Why didn’t the tool break immediately after you said zero margin for error? This video is clearly faked things don’t just work.

Yes! Winston! Back to your roots. I'm sure the folks at carbide will understand. Thanks for the efforts

I love watching how you work around the limitations of what you have available. It's a testament of what you can achieve with what you already have! I love the chamfers on everything!

So excited for this project! Also, I can't unsee the VORON bottom skirts in that X beam. Hexagons are Bestagons.

Ahhh, like the many others...Its so nice to see you back! We all missed you. Project looks amazing, like always. 😊

Glad to see you back always enjoy and learn from your videos.

Yay! New Winston video day! Looks awesome! Love the use of what looks to be the S4/S5 extrusions under the bed. The Hybrid Bed works so great, so I'm glad to see it happening on your machine.

Great to see that after any amount of time, you are still taking things to the next level of detail! Keep it going, brother

Came out looking super cool. Nice to see you back.

Great to see you working on this project. Some cool tips for folks along the way as well. Looking forward to the next steps!

Glad to see your making videos again. If your still working at Shapeoko, get rid of the actor presenting equipment and software.. No offense to him. Seriously. You have a genuine charisma , and authenticity that customers highly like and prefer to watch.

It made me smile to hear you justify various decisions while ignoring tiny problems yet almost in the same breath you used tiny problems to justify other decisions. Hope you got some stainless shim stock.

So cool. I have been "weighting" for this for a long time. The chamfers made it perfect! #teamchamfer

Nice project, I also justify "saving" a day's work to modify or build a new tool (but we all know it's gonna take 10x the time that you are saving) ;) ! I designed and built a larger scale CNC Router and adding weight is indead a commun pratice, I must have 200kg / 440 lbs of sand in my fixed frame, that's why we love old cast iron machine, they are rigid and heavy so result in less vibrations and a nicer cut quality. You might be able to justify that the gantry doesn't need to be full of sand since it's weight might reduce your cut speed, especialy if you are limited in stepper power/size, belt size or that your linear motion system isn't rigid enough (like you said) but there's absolutly no need to reduce the weight of the fixed axis rail in my opinion ! In the end, It would be very interesting do get a side by side "sound" and speed (acceleration) comparaison between a standard machine and one that's been "lighten" !

I’ll have a shapeoko 3 upgrade kit ready in the next few weeks. Saved the same 3 parts as you. Started with the shapeoko 3 and got the xxl upgrade so the kit was made to bring the original back to life and once done repeatable to work with all 3 sizes of the shapeoko 3. Ball screws and linear rails and a complete z axis with 5” travel are all being added.

The only reason you mentioned for frakenoko is that it will fit in your enclosure. So that is it's entire purpose.

I'm excited about this project!

Looks fantastic Winston!

3D manual/digital probes or edge finders make finding parts fixtured in a random location and orientation easy. Takes 2 (3, or 4 for sanity checks) points per face then using X,Y coordinates to constrain points in CAD to adjust stock in CAD to match location in reality.

Nice video. Glad to see you posting more again! FYI Adam was Dr. Frankenstein's monster. Ip So Facto you are creating the machine so it would be called the Adam-oko.

So cool, looks amazing, Love the videos man, keep up the great work.

wiiiiinnnnnnnsssstoooonnnnn my boy my boy winston, you gotta make more symmetrical stuff, the internet loves that ohhhh god this is gonna be a rabbit hole there goes two hours

cool video. thanks Winston!

Outstanding!

People like you make my brain hurt. 😂 Just kidding. Great work, awesome detail. Thank you for sharing your genius.

the other good part of a skin is not getting chips inside your frame

Awesome!

welcome back!!

Looks really cool! ❤

Was it a scrap build from parts you had laying around to bootstrap a CNC? Otherwise I'd have gone for ball screws and linear rails instead of those delrin rollers on V track and belts. With ball screws you'd have plenty of power to use even heavier and stiffer materials like steel tubing. I also dislike the Z axis sticking out so much under the gantry, seems such a waste for Z travel. In my latest build I've made sure the Z axis parts don't stick out under the gantry. There are times I really needed the 200+mm of Z travel to clear some high features under the gantry. Looking forward to the bits and bobs you've added to this build!

My man can you please share the speeds and feeds, and that end mill type? I've tried cutting aluminum on my homebrew machine but get awful chatter and horrible cutting whenever I try.

I am new to this... but fanuc robots have a "User Frame" feature that orients the X and Y axis. in case an object is facing a funky direction... does cnc software have that feature?

If Euclid was a machinist he'd have positioned the stock by using two precision dowel pins.

That is so pretty

For a moment there, I thought you were going to make parts to widen your enclosure by two inches. Nothing's quite that simple, eh?

"my evil plans." 😃

Did your 1/4inch end mill leave a corner radius in the bottom of the hex pockets? I think I skimmed those isogrid docs you glossed over and they recommended a corner radius for strength and reducing stress risers.

hmm any reason im not able to save this video to a playlist?

👍😎👍

I love those clamps did you make them?

wizard

When is the next exciting episode of CNC desicration ?

Wow, you do a good job! We can supply the CNC cutter with the best price, no matter what materials. pls contact me if you need it, tks.

she's a beaut.

10:44 I came here to watch the drama! Not. Coming back if you don't show the broken endmills and ruined parts

P r o m o s m

0:38 - have you ever tried a CNC which is not shapeoko? this might solve all your shitbrand endorser "problems" )

..no...tell and show us all the technical details...we're not here for gossip and chat, we want to see and hear a knowledgeable person doing their thing...