I have been dreading the day AvE would collect all five Silmarillions

My wife looked over my shoulder and said, "Oh, I thought you were watching a self-help video" [because of ToT's smooth and relaxing voiceover]. I replied, "It is"

Thanks for watchin.... keep your stepper motor in a vise.

The video is a stepper in the right direction.

With all of these videos lately I find myself wondering. Is Old Tony ok? Does he spend hours alone in the shop by himself? Is he hiding from the real world? But then I think “who cares”. Because I’m a selfish KZfaq watcher.

What's wrong with me that I was more impressed by subscriber counter than anything else.

Tony: No! I am your father! AvE: That's not true! that's impossible! Tony: Join me and we can rule the internet as father and son!

wow that motor can get up to 3000 subscribers!

Holy cannoli! You weren't kidding about that take off and landing! What a noise the stepper makes at 3000 rpm. Impressive. You're gettin' semi-pro all up in there (your garage, that is).

This video is much cooler than you think it is. Doesn't need a reason or a why or something extra like that!

I like how TOT's hand is talking to me. This style of cinematography is as original than efficient. You are a skilled movie maker. I like to watch your vids! I'm not a machinist at all, but I start to have some decent knowledge about it... for a non-machinist :)

I see that cheeky little sub counter at 6:44 :D

My two favorite pair of hands AvE + This Old Tony !

Been watching this guy for quite a few years now. His humor is great. Funny how his voice is actually calming for me... as I have seen all of his videos, at least twice and upto five times, I will keep it on in the background to kill the silence. Thank you for the videos... keep 'em coming!

love the subscriber counter!! more hits when you're going forwards!!

All I know is, it’s Sunday night, I’m in bed, dreading work tomorrow.... I got a notification that you had a new video. Watched it, enjoyed it and I’m ready to say I love you. 🙌🏼

Love the little updates. Honestly is probably a great way to appease to KZfaq algorithm gods too. Little chats and updates between the gloriously long videos.

think i've watched every single video in you've produced so far.. no idea if i'll ever get my hands on heavy machinery but i just love watching you make custom parts and lathe work its almost soothing.

i cant believe it, AvE and ToT collab!!

You just had the angry pixies in the wrong setting.She is a choochin like frig now.

21st!

So that tachometer is also a "Subscriber Counter",,,,very interesting! Great video as usual Tony.... gonna miss that spaceship sound though.

For anyone who needs it, you can submit a ticket to Newfangled Solutions at support.machsupport.com -Bryanna

In 1981 I battled with coding stepping motors in hexadecimal thro a Rockwell AIM to pioneer a 3D printer...wish I'd persevered!!. There's something magical about precision motors. Your drollery and repartee is the envy of many wannabee KZfaqrs..

I know absolutely nothing about this stuff but I still come for the dad jokes

I have 4 of the Ethernet motors, LMDE573's to be exact and it is simply amazing the amount of information you can manipulate on these drives...smart is an understatement. I am slowly delving into the ModbusTCP aspects and it's pretty crazy. I heard you got solid feedback from Mach on the drive config but I will say I have also been immensely impressed with several divisions of Schneider and their product support. I also use their SFlex VFD systems and when confronted with some complex issues they got me right in with the 4 senior applications engineers for the VFD and they were amazing. Great stuff and looking forward to see how you make out in the final product. Thanks for some great stuff!

All good things in time my friend. Things are going forward ! Onward bud !

the gems you put into these videos Tony. If I upgrade my computer, then I can run after effects. Then I just have to learn it, make consistently great videos for a few years, then I think Ill be qualified to clean your chip trays. What I’m saying is: We’re NOT WORTTHY! Cheers Tony, I know you read some of these comments & I am really fired up about your coverage of numerically controlling a computer! In some order or fashion. Speaking of fashion, got my ToT shirt last week, the girl at the bikini coffee stand complimented it. The coffee is trash, but they serve it barely clothed, so that’s nice.

...one "step" further...good video as usual! I really appreciate your videos thank you!

Thank you TOT, it is amazing what you can do

Fun fact: Tony's favorite Harry Potter character is Hermione GRAINGER.

