@@theevolutionofthebear3093if you have ever played with programming, of an arduino, or playing with marlin (the primary software that controls the 4 axis of a 3d printer, it really dumbs a lot of the process..,
I agree with the op. Some people are on different levels of smart. Obviously it took meir More than a computer. Someone had to program that computer to make these machines be the end result and then the programming of the end result someone has to think of what all info they need the machine to do and how to do it. No matter what the ppl are genius level
CNC machines have been around a long time. They only get better with each generation. My guess is that the engineers that build them have been around for some time and have accumulated a great wealth of knowledge that they can apply to not only building CNC machines, but also improving every generation of machine.
Awesome to see your programme, running on your machine, on stock you sourced to make something you designed. Big things will come from this moment. Best of luck Steve.
Most drafting software has a CAM output for tool paths. Rarely do the operators actually write code. Mostly they have to know how just to review and double check it.
Cad cam does all the work ,they reverse engineer the heads ,put in a file then you can machine & $250,000 later you have a head total cost from buying a machine computer etc
Having 3D modeled many things in my years I've always enjoyed seeing my creations come to life. I could stand by a machine for hours watching my designs come to fruition. These new machines are fn amazing. Nice work guys.
Sir Steve. Have you gave it a Thought of taking a 1/16 ball endmill and cut a groove in all the Gaskets sealed areas? Many years ago we did this to all Our Marina ship Valves to keep repairs down on Big Ships.
I'm with ya Steve. I built my own CNC for woodwork and it can thread mill and that has to be the most fascinating thing to see done. I also get such anxiety when I have my Rapids move the tool toward the workpiece with any speed at all. I can't imagine seeing a machine of your size moving so fast. The toolpaths used for the runners gotta be awesome to work out since you come at it from both sides.
It just amazes me me how much thought goes into this and the program tat it took to make it. To produce ideal copies one after another. Cost a lot. But the big picture. It’s worth it. Keep up the great videos.
Well, yes and no. You can alter the clocking engagement of the threaded hole. But you would also have to have the spark plug itself consistently clocked when it is made. I'm not sure if they are. I'd bet not.
I don't do machine work, but I do fab metal, and can really appreciate what it takes to make something from nothing. Especially something so complex, that takes so many different forces.
It's one of the coolest videos I've ever seen. Wish the finished product had been the last shot. Im truly happy for you and yours for being able to do such a thing with your own machines. You are elite. Thanks for the content. Amazing machinery. One love all
That machine is amazing. Pretty awesome how it cuts threads, crazy how that cutting bit can handle the compound forces on it and not break. All that movement and all those pieces making ten thousandths of accuracy.
Thank you, Steve. I love watching these videos carving a beautiful aluminum cylinder head or really any engine component basically out of a raw block of aluminum? Please keep them coming.
So stoked for the progression of your Operation’s whilst increasing your machining capabilities & the great educational value you & your Crew provide “Us” the Viewer…! Top Job Jim Bob….👍
Steve,Kyle,and Dewey, y'all rock! Dewey's so funny getting in between y'all to get pet. He knows what's up. You explaining the way that machine cuts the treads was pretty funny, too. Peace 😂❤
My first job in a machine shop we used to make cylinder heads for 1929 Rolls-Royce silver ghost, big long old six cylinder amongst all the other parts, they couldn’t buy or fix
That was amazing, and so is the talent you and your Men have. Business wise, how many heads and blocks would you have to produce to break even on the machinery, materials and labor costs, not counting the electricity bill of course?
Thread Milling See also rigid tapping where a regular tap is used, driven down at the proper rate, spindle slows down / stops at a programmed distance AND down freed rate is slowed / stopped at the proper time then spindle reverses direction and head runs upward.
Must feel good to finally be in business. FOR YOUR SELF this kind of machining is just as cool as it gets Steve way above my carpenter brain glad to see it all you now no outside people to slow down or take profits from you
This was one of the coolest videos I've ever seen. It crazy how you make that out of a single block of aluminum. How heavy are the rough blocks of aluminum, and what does the head weigh after you're finished?
