A lot of DIY T-Nut videos on TH-cam. This is the first one I've seen showing the important step of deforming the threads on the bottom to prevent jacking. Nice work.
There's a bunch of reasons I keep coming back to the BH videos. It's not just the "Bob Ross of the machining world" soothing dialogue or the unassuming yet bountiful knowledge bank of good workshop practices but it also includes little things, like pronunciation of words like "pedagog..... pedagodgi....gigical.." I'll be right back after a quick google. Oh I just saw the $5 dollar word up the top corner there ..
This was great. Thanks. I love the narration, especially when you "catch" yourself going on and on - when I do it at home I end up stopping and saying, "I'm babbling, aren't I?" Love your videos. Keep up the good work.
T nuts are a great project. Many years of use you will get out of them makes them so satisfying to make. Glad to see the tri fly face mill working for you.
Quinn, I'd like to thank you for all of the vids you've put up here on the tube. My Father-in-Law is a machinist (tool & die maker) but lives too far away to teach. I've learned a LOT from your videos and will continue to follow you channel as long as you continue to post. Again, Thank you!
I really like using stub drills for drilling non-critical holes, less flex than regular drills so closer to centre drilling first with fewer tool changes. As long as space isn’t an issue of course.
A good set of screw machine length (stub) drills is fantastic to have on small mills as often times it is all that will fit in the limited Z working space on taller setups.
Don't ever stop making videos Quinn. I love them all and all of them teach. Who else could make miniature Abom chips so well? Yes, talking is hard if anyone happens to be listening .. I don't have that problem. Even I don't listen to what I'm saying.🤣🤣
Watched Video. Thanks for the content. Hard not to be redundant with so many well-versed commenters, but hear goes: another method of "staking" the thread exit, is to lay a bearing ball on said exit, and give it a judicious hammer blow. This was a favorite clandestine method used to cheat the no-go gage for a controlled feature. Some facilities frown on the presence of bearing balls in the vicinity of threading operations...
I was stuck for tee nuts a while back and time was of the essence. I measured the tee slots on my mill (5/8) and bought some carriage/coach bolts and nuts to suit from the local hardware store and had the rotary table secured in no time at all. Really liking the content of your tutorials!
Great way to make t-nuts, Quinn. Another way to keep the screws from bottoming out is to stop tapping before the taper part goes all the way through the nut.
Nothing wrong with making ones own parts even if they are inexpensive. We do it because we love to just make small bits of metal out of larger bits. And sometimes make smaller bits slightly larger with the welder because we screwed up. That's my style, lol.
A very enjoyable watch, Quinn. Thanks. I am a hobby machinist, with limited skills and facilities. I did a job for one client, which by luck and star alignment, turned out exceptionally well. It was an awkward component to make, right at the edge of my skills level. The client referred me to someone else, with the introduction: ...an expert machinist... I could only deny this, and say that I watch a lot of youtube videos... Anyway, it was a fairly simple job; a single point internal trapezoidal threading operation. ( with brass/bronze/yellowmetal material supplied )
"Look, narration is hard, OK?" That and the follower. LOL! Yeah, we've all had those days.... Basic stuff done well is always good. And the way you milled the cross section was a good trick to use elsewhere. As always a great video and well worth the watching.
When I saw the video title I thought this was about T nuts that would be quicker to insert into the slots or something. Maybe with some red speed lines painted on the side.
@@jacklewis1 i learned the hard way that removing t-nuts from my table "quickly" is not to use 140psi of compressed air and yelling "hey guys, look at this"
When i tap in the mill i hang a couple of pounds of weight ob the down feed handle so it frees up my hands to get both of them on the tap wrench and keeps the follower on the the tap wrench.
yeah I agree with many ppl recommending doing all holes and tapping before cutting, since the tolerance for a tnut is basically anything goes as long as it slides well in the slot. esp if you have a dro, absolute centering isn't needed except for perfectionists haha. band saw setup I think also faster than mill fixture and changing slitting saw in and back out. good job tho! very enjoyable to watch you make some chips
They can be faster, almost everything other than the contact surfaces can be unmachined if you have correct size stock. Cold saw cut ends and deburring
I tried that climb milling once because it was said it was good. End mill fragments everywhere! I like you method better.... I have a sloppy pseudo mill. 😥 I get a lot out of if from methods you have shown. Thanks.
