Thanks for the nice compliment, and thanks for watching.

Thanks, I appreciate that. I also went through a phase of trying to tink up TOT gags, but it was unnatural, and I couldnt pull it off. I guess each has to find their own voice :)

Thanks, and thanks for watching.

Thank you for the kind words. Tony is at a whole other level, but I appreciate the encouragement.

Thanks for watching.

Welcome and thanks. I must say I was surprised it worked first time as well.

They stiffen up the tool holding stack considerbly.

Thanks for watching.

Thanks. That is a good tip.

Tony makes the best videos.

@@RotarySMP yep he have a nice way to do his videos and you too

@@MakarovFox Thanks

@@RotarySMP :)

Thanks Julian. How is the Boxford working out for you?

That might be polishing a turd :)

@@RotarySMP That coming from someone who spent several episodes scraping in a chinese mini lathe :P

@@UnreasonableSteve I know a thing or two about polishing turds :)

Thanks for watching.

Thanks David.

I didn't even think of Tony's magical metal severing. I was just happy bashing it with a hammer worked, as I feared I'd still have an hour of hack sawing in that bar.

Good idea.

@@RotarySMP in Linux CNC 🙃

Thanks for the tip.

Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback. I like this look. Pretty happy how it came out. Have a happy new years.

Dumb I know, but everyone else seems to want to turn a standard thread on their new CNC lathe, but they can do so much more.

Great tip! Thanks.

Those CNC style ones with the allen key closing are much nicer than anything I have used before.

@@RotarySMP yep thoes i got i a small 5 mm Allen. I love them for quick and easy setup of drills. I usualy got all milling tools on My machine. I can have 60 tools in my dmg

I hope you can keep enough work comming in to keep that CMX 1100 working hard. Very nice.

@@RotarySMP me too.ive been running My own shop for 2 years almost. And it aint looking tobad. I am busy most of the time

@@nikolaiownz Great to hear. That is a really nice set up you have there.

THanks a lot. I think Nico sourced replacement seals, but took the Jacks away, and hasn't fixed them yet.

Thanks, nico has since sourced the seals, and has them arriving hopefully today.

It is a "PC-Mini 5" from Kundisch. The company still exists but I think that model of keyboard is pretty ancient. I bought it through Ebay.kleinanzeigen.de kundisch.de/ Thanks for watching.

@@RotarySMP cool - many thanks!

I think you are right, but I worry about the work holding. It would suck if a chunk got thrown out. Did that cut your describe make an aweful noise?

@@RotarySMP yea that might be the limiting factor. I used a hilma Hydraulic vise with 4x M12 Holding it to the table so no worries there. But that vise runs arround 3-4 thousand. It Was as silent as can be. 400rpm and 125mm/min. You could hear the load on the machine but no Chatter. It also was in 42CrMo4.

@@MrLembnau That is some serious metal removal.

@@RotarySMP Had a lot to remove, but its not a 100% duty cycle kinda of cut. I also checked the tram of the vertical head and it did move a bit from that cut

@@MrLembnau Ouch. That could have gone south fast if that forces cused the head to rotate.

I showed it at 20:30 in this video... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/irSKiqamrdWronU.html

Good call. It kind of does.

That was full size DIN. The adapter has DIN Mini. Or get Nico to make his own Silicon rubber bunges. Thanks for watching,

Thanks.

Or let Nico cut some out with his favourite tool... the angle grinder. Thanks for watching.

Oh, I clean forgot. Good point. Thanks for watching.

Thanks for the reminder, I'll mention that in this weeks video.

He sure knows hydraulics actuators. Thanks for watching.

:) At least. Thanks for watching.

Good idea. Thanks for watching.

@@RotarySMP I normally make new pistons that use std o-rings rather than hassle with trying to get seals from china. it winds up being way faster in the end.

@@deadeyedsam850 Nico took the pistons to to a hydraulic supplier, and found some standard seals to match.

Thanks. I didn't persue this further.

