Congratulations on the new CNC and new channel. The M8 is an amazing machine. Keep it up 👍

As someone who owns a Haas VF3-SS I was incredibly jealous watching those o-ring grooves get cut.

I have no doubt that this channel is going to be so huge and your projects and products produced here are going to be wonderful. Also I loved the video production here, the start scene with the phone alarm and coffee making it's these nice touches that make the videos all the more enjoyable to watch. Looking forward to more!

Happy a new video of yours came out! the Datron really looks incredible, I can't wait to see what you'll make with it!

Congrats on the new machine alex, i am sure you ll do amazing stuff with it.(as a machinist myself i would love a part in your videos where i can hear the machine working instead of music)

It's really amazing to follow the journey of talented people pursuing their ambitions and evolve. You inspire a lot of creative people with the way you approach doing things. Keep up the good work mate!!

Wow. Really looking forward to seeing what you create with this!

Looking forward to more videos coming as things shape up. My roommate and I became addicted to watching your previous stuff. While I didn't CNC anything myself, I definitely practiced water cooling on a simple build and then did a bunch higher end one for my new PC, largely because of the cool stuff I saw here!

Congratulations on the new toys Alex. Cannot wait to see what you are planning with it!

That’s some seriously awesome equipment. With your skills and imagination, this bad boy will be put to great use!

Congrats Alex for the new machine. It's always a smile in the face to see fellow know people with new machines for their projects. Hope that it's not going to happen but buy some extra Renishaw probe styli, specially if they have available the ceramic rod ones. You will bend and break styli by fuc* ups, and a ceramic rod will act as a mechanical fuse, it will break the rod and save the probe electronics. I forgot how many I changed at customers when I was working for Mazak UK as a service engineer... Other than that waiting to see what it's going to be the first project of it.

Never mind build of the year! role model of the year you are!... congrats on the new machine! you've been a major inspiration for myself down in South Africa where these things are a little harder to get hold of....not too long ago i was loving the high-z machine u have, but this Datron is really insane next level stuff!!! keep it man! All the best wishes to you and all your future endeavors. May the Almighty above make it an easy and successful journey for you!!!!!!

No need to apologize to us about the length of time between videos. Take your time, we’ll be here keenly waiting to see what’s next. Plus you have that War and Peace manual you need to read now. 😆

Awesome video, thanks! Looking forward to more

Can’t wait to see what is next. Keep it up.

so cool cant wait to see more

Omg finally understand your dope stash… EARNED IT!

So happy for you, can't wait to see what you will create i the future 😁

eager to see what wonder will come out of that beast!

got a Datron Neo and I am loving it. Enjoy your M8 Cube

Finally the so long waited video.

DDC pump housing with integrated GPU-style terminal block? Intriguing... Awesome stuff as usual, Alex. And here I was jealous of your High-Z machine!

That separated tool changer is crazy 🤯

Very cool indeed

I see you got a LANG wise with your 5 axis, you are going to love that one 🙂 also when machining aluminium, you will get the best finish and tool life if you use only climb milling 🙂

I think we need a demo of the Renishaw probe falling off the magnetic attachment :D What an amazing setup.

my guy has a crazy stash

Don't know what I'm more envious of, the datron or the decent :)

yay!!!

Glad to see you are doing great on your Datron. As a mechanical engineer I really enjoy your Tool-Porn and hope you can complete all the projects that you couldn't do in your old workshop. Btw: You deserve so much more subscribers... I really think a lot of the bit-tech subscribers did not realize that you "moved" to this channel :(

mega nice

God, cleaning up chips must be so much easier without coolant. I worked at my father's machine shop when I was younger, fabricating parts for military aircraft, and he has Mazak 3 axis and 4 axis machines as well as a Fanuc. All as beasts of machines taking up an average of 400sf or there about and standing around 12'-14' tall. He's an old.school.machinest that started in his garage on Bridgeports and then in a machine shop on a aircraft carrier, the USS Saratoga, where he was a fighter pilot. He is brilliant and can reverse engineer anything. His machining knowledge and engineering talent allows him to produce parts in 1/3 the time that his competitors. Why? High speed machine is, I guess, common now and he has always said, "take a chip". The stink from the coolant/oil permeates the shop and my wife always know when I have visited my father. I mass around there from time to time on the BP and the Mazak and this video makes me think of my years spent there and especially when he got his 4 axis. The setup of it and especially bringing it into the shop was no easy task. Your work is awesome and I truly appreciate the engineering and intelligence it takes to perform such precise work. It's amazing what these machines can do. Many years of luck....now go take a chip! Cheers!

Alex we miss you so much on the other channel, hopefully you come back soon!!!

Shards everywhere! I really want to see what the cleanup process is like. I don't know why but i think my OCD is triggered so I have to know how you clean it all up and not get a million metal and acrylic splinters lol

Incredible! Very excited for the next video and seeing the next steps along your path building out your shop. Looking forward to more content from you. Here's to hoping the comments help the algorithm pushes your videos out there.

Content: GOOD

I wonder how the side wall finish would be with a yg1 alu power in that machine. Given its precision and rpm's ( I tried it on other ones that wasn't as good and still had a fantastic surface) Are you also gonna get the datron mcd tool?

Delicious coffee 👌

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This is the Apple of cnc machines.

Did you ever finish the Aquaceras project? Just followed you here from bit tech bcoz I followed your fusion 360 tutorial on fusion 360 and I'm now currently machining my own distro blocks for my PC so thank you!👍

Is that a trochoidal cutting path for the pocketing of that block?

Hy very cool! What is the name of the measuring device where the machine goes in a circle? 8:35min

Hello, what is the price of this milling machine and the hole setup ?

I was missing you from bit-tech glad I found you read today that bit-tech is shutting down.

This is amazing. But a serious and honest question; how can you afford all these things!? :) As in, honestly; did you take on some seed capital, or a business loan, or what? I'm genuinely curious as I'm starting my own CNC based business.

Can you show where the x axis linear rail and ballscrews hidden.

Im not a machinist so maybe this is super obvious, but what was happening with the round ball before you started milling the pump housing? was it just calibration?

Is that HSK 25 or 32 on the spindle?

You can push pretty hard on aluminum. I highly suggest you do not run your spindle over 36k rpm!

i envy u in a good way 😊

You didn't talk about how you came to the decision to buy a datron.

How much for the whole package? M8 starts at around 100,000 EUR.

Hello, do you have instructions for this machine in Pdf?😅

it has RGB

nice flatwhite.

Hanzhen harmonic drive gear , industrial robot arm gear reducer,

For the price I can get a Doosan (DN solutions) and I can do far more with it. And spindle getting out of tram during transport? Hm I think it was a badly done assembly at the factory.