Love the video. Fascinating how the machine works. This is so far beyond what I was doing in a machine shop thirty years ago. Too old for the music had to mute it.
Love to see what you’re doing to improve the quality of your product, QC is very important when you put your name on your product. Just a thought you start with a piece of billet, what if you were to start with a piece of aluminum that has been hydraulically cast with the same base material as the billet? Very tight grain and smooth finish less machining time.
With regards to threading the sparkplug holes in particular, unless the spindle is very torque-limited, you should look into thread-forming taps instead of thread milling. - It leaves the best finished thread and strongest thread you can achieve (without coil-inserts), and since it's shaping the thread (like roll-formed threads on bolts and studs) instead of cutting them, the grain-structure is "massaged" into shape, no material removed. - And it's a hell of a lot faster, few seconds per hole tops.
At the 10:04 mark, the spin around of the first i and e port the look inside the intake port looks like a majestic cathedral cavern of liquid metal passages. You can see the magic horses playground. Billy bad to the bone XML ... 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁
Threadmills are awesome. Another advantage not mentioned... even though they are far more expensive than a tap, they're still probably less expensive than a tap when they break while threading your workpiece. (ie, they simply fall through rather than now trying to figure out how to remove a broken tap from a block of aluminium.)
What is the total machine time from start to finish on one of these heads? and how many fixture/machine changes? I love this stuff, just wish I had the opportunity to do stuff like this
That was a very satisfying way to spend 20 or so minutes this Friday Evening. Watching that Go-Zillion Dollar machine on time lapse creating Gear-head art. Great production!! I wonder... if You wonder... if Your Centroid Machine thinks about You. 🤠
Steve, I always wanted to know why the billet doesn't come partially shaped to what is being made. Like an extra 1/4 inch in each measurement. Id imagine it would save a bit of time and wear on the machines.
How many tools are in that centroid? There must be a bunch of them to do everything it's doing and that is crazy how it cuts the threads for the plugs. I would of never thought it was done that way I thought a tap was drilled into the hole cutting the threads that way. That's a cool set up you got there man. So how long does it take to do a complete head start to finish?
Curious how fast you run some of those cutters? Might be able to cut some machine time out to produce more. We run 2" Seco mills at 15000rpm .250 axial and over 480ipm in our shop with excellent finishes. I've been in trade over 20yrs. Love what you guys do! Ever have any questions I'd be more than happy to help.
My head hurts thinking about how smart whoever made those machines and programmed them are! Amazing!!
It was actually figured out by a computer with input to what needed to be done and the end product.
@@rayc.1396 Ya.....its a little more complicated than that.
@@theevolutionofthebear3093if you have ever played with programming, of an arduino, or playing with marlin (the primary software that controls the 4 axis of a 3d printer, it really dumbs a lot of the process..,
I agree with the op. Some people are on different levels of smart. Obviously it took meir
More than a computer. Someone had to program that computer to make these machines be the end result and then the programming of the end result someone has to think of what all info they need the machine to do and how to do it. No matter what the ppl are genius level
CNC machines have been around a long time. They only get better with each generation. My guess is that the engineers that build them have been around for some time and have accumulated a great wealth of knowledge that they can apply to not only building CNC machines, but also improving every generation of machine.
Seeing Steve trying to explain a single point thread mill is great!
Awesome to see your programme, running on your machine, on stock you sourced to make something you designed. Big things will come from this moment. Best of luck Steve.
12:53 The Centroid is head banging to the music.
Lol
Dewey moves like a lazy Walmart shopper; not sure where he headed or why.
We call that a Liability. 😂
I was thinkin’ Dewey’s got the floor supervisor attitude, nailed…
Hi Dewey❤
Sign of a good supervisor 👏 😅
He's shop foreman after all. Don't need to be accountable. Especially when that handsome 😊 Cheers from New Zealand
Hats off to the person who sat there and wrote all those lines of code in order to produce such a beautiful peace of art!