@@RotarySMP Thanks for the reply! I actually wasn't expecting to see one because of the age of this video. I've been really enjoying the content, especially since TOT's absence. Keep doing what you're doing! Happy Holidays!

​@@jameshilferty5403 I appreciate the feedback and engagement of people, so I do try to respond to comment. Thanks for watching.

Hi John. ID is 30mm, and the piston seal is 4mm wide in the groove.

Hi and welcome. Sorry about that. There are a couple of videos where I over did that. It is difficult to predicte the resulting look of time lapse, and rendering takes hours on my laptop. Take a look at the most recent video, where I tried to tame that more, rather than just doing the full machining at ver high speed.

It's ok. It was fun to watch, that's why I kept staring into the sun. Good videos. Keep it up.

@@fatcamp907 Thanks for the feedback.

My band saw had a damaged gearbox, and was only usable in high gear and thus too fast for cutting thick cast iron.

Yepp. OXA must be about that. Thanks for watching.

@@RotarySMP adorable. lol...

Nope. I have a Do-all 16"-SFP, but it has a gearbox problem, and so I cant us the slow speeds.

Damaged gearbox. I can only use it in high gear, which is too fast for cutting steel. I described the problem somewhere around episode 15 of my polishing the turd lathe series.

@@RotarySMP aha, well thats a pity. Maybe a new gearbox, or refurbish it. :P Before i say anything else; do check every link. :D Your MAHO looks really cool! But i could never fit 1.5 ton in my shed. So a RF-45 milling machine has to be the CNC. But would it really cost 10k to get it all done? I really wonder. Its only 3 closed stepper motors, and 3 ball screws right?? O and some plexiglass enclosure. But thats it. Still your milling machine is way way cooler, while it also has horizontal milling! I really dont hope a conversion will cost me 10k, while that is more money than i have for that sort of stuff right now. I also thought about converting a 290V lathe to CNC. Found some good books about this on www.pdfdrive.com. Check this out!: archive.org/details/unitedstatesrifl00colvrich/page/48/mode/2up It has a lot of horizontal milling action. It is also said in the text: "these techniques also apply to other fields of engineering." Or something along those lines. Also if you like that, check my about section of my youtube channel for some other cool stuff on making barrels, bullets, tunnels etc. etc. I dont have a lot of video content and i wont have that any time soon. But i think its worth your while while even though i did machining in school, i never knew how barrels were made, untill i did all the research i did. Now its really clear how it is done. Its in a grabcad.org and archive.org link in my about section of my channel.. :) Greetings, Jeff

@@jeffjefferson2676 "But would it really cost 10k to get it all done? I really wonder. Its only 3 closed stepper motors, and 3 ball screws right?? O and some plexiglass enclosure. But thats it." The danger of a manual retrofit is that they nickel and dime you. Closed loops steppers need couplers or pulley and belt, drivers, which need break out boards, and cables and wiring. Three decent ground ball screws alone are going to cost over a grand. And they require end bearings. If you run dovetail way mill under CNC without an oiling system it will wear and gall quite quickly. Way covers also help. You need a E-Stop chain, end switches, home switches, and they need more wiring. Wire is surprisingly expensive. On a mill you are constantly touching off, so a pendant is a huge benefit. While not strictly essential, everyone puts a VFD on the spindle, then you add an encoder for threading. Plexiglass needs a frame. You'll need a coolant pump and tank, and/or misting system, with the associated tanks, tubing, fittings, wiring, sensors, releays etc. Lighting ditto. You can do it on the cheap like my mini-lathe, but every compromise is a performance hit, which makes it a little less fun to use, more prone to chatter, slower, less accurate etc. An enclosure for an RF-45 is probably wider than the MAHO footprint, as it has a little more X travel. Once you exceed 250 kg, you are well beyond human lifting, and need a pallet jack, crane etc. So you can carry in the RF-45 in parts, but once built it makes no practical difference between an enclosed RF-45 at 400kg or the Maho at 1200kg. But you'll certainly see the difference in performance. A better choice than retrofitting a manual machine if space is limited, would be something like an EMCO VMC 100.

