I recommend when you build the hand rail make it so you Open up a section of the handrail for easy forklift access, we did something similar in our workshop and we put in a double gate for forklift access.
Also, keep a dedicated pallet nearby for lifting things up to your new mezzanine, Maybe even modify it by covering the top slats with a piece of plywood. Nothing fancy, just something to keep small parts or other things from falling through. P.S. @ 9:58 forklift forks belong on the floor when not in use. You know this already, this is just a friendly reminder.
Adam, on your top step clearance issue, all you need to do it space it out from the wall with a small chunk of 2x4. It won't change the angle enough to screw up the base of the handrail fitting and you only need a little bit of space.
Was going to say the same thing. The extra couple of inches will make for a safer top rung clearance. It seems there is plenty of room to move the top handrail flanges back a couple of inches as well. The bottom will need to come out the same distance as well, but it looks to be substantially within the depth of the cupboard. Minimal protrusion otherwise, which won't inconvenience you or be hazardous. The base flanges will stick out a bit further, but as they are flat, they also won't get in the way. I make stuff-ups like this all the time. It's only when you step back and take it in, the solution just seems so bloody obvious you wonder why it didn't occur to you the first time.
Hey Adam, if you need more practice, I'd most definitely be interested in having a set of Abom79 1-2-3 blocks with your logo on them... Yep... I bet others would be, too. You could use the CNC to make the blocks, and the mill to drill the holes and tap.
Happy for another SNS Adam. What's happening at the old shop these days? Miss seeing it, all the vintage equipment and the somewhat cozy atmosphere. Gonna keep working over there too?
Excellent update Adam. That PVC vent pipe over the office looks to be in an inconvenient spot. Was the roof of the office designed to carry some tons of people, and storage? Woohoo... you made a block of holes! 🙂 Seriously though... good exercise. I did something similar when I got my little CNC mill working. I was so darn proud I even made a TH-cam video about it.
This is awesome. I was just commenting last week that it's been too long since we got a SNS. I love the variety these provide. I like the other videos as well, but these always feel like "coming home". Been watching your content since around march of 2014 and your videos never fail to please. Thanks
Same here. I did a bit of whining last week but as a long time viewer its so nice to hear the SNS music, see the variety of jobs and close out with the old pic of the two masters and soon to be master that we all love and respect. Adam (and a few others like Mr. Pete) made this crazy world of machining approachable with their intuitive, instructional videos. Thats what I missed.
You are amazing I love your channel. I never had an apprenticeship and you have gotten me through that along with the rest of the community. The big companies don’t do it anymore. Thank you and the community for all your help!!
That ladder is an accident waiting to happen.. can see one of you falling onto the lathe.. omg.. Build a stairway in the office leading to the roof....
Good lord. Please dont take this the wrong way, but neither yourself nor Abby are in physical condition to use a ladder like that on a regualar basis. I'm less than a third the size of either of you and even I would have the shakes using it. A fall onto the lathe from that ladder would quite likely be crippling if not outright lethal. Please consider building a proper dedicated staircase Adam.
In my days around CNC machines, I was always a fan of the optional stop with distance to go. If you are .100 over the top of the part, and z says 1 inch to go... Do not push the green button. You can do the same thing with the feed knob. Distance to go is the deal.
Rigid tapping is nice, and safer to break less taps. But, once you get into threadmilling you'll just never want to tap any hole over about 5/16 again. It really is like when you go from reading dials to having a DRO. With threadmilling, its one tool you leave in the machine in a pocket that you just say thats my threadmill, no more searching for the right tap, and more importantly you completely remove that risky feeling of wondering if the tap will break.
New shop is coming together. Eventually a set of stairs accessing the upper level will be a great addition. Abbey and you will much appreciate them once you expand the work and storage area up there. Thanks for sharing.
The top rung of the custom ladder can be augmented by diamond plate out horizontally .75" or so. Integrate it with the wall protection plate. Your feet will be able to get good purchase on the top rung and the drywall will be protected.
If the ladder blocks any part of the electrical box that looks like its behind it, its a code violation. Code requires 36 inches of clearance in front of any electrical equipment which includes handles.
See National Electric Code section 110.32 The ladder intrudes on the required 36” of dedicated space for the disconnects (or the total width of larger than 36”). Further, this section requires that the cover doors on the equipment must be able to be opened at least 90 degrees, and the ladder clearly prevents it.
