Great video. I’m a metal welder and extremely interested in milling and cnc. Wish I had a good teacher. I taught myself how to weld by watching videos. I’m now in the market for a small metal lathe where I can make my own rc parts.

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

2 жыл бұрын

awesome!!

This sounds like he may be into the competitive side of rc cars, being he's going to such great lengths to meticulously modify his rc car. Awesome video as usual. Thanks for sharing.

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, he is heavily into RC cars, he is building this custom so nothing easily bought cheaply fits. Thanks for watching and the kind words :)

Sir.you are awesome.i recently started working at a machine shop.its really something.thanks

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

3 жыл бұрын

Congrats!

Thanks for sharing.

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

Thx for watching! ~ Richard

I would have just cut it, turned a new ball on the end and then put a new pin in the end. Or cut it, bored it, installed a bar in it then stake pinned it. But there is more than one way to skin a cat, for sure. Thanks for the show. Best wishes and Blessings. Keith Noneya

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, lotsa skinless cats around this place 😊

Another good one!

Good video Rich and yes, I think your right, Super Glue does come in handy. I have used the thin type to paint wood threads when I was prototyping some stuff. You would be amazed how hard and durable it makes wood threads. Now, it occurs to me after some reflection of a summer evening cleaning my wind shield at the gas station, if one could figure out how to make glue from bug guts, well then they may be on to something!! Thanks for sharing!

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

Its good for some stuff...(2) bottles for a buck at the dollar store 😊

@MyHeap

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, maybe. But here Tennessee bugs are free!!! hehehe

good job as always

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dan, an odd job for sure :)

I am old school and use a similar vernier as you. Mine is a Mitutoyo I bought 40 yrs ago. I still trust it to this day. It never really seems to matter aside from threading eh. I am still not sure which system I prefer as I can work both.You use more glue than I ever would imagine, Hell man if it works it works ! That nice accurate chuck is a real savior bud. I worked off one with .030 runout in it once and it was awful. No changing that setup, , ,EVER ! Little things are just plain hard to work with. Most of my world was in the 3 to 8 inch area. + to 30 + ft. . Way more suited to the logging and trucking world and oilfield /space.Great to hang around again with ya fella. Good job, , , AGAIN !

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dean, I am not used to working with such small stuff but was glad to help him out. Yes, I use super glue a lot...it has never broken loose under torque as long as you dont go crazy with DOC ~ Richard

@TomokosEnterprize

6 жыл бұрын

Love it bud. I just used it for the first time a week or so ago and a complete success. Many thanks fella !

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

Me likes it under certain circumstances 😊

@TomokosEnterprize

6 жыл бұрын

WOOHOO Bud !

You might try a hand held hacksaw to shorten parts like this up close in the lathe. A saw would have been much faster than all those light passes. Just a suggestion, you still got it done. :-)

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

I am working on the incentive of making a toolpost grinder :)

If you split the collet you made to hold the pieces, would a three jaw Chuck have squeezed it hard enough to hold it? Probably not?

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

Sure would if the hole drilled was the same OD as the part to be held before slitting the collet...check out this vid at 5:20 put up by a friend of my channel kzread.info/dash/bejne/dHidqMhtpbjeZco.html I just took the quick and easy way out with SGlue

Pot chuck -great for small parts(cut the round rod ,make the ID same as your part(the tighter the tolerances less the runout will be) and slit one side,put it in a 3jaw chuck.).If you split a nut it can hold bolts and screws as well without damage to the thread.

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, if he brings more I will do that...this set was down & dirty

@zumbazumba1

6 жыл бұрын

Check this guy kzread.info/dron/pp6lgdc_XO_FZYJppaFa5w.html Joe (i wont even try to type his last name)is a bible of knowledge he makes great videos about machining. If you click on my name you should see channels that im subscribed to.There are lots of talented russian guys that we never heard of simply because they dont do videos in english and use cyrilic letters in titles.its amazing what ideas you can find on youtube once you go to a russian side of it.(i usualy go for recommendations or google translate a word im looking for )

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I have been subscribed to Joe since he started. The Russian machinists are awesome...dont need a translator...just watch what they do. Please check out a subscriber of mine....his youtube name is: userwl2850

Just curious, did he need the sleeve OD to be a certain dia? I assume space is limited when rc cars are involved.

