand filing tips before following your channel, and your technique call-outs have helped when putting together some high-quality, high-detail plastic models which require smoothing off sprue tags. My tiny joints move smoothly thanks to your advice!

Hi Quinn! I've heard you mention the limits of porta-band saws a couple times and wanted to share my hack job of a Harbor Freight saw. I cut out part of the aluminum frame and constructed new bearing blocks to straighten the blade. Of course this just moves the limiting factor to a different axis and is a permanent change. Maybe a system could be designed so the blade could be adjusted to any angle at will. ...hmm, thought I could post photos or a link but I guess not. I'm sure you can imagine though.

Glad you are doing this. I started building one but had to put everything in a box when we were threatened with flooding and had to evaccuate our property last year. (We get up to 3 months warning in our part of the Murray River in South Australia. The flood ended up being the second biggest in the last 100 years. We missed being flooded by inches due to the flood banks being built up fast enough to keep ahead of the rise. If we had not kept up. I would have had 6 feet of water to contend with through the property.) Anyway its taking me ages to reset up my workshop and I now have an incentive to find the bits so I can keep up with you.

I've been building this (from scratch) for the last few years, making it up from the drawings only, using whatever bits of mystery steel comes to hand. As a machining newby but inspired by your good self and Clickspring I have developed skills that I would not have otherwise. I'll be following this build with more than usual interest.

@danharold3087

3 ай бұрын

I am doing it from the drawing too. Making a batch of 3. The most finished on is to the point shown in the thumbnail here. Don't have a mill but do have a quite accurate DIY angle grinder on a linear rail system. Works great until I have to make slots.

Favorite comment “the secret to measuring is to slide the calipers on, wiggle them around until you see the number that you like annnnnnd that’s the number” EPIC 😂

Even Myanmar has been officially Metric since 2014 Love your work Quinn, have been following since the Veronica days.

Me, a regular viewer and now very confused European: "Wait, 150 mm, what's that again in metric…?" 😅

@byronbroadley3000

3 ай бұрын

Should be about 15 cm

@traitorouskin7492

3 ай бұрын

My dad was a civil engineer and go ballistic at my teachers for learning us centimeters. I'm same now it's imp or mm

@daanwilmer

3 ай бұрын

0.5003 light nanoseconds

@gumulf

3 ай бұрын

About 3/20 meter in metric.

@jesperwall839

3 ай бұрын

Love the Americans trying to answer your ironic question 😂

The discussion on the datum was very useful. I watch that concept when placing fiducial markers for optical registration since there is often a tradeoff between where increased accuracy is a benefit due to local complexity and where the placement is required to be to ensure overall accuracy. Your attention to edges, alignments, and repeatability is also something that separates us from the animals. On the metric v imperial topic that seems to be somewhat popular, I have had to deal with both interchangeably so much for the past 40-some years as an engineer, that I don’t care which I use. The only burden is switching between them. You make a great choice to just say, “this project will be in siriometers,” or whatever and get on with it. Picking a unit and changing all documentation and tooling to that unit system for the project is a best practice, calculating and converting all measures and tolerances once, then checking all dimensions in that system for clearances and fit before doing anything physical. When the documentation is metric, then just flip over everything to metric - that is easier than recalculating. Do not try to convert each measurement as you go or have some parts made to one standard and tolerance and others in another. Because of this, I end up having two sets of everything non-digital, but I am a quality freak, so it is worth it to me.

Excellent choice Quinn. I have Gary's Kit. In theory I have the Complete Parts Kit. I will enjoy watching your video to confirm my choice.

Of interest, Kurt guarantees that the fixed jaw is parallel to some absurd rating, so on one of their vises you don't have to re-indicate in when moving the jaw! I've done it quite a few times for large plates without any issue. But I DID have an import (shars) vise where it wasn't clear that the rear of the fixed jaw was even ground flat, just a rough machined finish.

I continue to be tremendously entertained by your videos, Quinn! Your sense of humor is always welcome.