@@RotarySMP So what you are actually saying is: you need to put on a lot of extra (expensive) parts onto your rf45 in order to make it to a point that it works fine as a CNC machine. So you might be better of buying a CNC machine to start with, even though the controller might be broken, while it has all the features you need to make it a CNC machine that lasts. Okey, i get that. But the problem is, i still need to move houses once or twice, and that will be a lot of trouble if it is 1.5 ton instead of 400 kg, you disassemble into smaller pieces. Still i would love to have a fully functional CNC machine. And i am seeing a lot of CNC machines lately on online marketplaces. For a way better price than a couple of years ago. But they are huge! So you have to have a permanent place where it stays in. And that is my worry, its to big to move, and thats probably why its prices that economical. For now. Im stuck learning all sorts of things from books, so no CNC anytime soon for me... :( Thanks for the reply! Greetings, Jeff

Too much work. That would be polishing a turd :) Thanks for watching.

Not at this stage. I don't tend to ever do production runs, so switching quick change tool holders is not a burden. Thanks for watching.

@@RotarySMP makes sense, awesome project there though!

@@RotarySMP A turret could be useful to shoot at people trying to leave junk on your driveway 🤣

@@danielfogli1760 Now you are talking.

Or even better, get Nico to visit the nearest hydraulic shop :). Thanks for watching.

This is what i was going to suggest 😋

@@andresgodinho that's the good old way that has always worked lol

@@RotarySMP I do not like your suggestion. You should be kinder to man kind. Even if man-kind is french.

@@NicoCarsAndCookies Yeah....nahhh!

It is old. I bought it used of www.kleinanzeigen.de using the search "folientastatur". I covered it again in my most recent video... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jqeBhdmUss-shYU.html Thanks for watching.

Thanks, I passed that on to Nico.

Thanks. My versions is an ancient one from 2005. Pretty clunky, but good enough for what I do. I always run it through it's back plot, then NCViewer.com, adn then the backplotter in LinuxCNC. I do like tht it is pretty easy to tweak the post processor for LinuxCNC. Started with one of the Fanuc examples.

@@RotarySMP I use the most updated version. Its owned by autodesk now. Once set up correctly. Its auto feature recognition is pretty good. Saves 30-50% time programming. But anything complex it just skips it. Havnt seen all your videos. But cool stuff man!

@@206sea Thanks for the positive feedback. I appreciate it.

They were offered with a variety of tapers. Mine has a B18.

Good point. I should have loaded cast iron wire into the 3D printer. Tat would have been much easier.

@@RotarySMP hehe. sls in your future

@@bluelive23 The price will have to come down a lot for that to happen .

Thanks.

I could have, but it also increases in size conically as you move down so every single corner level has a different radius.

@@RotarySMP glad for your sanswer! witch cnc controler you have in the maho?

@@MrVinicius343 LinuxCNC, with the Gmoccapy GUI. There is a long thread of the retrofit here: forum.linuxcnc.org/12-milling/33035-retrofitting-a-1986-maho-mh400e?start=0

Thanks, but I am in Austria, not Australia, so that is a bit far away. :)

:) Thanks for watching.

Yep. works thoough, since I butchered it.

@@RotarySMP yes but i know that ps2 to usb have certain limitation like the maximun of key you can press a the same time, but for this purpose i think that is not a problem

:)

Thanks, most observant of you. Thanks for watching.

@@RotarySMP Thanks for sharing.

You really notice the fine dust rising off the cuts like smoke. I gave the machine a good clean as soon as I finished. Luckily the Maho has a central oiling system, so oils is regularly flushing out swarf and debris if it gets past the way seals. Thanks for watching.

Be patient :) , I also cant leave that ball mill pattern on the top side. Thanks for watching

Thanks. He got some (wrong size) form a local hydraulic shop, and since put in a little more effort to measure them correctly.

You'd better hurry Nico, I already have a pln for one of those hydraulic cyclinders.

Thanks for watching.

In this case, the connectors didn't have the usage moulded on them. I looked them up. Thanks for watching.