The purpose of the video was to prove you didn’t break it, and that it’s ok to ask for help. Job well done

ThisOldTony: Run at 3000 rpm. Stepper Motor: REEEEEEEEE!!!

I have to say, I like this style of quick update video interspersed with the regular longer form vids

Best channel on KZfaq. Always gets me laughing. Great at the end of the day.... Big THANK YOU tony

Hopped my way over here from seeing your name in the comments and didn't make the connection to Wintergatans part you made... Til now. You've gotten a new sub. Good work. Keep it up.

Difference between Ave and Tony, 1. Profanity 2. Production value 3. When talking electronics, I can actually understand Tony.

I don't know which is worse: the sound of steppers running at high speed, or the anticipation of what TOT is about to do with this one. The anticipation is killing me!

That's one small stepper for man, one giant shop project for mankind

Mr. Tony. Thanks for posting new content.

Making me want to try building my own multi-axis CNC or lathe the more I watch your content! :D

Glad to see someone, is keeping an eye on AvE, I watch all the time i can only see his hands.

More videos is always good! I also enjoy the direction since I'm kinda reopening the cnc book for myself atm.

Damn, I wish I could see those Patreon settings :D Love those little details you're editing in!

Found you originally through AvE, I continue to not be disappointed.

"subscriber counter" 6:45. Absolutely superb.

I just discover your channel and I really enjoyed your videos and explanations that you do! for that reason I’m already subscribe to your channel, great channel

Glad you figured it out.

love all your vids, humour and hypnotic monotone teacher voice (you kinda sound like Ray Romano sometimes)... short story long, love yer work maestro

Great video as usual! I have my mach4 software collecting dust on an electronic shelf somewhere. I replaced it with centroid acorn and I couldn’t be happier. Just my 2cents.

Love your vids tony, excited to watch this one ;)

Step pulse train... arguably (and someone will) one of Ozzy's greatest hits... Hopefully you'll be able to get the pod bay doors to open now.

Great video Tony. AVE is fantastic!

Always some of my favorite purposeless videos.

That is a nice twisted pair, I can appreciate a good twist. Back in the day I installed car audio, before you could buy twisted. We had to mine, melt, and insulate our copper wire.

Love your videos mate ^^ happy to be subbed to you. I learned alot already. 😄

We ran into a similar problem with a drilling operation. The difficulty was the motor was integrated into a multistep machine. The sequencer was written in Japanese DOS and we were using American DOS. Too much fun.

Subscriber counter, very good, made me smile did that.

Dear uncle Old Tony, your voice sounds as usual now. I am glad you are okay and stopped getting older.

Love the little easter egg "subscriber counter" on the bottom of the RPM meter

Extech Subscriber Counter, what a nice product placement.

That ‘free library with more metal’ thing you mentioned reminds me that I’ve been trying to get a membership based workshop type of business off the ground for a few years now. Pay a monthly due and get access to a load of metalworking/woodworking/auto tooling. Idk, it probably already exists somewhere, but i want one in my hometown.

348th!! Glad you got it sorted and I'm sure it will also help to keep the space time dimensional stabilizer on your lathe locked down nice and tight as you please! Cheers!!

Extech's new subscriber counter is on the mark.

I love your videos. I’m not sure what the purpose of me watching was but none the less here we are. 🤷‍♂️

learning many thing from your video, thank you for sharing

I'm just here for a like from Uncle Tony.

Nice Touch, Subscriber Counter on the Tachometer *Thumbs up*

We use stepper motors like this in Moving lights for stage and theater. For the Pan and Tilt, they have encoders that watch for steps. When they see steps without a command, they move to correct that motion. It is a lot of fun to give em a push and watch them come back to their position.

Can't wait to see what you have planned for this! I also have a suggestion or maybe it's a request for a build. I'm looking to build an er40 collet chuck with a mt5 and a draw bar for my lathe. Would love to see your take on it.

I love the Subscriber Counter at the end! Nice easteregg!

Haha sneaky subscriber counter. Nice one Tony. I admire your tinkering and I wish I had the free time and obviously the projects to utilize all that stuff. Great entertainment and I always learn something new so I can brag about it :-) PS: I would love to see a revamp of your CNC series - so if you do some new stuff - I'm happy to view it. For a small viewer-fee of course. I mean I need to feed my cat somehow :D

No idea what you're doing, and half of what you are saying, but it seems cool as frig...

