It really would be cool to see him transition to machinist level stuff. Not many machinists out there with a woodworking background as strong as Matthias', I'd bet he has some very useful insights
(I have no idea what "from scratch" really means. I don't think we can anticipate Matthias buying a mine and refining his own ore…and even purchasing billets, extrusions, sheets, rods of metal alloys brand new seems less likely. But using found materials and cutting and shaping them into useful things. Perhaps "from scratch" could mean "anything you have to square up." A problem with jokes that are predictions is that they can be a bit tricky to define.)
@@johnhawkinson From scratch, commonly used to refer to make something entirely new from individual parts, or from raw stock. Matthias regularly builds entirely new things, rather than just slight modifications.
Nothing wrong with using wood to make something from scratch, as long as it’s strong enough for the job. You are definitely in the same category with Pask makes and This Old Tony, with your brilliant ideas. Cheers!
I can appreciate the precision of machinists like the ones you mentioned, but I have adhd so I always find the quick and dirty solution and then never look back
Machining doesn't always demand the precision that TH-cam machinists typically go for. Chinese products with massive slop proves you can build things incredibly haphazardly. It just doesn't really sound interesting to watch someone make a worse version of a tool than can be bought for dirt cheap. So TH-cam machinists often go for high precision and visual style rather than a tool which technically works but is otherwise jank. Mattias builds a ton of jank but he does it in a way that directly solves problems and his tools are typically very original, not store bought replicas.
Pretty much every hobbyist machinist has some form of neurodiversity. I, like you, have ADHD and some of my shop sessions are after my meds have left my body but I still count those sessions as successes assuming I achieved something. Last night, I made a lapping jig for my little Chinese 7x lathe so I could lap the barely machined undersides of the ways in the centre without using the sadlle. Doing it so the central shear plate I've made to improve rigidity (based on Steve Jordan's video) runs smoothly without binding. I knocked it up in about an hour, it's janky as hell but it'll do the job. If I know I'm doing something that requires precision or has to look good though, I'll schedule it so I have a head full of Lisdexamfetamine. 😉
Well Matthias, at my age I’ve learned to never say never, especially when you’re two steps (or more) into a metal working machine. The machinist mind set just keeps pulling you in, not that that’s a bad thing. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to your next step in! Lol
First you are an amazing workman with amazing engineering and adaptive engineering skills. You manage to make more out of less almost every time you set out to do something. I could go on and on about your mechanical and engineering skills but you and everyone that cares about you have already realize what I just said. There are and have been so many people that know your abilities and posted about them. I just wanted to add my recognition about what you are able to accomplish in your many fields of work and understanding. THANK YOU SIR!
@@matthiaswandel Have you seen the band-saw that Keith Rucker rebuilt for Jimmy Diresta? At least two sizes bigger than your biggest one. You can't leave such challenge unanswered ;-)
Agreed. Another one was where he wrote a 5 line Python script to calculate all the cog ratios to cut threads on his cheap mini lathe, more accurate that the manufacturers. That was Ultra Matthias
Great video again! These videos inspired me to build my own wooden bandsaw and Mathias shows many trics to do things without complete set of expensive tools. One of my faforite is this method to turn V-belt pulleys out of plywood by attaching motor to table end and so on. Greetings From Finland! Here in Finlad U can get that nice birch plyvood on almost every store different thicknesses and sizes.
A man after my own heart. I make solutions to problems. And whatever works, works. Got so many pieces of scrap wood around that are modified in minutes to serve some task. No metal working needed, unless it's required for material strength.
Fess up Quinn, if you didn't love the time it takes, you wouldn't do it! 😂 😜 You're one of the more goal-oriented hobbyist TH-cam machinists but we've all seen your love of the process as well as the result 😊 and that's to be commended. ❤
The fact that machining metals takes a bit more time (although with the right, properly powered, and most importantly, rigid enough machine tool, doing the actual machining of softer metals like aluminium and brass isn't a particularly time -lengthy task) is part of the joy for a hobbyist. 😉 In any case, the actual machining is often the least critical bit (although obviously, if you mess it up, you can still scrap your part!😂). Once you have your design, it'll often be working out the order of operations and the setup for workholding/toolholding that is most critical to success. Then, since machining metal often (not always but often) comes with a requirement for precision, there's all that metrology that will punctuate the process and add time. The class of joy when Quinn (Blondihacks) gets a pin to make a perfect sliding fit in a hole and it comes out of the hole with a 'pop' sound due to the partial vacuum created is what all hobby machinists seek. 😉 Final thought: having the right machines and tooling and metrology kit will cut down a lot of time, as will getting the order of operations right. Oh and if you make something in steel (or even aluminium or brass in some use-cases), it will be a lot longer before you have to spend time making it again when it's worn. 😂 😜
This was great! I only found your channel the other day so it was a big suprise when you were in Norwich. I've been down every single alley you went down when i lived there too, always some good finds!
