Wisdom: "Then I understood the problem I was actually trying to solve." That's a level up right there!
@dcurry7287
6 сағат бұрын
This is the kind of content no company would sponsor (for obvious reasons lol) but is invaluable to a newbie. Thanks for another great video!
@christopherhargreaves1979
6 сағат бұрын
The lamp shading made me laugh but id take schedule filler over no Blondihacks any Saturday.
@laumuseka
6 сағат бұрын
The only thing I heard from the rotary table issue is that size does indeed matter 😂
@7891ph
5 сағат бұрын
Being a machinist for almost 40 years, I can confirm what she's said here, with a couple of caviates about V-blocks. You have to have the correct type for the job at hand, which would be based on what you're doing. Where I've used them the most is doing die and mold work on the surface grinder, which would probably be well outside the scope of what most people are doing for a hobby.
@quixoticjedi942
5 сағат бұрын
Wisdom often comes moments after you need it.
@djscottish
6 сағат бұрын
For what it's worth, I use an 8" rotary table on my Sieg X2. There's just enough space to center to mill spindle over the rotab spindle, and enough Y travel to reach the back edge. This is useful for some things, but clearly not ideal. The 5" is an ideal size for the x2 in my humble opinion.
@wardprocter2371
6 сағат бұрын
“Definitely not schedule filler” LOL
@shotout74
5 сағат бұрын
I use my V blocks mostly for metrology purposes at the surface plate. I've also designed and built some CMM fixtures for production parts using them. When you need them they are exactly the right tool, the rest of the time they patiently wait in their case, we'll oiled.
@OGTtom
6 сағат бұрын
Yup , have a garage full of "Positively Couldn't Live Without it" .
@aaronleiter9009
5 сағат бұрын
😂 Me too. I have a problem with buying tools for things/problems that I might encounter, some day, maybe...
@OGTtom
4 сағат бұрын
@@aaronleiter9009 I have purchased tools , then figure out a project for it . I look at some tools like , oh my I must buy it , lol
@hollo9571
5 сағат бұрын
I paused and had a think after the introduction: my v-blocks with saddle clamps (never used), and my 4" rotary table (used once, vertically, balanced on top of a bunch of 1-2-3 blocks to give clearance while doing starting cuts on a worm wheel) were my first two thoughts. Delighted to see both subsequently featuring.
@Parityodd
6 сағат бұрын
Your rotary table versus the rotary table she tells you not to worry about
@lv_woodturner3899
6 сағат бұрын
One of the purchases I wish I could do over is getting a set of 5C collets and the square and hex collet blocks. I do use these often. They were not expensive. At the time I did not know about ER collets and the benefit of tightening the collet at the front. When I have operations which require changing collet diameter, it is a bit of a hassle to have to remove the 5C collet block from the machine, change the collet and then put back in the machine. A set of ER40 collets and associated blocks would have cost a lot more, but these days I appreciate that they would be more useful. To compound my frustration, I purchased a wood lathe ER32 collet set and chuck a few years before I got my metal working machines. So getting ER40 collets would mean spending for duplicates of the ER32 collet range.
@smallbyrdz3823
5 сағат бұрын
You have a well equiped shop when you can not find more than four things in the MSC Catalog that you don't need and can't use, but would really like to have. On a more serious note, for small endmills, rather than buying HSS or even coated endmills, go the extra cost of solid cabide. Pays off in the long-term unless you have a costly tool grinder and lots of time to enjoy using it.
@markwarner5554
5 сағат бұрын
In woodworking, I found plunge routers to be more of a liability than a useful tool. Fixed bases are adjustable enough to do the the job plunged bases are designed for. In ten years of guitar building, I used the plunge router twice, and I had to clean up its mess with a fixed base router both times.
@Raye938
5 сағат бұрын
If you want a quick and dirty calculation for comparing the surface area of round things, I use it for pizza, just do the ratio of their diameter squared. 6/4 = 1.5, 1.5^2 = 2.25 so it's 2.25x larger
@frogandspanner
5 сағат бұрын
I bought a dividing head, but converted my Sieg SX2p milling machine to CNC, bought an A-axis, and let linuxCNC do the complex work. The dividing head now just takes up space and annual protectve lubricating. Just before I sat down to watch this video I was enjoying never having bought a rotary table - as I had CNC. I was trepanning a hole to accept an MPG inner boss, and drilling three holes for the mounting screws. That's the kind of thing one might do in a rotary table, or the bigger hole might be treppaned in the lathe.
