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A Quick Test Video!
🕑 Added 2018-12-25 20:55:27 +0000 UTCFor those that have been following the goings-on over on the Tinker's Guild, I recently finally got my CNC lathe conversion running, and figured out how to set it just enough to run a test program- in this case, it's cutting a pawn chesspiece.
For those that haven't been following the guild, or are here more for the comic than the machine shop, I modified one of my machine tools to work automatically, with a computer doing all those motions. And I'm rather happy with it, because it's been a two-year build AND I'm having to teach myself how to run CNC machines, to boot. :)
Which, I have to admit, is often very frustrating.
Anyway, since we finally reached the long-awaited milestone of doing some "how TWB is made" videos, I figured it was time to dust off my long-disused YouTube channel(s), see if I can find my ancient passwords to get into the bloomin' thing, and maybe start playing with this whole shoot-video/upload-video thing. :)
Yeah, this video's kind of boring, but it really is just a test. Hopefully I'll get better with practice. :)
Doc.
Comments
jay maechtlen
The idea of having my own lathe and/or mill should be incentive to clean out my dang garage. Hmm - gotta put that on the to-do list!
Bob Savery
It sounds like the machine is powered by a V8!
Happy New Year!
William Burns
I’m a This Old Tony fan, so more would be just fine.
Spoons
I love me some CNC work. I sure wouldn't mind seeing more machine work here.
Hey Doc, I have been so engrossed with the strip, I had forgotten your long-time struggles on HSM to start CNC! I'm impressed that you followed it through to this point - now you've raised the bar for all of us manual lathe procrastinators :-) Stay warm, and Merry Christmas ...
Darque Hellmutt
Yep. We're all enthralled by this head-to-head battle of Mighty Wax vs. Machine Head!! Seriously, vid is good, but the music is a bit boring.
Mark Trombley
It was a wax candle.
Falco
Looks like a nice conversion What material's that? ABS perhaps?\
It's a lot less boring when you download it and play it at 8X speed. :) Thank you.
Very nice... I'd love to convert mine to CNC, but right now just don't have the resources to dedicate to it, and I haven't even got it running well and tuned in manually yet...
