Learning curve feels mighty vertical at times.

I have a small hobby machine shop without cnc machines, and neither do I have plans to start with cnc. To me, this channel lost a lot of it’s attraction. Now I just have a quick look, and see if it is manual work or cnc, and decide what to do. I don’t want to spend hours watching a machinist pointing at a screen or to watch an invisible drill through a small dripping window, while there are so many other creators doing stuff within my field of interest…

it is still important to know the manual maching. You need to know what the computer will do in every operation. For example if you know what happens in a peck drilling operation you then know how to program the computer to do the same.

I would be trying to defeat it, if you need that level of safety....You should not be operating or even in the shop. "Only YOU can keep yourself safe" (not some regulation or mandated safety measures) Getter Done.

Amen brother.

There's plenty of work for manual machinists too, and there always will be. In fact, as the corporate world moves away from manual and goes fully robotic, that opens up more opportunity for smaller job shops that can do work that isn't worth the setup time for the big guys. Taco Bell and McDonald's did not run small and gourmet restaurants out of business.

Thanks 👍

I'm sure there are limits as to what Adam can do to the outside of the building/roof. The inside may be more lenient, but you can only do so much if you don't own it.

OMG, talking is all he does anymore!!!

Be careful of magnets, that's how it knows the door is closed. AvE actually put a porthole-wheel in his. (spins with air to sling the shmoo off.)

I appreciate that!

G'day Simon, either way, better than watching fish swim around in a tank of water. 😅

Providing your CAM solution allows it look up Thread Milling. Grab a block of maybe 1/2" Aluminium and 2 or 3 cheapy Thread Mills (because you will likely break one learning) and give it a go.

It's a good point about humidity, especially something like flood coolant going. But dehumidifiers extract moisture from the air at the cost of raising its temperature. That's great for a variety of applications, like clammy basements in northern US summers or on the Gulf Coast between A/C season and heating season. But on the Gulf Coast in July, it's A/C season: there's too high a temperature to start with. I suggest running an A/C or dehumidifier, but not both at the same time. If you're running both, you're adding heat to a room with the dehumidifier, then asking the A/C to pull it out of the building. This inefficient "double handling" of the heat and moisture ultimately will cost you on your electric bill. Another subtlety is that modern A/Cs evaporatively cool their own compressor coils with their own condensate, helping efficiency. Effectively, you're cooling the indoors by making the outdoors more muggy. With a dehumidifier, that efficiency opportunity literally goes down the drain as condensate. Fans in all cases can be helpful for whittling down energy usage. In warm seasons, you point them at you, helping people evaporatively cool off. In cold seasons, in a high-ceilinged room like this one, you point them elsewhere to mix the room's air instead of letting the warmest air rise out of reach.

Nice try. LOL

Another amazing KZfaq channel, in my opinion, did this same thing with his cnc machine, the AvE channel. Video - spinning viewport, dewclaw helps out. It worked wonders in my opinion with recording and doing what you referenced in your comment. I do hope he sees this!

There are lots of wipers and spinners and air blades available, but they don't help for the splashing around at the tool that obscures seeing the actual machining. If there isn't coolant all over the cutting tool and your material, it isn't doing any good.

​@kindablue1959 I agreed with the comment. However, I don't think blocking the tools method of cooling of the working parts was the focus in my reply. The viewing thru the lense of a camera for the audience on how the tool achieves the task is the topic. That way, Adam can set up a go pro behind a clean view into the working cnc doing its task. 27:43 Adam has to clean the window for us to have a clear view into the tooling doing it's tasks.

@@jacobbudden381 Yeah, well that's still about as interesting as watching a car go through a car wash. I much prefer seeing actual chips forming, especially the big 1" wide curls coming off the shaper. YMMV.

@@kindablue1959 I also agree with that comment, The great enjoyments of this channel is how vast machining can be, as well as creating products to be recorded for our viewing enjoyment. I've never worked around this kind of stuff, however seeing him use all types of machines to achieve a exceptional end product gained my following. Take care.

And just absorbing sun before it hits the roof probably reduces AC load!

Hobby CNC machines can be a lot of fun, makes you able to machine more complex geometries without having dozens of special attachments and stuff. Just don't expect it to be able to rigid tap like this, the spindle most likely won't have the torque and most importantly won't be able to be synced with the Z-axis movement. What is possible however is thread milling.

one man band, disable any safety device that annoys you.

Doesn't really work because the laser moves with the gantry. Can't make the yellow line on the floor move.

This is what @MechanicalAdvantage is telling him NOT to learn!!.

@@stephenk79-rc1il I know, it's really sad that so many these days are being taught that way, especially in the hobby groups I follow with my CNC Routers, I spend so much time teaching people because they are so dumbed down mainly by avoiding Gcode so they don't have a good understanding of what's really going on with setting tools, knowing where the machine is going, etc

You think he would be allowed, mounting things on the roof can be challenging with your landlord.

Solar panels on a roof are tricky because of insurance companies and building codes because of Florida hurricanes.

Air knife

Humidity is usually around 80%. Mist cooling would rust the tools.

@@tsmartin if the humidity was lower it actually would not as it evaporates before ever reaching a tool. But if the humidity is around 80% as you say then it would not work.

Mist cooling is a non-starter in Florida. Way too humid. The A/C brought the humidity down to tolerable levels inside.