The hole pattern drilling and tapping is what I see as the biggest game changer for CNC in the job shop. For production runs, once you prove out the program you can go do something else and let the machine handle the repetitive stuff.
always liking the SNS series and this one is full of goodness!! definitely getting that KBC light fixture! At 60 bucks man I can see something happening in the workspace!!! Hopefully you can make space for a circular stair case that ladder I'm tired already sitting on my duff watching! Excellent episode for sure!!
Nice piece. It’s great to see you getting more familiar with the machines. The flex machine will be a hell of a production machine - maybe you can get all those fixture plates finished off.
Adam! Been watching you for a long time now, and have to say you should take the time to take care of yourself. Your family is very proud of you, and I am as well. Let's keep you going for decades to come, because no one knows how to work it through like you do!!
That overhead view looks like the perfect place to mount a ridged camera that could be zoomed in while you work on certain jobs. Fixed position video would take up no room and the only drawback would be that you would have to use the ladder more than you’d like to.
I understand, that affiliates are needed for your youtube business, but i hope in the future we will see again more ofyou manufacturing parts for real customers. It is cool to see, that you warm up more to the cnc, and some day we will see you producing real parts on it.
regarding the 'balcony' on top of your office; have you thought of putting down a carpet? No need to get fancy with it but it would protect the plywood from stains, muffle some of the sounds of walking on it especially while you work in the office, and maybe make the creative desk environment less industrial feeling
I would add a 2" spacer block between the ladder brackets that mount to the wall. This would allow extra toe room when climbing the ladder. The last thing you would want is to fall from the ladder and hit the lathe on the way down.
Recently found your channel and can’t stop watching. Really enjoy it! At my shop I just program my spot drill to go deeper so then ya can cut out that third tool your chamfer mill. Just say for a 1/2-13 just spot to a depth of Z-.275 or so. Will still have a nice chamfer after tapping and can shred a ton of cycle time! Anyways really enjoy all of your content!!!
Just remembered a good tip about milling clamps on this type of work put springs under the clamp studs . It keeps the clamps open and mostly in place this says you don't need three hands..
The shop looks great Adam. That ladder...not convinced Abby will be enjoying using it. A set of stairs in the office up to that area might've served you guys better.
It also looks like he's cut off forklift access to that area. Hopefully when he makes the rails he will think to make an easily removable/gate for the forklift
I was literally wishing earlier today that another SNS video would show up soon. Very nice to enjoy some mixed content. Glad to see that you're close to done building up the shop!
Really really really .. MUST the peanut gallery just carry on endlessly about no SNS. He's been working his arse off to up-equip an entire shop much much much more ambitious. Anyhow it's here. I hope the peanut gallery has taken their blood pressure medication.
Looks like you could kick the ladder out a couple of inches from the wall with a spacer, should make that top rung safer and still not protrude into your walkway.
Top of the office would be a nice spot for a small or medium sheet metal brake. 🤔🤔Hmmmmmm? 👉👉TIP for ya Adam on LED lighting also. Using a red, yellow or green colored light film aka gel light filters in front or inside the light housing will stop light flooding of digital camara's. Plus Polarizer film sheets helps big time with glare.
I believe that placing an occupied area on the mezzanine without stairs and only an emergency ladder will probably be a code violation. Usually two types of egress are required. Jumping would not be considered a legal egress. No stairs, no Abbie playground.
I have Always like how you show both the good and bad .. most channels just show clips of everything going right . New Shop looking good . and as for how long the videos are.. well i am one of them whom love the long videos .. as i have stated before .. Really Kewl how much more RELAXED you have become in front of the camera .. ..NICE !!!!
Awesome a new SNS :) These have become a staple of my saturdays, or whatever you decide to post. I get my cup of coffee, and go out into the small home shop. Do some cleaning, organize some stuff. Than get moving on some projects. Just a great way to start a saturday.
Maybe for the ladder spacing issue you could use the airline cover plate your going to make, and extend the ladder out a few inches farther from the wall.
Adam, I'm glad that you didn't opt for pipe flange railings. Where the pipes enter the flange with threads is a weak spot on the pipe. The railing accessories from McMaster are superior to them, and if I recall, are attached by set screws.