MasterCam I bet
Most drafting software has a CAM output for tool paths.
Rarely do the operators actually write code. Mostly they have to know how just to review and double check it.
Someone had to right the code f for Mastercam or whatever software. So it's still 1000s of lines of code.
Cad cam does all the work ,they reverse engineer the heads ,put in a file then you can machine & $250,000 later you have a head total cost from buying a machine computer etc
Having 3D modeled many things in my years I've always enjoyed seeing my creations come to life. I could stand by a machine for hours watching my designs come to fruition. These new machines are fn amazing. Nice work guys.
Sir Steve. Have you gave it a Thought of taking a 1/16 ball endmill and cut a groove in all the Gaskets sealed areas? Many years ago we did this to all Our Marina ship Valves to keep repairs down on Big Ships.
Watching the CNC and the SOUND from it making Heads and Blocks is perfect. No music needed. Could listen to it all day
I'm with ya Steve. I built my own CNC for woodwork and it can thread mill and that has to be the most fascinating thing to see done. I also get such anxiety when I have my Rapids move the tool toward the workpiece with any speed at all. I can't imagine seeing a machine of your size moving so fast. The toolpaths used for the runners gotta be awesome to work out since you come at it from both sides.
It just amazes me me how much thought goes into this and the program tat it took to make it. To produce ideal copies one after another. Cost a lot. But the big picture. It’s worth it. Keep up the great videos.
Love these videos steve. There so satisfying to watch something go from a solid block to a full blown working masterpiece
So cool to watch. That thread mill is very impressive!
Man that's about the sweetest thing I've ever seen as I said many times on here if I ever win the lottery. Great works dude.
The oscillating thread mill, is amazing! Beautiful, cylinder head!
That was an amazing video Steve, I didn't realize the amount of machining that went into making a billet head, thanks for sharing.
Steve, you could clock spark plug alignment for what you like right into the head, making each hole identical threads. . That symmetry is awesome
Well, yes and no. You can alter the clocking engagement of the threaded hole. But you would also have to have the spark plug itself consistently clocked when it is made. I'm not sure if they are. I'd bet not.
No don't do that... makes it impossible to index a set of spark plugs
I don't do machine work, but I do fab metal, and can really appreciate what it takes to make something from nothing. Especially something so complex, that takes so many different forces.
It's one of the coolest videos I've ever seen. Wish the finished product had been the last shot. Im truly happy for you and yours for being able to do such a thing with your own machines. You are elite. Thanks for the content. Amazing machinery. One love all
Got to love Dewey!❤ Doggy massage needed😊
Beautiful moment watching machine do its technical magic and hearing Nickleback!🎉😂
Amazing. Thanks for giving us a look at something that is otherwise impossible for the regular joker to see.
That machine is amazing. Pretty awesome how it cuts threads, crazy how that cutting bit can handle the compound forces on it and not break. All that movement and all those pieces making ten thousandths of accuracy.
Loved the realization moment 😂. Been there before... the more you try to explain the worse it gets. Men's minds at its best!!!
Absolutely incredible that people can write some numbers to make that happen. ❤
Thank you, Steve. I love watching these videos carving a beautiful aluminum cylinder head or really any engine component basically out of a raw block of aluminum? Please keep them coming.
That Machining is Wild ! Blows my Mind ! I could watch this All Day
So stoked for the progression of your Operation’s whilst increasing your machining capabilities & the great educational value you & your Crew provide “Us” the Viewer…!
Top Job Jim Bob….👍
I pretty much got motion sickness watching this but man am I impressed with this video.
Watching it go from block to that is just awesome.
Thank you
Dewey, ... bird-doggin' the help.
Dewey- Shop Manager is always in charge!
Wow, what an amazing piece of high tech equipement that can give an engine builder a leading edge in the racing industry.
i guess it can clock the threads so all the spark plugs are oriented and pointed the same direction too very cool
This just leaves me speechless with my mind spinning.