@Mike40M
5 сағат бұрын
Took me 10 years before removing the swivel base. Did need it about 3 times. Rotary table tailstock, not needed yet. Lightweight stick welder only rarely used on farming machinery on windy days. Like MIG, TIG and gaswelding more. Drills 1/16 to 1 inch only used a 1/2" once, living in a metric country.
@r1mein54
6 сағат бұрын
Thanks for the tips Quinn. Some tooling I had saved from Pop`s stuff as a Journeyman Inside Machinist from the 1930s gave me my start. I have spent more time fixing the Palmgren rotary table I got when I bought the used Enco RF30 bench top mill that using it.
@malsm8892
4 сағат бұрын
As an apprentice in the milling section of machine shop we had no rotary vice base's the rotary tables covered the full width of the larger and medium sized vertical and horizontal mill tables. As the smaller machines were used for really small work dividing heads were on the larger and medium except for an older small horizontal mill that had an indexing table moving about thirty degrees of centre used for gear cutting special gears and cams that were not standard stock
@joshclark44
5 сағат бұрын
"All tools are beautiful" 😂 i love you Quinn
@toddf4738
5 сағат бұрын
I went the opposite route on my rotary table. I thought a 10 inch would be good for my 18 inch round column mill. Found one on eBay that was local pickup (still 80 miles away). I realized I was in trouble when the guy loaded it into my pickup with a forklift. Turns out it was advertised incorrectly and was actually a 12 inch Enco indexing table weighing about 300 pounds. Used an engine hoist to put it on my mill to find that it hits the column well before the spindle reaches the center of the table. I still have it hoping that someday I will buy a mill that will handle it. I use an 8 inch rotary table most of the time.
@LaraCroftCP
5 сағат бұрын
Oh, Quinn. You could try to sell your unused gear. That gives you more space and budget for new propper tools
@vahidvahidnia1643
6 сағат бұрын
Every time is better than the last. You’re on a roll!
@odiekivarkis8193
5 сағат бұрын
Excellent video, it addresses a lot of wrong decisions I made, especially in buying tools that I thought would be wonderful to have but wound up to be just occupying space with 0 use.
@lqqkout8214
6 сағат бұрын
Glad the algorithm gave me your video today, I’m subscribed with the bell but haven’t been getting your notifications lately. Thanks as always for the video
@ferky123
6 сағат бұрын
Just unsubscribe and subscribe again.
@aaronleiter9009
5 сағат бұрын
Even though I don't often get use my machine tools, I learn so much from your videos. 👍
@firebird8600
6 сағат бұрын
Yay!! It's Blondihacks time!!!
@WolfJustWolf
6 сағат бұрын
For what it's worth, i have a 3 inch rotary table for my Proxxon FF250 mini mill. It takes up the whole depth of the table. I only need it for very small pieces (5 -10 mm ), so i does that job well enough.
@LawTaranis
6 сағат бұрын
I was given a rotary table by a friend who made the same purchase remorse that you did. Thankfully, my machine is so comically tiny that it's technically too big to fit and I had to grind a few mm out of the mount slots to get it to mount. 😅
@captainmurphy4720
6 сағат бұрын
V BLOCKS WITH U CLAMPS ARE GREAT FOR HOLDING STEADY AND LEVEL WHEN MEASURING
@austinlambert3994
5 сағат бұрын
YES! I'm starting my machining journey and looking at boring heads/rotary tables. I don't fundamentally understand why they aren't an amazing tool. Off handed comments about them being flawed highlights that I have holes in my knowledge but I'm struggling to plug those holes without a hefty "tuition" payment.
@robertpearson8798
5 сағат бұрын
Boring heads (from my limited experience) are one of those tools that you try to avoid using if possible. They sacrifice rigidity and can be tricky to set up properly. Sometimes though they are the only tool that will work in a particular situation.
@foldionepapyrus3441
6 сағат бұрын
The rotating vice base is a good choice if you can't afford or fit a rotary table suitable for your workpiece on your machine - not 100% overlap in use, but it lets you pretend you have a rotary table a bit and make do, and occasionally will be vastly superior as it has a relatively small Z penalty compared to the rotary table in many cases - you still need work holding on top of the rotating table that can easily cost you more Z.
@davelewis2174
6 сағат бұрын
I use the V Block Clamps alot on the Optical Comparator, My 5-C Blocks are the Dust collectors.
