If possible id put as many vices on the table and have it do 2, 3, 4, etc...parts at a time. Or make a fixture/jig that will hold down multiple pieces to run several pieces. If you can hit cycle start once and get multiple finished pieces it will save a lot of time too. A round chuck would be great to set on the machine table to clamp round parts if you need it. I was a machinist for 20 years I love conversational controls. I did the setup and shop floor programming on Mazak vertical mills. They had mazatrol conversational controls. I'd love to be able to afford to build a shop and buy a Mazak like I used to run. They would be great for small drill, mill, and tap subcontract jobs from the bigger machine shops. Happy for ya man!!! Best of luck. Take Care!!!
Nick Save all your ally scrap pieces and all the ally Chip's and keep them in a large bin so you can weigh your scrap in, And it helps towards the new or reclaimed bar stock you will be buying.
as a hobbyist fabricator at best, i really appreciate the detailed vlog you do showing the struggles and learning steps and pure honesty you give while you figure this out. its real down to earth feedback and very relatable. great job and keep pushing man! your doing great!
Man get u some 1x2 aluminum stock there’s programs out there to make different size jaws 4” 6” 8” 10”. A little safety tip we’re safety glasses 😎 Im a retired manual and cnc machinist if I was close by I’d come by and volunteer some time to help u out.
Keep it my brother love it I'm from Greenfield Indiana now live in Brownsville Oregon miss my home town glad you are doing so good not in Indiana much love keep it up we all got you 😊
That’s awesome. I remember getting my buddies 68 442 in the 90’s and it had crazy cast aluminum ball joint spacers, it didn’t seem like those would last very long, so into the garbage they went, 30 years later and here’s a real product is actually use on my car. I would machine two or more at a time then cut them apart so there’s less setup time and part changing, ect
Much respect Nick for how you learn by doing and hats off to those offering there experience. Small advice is to dog the Crecent wrench and drop 20 bucks on a dedicated set of tools just for that machine. My Uncle had set for each machine on a rack so no damaged tooling and consistent tightening of each component.
I love your content! To see what actually goes into building a cage is eye opening. Hard to believe that much goes into each bar. Lol. Keep it up. Only feedback would be maybe to be detailed on the trigonometry occasionally.
The tomac may not be the best machine for mass production But it's great little thing to learn on and when ! Not if you do big screw up and F** it is 100's of $ not 1000's of $ to fix once you got your skills up get bigger piece of kit !! My top tip would be to get some MDF blocks to cut as test pieces to test your g code as you can cut it o 300 or 400% feed rate and $40 get you 500 test test bits (shop vac may be need to keep dust down) and make sure you clean it up after and re oil !!!
when running aluminum no matter how fast you are going .you are going to slow , we run 30.000 rpm and about 50 inch min.feed on alum. You can run wide open on that mill .run cool mist in the mister
Great job learning, I learned the same way, reading the manual. You might re-program to do everything with the 1/4” EM, that way you don’t have to change tools and everytime the machine stops you have a finished part. Also you don’t have to face the whole block, just the boss sticking up. Could cut your time down a little
That’s sweet I love the 2dr 78 to 81 malibu. I’ve bought 2 and had the worst luck the dealership went out of business and never gave me the title. The other one was bent from being rear ended and they fixed it where it looked ok til you tried to align it. So I’ve got screwed twice. But I really love them and I’m determined to get one I can drive one day. Hopefully if your giving this one away I could win it.
I changed to carbide endmills from Lake Shore carbide. You may run into the limits of the machine very early in your process. Good luck. You will need to make a fixture to the other side. NYCNC can be alot of help give John call.
Won't go wrong with CNC. I bought my first in 2009 and it paid for itself within 6 months and now it funds my racing every year. Self taught as well but now I beta test software for CAD/CAM companies.
Call Parker machine shop local to me and you he has a full blown machine shop he has pretty well retired from. He may be interested in selling some stuff and may have some advice to give you if needed!Your doing great bud I love everything your doing and your making great content! ❤
I sold Autodesk software for over 15yrs and EdgeCAM software. For someone newer to CNC I think I would stay around Fusion and the Autodesk software for milling. There are more robust software but just my opinion I would stay in the Autodesk family as it’s a proven company. I’m sure I will get blasted but that’s Ok it is just an opinion.
All depends on what tooling your using if your using hss tooling it’s going to have to be run slow but carbide you can run faster. Aluminum you want uncoated carbide endmills. Coated tools on Aluminum will break
Saunders / NYC CNC, has a shit load of videos on TH-cam, you’ll find useful. Thinking that might be his fixture plate you’ve got. Look at work holding, with the fixture plate, instead of the vice, and nestlings your pieces in CAD to do in pairs or whatever, to minimize stock waste, reduce setups. Might look to doing a fixture, for your second op, angled face.
Thinking that if you made a fixture that held your stock at the appropriate angle, and was tall / thick enough to allow for the z-depth, you could do these is one setup / operation.
use the malibu as a content car and enjoy it. put a cage in it do the interior in it and take it on power tour and raffle it off at the end of power tour
quick tip: try to Reduce your radial engagement and increase the speeds and feeds. this will help to keep the machine from loading up. great video!