Steve,Kyle,and Dewey, y'all rock! Dewey's so funny getting in between y'all to get pet. He knows what's up. You explaining the way that machine cuts the treads was pretty funny, too. Peace 😂❤
Aluminum is beautiful when done right love it
Now that was frickin insane. Man technology is incredible. Awesome video Steve!
My first job in a machine shop we used to make cylinder heads for 1929 Rolls-Royce silver ghost, big long old six cylinder amongst all the other parts, they couldn’t buy or fix
Nice! I bet you got some cool stories.
@@ruger8412 yeah thats one of them, makes him over a hundred years old.
Not necessarily @@aeroflopper , possibly loxtimb might have been working on a 1929 in 1999
@@aeroflopper I guess you missed the part about " amongst all the other parts, they couldn’t buy or fix "
That is way cool.Cast Iron?
Absolutely mesmerizing!!!
That was amazing, and so is the talent you and your Men have. Business wise, how many heads and blocks would you have to produce to break even on the machinery, materials and labor costs, not counting the electricity bill of course?
The finished product looks like a piece of art!
That's pretty awesome Steve!!! And your bird's and the bees demo went well I thought! LMAO 😂 🤣😂🤣
Congratulations on the new machine😊😊
Nate’s edits are on point. 17:33
Those billet heads are a thing of beauty 😊😊
Thread Milling
See also rigid tapping where a regular tap is used, driven down at the proper rate, spindle slows down / stops at a programmed distance AND down freed rate is slowed / stopped at the proper time then spindle reverses direction and head runs upward.
You build some amazingly awesome stuff. I wish I knew more about the machine side of things because I would love to come work for you and your company
I remember watching Steve’s videos 12 years ago…
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NOW LOOK AT STEVE GO !!!!!
You could get one of those spinning viewport things ships use for rough storms so we can see past the coolant. Very cool machine
Must feel good to finally be in business.
FOR YOUR SELF this kind of machining is just as cool as it gets Steve way above my carpenter brain glad to see it all you now no outside people to slow down or take profits from you
IT IS THE ANGLE OF DANGLE ,THAT WHAT STEVE SAID
Kick ass background music! Very interesting content!👍👍👍👍👍
Yeah it is great. What song is that? It sounds familiar but it's it created for him?
Not sure if all the music is from them, but the song called never return is from a band called Carvings.
@@777nezzythank you! Love the song, been trying to find out who it is!
No worries mate, I love it too. It rocks.
I ported heads for years, seeing that multi axis porting sequence is wild, saving a lot of people from carpeltunnel for sure.
that was so satisfying to watch the Machine do it's thing, compared to a machine shop 30 year's ago.
Music and machines, that was awesome. Crazy cool!
That was pretty cool! Great video. Enjoyed watching ✌️ 😎
That is so awesome watching the machine do its thing. Can't wait to see the new big machine make a block. =]
love the music
This was one of the coolest videos I've ever seen. It crazy how you make that out of a single block of aluminum. How heavy are the rough blocks of aluminum, and what does the head weigh after you're finished?
I could watch this all day long now we need to see an engine block made please
That's some off the coolest stuff I've seen yet I can't wait to see you make your own block on the bigger machine
Love the video. Fascinating how the machine works. This is so far beyond what I was doing in a machine shop thirty years ago. Too old for the music had to mute it.
same here, guess that's a sign of old age at 81
It would be neat to see a running clock in the corner of a video like this to see how much time these processes take.
Good idea
I really like vids like this Steve!! I love to see the new machines at work!! I so miss doing machine work. Thank you:)
Love to see what you’re doing to improve the quality of your product, QC is very important when you put your name on your product. Just a thought you start with a piece of billet, what if you were to start with a piece of aluminum that has been hydraulically cast with the same base material as the billet? Very tight grain and smooth finish less machining time.
