Tech/maintenance Making parts 🎷

[emiliano]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vybr_oY0RD8

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYqodmcnclM

 

[Ivan]

Crafty

 

[turf3]

Lathe - the queen of machine tools.

 

[JayeNM]

Yup being a machinist always handy

 

[PigSquealer]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vybr_oY0RD8

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Nice to see craftsmanship is alive and well !
Have you tried making rollers from acrylic rod ?

https://www.acmeplastics.com/acrylic-rods

 

[PiccoloPirate]

Life is good with a Mill and Rotary Table.
Just add imagination.
Learn the feel of machining manually, before writing code, is what the Marine Corps machinists do, with new students.

 

[Dr G]

Life is good with a Mill and Rotary Table.
Just add imagination.
Learn the feel of machining manually, before writing code, is what the Marine Corps machinists do, with new students.

… and thousands of college engineering students. It was a rite of passage (and a required class) to learn machine shop fundamentals and produce a functioning gyroscope at my alma mater. At the end of the class, there was a competition for the longest running gyroscope.

At my son’s school, they start their machine shop class by casting their material, then machine all the moving parts to make a 1:24 scale model pickup truck.

 

[turf3]

… and thousands of college engineering students. It was a rite of passage (and a required class) to learn machine shop fundamentals and produce a functioning gyroscope at my alma mater. At the end of the class, there was a competition for the longest running gyroscope.

At my son’s school, they start their machine shop class by casting their material, then machine all the moving parts to make a 1:24 scale model pickup truck.

Yes. I had been doing various types of metal work for years before, as well as wood work, but never actually operated a real lathe and Bridgeport mill.

This kind of hands-on work, since age 5 or 6, is what drove me to study and work professionally as a mechanical engineer. High level math was something I had to learn to get there, but not an interest. Just being "good at math" is not, in my opinion, a sufficient recommendation for students to study engineering. There has to be the interest in "how do things work" and "how are things made".