If possible id put as many vices on the table and have it do 2, 3, 4, etc...parts at a time. Or make a fixture/jig that will hold down multiple pieces to run several pieces. If you can hit cycle start once and get multiple finished pieces it will save a lot of time too. A round chuck would be great to set on the machine table to clamp round parts if you need it. I was a machinist for 20 years I love conversational controls. I did the setup and shop floor programming on Mazak vertical mills. They had mazatrol conversational controls. I'd love to be able to afford to build a shop and buy a Mazak like I used to run. They would be great for small drill, mill, and tap subcontract jobs from the bigger machine shops. Happy for ya man!!! Best of luck. Take Care!!!
I'm really impressed that your learning and doing this on your own, you got this Bro.
Nick Save all your ally scrap pieces and all the ally Chip's and keep them in a large bin so you can weigh your scrap in, And it helps towards the new or reclaimed bar stock you will be buying.
Awesome Nick! Thanks for bringing us along for the journey.
The Malibu was bad azz the blanket on the seat made me want it even more.
as a hobbyist fabricator at best, i really appreciate the detailed vlog you do showing the struggles and learning steps and pure honesty you give while you figure this out. its real down to earth feedback and very relatable. great job and keep pushing man! your doing great!
Man get u some 1x2 aluminum stock there’s programs out there to make different size jaws 4” 6” 8” 10”.
A little safety tip we’re safety glasses 😎
Im a retired manual and cnc machinist if I was close by I’d come by and volunteer some time to help u out.
Keep it my brother love it I'm from Greenfield Indiana now live in Brownsville Oregon miss my home town glad you are doing so good not in Indiana much love keep it up we all got you 😊
Impressive! I did CNC work in a small-ish fab shop 20 years ago & it can be very rewarding. Good work young man!
Don’t stop learning and growing dude. The skies the limit you’ve got what it takes. 🤙🤙
That’s awesome. I remember getting my buddies 68 442 in the 90’s and it had crazy cast aluminum ball joint spacers, it didn’t seem like those would last very long, so into the garbage they went, 30 years later and here’s a real product is actually use on my car. I would machine two or more at a time then cut them apart so there’s less setup time and part changing, ect
Much respect Nick for how you learn by doing and hats off to those offering there experience. Small advice is to dog the Crecent wrench and drop 20 bucks on a dedicated set of tools just for that machine. My Uncle had set for each machine on a rack so no damaged tooling and consistent tightening of each component.
I love your content! To see what actually goes into building a cage is eye opening. Hard to believe that much goes into each bar. Lol. Keep it up. Only feedback would be maybe to be detailed on the trigonometry occasionally.
Good deal on the cnc. And you have some tooling! You are learning faster than us old guys. Happy for you.
Awsome watching you learn the CNC process. You are very skilled and determined. Keep up the advancement of your knowledge. 😊
That is very interesting ! Quite a steep learning curve for you ( and me). Keep it up. Thanks for the video.
You are a hands on person There are a lot of us out here that learned better by just doing it than to be told how to do it.
You’re doing good things Nick!!! Rock on brother!!!
Okay, way to go. Good on ya. Hang in there man you got her made.
Amazing!!! It would take me a month to do what you’ve achieved in a few days… With this drive you’ll be unstoppable very soon!
It's really cool to see your progression bro, keep it up you're doing awesome...
The tomac may not be the best machine for mass production
But it's great little thing to learn on and when ! Not if you do big screw up and F** it is 100's of $ not 1000's of $ to fix once you got your skills up get bigger piece of kit !!
My top tip would be to get some MDF blocks to cut as test pieces to test your g code as you can cut it o 300 or 400% feed rate and $40 get you 500 test test bits
(shop vac may be need to keep dust down) and make sure you clean it up after and re oil !!!
Heres a tip! Use a drill bit to make a pilot hole for the bolt holes, end mills dont like to plunge! Its MUCH faster too!
You are killing it Nickky Bobby keep it up
Very inspiring! Sending you a message.
when running aluminum no matter how fast you are going .you are
going to slow , we run 30.000 rpm and about 50 inch min.feed on alum. You can run wide open on that mill .run cool mist in the mister
Cool Man ! You will be banging parts out in no time
Great job learning, I learned the same way, reading the manual.
You might re-program to do everything with the 1/4” EM, that way you don’t have to change tools and everytime the machine stops you have a finished part. Also you don’t have to face the whole block, just the boss sticking up. Could cut your time down a little
That’s sweet I love the 2dr 78 to 81 malibu. I’ve bought 2 and had the worst luck the dealership went out of business and never gave me the title. The other one was bent from being rear ended and they fixed it where it looked ok til you tried to align it. So I’ve got screwed twice. But I really love them and I’m determined to get one I can drive one day. Hopefully if your giving this one away I could win it.
Love it! Making your future now! Step by step one foot in front of the other.
Nice score on the Malibu Son!