Lol all your homemade gadget tools especially the wingnut wrench reminded me of the keys th guys made in Escape from Pretoria book 😆 You would have fit right in with those guys and shaved months off your sentences 😄💕👍
Or even better you could try to make copying lathe to make not only v-belt groove template but copy what ever detail you need with little effort. But it's up to you what you do next. Never seen bad video from you 😋
@@matthiaswandel You could test your pulleys v-grooves, does belts on plywood pulleys work better or worse than metal ones or does free hand made v-groove is worse than official one 😄
I absolutely love that the system to pull it up is so simple! And those new improvements are smart. I especially dislike adjusting the speed on my drill.
I love your channel; been watching for years. I'm a metal guy or a welder guy. I'm amazed at what you do with wood. I'm not a machinist (wish I was) but I make lots of things with metal. If you at least learn some simple welding, you would find it really helpful in making strong items. If you start, you will get hooked. I make an entire trailer out of bed frames people throw out. I made a ramp system for working on cars from scrap metal, swings for my kids, a plow for my tractor, hitches for cars, grills and monkey bars too.
@@matthiaswandel Once you get into it, you will start finding free metal everywhere. I've cut up and welded loads of things in my driveway and garage. I've collected tons of metal over the years and seldom buy anything. I welded some racks to organize it and I just collect it. A cheap $140 plasma cutter really helps to cut up material to store. I cut up filing cabinets for sheet metal. Sometimes on these "free" sites people give metal away. In no time you can build all kinds of things. Facebook marketplace also has people unloading metal scrap free or cheap. Tell some friends you collect metal and it really starts coming in. I have to turn metal away, I have so much.
I've got a cheap drill at work; the belt is just tensioned by a slight spring (there is also a screw to lock it, but I have never used it) , it makes changing speed very quick, but also lets the belt slip if the drill grabs.
It would probably take all the fun out if it to have a motor that can be speed controlled. I adapted my bandsaw so it can cut steel and wood, with a 3 phase induction motor I bought for a buck from a metal recycler and a variable frequency drive from China for a hundred. It’s worked out really well.
I do both wood and metal. And the issue with the time aspect is the rate at which a volume of material can be converted to chips. It's pretty easy to convert some volume of wood into chips. We can do it rapidly which is why making your stuff from wood moves along so quickly. For metal the conversion rate from solid to chips is a lot less volume per time. And that's where the longer time at the machines comes into the picture. You've likely already seen that directly just with your wood wrenches versus the converted router wrenches.
Yep, exactly the same thought on machining metal. I also watch these channels and they have just convinced me not to get sucked into this hooby. It seemed like a really long time to cut something with the disc, grind/file it to size, weld it, grind it again, paint it. But the cost, time and knowledge required to machine something is way over budget. And you need stock, which is not exactly cheap.
yes, I keep looking at the exhorbitant price for brass stock. The brass itself really can't be that expensive itself, or they wouldn't make plumbing stuff out of it. Wood, on the other hadn grows on trees.
Metal is a lot more substantial than wood is. It does take me a lot longer to make anything out of metal as opposed to wood though. I have limited tools. I have gotten a lot of scrap metal for free. So I rarely buy stock for projects. That makes the cost a wash.
I like your videos, I am building a milling machine from an old cheap drill press. It must mill steel. I will make some components from wood. It's cheaper. Thanks for the idea's
Making something with wood looks faster and easier because you're familiar, but making with metal the things could be smaller and reliable. Nice to see your migration to work with metal.
Working in metal can take a lot longer than working with wood. But that's often down to the machine advantage one possesses over the material. I have seen metal working machines that cut metal like it is soft pine. But not in anyone's home shop.
I used to know a guy who had been probably one of the last guys to go into the job of pattern maker before computers made the whole job obsolete. He told me that his whole job was making stuff out of wood so that it could be cast as metal.
The time it takes to make something out of metal is directly correlated to the experience of the machinist. When I started it took forever, but as I got more experience, I understood how to do things intuitively. Now I can visualize something and make it pretty readily. Counterintuitively, CAD is really detrimental to this process as it's far too easy to design unmachinable parts..... BTDT and sold the CNC. PS. I suspect that YT machinists spend a lot of time doing things "correctly" to show their viewers, which adds to the time.