@dans_Learning_Curve

3 ай бұрын

Now you've encouraged her to really break out her humor! 😜😂

I got my set a few days ago. One thing to look out for when getting the table together is the friction seating of the two long M6 screws in the brackets. If the hole is a tad too narrow, the screw will press out a slight bulge at the backside of the bracket, causing the bracket to not sit flush against the other bracket. This will hamper the friction setting negatively. I used a stone to remove the raised area. I like this set! Starting with the table, the easy part, gives a little confidence before moving on to the more demanding parts.

Quinn - thanks for making me love Saturdays. 😁

Yay!! It's Blondihacks time!!!

Quinn, I also like e fact you are using the Diamond Tool Holder as you lathe cutter tool holder. It is my favourite Lathe tool. I am still working on how to make a fly cutter based on the Diamond Tool holder. Why because the sharpening profile for the cutting blade is so simplified (being and Engineer I like simple) the older I get the simpler I like things. Hey!

I feel like those long cap screws would be better as a carriage bolt, and square the holes on the one side

I love your tool builds as much as your steam engine builds

I have a commercial tool rest in this general style, and those thumps you gave yours towards the end clearly demonstrate it's much sturdier than what I bought. Mine feels sketchy setting up sometimes, but really does do its job properly, so I'm pretty sure yours will be great.

A magnet pressed into a counterbore in the filing buttons would help hold them in place until you clamp them. Of course this would only work if you were filing steel/iron. Also, I wonder if a toothed lock washer might be enough to keep the head of the adjustment bolt from spinning?

I saw these guys a few years back and loved the design. Its probably time to invest

This Brit cheered when you said you were going metric. I still go places in miles, but inches? 🤷‍♀

@WolfJustWolf

3 ай бұрын

Now, she only needs to pronounce Aluminium correctly.

@noahderrington5156

3 ай бұрын

As a fellow Brit I recently changed my sat nav to km so I can actually understand distance. It occurred to me that I never use road signs to judge distance anyway as I always use digital maps so changing to km in a country that still uses miles is actually really easy. Still order a pint in the pub though!

@sciangear4782

3 ай бұрын

​@@WolfJustWolfin fact, Gary would have sent her aluminium, rather than aluminum, as they only have the former in Australia

As much as I liked that trick with the filing buttons... the novice in me was asking: "Couldn't that have been done on, perhaps, the mill?"

@mattagnew206

3 ай бұрын

My mill DRO has an arc feature. I've used it a few times - basically clamp the stock in the vice on edge, find Z0 and X0 on part, then go through a series of Z and X movements and Y cutting passes. The more divisions , the finer the resolution, but the longer it takes, and you still have to file to finish it off. Filing buttons are far quicker, but of course you need to make a set for each radius where the DRO method gives you an infinite range. Rotary table is another option but the setup time is high. When I was fabricating, mostly it was "scribe around a washer of approximate size and linish to the line" which is accurate enough for most needs!

I wouldn't call it cutting corners because it was damn close, but its really helpful to see where you "cut corners" while working on the lathe. There is such a thing as "good enough" and those time savings are worth it.

Another master class in metal working art.

3:33 nice, keeping that chart. I think I'll have to make this kit some day. Looking forward to the rest of the build.

To all the European commenters, Quinn always posts metric conversions in her videos as she is speaking the imperial measurements. So unless you are not watching, only listening, you might have not noticed that she always accommodates the metric folk as well.

Ooh, metric, that's refreshing ^_^ Makes it easier for me to follow along, as I won't have to calculate as much 😅

As american, I tend to think in Imperial units. but tend to design in metric....it's just so much more sane. Unless i'm doing woodwork...then i design in inches cuz my wood tools are in inches. Ugh. i still have to work to switch between the two.

Hay Quinn great Job on the tool sharpen Plat form. Thanks for sharing your information I appreciate that.

I always hoped you’d do this kit, Quinn! I’m about 60% the way through building mine and I’m really looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the trickier bits. It’ll certainly help me get back on track and finish it all off. Thanks as always for the brilliant content. Charlotte (Metric Brit and proud of it 😉)

Thanks Quinn

26:10 Would a star washer help stop the bolt head from rotating? Love the channel and look forward to all your videos.