Hey Adam, just regarding portrait vs landscape mode. It is the content that determines the orientation, not the platform. So many people make this mistake. Also, you are not limited to portrait on your phone. The majority of the videos that I do on my phone are landscape.
9:59 When you park your forklift, ALWAYS put the forks on the floor. I usually raise them a few inches, tilt forward to make sure the tips end up on the floor, then lower the carriage as far as it can go. Then make sure the handbrake is on and turn the key.
i was taught keep the toes down and the rest as far as theyll allow, taking any slack out of the chains etc while doing it, any lowering or raising movement would be done while handbrake is active, not while able to be moved. But ehy each to their own and their own teachers way of teaching.
i think we can all agree that leaving the forks this high on a parked forklift is dangerous. way more dangerous than the minor trip hazard of forks on the floor.
I do not like the idea of the ladder for Abbie, especially if she intends on carrying stuff up there. Honestly, I think a spiral staircase beside the main door would be a much safer idea.
A point of interest, in the super markets they used to have large banks of flouro tube to light the store, at one time each light had a Warm white and a daylight tube, it was supposed to give the correct balance of colour. David
hey, if you need more space on the top rung of the ladder put a 2x4 behind the ladders top mount to give you an extra 1.5 to 2 inches of space, it looks like your metal cabinet will still clear the bottom with it spaced an extra 2 inches from the wall.
You are making great progress. Don't worry about making some programming crashes. I never did CNC but essentially I spent my professional life making computers do useful things. I never stopped causing crashes, but I got a lot better at making them rare and less damaging. Here you are making a lot of videos that you can show your long-term customers that you're still Abom and still cost-effective even though you have started using CNC tools. I was looking at all those nice small vices, all the same model. Could you make a set of special jaws that would fit any one of them? Do people use soft jaws on CNC?
I did mechanical demolition of an HVAC system at a school, and the roof ladders were all military surplus, and bore the manufacturers name as is typical of military equipment. Overbuilt, but good quality.
Think about a 'skim coat' on the OSB over the office, Masonite, 1/4 inch ply, or laminate flooring. I did not cover the OSB on my flooring and have wore a depression at my desk where my feet are sitting.
Understand why you're using it, but vertical format is only really useful for filming the Eiffel Tower. Whoever in youtube decided to force vertical format for shorts should have been excommunicated.
I don't know much about machining and tools, but I do know lighting and photography. You actually have it backwards. The color of the light isn't overly important, so long as your camera has a white balance setting that you can adjust. However, you really, REALLY want to try to make them all match. The color of the light doesn't have any bearing on glare or anything like that, but if you're mixing warm and cool lights, that can really have an awful effect in videos/photos (unless they're evenly mixed and diffused first).
I have many YG-1 end mills as a hobby machinist they are great. They're pretty cheap and good quality carbide too and have a pretty wide selection. I believe they're Korean made.
Hey Adam, regarding the vertical video, I know some creators use a square 1:1 aspect when shooting for social media as the frame works ok for vertical format shorts/reels/tiktok/etc and also for regular landscape videos.
You should look into getting some CutsLikeButter brand end mills as another really cost effective way of tooling up the cnc mill. Only downside is they dont have a huge variety of products, I've only ever found their style of endmills designed for cutting aluminum but they are awesome and the best priced cutters i've ever come across.
It would take a bit more room along the wall surface but turn the ladder sideways to the wall with a little landing at the top. You could have a much more friendly ladder and still not infringe into your alley way. Also a dumb waiter of some sort so people are not climbing with items in hand.
Could you make some stand off spacers for the top of the latter to get you the clearance you need? You could also include right angle checker plate to protect the wall as part of the same assembly. just a thought, good to see SNS back on form.
1,000% better. First time in months I've actually watched a whole video without skipping through. 50 minutes of several shorter subjects is way more interesting than long drawn out two or three part videos of simple jobs. More openness about what was given to you and what you purchased too. Thanks for listening to our feedback!
Try a G73 drill cycle for breaking up chips, the drill won't retract completely out of the hole, instead just retract a small amount X = Coordinate Y = Coordinate Z = Depth R = Retract value Q = Depth of peck F = Feed rate
Yes, but he's 2 inches +.002 -.000 out of spec and will bring a spacer block into play to correct it, once he's milled it parallel on the FlexCNC; Lol.
