Friday came early!
Chanel man welcome back to the shop! Thanks for joining me today on the blue collar tax. We're going to do a all Friday even though it's Wednesday which is not Venus's day but uh mer Mercury that's perfect cuz we got all kinds of hairs straight back. We're going to build a tool for the hold cam shafts on a fired engine what you borrow over and you can't buy the jelus thing and any amount of skook amness. So we're going to make it for a fell with the Town Pump CNC Also I got all kinds of things to do I crashed the concertina so I got to fix that.
We got to do the Trap line. We'll start the fire. we'll do some aluminum casting all kinds of stuff. so thanks for joining me in the shop for a chle, a chuckle and maybe a bit of a waffle.
Good morning. Confusion 360 You've been uncharacteristically amable. What's your angle? Here's the tool and it's got a interesting speed hole. here.
This sits on something and this locks the two cam shafts in place. The problem with the one you get from fur I A't scook them enough. it bends so we're going to modify this a little bit for ease of manufacturer. You can see all this material.
L here. We're going to make this out of tool steel of course, which is pricey and hard to machine hardened tool steel. So so why have the speed hole when you can just put your two fingers either side and carry it and then it's It's heavier too, so we're going to change it to something more like H But first we got to fix the concertina. yeah, just a blonde one too deep.
I took that orange rice off cuz it was fangul way out there and then I yeah smashy smashy and the Trashy how are you going to fix that by not doing it in the first? But hindsight, being 5050 90, it was bound to happen eventually. I think'll take off these firsten Well we we'll climb in there, have a look see, but I believe we'll end up taking the Fasteners out from the bottom side and pulling that whole rail off trying to bang her back into place. Or we're right in the throws of junuary here in the People's Republic of Kakistan. However, I do like me, a warm fire.
These traps got to be cleaned out, but this one hasn't been working all that well they're getting Wily they just eat the butter on the bottom side. don't bother with the stuff what kills them, these still work just fine. Carefully careing. It's like being on a de mining crew.
ah I know you kind and Noble friends don't care about these Petty vanities but that girl likes Screech it wasn't me send that handsome little fell off proper wise. where'd you go? Ah godspeed Little Fifel may we meet again in the happy hunting grounds I Got all kinds of this aluminum schwar rather than taking it to the recycling. I've been trying to recycle it here. the Silicon carbo.
Crucible The problem I've been having is the oxide of aluminium melts at a lower at a higher temperature than the raw metal. so we end up getting lots and lots of draw out of this. and it doesn't even really melt together. So what I'm trying to do here is put a base layer and then put solid chunks so that it melts and as it melts through, it percolates through and melts the other ones. That's that's the thinking. Anyway, welcome to the belly of the Beast Sorry about the shutter roll. These things are fantastic, but they do have a pulsewidth modulation that messes with the camera. I'm in here with the power off.
I' never understood fellas. Go in. The meat grinders 30 Kow Wat meat grinders with the power still on. No spank you I Got kids to feed.
This ain't my first R Dayo and this will not beat into place in place. We're going to have to take that off. I Believe the casting is behind here. These Fasteners appear like if we took them all out, we'd be able to slide this Constantina out.
I've never seen the back of these. They're little fiber connectors and that's the main Z axis. There you see in the shadows grinning at us. so um, ain't nothing but a a little bull work.
Probably just muscle out of there. Ah, there we go. Don't be afraid to give her W since we're heating the shop in the winter anyway. figured I'd pull out the old assay Kil it's for gold prospecting and melt down some ingots and now uh rockus rendition of Whitney Houston's greatest hit dust in a baggie I think I blew that one.
But of note, like the first girl, what let you in your knickers. the pyrometer blown the out. Good thing you didn't marry her. Well if you did my condolences.
oh she toy about two hours on full. Cho All right let's make a plan here. Now if this were part of the military industrial complex, we would have this machine down. Order the part from some Far Away place and sit with our thumb and bum till the part came and somebody else replaced it for us.
However, we invoke the spirit of what would Jesus do I think he would nip that, cut it with a zip cut, make a new piece, and weld it in there. That's pretty mangul what I'm going to do. just cut this piece out and then order a new one. we can get it from Jean Hoss's special store, but there's also a secret code on here.
dinch. I'll look that up in case the H markup is so great that makes your eyes bleed. Wouldn't surprise me. and in the interim, we'll still use this machine just with this section.
cut out. Rifling through Jean Hoss's jars, look at this. What a bargon blow gun with the braided line. $ 35 hairs or a clipboard? I had no idea idea.
Look at that smart I thought that was for pencils there. it's for your USB sneaker net key. Only 200 bucks for a clipboard? Oh how much is that? If you got to ask, you can't afford it to claw. bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop.
