Hackaday (unofficial) September 8, 2022 9:00am Custom Lathe Tool Cuts Complex Oil Grooves #toolhacks #lathe #machining #manualmachining #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Custom Lathe Tool Cuts Complex Oil Grooves Oil grooves are used to lubricate the inside of a bearing, and can come in many forms — from a single hole that takes a few drops of oil, to helical patterns that distribute it over the entir…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 20, 2022 7:00pm Cut Just About Anything with This Combination Lathe and Wire EDM #toolhacks #ceramic #edm #electricdischargemachining #lathe #machining #wireedm #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Cut Just About Anything With This Combination Lathe And Wire EDM They say that if you have a lathe, you have every other machine tool too. To some degree, that’s true — you can make almost anything on a lathe, including another lathe, and even parts …
Hackaday (unofficial) July 17, 2022 6:00am Turning Irregular Shapes #mischacks #news #automotive #machining #manualmachining #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Turning Irregular Shapes In case you’re not closely following Egyptian Machinist YouTube, you may have missed [Hydraulic House]. It’s gotten even harder to find him since he started posting under[بيت الهيدروليك…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 21, 2022 4:00pm Watch a Complete Reflector Telescope Machined from a Single Block of Glass #parts #glass #hyperbolic #machining #miror #optics #parabolic #reflector #schmidtcassegrain #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Watch A Complete Reflector Telescope Machined From A Single Block Of Glass If this is the easy part of making a complete reflector telescope from a single piece of glass, we can’t wait to get a load of the hard part! A little backstory may be in order for those who …
Hackaday (unofficial) April 21, 2022 12:00am Bring Precision to the Woodshop with an Electronic Router Lift #toolhacks #arduino #machining #router #routertable #stepper #woodworking #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Bring Precision To The Woodshop With An Electronic Router Lift One of the knocks that woodworkers get from the metalworking crowd is that their chosen material is a bit… compliant. Measurements only need to be within a 1/16th of an inch or so, or about a…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 30, 2022 4:00pm Fancy Wire Loop Game Is A Beauty In Brass #mischacks #machining #wireloopgame #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Fancy Wire Loop Game Is A Beauty In Brass The simple wire-loop game is often built as a fun project to teach students about electronics. [W&M Levsha] built their own version, showing off their fine crafting and machining skills and bra…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 11, 2022 7:00am Very Fancy Nail Is Actually A Secret Jewlery Stash #mischacks #craftsmanship #machining #nail #stash #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Very Fancy Nail Is Actually A Secret Jewlery Stash Typically, nails are purpose-built things made to hold bits of wood together, with their entire design focused on that purpose. However, [W&M Levsha] went in much the other direction, crafting …
Hackaday (unofficial) February 21, 2022 4:00pm Rotary Valve Engine Gets a Second Chance, Smokes The Competition #enginehacks #4stroke #diyengine #gasoline #machining #ottocycle #rotaryvalve #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Rotary Valve Engine Gets A Second Chance, Smokes The Competition It’s a dedicated hacker who has the patience to build an engine from scratch. And it’s a borderline obsessed hacker who does it twice. [Meanwhile In the Garage] is of the second ilk, an…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 16, 2022 10:00am VR Display Shows CNC Lathe Operations In Real Time #cnchacks #toolhacks #cnc #lathe #linuxcnc #machining #metallathe #turning #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 VR Display Shows CNC Lathe Operations In Real Time [Kent VanderVelden] has come up with an interesting VR system to assist operators who are monitoring CNC lathes. (video, embedded, below) The idea is to first produce a ‘frozen’ video s…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 13, 2022 4:00am Machining Waveguides For 122 GHz Operation Is Delicate Work #radiohacks #122ghz #lathe #machining #mmwave #mmwaveradar #radar #radio #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Machining Waveguides For 122 GHz Operation Is Delicate Work Millimeter-wave Radars used in modern cars for cruise control and collision avoidance are usually designed to work at ranges on the order of 100 meters or so. With some engineering nous, however, e…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 20, 2022 10:00pm Bringing the Power of EDM to the Home Shop #cnchacks #cnc #edm #electricaldischargemachining #machining #servo #stepper #tension #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Bringing The Power Of EDM To The Home Shop When you see something made from metal that seems like it would be impossible to manufacture, chances are good it was made with some variety of electrical discharge machining. EDM is the method of …