Have good & bad news on railing: best ladder ever but its blocking the safety switch. You must have 24/7 minimum of 36" in front of it and at least a 30" wide space for what the NEC calls readily accessible. Also all doors on all safety switches & circuit breaker panels must be able to open at least 90 degrees. In other words either the safety switch or ladder must be moved. I had to do an OSHA 10 class along with yearly 8 hours of continuing education to renew my electrical license. The OSHA class mentioned one fascinating point. Said a one person business does not have to follow OSHA rules. If you are a 1 man owner/operator of and do work in an electrical, plumbing, welding etc business in larger industrial sites they have thier own safety department who make you attend a all day safety course and will require you to follow all OSHA rules. Great that you can afford such top notch high quality machines & tooling.
28:55 am I trippin or is the paint peeling inside the mill's enclosure already? What coolant are you running Adam? Might want to look at using something else - lots of people seem to like Qualichem 251c. Good to see an old school style SNS
I could be wrong but I have a feeling you guys are going to grow weary of climbing that vertical ladder in a very short timeframe. It might pay to start scoping out a location now for where you can install a set of stairs.
That's an emergency exit. Office should have been on the mezzanine, ground floor should be storage and expansion for the shop. They can still put stairs in the office area leading to the mezzanine. Though the "flat surface" viewing gallery might not survive. The office can still move upstairs, now is the time to do it, it will only get more expensive. I don't think they can use it as occupied space for Abbie legally with only an emergency ladder. Code violation.
Abby needs an electric lift. One button up, one button down. Ten seconds each way. Sort of a one person three sided elevator. Somebody probably makes one.
I hope the beam crane reaches up there; you won't be able to carry much more than a purse safely! I bet it's going to be hot as Hades in the summer too.
As a long time watcher, I just want to say thank you for always telling us welcome back to the shop
I recommend when you build the hand rail make it so you Open up a section of the handrail for easy forklift access, we did something similar in our workshop and we put in a double gate for forklift access.
Also, keep a dedicated pallet nearby for lifting things up to your new mezzanine, Maybe even modify it by covering the top slats with a piece of plywood. Nothing fancy, just something to keep small parts or other things from falling through.
P.S. @ 9:58 forklift forks belong on the floor when not in use. You know this already, this is just a friendly reminder.
@@surlyogre1476 If the last person using the fork knew it they wouldn't have been left in the air,strikes me no Ticket.
Adam, on your top step clearance issue, all you need to do it space it out from the wall with a small chunk of 2x4. It won't change the angle enough to screw up the base of the handrail fitting and you only need a little bit of space.
Was going to say the same thing. The extra couple of inches will make for a safer top rung clearance. It seems there is plenty of room to move the top handrail flanges back a couple of inches as well. The bottom will need to come out the same distance as well, but it looks to be substantially within the depth of the cupboard. Minimal protrusion otherwise, which won't inconvenience you or be hazardous. The base flanges will stick out a bit further, but as they are flat, they also won't get in the way.
I make stuff-ups like this all the time. It's only when you step back and take it in, the solution just seems so bloody obvious you wonder why it didn't occur to you the first time.
Shop is looking great Adam, no doubt Dad and Grandad are proud of you. Keep pressing on my friend!
Hey Adam, if you need more practice, I'd most definitely be interested in having a set of Abom79 1-2-3 blocks with your logo on them... Yep... I bet others would be, too. You could use the CNC to make the blocks, and the mill to drill the holes and tap.
Happy for another SNS Adam. What's happening at the old shop these days? Miss seeing it, all the vintage equipment and the somewhat cozy atmosphere. Gonna keep working over there too?
Excellent update Adam. That PVC vent pipe over the office looks to be in an inconvenient spot. Was the roof of the office designed to carry some tons of people, and storage?
Woohoo... you made a block of holes! 🙂 Seriously though... good exercise. I did something similar when I got my little CNC mill working. I was so darn proud I even made a TH-cam video about it.
This is awesome. I was just commenting last week that it's been too long since we got a SNS. I love the variety these provide. I like the other videos as well, but these always feel like "coming home". Been watching your content since around march of 2014 and your videos never fail to please. Thanks
Same here. I did a bit of whining last week but as a long time viewer its so nice to hear the SNS music, see the variety of jobs and close out with the old pic of the two masters and soon to be master that we all love and respect.
