Nice addition. Great call on adding a second emergency stop. That CNC Router I built I put one on each corner. I have had to use it once and was glad it was there. Looking forward to see what real world items you end up making.
nice, thanks for the tip on the Titans course. I live near the Langmuir Texas location. I really like the company. I am thinking of getting back into the workforce from my home business now that the kids are older and would love to work for them.
Nice video, keep them coming. I've always wondered how the MR-1 does on stainless steel. Would you be able to cut one of the smaller parts on stainless steel? Also, provide your thoughts on how it performed, compared to the same aluminum part? Thank you .
Great intro to the MR-1. That's just what I needed to see and I'm impressed with the results, especially the last project you completed in the Titans series. I see you have a follow-up video that I'm gonna watch next (I went ahead and subscribed to your channel, too), but before I go I want to ask what went wrong when you broke the carbide bit on the first hole of a job. Can you elaborate to help this noob, any others who see this?
I’m not sure I have a definite answer. On this project the hole was drilled and the diameter was very close to the OD on the mill. The path recommended by the Titan training where they used a Tormach was to bring the endmill directly into the hole full depth and then begin a radial cut opening the hole to the desired diameter. It is possible that the CAM in Tormach is different than the MR-1 and that the start of the cutting is slow and only after it makes a loop does it get to full cut speed (hard to tell from their video). In the MR-1 however the cut speed is immediate and was too much for the small mill. I’ve been looking through the CAM menus and there are settings that let you slow the cutting during the initial move but my actual remedy is to not do a full depth plunge but only as deep as Langmuir recommends in their cut charts. Thx for subscribing.
So I have a question. In general smaller milling machines are not so precise/stable because of low mass, causing resonant frequency / chatter within the parts. have you encountered chatter on a regular basis? I'm still deciding to buy an MR-1 or put in a little extra money to buy a used CNC on the heavier side. But the form factor of the MR1 is rather appealing.
Sorry for the delayed response. To be totally honest my use of the MR-1 has been minimal. Mother in law in hospice has consumed my time. It’s been a difficult 6 months and I now have great respect and admiration of hospice nurses. Anyway while doing the relatively few parts so far on the mill I have not experienced significant chatter but it has been 95% aluminum material. I’d recommend getting on the Langmuir MR-1 forum with that question as there are folks running the crap out of these in all kinds of materials and I know they would happily chime in.
Thx John but I've read pretty much all your posts and replies to questions on the Langmuir forum and YOU are the one that should be doing these videos!!! 😜
Titan videos had the tool full depth in many of the pocket tool paths whereas the MR-1 speeds and feeds chart recommended a limit on tool depth so I simply changed the depth and used multiple passes
I see lots of folks when they get their machine built machining shapes specifically to verify dimensional accuracy. Got to admit I havent done that yet but your question made me want to put it on my to-do list. I'll report findings when I do...thx
Beautiful work! I appreciate the video. Youve obviously done some machining in your background. Did you come in with any CAD/CAM experience? Looking forward to any more videos on MR-1 or Fusion. You have plans to make more - or was this a one off?
Thank you the kind words Terry. I’m a retired Mech Engineer and have always leaned more toward application than theory so started hobby machining some time ago. First attempt at CAD/CAM was when I bought a CNC plasma table but before the MR-1 my lathe and mill were manual. I’m still learning on the CAM side and have yet to get a “real” job for the mill but I think it will come soon. I do want to make more videos and hope to get another one out soon Are you a machinist?
Started out Machining. Never became that good, but started a side business with wife in our basement. It grew enough to allow us to retire a few years ago. The MR-1 looks enticing...
@@terryk3118 sure wish I had the years of machining knowledge that folks like you have. Our business is my wife and I also. She does stained and fused glass art…I’m trying to get her to do videos but she hasn’t accepted the challenge yet! 🤓. I enjoy having her in the shop with me and seeing the things she creates. She uses a small water jet to cut some of the items so I do the CAD/CAM for her.
Keep encouraging her. Those would be great videos to watch as I have zero artistic talent. Also looking forward to seeing more of your experiences on the MR-1. Maybe how you work together on the plasma table.