Oh tricky that one. Ah, tweak the design a little bit to suit the stock. we're going to come out Canever out of the vices and Mill out those Precision slots I think this is 4140 had brown paint on the end of it I don't the internet's not working so I can't check it anything I've taken to not taking my phone everywhere with me one humans been around a long time, phones have not. And also just because it's the radiation isn't ionizing doesn't mean that there's not a inflammatory response from biological tissues. Especially, it's in your front pocket frying your nards. Also I don't like the powers that be. knowing who I associate with all the time you know I I Can pick and choose I Like the it has to be a little mystery. Keep them interested.
Now this is boss. Awards Normally you can find a part, but not the service manual. Here's the service manual but not the part. Z AIS Way Cover installation.
Look at this. Oh my. the chip gares six and the mounting rails five may not be symmetric. Uh, apparently this predate spell check.
They got the X cover and the Y cover, but no Zed cover. Maybe I ought to be looking for the Z cover I I have to get in touch with Thomas Dick Skinner the uh sales guys heat and beat in this case just beat. Tip it. tip tip good from far but far from good I got some stainless steel rod 1/8 We'll burn through there and then we'll go to the Mig but we we'll at least give it an attempt to maintain the Integrity of the nickel it's 2 mm thick Touch and Go whether or not I burn through.
but we we'll Ginger carefully and then if it doesn't work, we'll get mcky with it. which has a different connotation now that we know I Freely admit not my best work. Uglier than a stump fence. but I Take soulless in the fact it's only temporary unless it works sh hold.
Will it kill anybody if it breaks? No. M no that just hurts my pride. That's a good reminder not to be a dhead. Look at this.
better than new 200 mph tape on there. Good enough for Stanley Kubric Mandel Man on the moon good enough for the girls I go out with machine this Ingot mold got various shapes and sizes. The wall has a 1 in uh one Dee rather draft angle so I haven't used it yet. It's got no water in it so ought not explode.
Yellow, not quite. Oh yeah, boys, look at that. No one would even ever know when I go over the Rainbow Bridge Uh, not that one. and my wife's got to divest herself of all this junk you picked this up in 100 years or so.
You'll know just quickly see if that repair is going to work. Stick some grease on there I'm sure it'll be fine till it ain't I just s the built-in anti-idiot alarm so we won't wreck that Constantina any more. There's that y AIS travel limit it's successfully set. It won't go further than that.
pucker. Factor Eliminated oodles the room you drive a truck through there. It's fascinating here. You can see the shrink as it cools.
it shrinks down in the middle past that meniscus, high surface tension and liquid metal apparently. I Got the spindle speed variation on just because we're kind of can of lever it out there. Let me adjust your countenance for to see through that a little better. Now you know how you I haven't run this program I Want to make sure I'm not going to hit anything so we're going to go single block and that'll just do one command at a time and then I'll watch the distance to go. Right now we got 80 thou and I looked on the backside. we got plenty of clearance for 80 thou. so I'll hit the cycle Smash and now the next move is is another 50 th down. We got plenty of room for that.
so I'll hit the cycle smash. Now you can see how much clearance height we had between the part and the jaw. Precisely a blonde one. that's why I was a little bit Ginger Careful on that one.
look at that like 34 out. Oh, we got the dick in theice. We'll just use the machinist approximators here see if we're close. Uh uh.
34 th first time. Tight. second time. All right, we're just going to Contour that real quick and we'll open that up by 5 thou Dead nuts.
Uh, question is, why did it take so long? It probably be a lot quicker if you did it. You ought to show me sometime how it's done. There you have it. Another job well done.
Town Pump CNC Thanks to you fellas for helping a fellow Fool on the stool out with a proper tool I like making tools spks for watching. Keep your advice. let's have a look at this see if it comes out yeah.
Something sorta neat. In an aluminum reverb furnace they count on the aluminum haveing high surface tension to not leak. If the burner gets stuck on and overheats the furnace. The aluminum becomes more like water and it just starts leaking out of all the cracks in the refractory. It's neat how it works. Not neat for the guys in the plant that now have to try to scrape a slab of spilled aluminum that has molded itself to the floor and around any near by structure.
Confusion 360. Why didn’t I think of that?
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Jesus. As machine repair bodges go, that one takes the biscuit. It'll buff out.
One trick I like doing before hitting the cycle smash for real is adding my final z depth (plus 0.100” or so) to the z offset and dry running right above the work to make sure everything looks proper skookum before making any chips.. helps ease the pucker a tad
Are you shadow banned or something? The last two videos have not created a notification for me
Is that plastic your burning?
Ooh, more machining!!!
6061 doesn't melt or cast very well. Cast aluminum parts melt down way better. The grain structure is very different. Not sure about the science behind it. Just been my experience.
Can we see the camshaft tool in action sometime?
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I believe brown is H13 fire hardened chrome.
WTF! you're telling me that is a video game while I have no INTERWEBS?!?
Hello Sir Fuckery, I'll always remember, If it's already fucked, you can't fuck it any more. From me to you, talking about melting shit down, have you heard of bigstackD Casting. Tips and bugery and not a fucken word spoken. Your welcome
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