30 years ago, I was milling something on a birdgeport to make a jig for something, watching the DRO and turning the feed crank until I hit my target. But got absent minded and overshot. Concluded at that point that CNC is the way to go for that sort of thing!
For the guard, why not attach it via magnets? That way it can fit close to the pulley, and whenever you have to change the belt you can just slide it down out of the way real quick.
Have you considered some sort of cam lock for the belt tension? That way you could quickly release the tension, swap the belt, and re-engage it (adjusting slightly as needed), instead of needing to wind the tension adjust all the way out and back in. Or perhaps some sort of removable stop for the nut to press against instead of directly against the front casing? That way you could remove the stop to release the tension, then push the rod forwards and put it back in to apply it again.
Mr. MW reminds me of one of the famous quotes from Archimedes "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”. The MW version is "Give me a technical challenge and enough time to TINKER, and I will MAKE IT WORK" 🥳🤣
For a guard, how about just a U shape that attaches to the vertical base plate. You could mount it low enough to be out of the way for belt changes but stick out forward enough to keep your cranium away from the pulley.
I inherited a couple of big forstner bits from my dad. 4" dia. or so. I think he used them to do clock faces. I tried them in my drill press, but find that even at their slowest speed, there isn't enough power to drive them. Maybe I can tinker with a wooden replacement pulley for whenever I want to use it.
The larger diameter bit you turn the slower you need to turn it. That's because the outside of the bit is moving faster. A 4" diameter bit is pretty large. 100 RPM would be a reasonable speed to run a bit that big at. That's 104 surface feet per minute. Which is as fast as I'd run in anything but the softest wood. It's also lower RPM than even my milling machine is capable of doing. It only goes down to 120 RPM. But that's close. Close enough I'd give it a shot.
Making stuff out of wood for now seems fine. It’s just pro typing in a cost saving method for now. Once you start slowing down the mods, then you can focus on redoing whatever out of metal as needed
On the topic of the guard, could a simple piece of clear plastic suffice? Even piece of a two-liter standing between your hair and a fast-moving v belt seems like a significant improvement.
have you played around with 3d printers? I feel like you would have a lot of uses for one. they are not good for making big, strong parts, but they are perfect for making complicated small parts that you loose for gadgets around the shop/house.
I'm thinking of red necking a shifter for a go cart with a similar concept to the belt tensioner do you have a way of making the belt from one pully to the next without ever touching it possible?
@@matthiaswandel maybe VFDs were fancy electronics, but these days they have them ironed out and they are running for decades 24/7 in terrifyingly bad conditions. I recently replaced like 10 Siemens VFDs at work not because the electronics failed, but because the plastic cases themselves started falling apart after 20 years in a hot cabinet.
Если бы момент также увеличивался на валу как понижались обороты, что и бывает в классических редукторах - шестеренчатых и клиноременных. При использовании частотных преобразователей вроде бы нет такой обратной зависимости и нужна константная электроника или продвинутые модели преобразователей с обратной связью.
because with my expertise, I just make some pulleys and use the motor I already have. Also, DC variable speed motors need feedback or the speed varies too much under load. It was just much simpler, cheaper and more effective.
Pulleys also give you more low-end torque. We went the variable DC route and ended up using maybe two settings along with changing the belt position anyways. It was nice to be able to run it in reverse when needed though.
@@jeremiahbullfrog9288 single phase AC motors are reversible unless they bury one of the leads inside the motor. Which they do. Crimp connectors be cheap I guess?
@@jeremiahbullfrog9288 nothing happens when you switch the direction switch on most induction motors once they're running. If the motor has a centrifugal switch it disconnects the start winding. So you're switching nothing. Although even if you're toggling the run winding it still won't do anything even then. It has to do with how induction motors run. Once they start up one direction they keep going that direction until they stop. You can only change the direction when it is completely stopped.
What if there were a toggle lever for the tensioning, so you do fine adjustment with the screw at the back but then you can just release/lock the belt with one flick at the front
Back in the fifties and early sixties there was a wooden car called the King Miget. Except for the engine, chassis, wheels and headlight buckets the whole car was made of wood. My father dashed my pleasant day dreams by saying, 'It won't work. The wood won't hold up to the vibration.' That was over sixty years ago. As you see, that information has held up. The wood won't hold up. I have discovered that wood does hold up pretty well in gun stocks. And furniture. Keep up the great work young man!
what i thought when i built my wood yard trailer 8 years ago out of scrap wood and 5 bucks worth of screws. admit i had to replace broke axle once. probably used it 20 times this year and its never been inside. it does have a metal tongue and i do use grease on the axle.