They were for me as I am a newbie for 3 axis CAM. The stock was pretty cheap and all the items used the same 1”x2” rectangular aluminum cut at different lengths depending on the exercise. The part features across the 10 exercises were quite diverse so I think “real jobs” will have similar features and I’ll know how to machine them…we will see! Even the CAD part was useful as I learned some fusion techniques I haven’t used before. The one thing is that they didn’t do the side 2 OP and for some like 10M which had a slope I struggled to come up with a tool path strategy. Even though the titan parts are not used for anything “real”, I think if a customer is asking for some CNC milled parts and wants to see some examples of what I have made the items will give me some things to show.
@@CustomCreations3 are you using fusion or mastercam? I plan on buying a mr1 later this year. I’ve been doing cad and 3d printing for about 3 years. I bought a cheap 3018 cnc to help me learn the cam side while also studying one of Peter Smid’s books. I’m a truck driver by trade and trying to juggle work , home and educating myself is a challenge. I’m hoping to get out of the truck eventually.
I’m using fusion but the titan training does have mastercam tutorials for all the parts as well also solid works. Sounds like you have built up the cam experience in the 3D printing and 3018 router so the titan training may not be as useful to you. I spend lots of time on TH-cam especially at NYC CNC’s website as they have great CAM tutorials. This country runs on items delivered via truck…you folks are critical to the economy but if you are long haul the time away from home and family has to be tough. Even local truckers got a tough job!
Please continue making more videos! I’ve been watching everything I can on the mr1
Nice addition. Great call on adding a second emergency stop. That CNC Router I built I put one on each corner. I have had to use it once and was glad it was there. Looking forward to see what real world items you end up making.
Hey Steven...great to hear from you. You getting any work out of that CNC router these days?
Not really. Got to clean out the garage and keep it cleaned. Or get busy building the 50x150 shop ;)
@@CustomCreations3
Wow awesome video keep them coming!
nice, thanks for the tip on the Titans course. I live near the Langmuir Texas location. I really like the company. I am thinking of getting back into the workforce from my home business now that the kids are older and would love to work for them.
Hope you do go to work fro Langmuir...I'll have a contact when I need help! :)
You have done an fantastic job managing the cables given how they designed their cables to hang above the gantry.
🤓 Thanks for the compliment still a newbie at the CNC mill but I can at least arrange cables
May your endmills never break. Good luck and have fun.
That would be a divine miracle in my case :)
Nice video, keep them coming. I've always wondered how the MR-1 does on stainless steel. Would you be able to cut one of the smaller parts on stainless steel? Also, provide your thoughts on how it performed, compared to the same aluminum part? Thank you .
just checked , now if you want fully assembled machine it's gonna cost you extra $2495 , think it was just $1000 not so long ago...
WOW! I did get the assembly for $1000 deal...would probably have chosen the self-build option if it was $2495!!!!
yes, it was 995 for the first yr or so.
Great intro to the MR-1. That's just what I needed to see and I'm impressed with the results, especially the last project you completed in the Titans series. I see you have a follow-up video that I'm gonna watch next (I went ahead and subscribed to your channel, too), but before I go I want to ask what went wrong when you broke the carbide bit on the first hole of a job. Can you elaborate to help this noob, any others who see this?
I’m not sure I have a definite answer. On this project the hole was drilled and the diameter was very close to the OD on the mill. The path recommended by the Titan training where they used a Tormach was to bring the endmill directly into the hole full depth and then begin a radial cut opening the hole to the desired diameter. It is possible that the CAM in Tormach is different than the MR-1 and that the start of the cutting is slow and only after it makes a loop does it get to full cut speed (hard to tell from their video). In the MR-1 however the cut speed is immediate and was too much for the small mill. I’ve been looking through the CAM menus and there are settings that let you slow the cutting during the initial move but my actual remedy is to not do a full depth plunge but only as deep as Langmuir recommends in their cut charts. Thx for subscribing.
So I have a question. In general smaller milling machines are not so precise/stable because of low mass, causing resonant frequency / chatter within the parts. have you encountered chatter on a regular basis? I'm still deciding to buy an MR-1 or put in a little extra money to buy a used CNC on the heavier side. But the form factor of the MR1 is rather appealing.