@kenibnanak5554
5 сағат бұрын
So exactly about the vise swivel base. Same one as yours I think. On my little Sieg Mini Mill it ate most of my Z space. I finally realized if I took it off I could handle more work pieces and did so. That was years ago and I haven't needed it once. My little Sieg Mini Mill was a mistake too. It works well, as advertised. It vibrated a lot until I filled the column with equal amounts of sand, tiny screws and epoxy. That ended the resonation issues. But I needed a mill with a knee so I could handle tall things. The Sieg mini mill lacks a knee. Many workarounds which sadly included bringing the work to someone else's shop and having their mill do the cuts I wanted, but on their schedule, not mine. Sigh. Yes. U clamps were a total waste of money. The first time I tried to use them one of them just broke in two which forced developing other ways.
@JayFude
5 сағат бұрын
4 inch rotary table would be perfect for my 3018 CNC mill!
@johnapel2856
5 сағат бұрын
Schedule filler? HA! I scoff at that suggestion. Actually very useful information. Quack to Swarfy, THANKS, and Meow to Sprocket.
@GoPaintman
5 сағат бұрын
I bought a 8” rotary table for my Bridgeport 2 years ago. Haven’t used it once either.
@5fingerlovetouch
4 сағат бұрын
I ended up using my 3" 3 & 4 jaw chucks as vises for holding weird parts on the drill press.
@Revilo0o
5 сағат бұрын
Phase II 4" snap! Yes it's great on my Taig mill, bit diddy on the sx2.7
@jimsvideos7201
6 сағат бұрын
Thank you for the insight Quinn.
@jamiemacdonald436
6 сағат бұрын
There are many life lessons woven in and out of your rotary table explanation. 😂
@evzone84
5 сағат бұрын
Honestly I'm still in that phase. Making laundry lists of all the cool tools that will transform my life. And I'm still disappointing myself. The 6 inch vise on my hoby mill is frustratingly over sized. But I thought of all the big parts that it turns out I was never going to work on.
@foldionepapyrus3441
5 сағат бұрын
I'd advise caution on the cheap collet block - just because Quinn got lucky and had the complex part arrive, well finished and 'precise' doesn't mean you will. My rule for cheap tools now is generally don't - burned one too many times. But if the tool costs 1/20th to maybe at most 1/10 the price for the materials I'd have to buy to produce that tool in raw stock and electronics It might be worth the risk (if any electronics, and it must be remotely possible I could build it myself). As at that sort of price you are hopefully at worst buying a casting kit that just needs finishing (or similar idea) and will end up with a functional tool for a not unacceptable price/effort ratio - while it won't work out to be a good deal then, you haven't spent enough money on the expensive end of cheap tool 'scrap' to then sink days making it actually function to the point if you valued your time at minimum wage it would have been cheaper to buy the premium brand...
@johnhawkinson
6 сағат бұрын
2:11 Rotary tables: It's not the π so much as it is the squaring! Going from a 2" radius table to 3" radius table is going from a 4π in^2 to a 9π in^2 area, more than double. (The π cancels). I wish I had a ⏍ for inches, that one is for square feet. Oh, notation! Wait, did someone say cubes?
@jamesnizzy9774
6 сағат бұрын
Those 'U clamps' for vee blocks are actually known as 'Stirrups' little fact for any of you that didn't know :)
@Craftlngo
6 сағат бұрын
Adam Savage has one procedure he follows when he tries out new tools. He buys the least expensive tool of the kind he can use for a specific task. And if it works out for him he buys the most expensive alternative of it he can afford. In this way he doesn't spend money on expensive stuff that he doesn't use at all.
@taranson3057
5 сағат бұрын
You shared a few tools that I have and never used a few of them were my dad's from when he was a machinist. The tools that I have are Starrett brand and I am seriously considering selling them.
@steveNCB7754
5 сағат бұрын
One of the worst thing you can do, is get a Round Tooit.Once you finally get a Round Tooit, you can wave goodbye to any spare time or bank balance you previously enjoyed. 🤣
@millwrightrick1
6 сағат бұрын
There is a law for judging size increases. It is called the squared cubed law of proportions.
@peterfitzpatrick7032
6 сағат бұрын
Quinn, have you ever used a Keats angle-plate ??.. About 20 years ago, I had a production-run of 200 off-centre-bore bushes so I made one ... its turned out to be a very handy faceplate workholding fixture... 🧐 😎👍☘🍻
@JulieanGalak
6 сағат бұрын
Buying tools and using tools are two separate hobbies.
@jrmintz1
4 сағат бұрын
Thank you! That is exactly the sort of info I need.