Since you have 2 sets of pulleys, why not have 2 sets of belts... When you want to do a speed change, you pull a pin on each side so that whichever side spins freely. So for example, the top pulley is on a bearing so it spins freely, but if you engage a pin it locks into the bottom, on the opposite side you pull a pin to unlock the bottom pulley. Since you only need one pin at a time you could just pop it out of one side and into the other, removing your chance of running both gearings at the same time.
Matthias is making me feel better about what I need to do to change speeds on my milling machine. My mill has two belts on it all the time. It's a 3 pulley setup with an idler pulley. To go from high to low range I do have to swap the belts up and down too. I always sing to go up I go down. Because to get higher speeds the belts run in lower positions. All of it is why people just put VFDs on their mills. Because moving belts around is tedious.
Pretty sure Matthias's next video is going to be making something out of metal from scratch.
It really would be cool to see him transition to machinist level stuff. Not many machinists out there with a woodworking background as strong as Matthias', I'd bet he has some very useful insights
Can't get faster without practice
Sacrilege!
(I have no idea what "from scratch" really means. I don't think we can anticipate Matthias buying a mine and refining his own ore…and even purchasing billets, extrusions, sheets, rods of metal alloys brand new seems less likely. But using found materials and cutting and shaping them into useful things. Perhaps "from scratch" could mean "anything you have to square up." A problem with jokes that are predictions is that they can be a bit tricky to define.)
@@johnhawkinson From scratch, commonly used to refer to make something entirely new from individual parts, or from raw stock. Matthias regularly builds entirely new things, rather than just slight modifications.
I approve of your use of materials that are cheaper and easier to work with. What's sufficient, is sufficient.
Exactly.
Imagine a world with more people like Matthias!
That would change the world for the better.
Manufactures would have to start making products that last like they used to.
and really inexpensive on top of that!
I think they would sell only DIY kits 😄 So every client can put make it better for himself without wasting time for takeing things apart.
no more metal things from scratch?
You are a real machinist now! The only thing you still need is a wooden micrometer.
Wooden end mills...
Nothing wrong with using wood to make something from scratch, as long as it’s strong enough for the job. You are definitely in the same category with Pask makes and This Old Tony, with your brilliant ideas. Cheers!
I don't watch much This Old Tony, but Pask Makes is one of my favorite maker channels. Still, I was shocked to hear Matthias say that.
I have been watching your videos for more than 10 years. Thank you very much ! ❤
Your "wrenchsplanation" segment could be a comedy skit. Too good.
There's something super satisfying about seeing a machine used to make parts for the machine itself.
You're a gem Matthias. You inspire me.
He inspires us!
I love this guy’s “hold my beer” approach to machining.
"ruins the look of the machine" slayed me!
I can appreciate the precision of machinists like the ones you mentioned, but I have adhd so I always find the quick and dirty solution and then never look back
Machining doesn't always demand the precision that TH-cam machinists typically go for. Chinese products with massive slop proves you can build things incredibly haphazardly. It just doesn't really sound interesting to watch someone make a worse version of a tool than can be bought for dirt cheap. So TH-cam machinists often go for high precision and visual style rather than a tool which technically works but is otherwise jank. Mattias builds a ton of jank but he does it in a way that directly solves problems and his tools are typically very original, not store bought replicas.
Pretty much every hobbyist machinist has some form of neurodiversity.
I, like you, have ADHD and some of my shop sessions are after my meds have left my body but I still count those sessions as successes assuming I achieved something.
Last night, I made a lapping jig for my little Chinese 7x lathe so I could lap the barely machined undersides of the ways in the centre without using the sadlle. Doing it so the central shear plate I've made to improve rigidity (based on Steve Jordan's video) runs smoothly without binding.
I knocked it up in about an hour, it's janky as hell but it'll do the job.