Adam (and a few others like Mr. Pete) made this crazy world of machining approachable with their intuitive, instructional videos. Thats what I missed.
Everything in America is awesome apparently.
You are amazing I love your channel. I never had an apprenticeship and you have gotten me through that along with the rest of the community. The big companies don’t do it anymore. Thank you and the community for all your help!!
Very nice! About the ladder, you could put a ledger board to furr it out and it would be a toekick all in one. The new shop is an amazing setup!!!
Spiral stairs inside the office. 3’ by 3’ is all you need. Much safer and you can carry things up and down safely.
That ladder is an accident waiting to happen.. can see one of you falling onto the lathe.. omg..
Build a stairway in the office leading to the roof....
Good lord. Please dont take this the wrong way, but neither yourself nor Abby are in physical condition to use a ladder like that on a regualar basis. I'm less than a third the size of either of you and even I would have the shakes using it. A fall onto the lathe from that ladder would quite likely be crippling if not outright lethal. Please consider building a proper dedicated staircase Adam.
Kinda like an old friends reunion. Thanks Adam.
Ahhh my Saturday night is Sorted, time to kick back, relax and watch Abom79!
In my days around CNC machines, I was always a fan of the optional stop with distance to go. If you are .100 over the top of the part, and z says 1 inch to go... Do not push the green button.
You can do the same thing with the feed knob. Distance to go is the deal.
Love SNS!!!!! Glad you brought it back brother!!
Rigid tapping is nice, and safer to break less taps. But, once you get into threadmilling you'll just never want to tap any hole over about 5/16 again. It really is like when you go from reading dials to having a DRO. With threadmilling, its one tool you leave in the machine in a pocket that you just say thats my threadmill, no more searching for the right tap, and more importantly you completely remove that risky feeling of wondering if the tap will break.
New shop is coming together. Eventually a set of stairs accessing the upper level will be a great addition. Abbey and you will much appreciate them once you expand the work and storage area up there.
Thanks for sharing.
Well that's 50 minutes of my life I won't get back.
The top rung of the custom ladder can be augmented by diamond plate out horizontally .75" or so. Integrate it with the wall protection plate. Your feet will be able to get good purchase on the top rung and the drywall will be protected.
To feel safe, always good to have a good sized first rung, at least if I were to design one.
If the ladder blocks any part of the electrical box that looks like its behind it, its a code violation. Code requires 36 inches of clearance in front of any electrical equipment which includes handles.
I think that test piece with the tapped holes looks so good it should go in Adam’s display cabinet at home !
Just for your information, you cannot legally put a ladder in front of the disconnect like that it’s against code
Exactly!
See National Electric Code section 110.32
The ladder intrudes on the required 36” of dedicated space for the disconnects (or the total width of larger than 36”).
Further, this section requires that the cover doors on the equipment must be able to be opened at least 90 degrees, and the ladder clearly prevents it.
The hole pattern drilling and tapping is what I see as the biggest game changer for CNC in the job shop. For production runs, once you prove out the program you can go do something else and let the machine handle the repetitive stuff.
always liking the SNS series and this one is full of goodness!! definitely getting that KBC light fixture! At 60 bucks man I can see something happening in the workspace!!! Hopefully you can make space for a circular stair case that ladder I'm tired already sitting on my duff watching! Excellent episode for sure!!
Nice piece. It’s great to see you getting more familiar with the machines. The flex machine will be a hell of a production machine - maybe you can get all those fixture plates finished off.
Adam! Been watching you for a long time now, and have to say you should take the time to take care of yourself. Your family is very proud of you, and I am as well. Let's keep you going for decades to come, because no one knows how to work it through like you do!!
That overhead view looks like the perfect place to mount a ridged camera that could be zoomed in while you work on certain jobs. Fixed position video would take up no room and the only drawback would be that you would have to use the ladder more than you’d like to.
I understand, that affiliates are needed for your youtube business, but i hope in the future we will see again more ofyou manufacturing parts for real customers. It is cool to see, that you warm up more to the cnc, and some day we will see you producing real parts on it.