Horizontal mill and gang mill the profile. Nice to actually see some steel being machined on a PM25/G0704. Usually just guys on TH-cam milling aluminium
I really like your channel. Watching makes me feel good, don't know why. I'm a retired EE who would like to have a mill and a metal lathe (I am a wood guy so I have a wood lathe. Maybe that's why. Keep up the good work. Thanks.
I'm a non-retired EE and a few years ago I got myself a lathe, which has just been joined by a mill. No regrets! Machine work is super fun even if you suck at it to begin with.
A small tip would be rather than take shallow depths of cuts the width radially you need I try to take full depth of cuts and a small axial engagement maybe .01-.025” this uses the tool out evenly and doesn’t risk chipping the corners as much as a shallow depth of cut does. It makes these Long angry chips though so be careful :) I have a video where I made my Mando blaster on the CNC where I use this method to peel Away tons of material at once
Nice, just got myself 2500lbs of cast iron that they say can be used as a milling machine, just got to get it to the basement 😨 This will be my first projekt. Thanks. Cheers from Sweden ❄❄❄
Im relatively new to machining. For me it’s strictly a hobby. I dislike wasting metal because where I live it is not only expensive, but an hour drive each way to get it. My point is, why not use the slitting saw to rough in the shape. That way you get the small corner piece for another project, at the same time making less chips.
holy hell =/ that's some serious b.s., if they're some oddball size you might even be able to make a few bucks if you can hook up with some others that have the same chair model =)
@@ScumfuckMcDouchefacethe irony is that a lot of the parts they use are common enough. For example: the shocks on the chair are also used on mountain bikes, where they cost about $20, but from the chair manufacturer they’re $150.
@@JordanHaisley wow! Is that because a lot of their sales are through insurance, so they justify it by thinking they're not (usually) bilking the people that could use a break?... I like the idea that parts are interchangeable and all that, i had no idea or at least never thought bout it... I have the feeling that if I needed a chair I'd have it tuned right up with a bunch of Norco and Specialized parts haha =)
Well,,,,,What I do is to use regular parallels and cut the steps, Then with the stock left in the mill we drill and power tap the holes,,,,and THEN cut them apart in the band saw. Our mill is quite a bit bigger then yours but we can make half a dozen in less the a half hour,,,,,including clean up and putting everything away. - We make them for customer's fixtures all the time.
Another good one! You do a wonderful job of explaining on your channel. After watching your lathe series, I feel like I could get a lathe in my garage and almost immediately start making parts. But alas, I do not own a lathe. And I've got too many hobbies going on as well as a house remodel, so would it make any sense for me to buy a lathe? Someday!
How deep of a cut can you take on your PM25? I have a PM25MV and it really struggles with anything more than 0.010" and with .200 stepover on a half inch endmill (around 650 rpm). I'm amazed you can use a slitting saw on that stock too, my PM25 completely freaks out on steel.
Hey Quinn, why are dial calipers so popular in North America? I've never even seen one used here in the UK. I guess they are a bit easier to read than a vernier scale.
When I tried to make the 'side-slots' my milling bit (2fl 1/2*1/2*1*3) broke/shattered at one flute's end. I used a speed of 300 rpm and I was going real slow on feeding speed (manually) and I removed a very thin layer of metal at each pass. I am using mild steel. I am using a combo lathe-mill (King Canada Industrial KC-1620CLM which has a 1/2hp motor). I am usure what gone wrong. RPM speed too slow? too fast? Milling machine not rigid/strong enough?
Been doing this the same way for 30 years and counting. Only difference is I flip the stock 90* so I have more material sunk in the vise and climb cut using the 2/3 rule.
Just subbed the other day. Been a machinist 40+ years as was my dad before me. I enjoy your videos and the manual machines as opposed to the CNC stuff. Have you ever spoke about your experiences and how you arrived to this point? College? Trade college? I hear you say model engineer? Have you given a shop tour? I might be late to the party but that stuff would make for another good video to watch IMHO!
Quinn. new to machining. how do you support underneath all of your work in the vise? do you literally have little scraps that are of precise width and height to keep things square for every possible permutation of what you are clamping, or is there a literal Blondi-Hack that I could be made privy to :D
gf walked by while as i was watching. she stoped by and read "fat nuts! can they be faster?" instead of the actual title. looked at me for one second with the best WTF?! face ever. then looked at the screen again, started laughing and said "mooooving on!". fun times.