If I know I'm doing something that requires precision or has to look good though, I'll schedule it so I have a head full of Lisdexamfetamine. 😉
You can tell a real craftsman if he builds his own tools.👍👍👍
Well Matthias, at my age I’ve learned to never say never, especially when you’re two steps (or more) into a metal working machine. The machinist mind set just keeps pulling you in, not that that’s a bad thing. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to your next step in! Lol
First you are an amazing workman with amazing engineering and adaptive engineering skills. You manage to make more out of less almost every time you set out to do something. I could go on and on about your mechanical and engineering skills but you and everyone that cares about you have already realize what I just said. There are and have been so many people that know your abilities and posted about them. I just wanted to add my recognition about what you are able to accomplish in your many fields of work and understanding. THANK YOU SIR!
Matthias, it’s been about 3 years now since your last bandsaw build. We are ready for the 40 inch :)
With the 26", the post is far enough away, kind of a reach for the switch as it is. I might build another one, but leaning towards 18 inch.
@@matthiaswandel I built the 20 inch a few months ago and I’ve been loving it
@@matthiaswandel Have you seen the band-saw that Keith Rucker rebuilt for Jimmy Diresta? At least two sizes bigger than your biggest one. You can't leave such challenge unanswered ;-)
I would like a bandsaw that is two stories and the second floor of the house is actually just the table for the saw
Your videos are so satisfying to watch. I love the way your mind works Matthias. Thank you
I can’t get over how much I like your style. This video did the best job of showing you at your best.
Agreed. Another one was where he wrote a 5 line Python script to calculate all the cog ratios to cut threads on his cheap mini lathe, more accurate that the manufacturers. That was Ultra Matthias
Impressive ease of use upgrades. The improved belt tensioner specifically seems like the kind of thing I know I should do, but leave undone for years.
Great video again! These videos inspired me to build my own wooden bandsaw and Mathias shows many trics to do things without complete set of expensive tools. One of my faforite is this method to turn V-belt pulleys out of plywood by attaching motor to table end and so on. Greetings From Finland! Here in Finlad U can get that nice birch plyvood on almost every store different thicknesses and sizes.
A man after my own heart. I make solutions to problems. And whatever works, works.
Got so many pieces of scrap wood around that are modified in minutes to serve some task. No metal working needed, unless it's required for material strength.
You are correct- making stuff from metal takes forever. 😄😅
Fess up Quinn, if you didn't love the time it takes, you wouldn't do it! 😂 😜
You're one of the more goal-oriented hobbyist TH-cam machinists but we've all seen your love of the process as well as the result 😊 and that's to be commended. ❤
The fact that machining metals takes a bit more time (although with the right, properly powered, and most importantly, rigid enough machine tool, doing the actual machining of softer metals like aluminium and brass isn't a particularly time -lengthy task) is part of the joy for a hobbyist. 😉
In any case, the actual machining is often the least critical bit (although obviously, if you mess it up, you can still scrap your part!😂).
Once you have your design, it'll often be working out the order of operations and the setup for workholding/toolholding that is most critical to success. Then, since machining metal often (not always but often) comes with a requirement for precision, there's all that metrology that will punctuate the process and add time.
The class of joy when Quinn (Blondihacks) gets a pin to make a perfect sliding fit in a hole and it comes out of the hole with a 'pop' sound due to the partial vacuum created is what all hobby machinists seek. 😉
Final thought: having the right machines and tooling and metrology kit will cut down a lot of time, as will getting the order of operations right.
Oh and if you make something in steel (or even aluminium or brass in some use-cases), it will be a lot longer before you have to spend time making it again when it's worn. 😂 😜
This was great! I only found your channel the other day so it was a big suprise when you were in Norwich. I've been down every single alley you went down when i lived there too, always some good finds!
Lol all your homemade gadget tools especially the wingnut wrench reminded me of the keys th guys made in Escape from Pretoria book 😆 You would have fit right in with those guys and shaved months off your sentences 😄💕👍
You should make template for V-belt groove. Another great video from greatest youtuber of all times!
Hadn't thought of that, but with the numbers of V-belt pulleys I made over the years, it would be worthwhile!
Or even better you could try to make copying lathe to make not only v-belt groove template but copy what ever detail you need with little effort. But it's up to you what you do next. Never seen bad video from you 😋
@@matthiaswandel I like your every belt is a template method. When it fits it's good.
@@matthiaswandel You could test your pulleys v-grooves, does belts on plywood pulleys work better or worse than metal ones or does free hand made v-groove is worse than official one 😄
i rebuild all the drawr slides in my new camper cause the ones it came with were shot.
you keep me in great ideas and new ways to look at it
I absolutely love that the system to pull it up is so simple!
And those new improvements are smart. I especially dislike adjusting the speed on my drill.