Lovely to see SNS back. Long may the series continue.
regarding the 'balcony' on top of your office; have you thought of putting down a carpet? No need to get fancy with it but it would protect the plywood from stains, muffle some of the sounds of walking on it especially while you work in the office, and maybe make the creative desk environment less industrial feeling
I would add a 2" spacer block between the ladder brackets that mount to the wall. This would allow extra toe room when climbing the ladder. The last thing you would want is to fall from the ladder and hit the lathe on the way down.
I know, he'd have to touch up the lathe paint.
it's amazing that I came across Adam's channel looking for the US southern accent. Stayed here ever since. The content quality is insane.
Recently found your channel and can’t stop watching. Really enjoy it! At my shop I just program my spot drill to go deeper so then ya can cut out that third tool your chamfer mill. Just say for a 1/2-13 just spot to a depth of Z-.275 or so. Will still have a nice chamfer after tapping and can shred a ton of cycle time! Anyways really enjoy all of your content!!!
Just remembered a good tip about milling clamps on this type of work put springs under the clamp studs . It keeps the clamps open and mostly in place this says you don't need three hands..
The shop looks great Adam. That ladder...not convinced Abby will be enjoying using it. A set of stairs in the office up to that area might've served you guys better.
I was thinking the same. I hope it works out well though
too dangerous for frequent use in my opinion
@@danneumann3274 Yep. too steep
That won't last...
It also looks like he's cut off forklift access to that area. Hopefully when he makes the rails he will think to make an easily removable/gate for the forklift
Shop is coming together. Like putting together a dream shop. Thanks for sharing.
I was literally wishing earlier today that another SNS video would show up soon. Very nice to enjoy some mixed content. Glad to see that you're close to done building up the shop!
I see someone has found a way to kill the bots. thumbs up!
26:15 - safety nazi says inside my head to add some extension/rising blocks between top ladder pads and a wall to extend the room for the top step
Glad to have a good old SNS back.
Really really really .. MUST the peanut gallery just carry on endlessly about no SNS. He's been working his arse off to up-equip an entire shop much much much more ambitious. Anyhow it's here. I hope the peanut gallery has taken their blood pressure medication.
@@silasmarner7586so you are the only one who can have an opinion. Ok, cool bro.
Looks like you could kick the ladder out a couple of inches from the wall with a spacer, should make that top rung safer and still not protrude into your walkway.
Damn, you could almost say you have to buyout the neighbors! The shop is getting overgrown with equipment!
Top of the office would be a nice spot for a small or medium sheet metal brake. 🤔🤔Hmmmmmm? 👉👉TIP for ya Adam on LED lighting also. Using a red, yellow or green colored light film aka gel light filters in front or inside the light housing will stop light flooding of digital camara's. Plus Polarizer film sheets helps big time with glare.
I believe that placing an occupied area on the mezzanine without stairs and only an emergency ladder will probably be a code violation. Usually two types of egress are required. Jumping would not be considered a legal egress. No stairs, no Abbie playground.
I have Always like how you show both the good and bad .. most channels just show clips of everything going right . New Shop looking good . and as for how long the videos are.. well i am one of them whom love the long videos .. as i have stated before .. Really Kewl how much more RELAXED you have become in front of the camera .. ..NICE !!!!
Awesome a new SNS :) These have become a staple of my saturdays, or whatever you decide to post. I get my cup of coffee, and go out into the small home shop. Do some cleaning, organize some stuff. Than get moving on some projects. Just a great way to start a saturday.
Always appreciate the work you do and the detail in the longer videos….
If you want to redrill the holes for that ladder, you could add a 3" shim block under each top mount point.
Thank you. Really missed the old SNS mixed format.
You might have Abby give that ladder a test run. I showed the ladder to my wife & she said NO WAY. Too steep for her.
Exactly. Abby for her office deserve proper side ladders. And if you are going to carry stuff up and down this spells danger all over the place.
Maybe for the ladder spacing issue you could use the airline cover plate your going to make, and extend the ladder out a few inches farther from the wall.
Adam, I'm glad that you didn't opt for pipe flange railings. Where the pipes enter the flange with threads is a weak spot on the pipe. The railing accessories from McMaster are superior to them, and if I recall, are attached by set screws.