What an interesting and great project! Thanks again Quinn!

Perfect timing. Something like this was parked right near the top of my “what the hell should I do next?” list.

I really like the Eccentric Engineering products. I have the diamond tool holders and their very nifty "rounding" jig. Looks kinda like the same table is used in both (except, of course, the hole patterns).

Wiggle it until you see a measurement you like.😆 I have never done that!🤥

@alexscott9809

3 ай бұрын

And statistics is not just clicking through the stats software until you find the test that gives you significance.

@2oqp577

3 ай бұрын

@@alexscott9809 Confirmation bias

Thanks Quinn, helps a lot!

It looks like a very cute platform useful for a lot of things

Hi 👋 Lady, Given that I am very envious (in the good sense of the term) of your excellent manual skills and skill in operating machining tools, regarding the metric or imperial system, I would like to tell you a short anecdote: A British company used to supply some vibration benches periodic maintenance for my one. They use to send us a technician and we got friends . He arrived once, we didn’t met for a year and at the coffee machine he broke the ice saying “ seems you gain some weight”. I didn’t know what to respond, because of my poor English, but he thought he had been impolite, so he tried to stick a patch, saying “me too”. I asked “how much?” “Maybe a stone”, he replied. “How much is a stone?”, I asked and then silence…he had the expression of a 286 windows 3.1 hour glass thinking ever and ever. I thought he was struggling trying to convert it kilograms, so I said “tell me in pounds”. He thought few seconds more and he said “I don’t know”… In my humble opinion (parochialism has nothing to do with it) one problem is fraction: until we talk about 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 maybe it could be followable, especially in musical language, but when something like 19/32 comes, it’s something not immediate, or you have to get used to, at least. The other thing that I struggle understanding or accepting is that 12 inches is 1 foot, 3 foot is 1 yard, 7 yards is 1 “pole” (I inventing it), 5 pigeons makes catfish, 4 catfish make a beaver… what’s wrong with “10 order”? What did it do so bad to you? packs of 6 or dozens are only used to buy eggs around here these days. Anyway I super duper love your channel and what you’re able to build, old school, without a CNC. Congratulations.

After watching your channel plus a couple of others, i ordered a diamond lathe tool set for my lathe.

Ahh that is good. One of the best teachers on KZread proves she can do it in metric too. Just the ticket, thanks.

Love your work Quin👍

Oh Man! I am so excited about this, I bought this Kit at Xmas time. As a Not at all Skilled machinist hobbyist, I completed most of it following the official vidieos supplied by Gary. I learned heaps, it really pushed me to do more than I normally would attempt. It was great. I completed the stand assembly and the work arm with only a few mistakes but none irrecoverable. However there were no videos to cover all the processes/parts to fully complete the build and there are a few of 'complex' parts I am not sure how to tackle. I am so looking forward to your series on this.

I enjoy your videos so much. Thanks for the content

"The secret to precision is to wiggle it until you see the number you like" 😄

Cool trick with those filing buttons. Interested in seeing how useful the finished product is.

@johnv341

3 ай бұрын

The rounded corners are cosmetic only. The file will not stay sharp long over the hardened buttons.

Tack!

‘Till the number you like! LOL! love it…

The recessed O rings in the hardware is something I've seen on Noga arms. They're commonly used in the film industry to attach monitors or other accessories to cameras. Just an odd FYI. As always, fantastic work and great video. Thank you for sharing!

Great job. Thank you 😊

There are so many ways to lock those bolts from spinning that I'm surprised nothing was done in the design. You could also bore out one side on the spacers just enough to hide a nut(or two) and use that to mostly jam the bolt in place. More work that a tack weld, but less permanent and should be less visible than a lot of other methods.

I so much enjoy your humor, like touching the finish on the tool steel. LOL :0)

I use .040 width parting tools whenever I can. Much less tool pressure and accompanying drama that way lol. thanks for the video.