7:36 "And it just looks bulky" The whole machine looks bulky man. LMAO
I love this style how Matthias puts effort in tools! 😊 he made plenty of wranches for only one tool 😂
The wing nut wrench is brilliant.
I love your channel; been watching for years. I'm a metal guy or a welder guy. I'm amazed at what you do with wood. I'm not a machinist (wish I was) but I make lots of things with metal. If you at least learn some simple welding, you would find it really helpful in making strong items. If you start, you will get hooked. I make an entire trailer out of bed frames people throw out. I made a ramp system for working on cars from scrap metal, swings for my kids, a plow for my tractor, hitches for cars, grills and monkey bars too.
I have a welder, but not a good place to do it. Also, metal is much more expensive than wood
@@matthiaswandel Once you get into it, you will start finding free metal everywhere. I've cut up and welded loads of things in my driveway and garage. I've collected tons of metal over the years and seldom buy anything. I welded some racks to organize it and I just collect it. A cheap $140 plasma cutter really helps to cut up material to store. I cut up filing cabinets for sheet metal. Sometimes on these "free" sites people give metal away. In no time you can build all kinds of things. Facebook marketplace also has people unloading metal scrap free or cheap. Tell some friends you collect metal and it really starts coming in. I have to turn metal away, I have so much.
I've got a cheap drill at work; the belt is just tensioned by a slight spring (there is also a screw to lock it, but I have never used it) , it makes changing speed very quick, but also lets the belt slip if the drill grabs.
I like when your machines get used to make their own upgrades.
Putting some CVT pulleys on a drill would be amazing
El taladro de banco marca Knova de 12 pulgadas tiene sistema CVT, parece funcionar bien.
Awesome! And very concise! The Big Lesson here is: Keep an Open Mind. You can do it! Now Get-r-Done🙂
Absolutely in love
With the Flinston’s Wrench!!
The problem solving is great to watch.
It would probably take all the fun out if it to have a motor that can be speed controlled. I adapted my bandsaw so it can cut steel and wood, with a 3 phase induction motor I bought for a buck from a metal recycler and a variable frequency drive from China for a hundred. It’s worked out really well.
A milling machine for wood is a good idea. Not every shop needs to make metal stuff.
I do both wood and metal. And the issue with the time aspect is the rate at which a volume of material can be converted to chips. It's pretty easy to convert some volume of wood into chips. We can do it rapidly which is why making your stuff from wood moves along so quickly. For metal the conversion rate from solid to chips is a lot less volume per time. And that's where the longer time at the machines comes into the picture. You've likely already seen that directly just with your wood wrenches versus the converted router wrenches.
Yep, exactly the same thought on machining metal. I also watch these channels and they have just convinced me not to get sucked into this hooby. It seemed like a really long time to cut something with the disc, grind/file it to size, weld it, grind it again, paint it. But the cost, time and knowledge required to machine something is way over budget. And you need stock, which is not exactly cheap.
yes, I keep looking at the exhorbitant price for brass stock. The brass itself really can't be that expensive itself, or they wouldn't make plumbing stuff out of it. Wood, on the other hadn grows on trees.
@@matthiaswandel And when it doesn't, it grows on the street curb :)
Metal is a lot more substantial than wood is. It does take me a lot longer to make anything out of metal as opposed to wood though. I have limited tools. I have gotten a lot of scrap metal for free. So I rarely buy stock for projects. That makes the cost a wash.
I like your videos, I am building a milling machine from an old cheap drill press. It must mill steel. I will make some components from wood. It's cheaper. Thanks for the idea's
you may want to put John Heisz on 3d printing you a guard he owes you from the whole band saw debacle... lol
Making something with wood looks faster and easier because you're familiar, but making with metal the things could be smaller and reliable. Nice to see your migration to work with metal.
Working in metal can take a lot longer than working with wood. But that's often down to the machine advantage one possesses over the material. I have seen metal working machines that cut metal like it is soft pine. But not in anyone's home shop.
I used to know a guy who had been probably one of the last guys to go into the job of pattern maker before computers made the whole job obsolete. He told me that his whole job was making stuff out of wood so that it could be cast as metal.
I can't wait to see your wooden DRO!
Always good videos. Thank you Matthias.
You are amazing. thanks for making so many excellent videos
You could use a half nut to quickly adjust the belt tension
The time it takes to make something out of metal is directly correlated to the experience of the machinist. When I started it took forever, but as I got more experience, I understood how to do things intuitively. Now I can visualize something and make it pretty readily. Counterintuitively, CAD is really detrimental to this process as it's far too easy to design unmachinable parts..... BTDT and sold the CNC.