I'm convinced you're going to end up stealing that tombstone plate for the sharper 😅
Hey Adam, just regarding portrait vs landscape mode. It is the content that determines the orientation, not the platform. So many people make this mistake. Also, you are not limited to portrait on your phone. The majority of the videos that I do on my phone are landscape.
Was gonna ask you on Instagram if we're going to see another SNS . And here it is 👍😃
Aww, that cold makes you sound adorable! All we needed was another adorable fork truck moment!
9:59 When you park your forklift, ALWAYS put the forks on the floor. I usually raise them a few inches, tilt forward to make sure the tips end up on the floor, then lower the carriage as far as it can go. Then make sure the handbrake is on and turn the key.
I've seen a guy go flying because of raised forks. Good advise.
Just like loader buckets. Keep the cutting edge to the ground.
i was taught keep the toes down and the rest as far as theyll allow, taking any slack out of the chains etc while doing it, any lowering or raising movement would be done while handbrake is active, not while able to be moved.
But ehy each to their own and their own teachers way of teaching.
i think we can all agree that leaving the forks this high on a parked forklift is dangerous. way more dangerous than the minor trip hazard of forks on the floor.
I do not like the idea of the ladder for Abbie, especially if she intends on carrying stuff up there. Honestly, I think a spiral staircase beside the main door would be a much safer idea.
A point of interest, in the super markets they used to have large banks of flouro tube to light the store, at one time each light had a Warm white and a daylight tube, it was supposed to give the correct balance of colour.
David
hey, if you need more space on the top rung of the ladder put a 2x4 behind the ladders top mount to give you an extra 1.5 to 2 inches of space, it looks like your metal cabinet will still clear the bottom with it spaced an extra 2 inches from the wall.
Hi Adam, I can see your confidence with CNC is building, keep going, and we’ll done… we all have crashes when we are learning, even the best does!
Thanks Adam for this nice SNS!
I would have loved to also see the actual programming for the tapping test piece at the end.
That's a very minor crash, a common occurance. The more noteworthy crashes involve re-indicating the vises, replacing tool holders, etc.
The latter looks great, but I’m not liking the idea of Abby main access to here space being a latter.
Lots of new sights, sounds, processes and procedures. Went from Old school to Hi-Tech. Filming is still excellent. Thanks
You are making great progress. Don't worry about making some programming crashes. I never did CNC but essentially I spent my professional life making computers do useful things. I never stopped causing crashes, but I got a lot better at making them rare and less damaging.
Here you are making a lot of videos that you can show your long-term customers that you're still Abom and still cost-effective even though you have started using CNC tools.
I was looking at all those nice small vices, all the same model. Could you make a set of special jaws that would fit any one of them? Do people use soft jaws on CNC?
The shop I used to work at had a few racks with at least 100 different sets of soft jaws for common jobs on the CNC's.
I did mechanical demolition of an HVAC system at a school, and the roof ladders were all military surplus, and bore the manufacturers name as is typical of military equipment. Overbuilt, but good quality.
Think about a 'skim coat' on the OSB over the office, Masonite, 1/4 inch ply, or laminate flooring. I did not cover the OSB on my flooring and have wore a depression at my desk where my feet are sitting.
Understand why you're using it, but vertical format is only really useful for filming the Eiffel Tower. Whoever in youtube decided to force vertical format for shorts should have been excommunicated.
I don't watch "shorts". they're just designed by YT to be a distraction tool.
When you build your railing, leave a gate above your double doors so you can lift items using your forklift.
I don't know much about machining and tools, but I do know lighting and photography. You actually have it backwards. The color of the light isn't overly important, so long as your camera has a white balance setting that you can adjust. However, you really, REALLY want to try to make them all match. The color of the light doesn't have any bearing on glare or anything like that, but if you're mixing warm and cool lights, that can really have an awful effect in videos/photos (unless they're evenly mixed and diffused first).
I have many YG-1 end mills as a hobby machinist they are great. They're pretty cheap and good quality carbide too and have a pretty wide selection. I believe they're Korean made.
Starret micrometers are so badass they make a cool engine noise when you pull em out of the case...
Hey Adam, regarding the vertical video, I know some creators use a square 1:1 aspect when shooting for social media as the frame works ok for vertical format shorts/reels/tiktok/etc and also for regular landscape videos.