Sorry for the delayed response. To be totally honest my use of the MR-1 has been minimal. Mother in law in hospice has consumed my time. It’s been a difficult 6 months and I now have great respect and admiration of hospice nurses. Anyway while doing the relatively few parts so far on the mill I have not experienced significant chatter but it has been 95% aluminum material. I’d recommend getting on the Langmuir MR-1 forum with that question as there are folks running the crap out of these in all kinds of materials and I know they would happily chime in.
Great video. Keep them coming.
Thx John but I've read pretty much all your posts and replies to questions on the Langmuir forum and YOU are the one that should be doing these videos!!! 😜
@@CustomCreations3 You are a born teacher my friend. I truly love your videos. My Crossfire pro has your D&N has your drag chain system.
Beginning to feel my head swell from those kind of compliments 😈🤓
Nice share. What the hell is my dad doing with all of his time.
Once you use a thread mill you will never consider a tap again.
Yea…pucker factor still hits me sending a small threadmill into the hole for the first time…hope that gets better with experience!
You said you had to modify the programs to do the titans of cnc academy? Was there over travel in the x or y axis?
Titan videos had the tool full depth in many of the pocket tool paths whereas the MR-1 speeds and feeds chart recommended a limit on tool depth so I simply changed the depth and used multiple passes
Congrats on the new machine. How are the part dimensions coming out?
I see lots of folks when they get their machine built machining shapes specifically to verify dimensional accuracy. Got to admit I havent done that yet but your question made me want to put it on my to-do list. I'll report findings when I do...thx
Beautiful work! I appreciate the video. Youve obviously done some machining in your background. Did you come in with any CAD/CAM experience? Looking forward to any more videos on MR-1 or Fusion. You have plans to make more - or was this a one off?
Thank you the kind words Terry. I’m a retired Mech Engineer and have always leaned more toward application than theory so started hobby machining some time ago. First attempt at CAD/CAM was when I bought a CNC plasma table but before the MR-1 my lathe and mill were manual. I’m still learning on the CAM side and have yet to get a “real” job for the mill but I think it will come soon. I do want to make more videos and hope to get another one out soon
Are you a machinist?
Started out Machining. Never became that good, but started a side business with wife in our basement. It grew enough to allow us to retire a few years ago. The MR-1 looks enticing...
@@terryk3118 sure wish I had the years of machining knowledge that folks like you have. Our business is my wife and I also. She does stained and fused glass art…I’m trying to get her to do videos but she hasn’t accepted the challenge yet! 🤓. I enjoy having her in the shop with me and seeing the things she creates. She uses a small water jet to cut some of the items so I do the CAD/CAM for her.
Keep encouraging her. Those would be great videos to watch as I have zero artistic talent. Also looking forward to seeing more of your experiences on the MR-1. Maybe how you work together on the plasma table.
The things that titan have you make, do you think they’re worth making ?, since you or anyone can’t do anything with them?
They were for me as I am a newbie for 3 axis CAM. The stock was pretty cheap and all the items used the same 1”x2” rectangular aluminum cut at different lengths depending on the exercise. The part features across the 10 exercises were quite diverse so I think “real jobs” will have similar features and I’ll know how to machine them…we will see!
Even the CAD part was useful as I learned some fusion techniques I haven’t used before. The one thing is that they didn’t do the side 2 OP and for some like 10M which had a slope I struggled to come up with a tool path strategy.
Even though the titan parts are not used for anything “real”, I think if a customer is asking for some CNC milled parts and wants to see some examples of what I have made the items will give me some things to show.
@@CustomCreations3 are you using fusion or mastercam? I plan on buying a mr1 later this year. I’ve been doing cad and 3d printing for about 3 years. I bought a cheap 3018 cnc to help me learn the cam side while also studying one of Peter Smid’s books. I’m a truck driver by trade and trying to juggle work , home and educating myself is a challenge. I’m hoping to get out of the truck eventually.
I’m using fusion but the titan training does have mastercam tutorials for all the parts as well also solid works. Sounds like you have built up the cam experience in the 3D printing and 3018 router so the titan training may not be as useful to you. I spend lots of time on TH-cam especially at NYC CNC’s website as they have great CAM tutorials.
This country runs on items delivered via truck…you folks are critical to the economy but if you are long haul the time away from home and family has to be tough. Even local truckers got a tough job!