When you machined the main body of the T-nuts with the endmill, why did you go full width and low depth, in contrast to full depth and small width? Was it "just because I can", or is there a notable advantage? Thanks, Hansi
Any link to the insert face mill you have been using.. I have several of the HHIP or Accusize R8 Indexable, that have served me well, but am open to improvement.
Heh. Amazon's price for Building the New Shay was $50 before the video came out, jumped to $53 when the video came out to your Patreon supporters, and then jumped to $101.25 when the video came out on TH-cam. Blondihacks, moving (3/4" scale) markets!
That data book the we see occasionally on Stefan's channel has the DIN standards for tee nuts etc. An English language version is available on Amazon. Using a roughing mill and side cutting would probably be faster. The roughing mill puts less stress on the machine because in stead of taking one long chip one each flute you're taking a bunch of small ones. Roughing mills with flat tops actually produse a fairly decent surface. Good enough for tee nuts*. I've actually made roughing mills out of broken taps. Buts that's a story for another day. *are these tee nuts or Mr T nuts? Enquiring mi ds want to know.
Great content, as always :) I'm having trouble finding good sliting saws.. could you please do some test of import ones and maybe list where to find them? Or just link to where you sourced the ones you got? Would be awesome. Keep it up 👌
One other tip for making things faster is to care less about the result. The less you care, the faster you can go! It's like a superpower.
Erm yes, but, um... not sure if that's a reliable route to securing a successful outcome! Just sayin' :-)
@@tungsten_carbide Think bigger. You've just got to tweak your definition of "successful" to suit!
A lot of DIY T-Nut videos on TH-cam. This is the first one I've seen showing the important step of deforming the threads on the bottom to prevent jacking. Nice work.
What? No chamfering? So its come to this - down there with the animals 😱
There's a bunch of reasons I keep coming back to the BH videos. It's not just the "Bob Ross of the machining world" soothing dialogue or the unassuming yet bountiful knowledge bank of good workshop practices but it also includes little things, like pronunciation of words like "pedagog..... pedagodgi....gigical.." I'll be right back after a quick google.
Oh I just saw the $5 dollar word up the top corner there ..
This was great. Thanks. I love the narration, especially when you "catch" yourself going on and on - when I do it at home I end up stopping and saying, "I'm babbling, aren't I?" Love your videos. Keep up the good work.
"Scale models of Abom chips". That's a good one. 😀
This is the second video this week that I've seen the maker reference Abom. It's like he and clickspring have become the youtube standard. :-)
Abom would have done them on his G & E shaper.
T nuts are a great project. Many years of use you will get out of them makes them so satisfying to make. Glad to see the tri fly face mill working for you.
Quinn, I'd like to thank you for all of the vids you've put up here on the tube. My Father-in-Law is a machinist (tool & die maker) but lives too far away to teach. I've learned a LOT from your videos and will continue to follow you channel as long as you continue to post. Again, Thank you!
Nice and simple setup Quinn
suggestion, I used a tapered thread in the T-Nut so the threaded bar does not go though the T-Nut 11:00
Good project. I've used T nuts for many years but never thought of tapping them off-center for rotary table use. Never too old to learn something new.
I really like using stub drills for drilling non-critical holes, less flex than regular drills so closer to centre drilling first with fewer tool changes. As long as space isn’t an issue of course.
A good set of screw machine length (stub) drills is fantastic to have on small mills as often times it is all that will fit in the limited Z working space on taller setups.
turning in to my favorite machining channel. I always have something that makes me laugh and I learn something.
Don't ever stop making videos Quinn. I love them all and all of them teach. Who else could make miniature Abom chips so well? Yes, talking is hard if anyone happens to be listening .. I don't have that problem. Even I don't listen to what I'm saying.🤣🤣
Quinn as is tradition Thank you for taking the time to make this video Pete M
Watched Video. Thanks for the content. Hard not to be redundant with so many well-versed commenters, but hear goes: another method of "staking" the thread exit, is to lay a bearing ball on said exit, and give it a judicious hammer blow. This was a favorite clandestine method used to cheat the no-go gage for a controlled feature. Some facilities frown on the presence of bearing balls in the vicinity of threading operations...