Being in the machinist trade for 40 years the metric system is so simple you can do all the calculations in your head. 25 mm. = 1" 1 meter= 39 " take it from there, very easy.

Hello Queen, thanks for this video. I didn't know the tappy-tap-tap technique also worked with metric units, I will try by myself! 😉 Cheers from the old continent...

I have the same haimer probe, use it all the time. It's some much faster than the co-ax or the wobbler

Great job! This precision work reminds me of all the stuff @Clickspring is doing on his channel but on a smaller scale

Metric.. Yeah💪💪

hook up an electrode, and it would make a neat little solder / welding table... or maybe you can mill out a couple of variation that can be easily swapped... unimat style. =D

3:33 don't forget to measure things in french if you are in Quebec.

bruh the size change is actually nuts

safe and pretty, so is the project!

I’ve watched you for a long time. I’m wondering what your day job is. You seem intelligent and insightfully. I love machining and you share so much so thanks for all you do 😊

@thisnicklldo

3 ай бұрын

I think this is now her day job - full time youtuber. Her recent Q&A gave some insight to her previous jobs, much of which were programming type stuff.

the rivets on the vise look like scare quotes ... 'precision tool', love to see it

hey quinn, what if you made 2 taller vise jaws that you can put on the outside and that way you dont have to remove the movable jaw, AND you can use the first jaws as parallels? maybe?

If you were to recess a small button magnet into your filing guides, they would hold themselves against the steel plate while you clamp them. Takes a touch longer to machine, but no time at all to set up in use, so... win!

Most excellent.

Canadian boat and aircraft speeds are in knots (Imperial)

You have ER collets. They have a clamping range of 1mm. So you can use your 1/2" collet to hold a 12mm pin. 😎

It’s a lot sturdier than it looks. Nice work.

I love switching between metric and imperial. Variety is the spice of life!!!!

Just found your channel and wow…thanks for the gold mine of machining knowledge! Also did I hear you right at 2:32 saying “home gamer”? You wouldn’t also happen to be a gamer too? Lol anyway thanks again for putting all that time in…it is much appreciated!

So, a REALLY FUNNY thing happened when I was in 2nd Grade in South Alabama. Alabama adopted the Metric System! Yeah, I know, everything else with that state is just INSANE. But they adopted the Metric System and decided to start teaching kids about it a few years before full adoption for the state which was set for 1973. So for a few years, my school used the Metric System and in some parts of the State you can still find signs with both SAE and Metric values and in those areas you can also find International Road Signs. I don't know what happened there after August of 1973, we moved to another state.

Looking forward to seeing how this kit works out, and watching the inevitable debate on metric or bananas 🍌

The 1/2in er32 will clamp down properly on 12mm

Don't tell anyone but really the whole world is metric. The inch is defined as 25.4mm so really everything is based on the metric system.

@rolandjohansson7428

3 ай бұрын

Carl Edvard was a wise man.

@aususer415

3 ай бұрын

Ask an American how many pennys in 10c or a $1 and I bet they can tell you.. straight off.

I’m building this same kit. I am looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

For a second I thought you were taking the jaws off the vice so you could mount your Metric jaws :p

You upgraded your puffer! Very snazzy.

Love it :)

Oh thanks goodness for a metric build! Makes such a pleasant change from bunches of bananas and incomprehensible fractions of some kings nose or whatever that system of measurement is 😂

Nice to see you measure the same way I do.

Nice

Grind on

Huzzah, metric! 😍 (Hilarious flow chart, too. Le sigh. 😉)

wiggle it until you see the number you like. absolutely. absolutely.

Hello Quinn, I grew up with the Imperial system, all my measuring equipment, taps and dies, lathes are Imperial, so I stay there (75 years old). Is that snow I see through your window? We have had over a month of no rain and we are going through a week of temps in the high 30's and low 40's (South Australia).

nice

Quinn If you had a choice between a geared lathe with a dro or one with dc motor and speed control without a dro which would you choose. They are both 10x22