@raymondseeger4832
5 сағат бұрын
“And it’s definitely not schedule filler” 😂😂😂
@dutchgray86
5 сағат бұрын
I have 3 rotary tables, 5", 9" and 12" none see much use but when you need them you need them. A simple indexing table is better if you're drilling a circular pattern and don't have a DRO ER collet blocks I find more useful than the 5C, I only have the 5C because I have 5C collets and they didn't cost much. I find those small V blocks quite useful to set lathe tools square to the work, but not very useful for actual machine work. I have an 80mm 3 jaw chuck on a 5C arbor for small dia non standard size work, but it's more useful when the 5C collet chuck is on the lathe for quick jobs over swapping the chuck on, as my 3 jaw is 10" and really heavy. My mill came with a 6" Abwood vice on a swivel, in over 4 years I have never swivelled it. Morse taper shank drills are helpful if you have limited Z capacity on your mill, even in relatively small sizes.
@jamesmeader6539
4 сағат бұрын
You need a This Old Tony sticker for your toolbox.
@robertpearson8798
5 сағат бұрын
Why not mount that little chuck to the little rotary table? It might not make it more useful but it will look really cute.
@joepalazzolo4630
6 сағат бұрын
One of your best videos! Thank you.
@brianwilkinson719
5 сағат бұрын
Collet block rings are made from "Chineesium" a specialist Chinese alloy of cheese and melted chocolate.
@JEFF-ft6qm
5 сағат бұрын
Great vid as always. One question though. How much should I spend on a small rubber duck?
@okiwatashi2349
6 сағат бұрын
I’d buy the wee rotary table!
@paulmorrey4298
5 сағат бұрын
Thanks Quinn
@springboard9642
5 сағат бұрын
If it were me, even if the logical part of me knew a tool only had one use case for my shop, my lizard brain would stop me from selling it 😂.
@robertpearson8798
5 сағат бұрын
I have a friend who’s a retired machinist but still a hobbyist. He has a very minimalist attitude towards tooling, preferring to find ways around having to spend money on anything. He’s also tighter than the skin on a wiener.
@alias1719
6 сағат бұрын
Nice one. But I could have used this 8 months ago!
@wmcrash
5 сағат бұрын
So like pi cube relationship, you're not getting heavy in an exponential way. You're getting heavy in a cubic way. I just figured your comment section needed a dumb take, I can check that off my list :)
@RPrice_OG
5 сағат бұрын
Very informative, thanks.
@robindeputy
4 сағат бұрын
Great advice, Quinn. I hadn’t considered the diameter of the rotary table needed until you pointed it out. I had planned to buy a 4" one to match my 4" lathe chucks, but now I will look for a larger one to increase my working radius.
@Oberkaptain
5 сағат бұрын
That 4in rotary table would fit my mill perfectly where did you get it at?
@stevenverhaegen8729
5 сағат бұрын
Diameter goes up by N, volume by N to the 3rd power. Oh you just mention it😂
@OrchestralButterflie
6 сағат бұрын
It looks just like a rotary table, only smaller!
@LaraCroftCP
5 сағат бұрын
Hi Quinn, I know that this is a bit odd, but i think i need a kinda cheer up from another machinist. I have this lathe, a wonderfull, beautifull, fantastic lathe over maybe three years and i had so much fun with it. But now i have the Problem, she was made in 1963 in England and she starts to leak everywhere. Honestly, all three gearboxes are leaking. And the Problem is, im located in germany and all the seals, O-rings and bearrings are english imperial and just Impossible to get. To be clear, i love my lathe like nothing else and i would do everything to make her work again, but also i have a kinda hard time right now. I have my secound puberty, i barely can focus on anything and i fear that i lost my mechanical understanding at all. I mean, i took apart a pretty simple Gearbox of my lathe 3 years ago and also 2 weeks ago and the secound time i got a damn panic attack because i was so overwhelmed. I just dont trust me in the moment to dont do misstakes that could end fatal. Replacement parts for this machine are just not avaiable and even the oils are rare today. I dont really know why i write this, maybe i just need to talk this from my soul but i really hope it will get better soon. With big big greetings, a other machinist and craftswoman, i just love your work! P.S. Do you have over there good made imperial seals and O-rings?
@JeffSearust
5 сағат бұрын
My mill is about the size of yours... I went the other direction and got the 8" rotary table... Yeah... It's massive. And useless. Finally got a 6"... Tooling very much needs to match what it will be used on.
@grilnam9945
6 сағат бұрын
4 minutes in and I have run out of breath, from saying “That’s what she said”
@tacticalrabbit308
5 сағат бұрын
My dad bought a vice that I use on his drill press it was not made for it and will not mount securely to it
@wolfwind9658
6 сағат бұрын
Ya, me too
@0xDEAFF00D
5 сағат бұрын
Is it tau that is delicious? It's tau. Or maybe 1/2 tau.