Hackaday (unofficial) December 17, 2021 1:00pm Simple Mods Turn 3D Printer into Electrochemical Metal Cutter #3dprinterhacks #toolhacks #cnc #ecm #edm #electricdischargemachining #electrochemicalmachining #electrolyte #etching #gcode #machining #subtractive #wireecm #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Simple Mods Turn 3D Printer Into Electrochemical Metal Cutter We’re not aware of any authoritative metrics on such things, but it’s safe to say that the Ender 3 is among the most hackable commercial 3D printers. There’s just something about …
Hackaday (unofficial) November 14, 2021 1:00am Improving a Mini-Lathe with a Few Clever Hacks #toolhacks #carriage #engraving #lathe #machining #metalwork #milling #minilathe #tools #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Improving A Mini-Lathe With A Few Clever Hacks Like many budget machinists, the delightfully optimistically named [We Can Do That Better] had trouble with some of the finer controls on his import mini-lathe. But rather than suffer through it, h…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 8, 2021 8:00pm Own the Night with This Ludicrously Bright DIY Flashlight #ledhacks #aluminum #cob #cree #flashlight #led #machining #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Own The Night With This Ludicrously Bright DIY Flashlight If you’re a flashlight person, you know that there’s little you would do to get the brightest, most powerful, most ridiculous flashlight possible. You might even decide to build yoursel…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 27, 2021 7:00pm Heavy Metal Lathe Build Doesn’t Spare the Steel #toolhacks #fabrication #lathe #machinetool #machining #steel #welding #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Heavy Metal Lathe Build Doesn’t Spare The Steel It’s common wisdom that the lathe is the essential machine tool, and the only one that can make copies of itself. While we won’t argue the primacy of the lathe in the machine shop, this…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 24, 2021 6:00pm Tricky Screw Heads Have Disappearing Slots #mischacks #toolhacks #edm #electricdischargemachining #fastener #machining #precision #precisionmachining #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Tricky Screw Heads Have Disappearing Slots Perhaps you’ve seen them, demonstrations of a machined piece of metal that upon further inspection is actually two pieces machined so perfectly that they appear as one. With extremely tight t…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 18, 2021 9:00am Printable Caliper Jaws Increase Precision, Deflect Derision #toolhacks #caliper #cutting #jaws #machining #marking #precision #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Printable Caliper Jaws Increase Precision, Deflect Derision If you’ve watched as many machining videos as we have, no doubt you’ve seen someone commit the cardinal sin of metalworking: using caliper jaws to scratch a mark into metal. Even if it&…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 5, 2021 12:00am Upgrade A 3D Printed CNC Milling Machine By Using It #cnchacks #toolhacks #ivanmiranda #machining #millingmachine #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Upgrade A 3D Printed CNC Milling Machine By Using It One of the original ideas behind the RepRap project was for the machines to create their own upgrades. That philosophy is shining brightly in [Ivan Miranda] CNC milling machine project, which has b…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 13, 2021 4:00pm 3D Printed CNC Knee Mill #cnchacks #toolhacks #3dprintedcncmachine #ivanmiranda #machining #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 3D Printed CNC Knee Mill CNC mills will never match real heavy metal mills on hard materials, but that won’t stop people from pushing the limits of these DIY machines. One of the usual suspects, [Ivan Miranda] is at …
Hackaday (unofficial) June 5, 2021 12:00pm A Vacuum Battery Made For Looks And Learning #mischacks #18650battery #etching #machining #plating #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Vacuum Battery Made For Looks And Learning Looks and RGB LEDs are usually not a priority in tool batteries, but [Oleg Pevtsov] decided the battery for his DIY vacuum cleaner needed to be different. In the process, he learned some lessons in…