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Anniversary Q&A, Part Deux!

🕑 Added 2020-08-31 18:03:09 +0000 UTC

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Christopher Leech

Chances are you are going to be oiling the wood quite often. Tung oil might not leave residues as it dries. As the volatile fractions evaporate, out gassing could be unpleasant. Gravity will be a factor as it gets hotter. I wonder if you might employ some synthetic oil like "Amsoil"

bill baggins

🤔 Off topic topics? a funny story, other lesser or passing interests, pet hates, philosophical insights, inspiring people... and yes as DeuxVis said, who dropped the baton? Oh and well done with todays intro 🎉 Worth an Oscar imo or at least a beer 🍺👏🏻

Blondihacks

Honestly, I've lost track of the relay. I know John Saunders at NYCNC had it, and they passed it to someone (without making a video) but I don't actually know who has it. If anyone has heard tell, let me know!

DeuxVis

Forgot to ask about any news of the machinist relay - this was asked last year, but might have evolved ? I've just watched a video of another youtube channel in 6 letters, it mentioned drilling a lot of holes for the relay, so I'm getting exciturious about it.

Glenn Trewitt

I've seen you pull tasty tidbits out of the top drawer of your Equipto. It seems to me that it would be interesting to see what a high-end hobbyist has stashed away. I'm really serious. Everybody says that "you'll spend as much on tooling as you spend on the lathe/milling machine". But I expect that the beginning machinist will also spend a lot of time and money accumulating "stock" and other cool stuff. So, seeing how your shop has balanced between different kinds of stuff - and how it's organized - would be quite interesting. Of course, that's probably bigger than a Q&A.

Blondihacks

I'll answer that here, since I think it was covered in last year's video. I did track days for about 10 years, and then got into 24 Hours Of Lemons endurance racing with my some friends. We did that for about 10 years. Our team raced a 1987 BMW e30, and then later also ran a 1974 Lotus Elite that had a late-60s Corvette motor transplanted into it. A very strange beast, that car was. The e30 is a piece of engineering genius, and was amazing on the track. We did very little to it performance-wise and it ran consistently in the top ten. Endurance racing was a lot of fun, but tremendously punishing on our physical bodies and our wallets. I ultimately had to give it up for both reasons. It's also an immense time sink. Our whole lives were about those cars because they always needed something. We got to where we could rebuild the top of the e30 motor in a parking lot in 25 minutes. We changed the head gasket something like 14 times. Twice in a single race, once. Every weekend was taken up with racing or preparing to race. I'm glad I did it, but I don't miss it, if that makes sense. :D

David A. Frazer

I am fairly new to your channel. This may have been already asked. Seems to me that you had said (or I heard) that you were into (or still into) racing of some type. As a retired auto tech and life long gear head, I would like to know more.

DeuxVis

Can we expect you to do some sort of "low level machining" like casting or forging at some point ? Your take on that would be very interesting I guess, and since you started that series on the model steam engine I am wondering about a "full stack" metal work project. Maybe that idea was also inspired by the "build you own metal working shop from scrap" booklets series that I think you lead me to read if I remember well.

BJ

This might be more suitable for a full episode, rather than a Q&A, but... For a machining tool system, you have toolholding, workholding, cutters, and measurement. Given the cost and precision tradeoffs, where do you optimize? A related topic is for consumables that wear out faster, such as end mills. Do you keep multiple sets of differing cost/quality for different requirements? Actually, I think end mills could use an extended discussion of materials (HSS is getting harder to find), coatings, and geometries.

Buzzy Sale

You are very inspiring! I’m curious as to how you keep your shop organized. I see lots of bins and drawers and that you run a tight ship, but what’s your system for small parts and bits and tooling etc. where are all the 10mm sockets hiding? I’m guessing you have 40ft of vidmar cabinets hiding off camera?

David Penley

I am curious of your thoughts on CNC vs manual. I see a clear distinction in channels of those that favor CNC (Clough42, TitansofCNC) and those that do not (Abom79). A few strike a balance and include time travel (TOT). Just wondering your thoughts on CNC as you have been developing your machinist skills.

Doric L. Dods

I tend to smile right out loud at your amusing turns of phrase, and right at the the top of the heap is “Cleanliness is next to Renzettiness.” That’s the best! Is there an interesting backstory to its invention?