I think Ave is getting in over his head, but he good on him for even considering it. The shop I work at has ,5 Haas VF2s but I can't exactly go in after hours to work on personal projects

"I decided to just step away." I see what you did there.

Spinning on a dime, Keeping great time. Feeling sublime, End of the rhyme.

Really neat stuff on that Patrons tab.

I’d love to see/understand the comedy writing process!

Thoroughly enjoyed! ATB, Robin

Thank you for the update, i can now sleep again.

I do not know the reason to watch this video either but thanks for posting!

Theory confirmed! AvE is Tony's sons Doppelganger. Tony, you might want to revisit your lathes settings. Perhaps check the layout of your shop too, as we all know the proximity of certain equipment to each other does has an effect on the final result. Godspeed Tony.

Wait, hold on. The noise resistance of twisted pair depends on a differential signal. That is, one side is positive and one side is negative, of the same logic. What you appear to have is a quadrature output, which is two square waves for two sensors inside the encoder. Sometimes the two lines are opposite, sometimes not. If anything, it will actually hurt signal integrity and increase rise/fall time, because now when a signal changes it has to put extra energy into countering the capacitance of the wire pair. Depending on the driver, you may also see the rise of one signal on the opposite line as added noise. But if the motor does indeed have differential output, then you just need one twisted pair for each signal. Keep in mind if you want to probe this that what you have is a "noisy environment", and you need to keep your probe leads as short as possible. Use the "little spring thingy" directly on the connector (and remember of course that ground has to go to ground if your power supply is not floating!).

Choice update Tony. Still havent a clue as to its intended purpose, but im dead keen to find out :) . Cheers mate.

you should try play with a spindle servo Tony - huge torque, insane speed, incredible positioning. the stuff that machining centres use for spindles... they are next-level difficult to program

ToT, Always love the content, just waiting for you , Ave, Abom, Diresta, and Fenner to start a rock band.

Oh good I can sleep now lol. Love your videos

You should have a bunch of crossover episodes where AvE makes some items on the HAAS to build your project (of course, along with the items you make in your shop for the project), where AvE acts like he has no idea who it's for as he's making it, and a couple/few weeks later, you install it into your project in one of your videos, not letting on who you got it from. Then after a few months of this happening (or when the project is done), AvE announces that he's been invited to look at the project he's been building parts for, and you have a crossover video with a "surprised" AvE, showing him your finished project. The climatic crossover of the unseen machinists!

'Subscriber Counter' on the Extech! That made me laugh out loud! AvE's offer is probably unprecedented in KZfaq and/or maching history! I suggested he use it to make himself a big pair of brass.....well, if you know his channel, you know where I went with that.

A great thank you for your videos and your chanel that I just discover .... I saw that sometimes you use Blue... in order to make a dark finish on your metal parts. For my objects I do the same and to make it more easily I use to warm them before and instead of using a brush I take a scotch brite 3M tu put the product . I think the result is better as the scotch brite clean it and color it at the same time . Excuse my bad english .... And again thank's very much, I've learn so much things with your videos .

Got to love it when my two favorite youtube shows reference each other. Hell, I found out about ToT because of AvE... wait... I see a pattern here!

Thx for the update :) you had me worried 😦

Using something you built your self it far more rewarding and far more enjoyable than watching a CNc don’t get me wrong that can be fun to watch but only for so long

The attention to detail in your videos is amazing. Subscriber count on your rev. counter? Well played, Sir!

“Subscriber counter” on the bottom of your tachometer😂 that’s great

Nice subscriber counter at the end there

That landing sound is pretty cool tho

We use a similar motor on a machine at work that has an encoder in the motor and an external encoder on a roller. Between the two encoders the motor can be positioned down to one degree very repeatably even with some inherent slip due to the design/function of the machine. Really cool motors I had thoughts sometime ago about a project for one but side tracking wins the day. Looks like your on the path to figuring it out for all of us!

Nice subscriber counter you have at the end! I hope they make a 7 digit version as well, you might want to upgrade in a while :-)

Quite the fancy subscriber counter ya' got yourself there.