Cool trick!
I was stuck for tee nuts a while back and time was of the essence. I measured the tee slots on my mill (5/8) and bought some carriage/coach bolts and nuts to suit from the local hardware store and had the rotary table secured in no time at all. Really liking the content of your tutorials!
Yay, it's Blondihacks time!
Great tip about deforming the bottom of the threaded hole! Thanks!
Great way to make t-nuts, Quinn. Another way to keep the screws from bottoming out is to stop tapping before the taper part goes all the way through the nut.
Nothing wrong with making ones own parts even if they are inexpensive. We do it because we love to just make small bits of metal out of larger bits. And sometimes make smaller bits slightly larger with the welder because we screwed up. That's my style, lol.
Another good one and your viewers leave THE BEST comments. Thanks Quinn.
My viewers are funny and kind folks for the most part. 🥰 The rest get moderated. 😬
A very enjoyable watch, Quinn. Thanks.
I am a hobby machinist, with limited skills and facilities. I did a job for one client, which by luck and star alignment, turned out exceptionally well.
It was an awkward component to make, right at the edge of my skills level. The client referred me to someone else, with the introduction: ...an expert machinist...
I could only deny this, and say that I watch a lot of youtube videos...
Anyway, it was a fairly simple job; a single point internal trapezoidal threading operation. ( with brass/bronze/yellowmetal material supplied )
Love the topic, love your quality production, love your easy style, and love your bs. Keep up the good work and thanks
your dance moves are exceptional quinn!
Love the way you explain your processes. Thank you for the great videos.
Excellent, excellent, excellent! Always learn something from your videos.👍👍👍😎
Oh, now I really need to finish making my slitting saw arbor. So satisfying.
"Look, narration is hard, OK?" That and the follower. LOL! Yeah, we've all had those days.... Basic stuff done well is always good. And the way you milled the cross section was a good trick to use elsewhere. As always a great video and well worth the watching.
At least one person watched all the way to the end. 😬
@@Blondihacks Me too! I watched to the end I _pwomise_ !
Me three!
@@Blondihacks Doesn't everybody? That seems weird to me 🤷
Simple/smart
I died at the tap follower part.
Never had one of _those_ days? ;-)
@@tungsten_carbide Yes I have, LOL It would help if she would etch some hair around that hole. That's the response I get from the old timers at work.
@@brianrhubbard NSFW lol
When I saw the video title I thought this was about T nuts that would be quicker to insert into the slots or something. Maybe with some red speed lines painted on the side.
Or a way to get them out more easily
@@jacklewis1 i learned the hard way that removing t-nuts from my table "quickly" is not to use 140psi of compressed air and yelling "hey guys, look at this"
.... and furry dice attached.
Look forward ever week to seeing you. Me and my kids love this stuff.
I like the way you explain things.
Oh yeah?! Well... well *I* like the explain you things way!! So... so just there.
When i tap in the mill i hang a couple of pounds of weight ob the down feed handle so it frees up my hands to get both of them on the tap wrench and keeps the follower on the the tap wrench.
Nice manual work. Thanks for sharing!
Bork it up, thanks for that. 20 mins of crazy laughter. Little kids are super funny
yeah I agree with many ppl recommending doing all holes and tapping before cutting, since the tolerance for a tnut is basically anything goes as long as it slides well in the slot. esp if you have a dro, absolute centering isn't needed except for perfectionists haha. band saw setup I think also faster than mill fixture and changing slitting saw in and back out.
good job tho! very enjoyable to watch you make some chips
They can be faster, almost everything other than the contact surfaces can be unmachined if you have correct size stock. Cold saw cut ends and deburring
Definitely!
@@Blondihacks Yes but it's done in half the time . Half the fun?
Nuts, milling, drilling, dancing! What's not to enjoy? 😁
I tried that climb milling once because it was said it was good.
End mill fragments everywhere!
I like you method better....
I have a sloppy pseudo mill. 😥
I get a lot out of if from methods you have shown. Thanks.
Done to a T for sure. Thanks for the video.
Thanks Quinn
Horizontal mill and gang mill the profile. Nice to actually see some steel being machined on a PM25/G0704. Usually just guys on TH-cam milling aluminium
Here's some love Quinn love your videos
Lovely! Very satisfying. Thank you.