PS. I suspect that YT machinists spend a lot of time doing things "correctly" to show their viewers, which adds to the time.
30 years ago, I was milling something on a birdgeport to make a jig for something, watching the DRO and turning the feed crank until I hit my target. But got absent minded and overshot. Concluded at that point that CNC is the way to go for that sort of thing!
You should try making a CVT style pulley system where you can change the ratio dynamically.
For the guard, why not attach it via magnets? That way it can fit close to the pulley, and whenever you have to change the belt you can just slide it down out of the way real quick.
Have you considered some sort of cam lock for the belt tension? That way you could quickly release the tension, swap the belt, and re-engage it (adjusting slightly as needed), instead of needing to wind the tension adjust all the way out and back in.
Or perhaps some sort of removable stop for the nut to press against instead of directly against the front casing? That way you could remove the stop to release the tension, then push the rod forwards and put it back in to apply it again.
Yes, but the nut to turn was way easier to implement
Yet more food for thought. Thanks Matthias!
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Mr. MW reminds me of one of the famous quotes from Archimedes "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”. The MW version is "Give me a technical challenge and enough time to TINKER, and I will MAKE IT WORK" 🥳🤣
Yep ! if you don't have it ? make it! great video thanks for sharing ECF
Repurpose a speed clamp for the tensioning, maybe? One of the ones which can be reconfigured as a spreader
For a guard, how about just a U shape that attaches to the vertical base plate. You could mount it low enough to be out of the way for belt changes but stick out forward enough to keep your cranium away from the pulley.
Brilliant work, Matthias! Really well done! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
You are a couple servos away from a CNC milling machine. Very cool project, I want to see how far you can take it.
You can use this hybrid wooden metal machine to make your wooden parts out of metal.
Exactly... he's right on course to do wooden foundry patterns.
I inherited a couple of big forstner bits from my dad. 4" dia. or so. I think he used them to do clock faces. I tried them in my drill press, but find that even at their slowest speed, there isn't enough power to drive them. Maybe I can tinker with a wooden replacement pulley for whenever I want to use it.
The larger diameter bit you turn the slower you need to turn it. That's because the outside of the bit is moving faster. A 4" diameter bit is pretty large. 100 RPM would be a reasonable speed to run a bit that big at. That's 104 surface feet per minute. Which is as fast as I'd run in anything but the softest wood. It's also lower RPM than even my milling machine is capable of doing. It only goes down to 120 RPM. But that's close. Close enough I'd give it a shot.
I used to think you were a pretty normal guy, until you showed the wrench collection for your machine, turns out you are as crazy as me!!!
Сумасшедшим быть - не плохо.
Плохо быть заурядным.
55 / 5,000
Если только безумие не приведет к специальным военным операциям
@@matthiaswandel, True that. 🙁
@@matthiaswandel You are better than comments like that.
@@Dukey8668 Perfectly fine to not support war
Making stuff out of wood for now seems fine. It’s just pro typing in a cost saving method for now. Once you start slowing down the mods, then you can focus on redoing whatever out of metal as needed
1:25 Etch-A-Sketch skills
For real. With time, you can do nice chamfers freehand on lathe.
On the topic of the guard, could a simple piece of clear plastic suffice? Even piece of a two-liter standing between your hair and a fast-moving v belt seems like a significant improvement.
I'm looking forward to your making the belts, electrical motor, and electrical cable entirely out of wood.
Nice upgrades!
With all the wooden tools wrenches and tools, I feel like I’m watching the Flintstones ;-)
Just out a vertical bar in front of the belt. This will protect your face in the case the belt snaps or you come to close to the pulley
have you played around with 3d printers? I feel like you would have a lot of uses for one. they are not good for making big, strong parts, but they are perfect for making complicated small parts that you loose for gadgets around the shop/house.
I have no need for weak plastic parts to lose.
Looking forward to the day when you set out to fix a leaking faucet and end up rebuilding the whole house.
Good work 👍
Time to make the first wooden cvt vs the different pulley sizes.
I'm thinking of red necking a shifter for a go cart with a similar concept to the belt tensioner do you have a way of making the belt from one pully to the next without ever touching it possible?
I would love to see a drill press with a CVT (variomatic)
Or you could find a VFD for that motor and that would let you adjust the speed in a pretty large range.
I can pick up an induction motor made 70 years ago and be sure it will work. Same is unlikely to be true for fancy electronics.
But it's more fun to watch him build things out of wood.