What the master Brock does with a CNC is amazing. I have watched the big machine and what he has did making that SMX block. World Domination FTW
With regards to threading the sparkplug holes in particular, unless the spindle is very torque-limited, you should look into thread-forming taps instead of thread milling.
- It leaves the best finished thread and strongest thread you can achieve (without coil-inserts), and since it's shaping the thread (like roll-formed threads on bolts and studs) instead of cutting them, the grain-structure is "massaged" into shape, no material removed.
- And it's a hell of a lot faster, few seconds per hole tops.
Hi Steve I have a wonderful idea 💡 put a car windscreen wiper on the inside window of your CNC machine with bars Bugs squirts a wiper solution ❤
Man, that is impressive! The programmer is a master mind!
If you have not seen a multi-axis CNC work in person it is a real treat.
20:00 "roll form" your spark plug and head stud threads.
Single point treadmilling is a waste of time if you don't need to, and it's not as strong of a thread as rolling. And rolling is 50x faster lol.
love it when Steve nerds out
Been loving your content ❤
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Looks like a piece of jewelry or a beautiful piece of art !
OMG! Video of the week!!!!
Very cool process and end result! Dewey and I were wondering how many different tool/bits does it use to make a head from a solid block of billet?
At the 10:04 mark, the spin around of the first i and e port the look inside the intake port looks like a majestic cathedral cavern of liquid metal passages. You can see the magic horses playground. Billy bad to the bone XML ... 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁
can wait to see the first one out of the assembly line and on the dyno :)
This was awesome thanks for sharing
The sound track on thos video I bad ass. Love the content and music. Keep it up brother
Threadmills are awesome. Another advantage not mentioned... even though they are far more expensive than a tap, they're still probably less expensive than a tap when they break while threading your workpiece. (ie, they simply fall through rather than now trying to figure out how to remove a broken tap from a block of aluminium.)
I had a part shoot out of my old HAAS VF2 back in the day. Busted right through the plexiglass. Stay safe boys.
What is the total machine time from start to finish on one of these heads? and how many fixture/machine changes? I love this stuff, just wish I had the opportunity to do stuff like this
great music!! and throW in some DEWWY DOG...
Interesting process Steve
WOW! Thanks for sharing, that machine is a beast. Question: what is the total machine time for a single head end to end?
That was a very satisfying way to spend 20 or so minutes this Friday Evening. Watching that Go-Zillion Dollar machine on time lapse creating Gear-head art. Great production!! I wonder... if You wonder... if Your Centroid Machine thinks about You. 🤠
Steve, I always wanted to know why the billet doesn't come partially shaped to what is being made. Like an extra 1/4 inch in each measurement. Id imagine it would save a bit of time and wear on the machines.
That would just make it a cast and not even close to being a billet head.
The billet would have to be machined to those measurements anyway and would cost way more
That brings back memories
It's very cool to watch. How long does it take from start to finish to machine that head?
1,461 👍's up Steve Morris thank you for sharing 🤗
9:44 is there some animation or in depth image that describes how this process achieve this curved duct?
Honestly this is amazing.
Whats cool withe the threads you can control where the starting threads and where the electrode is positioned
Love these videos,amazing what those machines can do…curious how much time does it take to make each head .🇺🇸😎
CAD/CAM to CNC is amazing technology making so much possible.
How many tools are in that centroid? There must be a bunch of them to do everything it's doing and that is crazy how it cuts the threads for the plugs. I would of never thought it was done that way I thought a tap was drilled into the hole cutting the threads that way. That's a cool set up you got there man. So how long does it take to do a complete head start to finish?
Curious how fast you run some of those cutters? Might be able to cut some machine time out to produce more. We run 2" Seco mills at 15000rpm .250 axial and over 480ipm in our shop with excellent finishes. I've been in trade over 20yrs. Love what you guys do! Ever have any questions I'd be more than happy to help.
one of the coolest CNC videos on YT
Amazing machine. No manual programming on that one! Can only guess at how many lines of code
its awesome to see that cutter head doing some headbanging sped up to the music lol