Shop Video: The Vee-Twin AutoCocker!
Added 2022-04-02 23:01:30 +0000 UTCFinally managed to put a video together that might actually worth half a squat.
Let me know what'cha think!
Doc.
Comments
Didn't at all take it as a dis. It's a legit frustration on MY part- it took me years to finally manage to get decent machines (oddly enough, making parts for paintball guns and drawing furry webcomics aren't exactly the stuff of Fortune 500 :) and now I've had them on the floor for over six months (!) and have barely used the one and haven't even touched the other.
Doc Nickel
2022-04-03 18:40:23 +0000 UTCNot dissing you in any way. Different shops and different products mean different methods. I’m working in an environment of 35+ CNC spindles and one lone Bridgeport for really odd jobs. I have been programmed, so to speak, to view all machined parts as: ‘How can we make a bunch of these as fast as possible with low to middle skilled operators.’
William Foley
2022-04-03 08:43:21 +0000 UTCYou're screaming?!? I have two new-to-me CNCs that I've had for over six months now, and haven't had a chance to properly use yet! I finally did a short run of parts (like, *thirty*) yesterday on the lathe, but I haven't even powered up the mill since, like, December.
Doc Nickel
2022-04-03 07:11:03 +0000 UTCFor me, not necessarily "economically", but yes, there's a recycling place only a few miles away, and they take "turnings and borings". I don't recall what I get per pound, it's not much, really, but at least it's being recycled and not dumped in the landfill.
Doc Nickel
2022-04-03 07:08:21 +0000 UTCWhen I was the clean-up boy in the Chemistry/Geology machine shop back in college (a loooonnnnng time ago!) I would sweep up all the steel shavings and put them in the trash barrel. All the brass shavings I would carefully sweep up and put in a recycling barrel because brass was expensive. Then there was the piece of machining that was for an experiment that went down the MoHole. Every time the machinist made a cut, he would turn off the lathe and pick up the shaving with tweezers and put it in a separate box. Machining 18c. gold is special!
Walter W Matera
2022-04-03 05:41:02 +0000 UTCI love old school manual machining but the CNC programmer in me is screaming.
William Foley
2022-04-03 05:04:55 +0000 UTCYes. Work at a shop that makes aerospace parts. Scrap recovery is part of the bidding process and a significant part of the revenue stream.
William Foley
2022-04-03 05:02:23 +0000 UTCOut of ignorant curiosity, is there any economically justifiable way to recycle all those shavings?
2022-04-03 01:58:22 +0000 UTCkeep 'em coming!
John Arpin
2022-04-03 00:56:56 +0000 UTCPretty neat!
2022-04-02 23:20:19 +0000 UTCAlready watched it and thought it was pretty cool. I can’t wait to see part 2!
Jason Hopkins
2022-04-02 23:02:47 +0000 UTC