Congratulations it’s coming together 🎉🎉
Great job I couldn’t do that for sure keep it up buddy keep on learning
Congratulations bro 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
that is realy cool. I ran cnc machines 40 years ago. it was all based on math. coolant will help tool life.
I changed to carbide endmills from Lake Shore carbide. You may run into the limits of the machine very early in your process. Good luck. You will need to make a fixture to the other side. NYCNC can be alot of help give John call.
Cutter selection speed and feed will cut down on your machine time. You’ll get it. Great start tho.
Won't go wrong with CNC. I bought my first in 2009 and it paid for itself within 6 months and now it funds my racing every year. Self taught as well but now I beta test software for CAD/CAM companies.
Really cool shiite!
Perfect song for the vid !
That ole malibu is pimp!!!
Fix afew thing put a NX plate kit and roll out!!!🤘🤘🤘
Hard work will pay off. Keep it up
Call Parker machine shop local to me and you he has a full blown machine shop he has pretty well retired from. He may be interested in selling some stuff and may have some advice to give you if needed!Your doing great bud I love everything your doing and your making great content! ❤
GIVE IT HELL BRO THATS THR MACHINE IM LOOKING AT!!
Awesome job Nick.
Get yourself a vibratory tumbler. It will give you a nice finish. Just toss it in the tumbler for a few minutes and they look beautiful.
Learning is fun. Just sucks that it took me this long to realize it. I could have been somebody…lol
Determination and drive bro you have that keep it up impressive
I sold Autodesk software for over 15yrs and EdgeCAM software. For someone newer to CNC I think I would stay around Fusion and the Autodesk software for milling. There are more robust software but just my opinion I would stay in the Autodesk family as it’s a proven company.
I’m sure I will get blasted but that’s Ok it is just an opinion.
Would the initial facing be faster with a small fly cutter?
Nice malibu Steve Morris picked up a 80 with a 454 big block that he built up for Sick week the thing is awesome. That one you picked up sounds good
If you were going to sell your Malabo what would you need for it. Got cash and I’m 4hrs ish. from you
Enjoyed your excitement of learning a new trade.
Nice Malibu. Alot better than where we came from.
You are getting it! Full steam ahead!
I'm so EXCITED !!!!
That’s awesome only way to learn
Hell yeah! Finally a good vid today.👍
Dude that will be a cool car when ur done .. i hope you make some good money on it if you sell it 😊
you have to start somewhere! I'm sure you make it work.
Congrats that is so cool
Thats what i want to learn to do but i dont understand it or have the patience to, i dont think lol
All depends on what tooling your using if your using hss tooling it’s going to have to be run slow but carbide you can run faster. Aluminum you want uncoated carbide endmills. Coated tools on Aluminum will break
You need to figure out ipm inches per minute and how much horsepower your motor is
How do we find out about your raffle?
love it!! doing more with less, and learning it yourself......my man
Kmonnn
Well done dream tool I would also love to master.
Ring up Steve Morris to spend some time with one of his guys and review from there experience.
Love that car!!
Saunders / NYC CNC, has a shit load of videos on TH-cam, you’ll find useful. Thinking that might be his fixture plate you’ve got. Look at work holding, with the fixture plate, instead of the vice, and nestlings your pieces in CAD to do in pairs or whatever, to minimize stock waste, reduce setups. Might look to doing a fixture, for your second op, angled face.
Thinking that if you made a fixture that held your stock at the appropriate angle, and was tall / thick enough to allow for the z-depth, you could do these is one setup / operation.
Run some coolant in that thing. A lot easier on tooling and a better finish.
Malibu is clean you need to change that fuel filter by the carb asap I’ve had a ton of them bust
Excuse me. Those are NOT screw-ups. Those are set-up pieces for your second op! Dig your content.
Do NOT get a cnc mill without tool changer.. chip conveyor is optional… you’ll outgrow using a single tool quickly
Are the plug wires mixed up? Heehéeeehaa
How do it i get in on the raffle, I need to get a daily hotrod!
The silver one is gone already but I have another on my Facebook page up right now!
use the malibu as a content car and enjoy it. put a cage in it do the interior in it and take it on power tour and raffle it off at the end of power tour
Purdy cool man..
Take the tool setter off if you need space. You don't need it.
🎉🎉😮😮😮🎉🎉❤ u r on your way 🎉🎉
Nice car… for a cop. 👍😏😂
Your doing great. Take time to R&R yourself
Nick when's the Uncle Sam coming back possibly for Sick Week
business must be good
So besides all the rust its solid😂😊
Good job
Nice car. I would have entered a raffle for it. 🙂
Get ready for the G body shuffle.
Six flute finisher 4 flute rougher
Met your dad today super nice guy
way to go bro
I would look good driving that malibu
That will help with your business bro
Damn, come trade my 4th gen Camaro for that BU lol
Would love an opportunity to win that Malibu
Cool
Nice bro
🤘🏻 COME-ON 🤘🏻
🇺🇸 🌎 🇺🇲
Drag n drive
I didnt even see the waffel that sucks!
I’ve got another one going right now on an orange turbo Malibu!
Invest in a set of procion flat stones
TH-cam and google will be your best friend 15:09