Good looking work.
👍👍 nice little video Quinn.
thanks for sharing!!!
Wow. This is awesome
I really like your channel. Watching makes me feel good, don't know why. I'm a retired EE who would like to have a mill and a metal lathe (I am a wood guy so I have a wood lathe. Maybe that's why. Keep up the good work. Thanks.
I'm a non-retired EE and a few years ago I got myself a lathe, which has just been joined by a mill. No regrets! Machine work is super fun even if you suck at it to begin with.
Thanks for the video Quinn. Loved it.
I’m glad you didn’t “bork” anything up. 😂 I’m stealing that.
Since Sprocket wasnt seen? Was it not approved by the shop foreman Sprocket?
Nuts …… machined like your cup of tea. 👍👍😂👍👍
A good job done Quinn... Thank you...
@5:41 look @ those DG - ODG machinist dance moves, Quinn when do those lessons start??????
A small tip would be rather than take shallow depths of cuts the width radially you need I try to take full depth of cuts and a small axial engagement maybe .01-.025” this uses the tool out evenly and doesn’t risk chipping the corners as much as a shallow depth of cut does. It makes these Long angry chips though so be careful :) I have a video where I made my Mando blaster on the CNC where I use this method to peel
Away tons of material at once
Nice, just got myself 2500lbs of cast iron that they say can be used as a milling machine, just got to get it to the basement 😨 This will be my first projekt. Thanks. Cheers from Sweden ❄❄❄
Easy...
Put it in the living room.
It'll make its way to the basement on its own.
As always a great video. Still haven't found the parts that look like an elephant. (But I got the joke) Keep up the great work....Rusty.
Im relatively new to machining. For me it’s strictly a hobby. I dislike wasting metal because where I live it is not only expensive, but an hour drive each way to get it. My point is, why not use the slitting saw to rough in the shape. That way you get the small corner piece for another project, at the same time making less chips.
The company that makes my wheelchair charges $17 per T nut… I need to start machining them. This is a good guide for doing so.
holy hell =/ that's some serious b.s., if they're some oddball size you might even be able to make a few bucks if you can hook up with some others that have the same chair model =)
@@ScumfuckMcDouchefacethe irony is that a lot of the parts they use are common enough. For example: the shocks on the chair are also used on mountain bikes, where they cost about $20, but from the chair manufacturer they’re $150.
@@JordanHaisley wow! Is that because a lot of their sales are through insurance, so they justify it by thinking they're not (usually) bilking the people that could use a break?... I like the idea that parts are interchangeable and all that, i had no idea or at least never thought bout it... I have the feeling that if I needed a chair I'd have it tuned right up with a bunch of Norco and Specialized parts haha =)
Well,,,,,What I do is to use regular parallels and cut the steps, Then with the stock left in the mill we drill and power tap the holes,,,,and THEN cut them apart in the band saw. Our mill is quite a bit bigger then yours but we can make half a dozen in less the a half hour,,,,,including clean up and putting everything away. - We make them for customer's fixtures all the time.
Marring threads was around before loctite. If you do it correctly and the application is appropriate, it can work just as well as loctite.
Great video. Can you tell me details on that insert face mill? Where did you get it? Part number? I have the same mill as you and want one!
Another great video, thanks Quinn!
I regret that TH-cam allows me but one "thumbs up" to give for this video.
I have this regret so often!
Another good one! You do a wonderful job of explaining on your channel. After watching your lathe series, I feel like I could get a lathe in my garage and almost immediately start making parts. But alas, I do not own a lathe. And I've got too many hobbies going on as well as a house remodel, so would it make any sense for me to buy a lathe? Someday!
1/4-20 T-nuts also means you can secure your camera to the mill table!
That’s bound to come in handy somehow. 😄
Next step: make a spinning window to keep machining debris off the lens.
Its nuts how fast i can comment.
I tried making one with my credit card as you suggested, but now it gets declined whenever I try to use it.
How deep of a cut can you take on your PM25? I have a PM25MV and it really struggles with anything more than 0.010" and with .200 stepover on a half inch endmill (around 650 rpm). I'm amazed you can use a slitting saw on that stock too, my PM25 completely freaks out on steel.
Scale models of Abom chips 🤣🤣🙏🙏👍👍
Yup, my fav joke for this video.