ESAB has some nice all in one Mig/tig/stick welders
You should look into getting some CutsLikeButter brand end mills as another really cost effective way of tooling up the cnc mill. Only downside is they dont have a huge variety of products, I've only ever found their style of endmills designed for cutting aluminum but they are awesome and the best priced cutters i've ever come across.
It would take a bit more room along the wall surface but turn the ladder sideways to the wall with a little landing at the top. You could have a much more friendly ladder and still not infringe into your alley way. Also a dumb waiter of some sort so people are not climbing with items in hand.
Could you make some stand off spacers for the top of the latter to get you the clearance you need? You could also include right angle checker plate to protect the wall as part of the same assembly. just a thought, good to see SNS back on form.
Love seeing the shop growing and coming together.
The CRI of lighting has a great effect on how well colors are rendered, light with a high CRI will produce the most accurate colors.
I always love your drilling setups.
1,000% better. First time in months I've actually watched a whole video without skipping through. 50 minutes of several shorter subjects is way more interesting than long drawn out two or three part videos of simple jobs. More openness about what was given to you and what you purchased too. Thanks for listening to our feedback!
It's 1x better. That means, THE SAME. Peanut gallery member.
Those YG cutters are great for the money. I have used them a lot on tool steel(s7,p20,a2, 4140, h13, hardend and soft) and aluminum, and brass.
Try a G73 drill cycle for breaking up chips, the drill won't retract completely out of the hole, instead just retract a small amount
X = Coordinate
Y = Coordinate
Z = Depth
R = Retract value
Q = Depth of peck
F = Feed rate
Just throw a 3" spacer between the wall and the ladder flange. Done in 5 minutes. SNS...thank you Mr. Booth(e).
Hi Adam did you indicate the ladder while you were fixing it on the wall 😂😂😂
Yes, but he's 2 inches +.002 -.000 out of spec and will bring a spacer block into play to correct it, once he's milled it parallel on the FlexCNC; Lol.
What I would love to see is you design and manufacture your own press.
Maybe you could show the conversational programming sequence for a multi-op CNC job like this sometime.
Have good & bad news on railing: best ladder ever but its blocking the safety switch. You must have 24/7 minimum of 36" in front of it and at least a 30" wide space for what the NEC calls readily accessible. Also all doors on all safety switches & circuit breaker panels must be able to open at least 90 degrees. In other words either the safety switch or ladder must be moved. I had to do an OSHA 10 class along with yearly 8 hours of continuing education to renew my electrical license. The OSHA class mentioned one fascinating point. Said a one person business does not have to follow OSHA rules. If you are a 1 man owner/operator of and do work in an electrical, plumbing, welding etc business in larger industrial sites they have thier own safety department who make you attend a all day safety course and will require you to follow all OSHA rules. Great that you can afford such top notch high quality machines & tooling.
28:55 am I trippin or is the paint peeling inside the mill's enclosure already? What coolant are you running Adam? Might want to look at using something else - lots of people seem to like Qualichem 251c.
Good to see an old school style SNS
I think you should keep that last piece - it looks like it could be a fixture some day!
Greetings from the Cayman Islands, WE LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!, keep up the good work, thank you.
I could be wrong but I have a feeling you guys are going to grow weary of climbing that vertical ladder in a very short timeframe. It might pay to start scoping out a location now for where you can install a set of stairs.
That's an emergency exit. Office should have been on the mezzanine, ground floor should be storage and expansion for the shop. They can still put stairs in the office area leading to the mezzanine. Though the "flat surface" viewing gallery might not survive. The office can still move upstairs, now is the time to do it, it will only get more expensive. I don't think they can use it as occupied space for Abbie legally with only an emergency ladder. Code violation.
Abby needs an electric lift. One button up, one button down. Ten seconds each way. Sort of a one person three sided elevator. Somebody probably makes one.
I hope the beam crane reaches up there; you won't be able to carry much more than a purse safely! I bet it's going to be hot as Hades in the summer too.
@@budlvr Plus no restroom up there either. Have to come down pretty often. Not good.
Been looking forward to another SNS! 👍
Great to see some chips being made again.
Shes an awesome shop
How about making 2 spacers for the ladder to bring it a little bit further away from the wall. 2 inches should be enough
Wish you could cut down the yaking 🤔🙃😉
How are you able to finance all this? Quite a lot of machines...nice!