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, he did the legwork.... the sleeve OD had to be .250 or less, I used some .250 drill rod I had in stock. His was a custom made car so the run of the mill dog bones (thats what he called them) wouldnt fit, so with a sleeve he can now adjust them to the proper length and loctite them in ~ Richard

Hi Richard. Any reason you didn't cut a slit in the holder to use as a collet? 👏👍

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

Honestly David, I didnt think of it at the time, I had done that to hold square stock in the lathe before ~ Richard

I need to turn a 3 mm brass rod of 15.30 mm length and turn most of it to 2 mm then drill a 1.5 mm hole through it. How do you recommend I do it? I have a mini lathe and mini mill, so I should have the tools. Just not sure how to go about it. It's for a small rc plane wheel bushing.

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you have all the right equipment for the job. Turn the OD and do the drilling in the same setup so they are concentric. I wouldnt rely on a drill to make a 1.5 mm hole, drill undersized & use a 1.5 mm reamer to finish out the hole. Good job for a mini lathe :-)

Always enjoy your videos. Have you ever thinned down a knife blade? It's a hallow grind, hard as heck, and too thick to put a good edge on. Ass you have seen my crude style in afraid I would simply destroy it. (By hard as heck, I mean it skates a file)

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

Good knife blades...thats hardened & tempered steel, its meant to hold an edge by being tuff, can use a fine grit belt sander on them with good results or a grinder with the proper stone wheel. Get ya some nice sharpening stones....works wonders. I appreciate ya Rodman 😊 ~ Richard

@rodneysrepurposingrecyclin3821

6 жыл бұрын

Makin Sumthin From Nuthin I have stones, just don't have a belt grinder at present time. It is a straight razor my wife bought me on a vacation we took some years back. I have tried using a tristone with zero luck lol.

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

You need to get on building one then! lol

@rodneysrepurposingrecyclin3821

6 жыл бұрын

Makin Sumthin From Nuthin shew man I'm so far behind it's not funny. I do plan to build one tho.

@zumbazumba1

6 жыл бұрын

You dont thin down a straight razor-as you sharpen it spine of razor will thin down as well-it keeps angle of the blade same. Straight razors are commercialy sharpend by 2 wheels spinning in opposite directions.That way you grind two sides evenly at once.You could try it on a wheel but i doubt you will get 2 even sides,its something you have to have experience with to do it by hand .

Richard, you have got to remember that not good dead goes unpunished. :-)

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

He has already brought me additional work, and mentioned his other RC friends will be contacting me for machinist services...win, win for everyone :)

@glennfelpel9785

6 жыл бұрын

Good deal! You know these jobs might be a little fiddley but it pays the rent. It all adds up in the end. That is the way to build up the customer list. Thanks for sharing your experiences.

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

I know it wasnt the most exciting vid I ever put out but not every job I get in is earth shattering stuff and I like to share the shop projects I get in....hopefully there is something from the vid people can apply in their shop

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

More repeat business came in from him this afternoon...the work isnt hard...just my time and accuracy he is paying for

@glennfelpel9785

6 жыл бұрын

You may just be on to something very good. I can tell you for certain it is hard to find anyone willing to take on small jobs such as you do. Just as you I don't get any volume work at all just a few parts at a time.

Jeez ya missed yer chance... shoulda had the little "go-fer" work it off in SWEAT

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

I know right!

What no more video's.

gentleman, please don`t think that way, rc parts can be really expensive. i have seen some of those rank at USD 500+, just aluminum parts! if you don`t want to machine couple hundred parts and just earning peanuts, tailor make rc parts can be one of the choice. afterall, for the skill you have, those aluminum parts are just piece of cake.

@zumbazumba1

6 жыл бұрын

Imagine what you could do with cnc machine. . .And it needs1/4 of a skill to do it manual.

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

He has brought me 2 more jobs since this was filmed

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

I always imagine what I could do with a CNC....its as close as I will probly come to one...LOL

@zumbazumba1

6 жыл бұрын

CNC lathes are overated but cnc milling machines are just wow-it takes so much equipment and time to do a cam or helical spiral on a manual machine,not to mention you have to be a true machinist.Cnc mill does it within 20 min-it would take you just to set up a thing that much on a manual lathe.For complex things its just amazing technology.(200k$ not the chinese 300$ crap) But again its $$$.Cnc machines cannot stay idle othervise they never pay for themself.

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, they are amazing...Could do something that would take me all day in 10 min. My niche is one-off work other job shops wont take