@Raye938
5 сағат бұрын
I am such a child I could not stop myself from making the obvious joke about 4 inches being insufficient.
@MartinSBrown-tp9ji
5 сағат бұрын
I would rather see you work on the model locomotive.
@thinaireprime
5 сағат бұрын
Is that snow out your window?😮
@BarryLitherland
5 сағат бұрын
What is a delicious differential constant ratio of linear and circular dimensions ... that's irrational.
@squirrelrobotics
5 сағат бұрын
Standard Parrallel jaw pliers. They suck. Such a TINY gripping range and NO high quality ones on the market. Just buy Knipex Plier Wrenches and save yourself the hassle.
@BrunodeSouzaLino
5 сағат бұрын
And you probably should upgrade to a 6" rubber ducky.
@mr.b2232
5 сағат бұрын
👍😎
@johnmoorefilm
6 сағат бұрын
I too am so much smaller than I think I am…😢
@DaveM2
4 сағат бұрын
SELLING YOUR TOOLS: Maybe you haven't considered it, but with all of the donations that have been sent to you from viewers, I would think that you would put their names in a bag and draw a winner. I'm a subscriber but not a financial supporter so I'm not asking for anything.
@jakumoku
6 сағат бұрын
Mmmm, pi(e)
@dogdipstick
6 сағат бұрын
omg lol. don't get high on your own supply. lol.
@dogdipstick
5 сағат бұрын
Mitu vernier protractors stared at for years. My lil rotary? Nema 17 motorized on a LittleMachineShp 5" faceplate for a minilathe with a taiwanese 4 min of arc rotary table parallel to 0.XX mm. .. well .. Resolution: 0.01°, Non-MS Driver; 2 0.0005°=1.8", 20MS Driver 3 Rotational Velocity (Max): 25°/sec 4 Repeatability: 0.005°=18" 5 Absolute On-Axis Accuracy: 0.01°=36" 6 Run-Out of Top Plate: 15μm 7 Backlash: 0.005°=18" 8 Eccentricity: 5μm 9 Lost Motion: 0.005°=18″ 10Parallelization: 80μm to be exact.. carbide broaches mills hell fifty milling cutters for my Benchmaster.. never turned a one.. indian reamers.... adjustable and still in cosmoline... Piles upon piles of carbide did I say carbide? Rad square ball V tapered bn hell.. erry size and shiny... like fifty in 7 flute 1/4 inch GARR alone.. and I gotccupro... . garr.. US carbide.. many more.. hell even jacops rubber collets and ER sets are attractive to me.. lol.. micro100 them fackers fifty or sixty different carbide boring bars for my 1/2" bore head... fly cutters gauges not even getting the to mics... the 724 725 436 ALL the mitus a few 225 (4?) FOUR CHINESE CALIPERS the wiggler form starrett aand brown and sharp.... the scales.. draw full of them... Arbor spacers sitting in cosmoline under the benchmaster. piles of keystock. Vices? No.... vises. the gibralter the bridgeport the old one the kurt the palmgren... EVRY MT2 drill bit my otor can turn and ten it cannot... from numbered drill sets through the big ones.. i could go on. setup blocks.. v ... Clamps.. Step blocks... parallels... Pretty Brown anede Sharp I beams... neatly striped of their japanese black for replacement sitting in oil
@dogdipstick
5 сағат бұрын
Niagras? Oh hell yeah.. they are great. Snapped three 3/8 5 flute last week in a Ford steering box bolt before I got the Dewalt drill straight.. but... Chewed that hardheaded bolt right up once it got square. Lol. Its cool I got twenty more. bahahaha
@dogdipstick
5 сағат бұрын
Inside mics. They get big. I can do up to 32". Outside mics. they get big. i can do up to 30". Depth mics. T hell throw a Bestest in there too. The Z gauge for the machine setting. The last word, the wiggler head to hold it. Teclocks and Mitutoyos. Or pull out the venerable No.221 if you need 10,000ths. the vernier height gauge ... Vernier protractor. V square. Adj. square. Bore gauge in the range you need. Two electronic calipers. Hope they agree. The pipe mic too. the anvil mic. The back pluncge and its lil setup. All the standards you agree upon to go with it all. o god im gonna start buying pin gauges and go nogos next. jebus why. IDk. gotta have em. no way round it. Darn darnit. I like old tools.
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