@@matthiaswandel maybe VFDs were fancy electronics, but these days they have them ironed out and they are running for decades 24/7 in terrifyingly bad conditions. I recently replaced like 10 Siemens VFDs at work not because the electronics failed, but because the plastic cases themselves started falling apart after 20 years in a hot cabinet.
Если бы момент также увеличивался на валу как понижались обороты, что и бывает в классических редукторах - шестеренчатых и клиноременных. При использовании частотных преобразователей вроде бы нет такой обратной зависимости и нужна константная электроника или продвинутые модели преобразователей с обратной связью.
Maybe make a variable pulleys setup as CVT gearboxes
You can also make cvt pulley
yes, but without a complicated mechanism, those are much slower to adjust than changing belts
With your expertise and knowledge, I don't know why you just don't use a DC variable speed setup or better yet, an AC servomotor... Great video again!
because with my expertise, I just make some pulleys and use the motor I already have. Also, DC variable speed motors need feedback or the speed varies too much under load. It was just much simpler, cheaper and more effective.
Pulleys also give you more low-end torque. We went the variable DC route and ended up using maybe two settings along with changing the belt position anyways. It was nice to be able to run it in reverse when needed though.
@@jeremiahbullfrog9288 single phase AC motors are reversible unless they bury one of the leads inside the motor. Which they do. Crimp connectors be cheap I guess?
@@1pcfred Good to know, I could install a DPDT toggle switch in an el-cheapo unit with a HUGE SIGN not to switch it while it's running lol
@@jeremiahbullfrog9288 nothing happens when you switch the direction switch on most induction motors once they're running. If the motor has a centrifugal switch it disconnects the start winding. So you're switching nothing. Although even if you're toggling the run winding it still won't do anything even then. It has to do with how induction motors run. Once they start up one direction they keep going that direction until they stop. You can only change the direction when it is completely stopped.
Digital readout with cheap calipers mounted to the table?
Loving this machine build
What if there were a toggle lever for the tensioning, so you do fine adjustment with the screw at the back but then you can just release/lock the belt with one flick at the front
that would be better, I just couldn't think of a simple small and reliable mechansim to do that.
The V Belt works on the sides of the groove . So better drill center next time.
Back in the fifties and early sixties there was a wooden car called the King Miget. Except for the engine, chassis, wheels and headlight buckets the whole car was made of wood. My father dashed my pleasant day dreams by saying, 'It won't work. The wood won't hold up to the vibration.' That was over sixty years ago. As you see, that information has held up. The wood won't hold up. I have discovered that wood does hold up pretty well in gun stocks. And furniture.
Keep up the great work young man!
what i thought when i built my wood yard trailer 8 years ago out of scrap wood and 5 bucks worth of screws. admit i had to replace broke axle once. probably used it 20 times this year and its never been inside. it does have a metal tongue and i do use grease on the axle.
So is blue for tools and green for shrouds?
I wasn't going to paint the guard. But all my wrenches that go with this machine are now either painted blue or blue tape wrapped around them
thanks
Looking forward to that forehead video, maybe the guard can be closer but with an easy release/reinstall feature
You know what would be perfect for that belt tensioning function? An over-center mechanism.
Always gr8 content
Since you have 2 sets of pulleys, why not have 2 sets of belts...
When you want to do a speed change, you pull a pin on each side so that whichever side spins freely.
So for example, the top pulley is on a bearing so it spins freely, but if you engage a pin it locks into the bottom, on the opposite side you pull a pin to unlock the bottom pulley. Since you only need one pin at a time you could just pop it out of one side and into the other, removing your chance of running both gearings at the same time.
Matthias is making me feel better about what I need to do to change speeds on my milling machine. My mill has two belts on it all the time. It's a 3 pulley setup with an idler pulley. To go from high to low range I do have to swap the belts up and down too. I always sing to go up I go down. Because to get higher speeds the belts run in lower positions. All of it is why people just put VFDs on their mills. Because moving belts around is tedious.
CEE Australia is also another good machining channel
What about setting variable speed for the motor? You can even have presets so you don't have to change belts, gears etc.
Requires expensive electronics
how many shims and spacers could've been spared if you had that precision machine earlier!
Hold on now, don't get ahead of yourself. The machine is not what you would call precision, just yet. It is very impressive so far.
What about an adjustable cvt type pulley system?
Ahh, too bad. I was looking forward to meeting Machinist Wandel.
You could change those ropes for wooden gears
Try a CVT style pulleybset