Would you happen to have a link for the face mill (with inserts) shown?
Basic, foundational, useful!
Abom makes oversized models of Quinn's chips
Hi, I’m curious why you didn’t use a roughing end mill?
3:45 did the piece suddenly get longer?
I admire your enthusiasm for making T nuts, I don’t like making T nuts and clamps.
Hey Quinn, why are dial calipers so popular in North America? I've never even seen one used here in the UK. I guess they are a bit easier to read than a vernier scale.
Where did you buy the face mill? Seems to work very well on your milling machine and I would like to purchase one.
Thats some good stuff Q.
When I tried to make the 'side-slots' my milling bit (2fl 1/2*1/2*1*3) broke/shattered at one flute's end.
I used a speed of 300 rpm and I was going real slow on feeding speed (manually) and I removed a very thin layer of metal at each pass.
I am using mild steel. I am using a combo lathe-mill (King Canada Industrial KC-1620CLM which has a 1/2hp motor).
I am usure what gone wrong. RPM speed too slow? too fast? Milling machine not rigid/strong enough?
Been doing this the same way for 30 years and counting. Only difference is I flip the stock 90* so I have more material sunk in the vise and climb cut using the 2/3 rule.
Fantastic video! Where did you get the slitting saw? I have been looking for a good one!
Just subbed the other day. Been a machinist 40+ years as was my dad before me. I enjoy your videos and the manual machines as opposed to the CNC stuff. Have you ever spoke about your experiences and how you arrived to this point? College? Trade college? I hear you say model engineer? Have you given a shop tour? I might be late to the party but that stuff would make for another good video to watch IMHO!
Go look for the shop tour video, Quinn did it recently and it's mind-opening for how to get creative in a confined space.
@@MichaelKJohnson thanks Mike, will do.
Quinn. new to machining. how do you support underneath all of your work in the vise? do you literally have little scraps that are of precise width and height to keep things square for every possible permutation of what you are clamping, or is there a literal Blondi-Hack that I could be made privy to :D
gf walked by while as i was watching. she stoped by and read "fat nuts! can they be faster?" instead of the actual title. looked at me for one second with the best WTF?! face ever. then looked at the screen again, started laughing and said "mooooving on!". fun times.
When you machined the main body of the T-nuts with the endmill, why did you go full width and low depth, in contrast to full depth and small width? Was it "just because I can", or is there a notable advantage? Thanks, Hansi
Any link to the insert face mill you have been using.. I have several of the HHIP or Accusize R8 Indexable, that have served me well, but am open to improvement.
Good video
Heh. Amazon's price for Building the New Shay was $50 before the video came out, jumped to $53 when the video came out to your Patreon supporters, and then jumped to $101.25 when the video came out on TH-cam. Blondihacks, moving (3/4" scale) markets!
10:26 tappy-tap-tap 🙃
Fanbloodytastic I need to renew some so thanks 👍👨🏻🏭🇬🇧
That data book the we see occasionally on Stefan's channel has the DIN standards for tee nuts etc. An English language version is available on Amazon.
Using a roughing mill and side cutting would probably be faster. The roughing mill puts less stress on the machine because in stead of taking one long chip one each flute you're taking a bunch of small ones. Roughing mills with flat tops actually produse a fairly decent surface. Good enough for tee nuts*. I've actually made roughing mills out of broken taps. Buts that's a story for another day.
*are these tee nuts or Mr T nuts? Enquiring mi ds want to know.
Blonde doing her Harley Quinn dancing 💃
5:40 Personally, I do not use a dial indicator and a micrometer for dancing. But that is just me ...
So if you are holding a couple of machinist squares is that "Square Dancing"?😀
@@hadinossanosam4459 I guess you have to carry a center punch as well.
New on PS5: Dance Dance Oscillation 😄
Yet another great video, from Quinn.
steve
Great content, as always :) I'm having trouble finding good sliting saws.. could you please do some test of import ones and maybe list where to find them? Or just link to where you sourced the ones you got? Would be awesome. Keep it up 👌
Most of mine are donations, so I don’t know where they are from. I have had good luck with Keo saws from MSCDirect though
Indeed, KEO makes very good saws...
Lovely lil vid Quinn sorry could you go through the rotating tuning table thing again I did not quite understand LOLl