Do your mates pop over with jobs like this? || RotarySMP

[@ptonpc]

Shouldn't *he* have brought you beer as a bribe?

[@RotarySMP]

I will forward your excellent, thoughtful comment :)

[@NicoCarsAndCookies]

@@RotarySMP Suggestion was reviewed by management and unfortunatly denied. Thanks for your thoughtful inputs. But we won't valued them. Not after you shorten my whip...

[@MikelNaUsaCom]

or some fluffy eggs?

[@Johannes58934]

@@ptonpc That is the standard in Florida!

[@robertoswalt319]

A beer? How about several beers?

[@jakobmn]

For some reason it is easier to help others getting their stale projects finished, than getting your own brought back to life. Nico should return the favor to you. Thanks for reminding me about my own dying projects. One of these days I will get around to it.

[@RotarySMP]

Nico is a great help. He is going to help me draw the welding giveaway winner :)

[@DieterTheHorst]

I have never felt so called out by a video topic. Good on Nico for actually finding the motivation to touch something that has gone to project purgatory.

[@RotarySMP]

Well said Dieter. It is good to get something like this finished.

[@danielfogli1760]

Same here 🙈

[@chrismayer8990]

Very Nice Video! 🥰 A project that is 100% complete? Sounds like a fairy tale. Does such a thing even exist? Sypathetic guest! Nice Music! At the second spot weld I screamed “don't do it!”🤣

[@RotarySMP]

Thanks Chris. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@marcsimonsen1578]

Yup. This is me. I even have the whiteboard with all my stale projects!

[@RotarySMP]

Me too :) I wish they made fade away white board pens.

[@marcsimonsen1578]

@@RotarySMP Unfortunately, my experience is that the longer it stays up, it will actually stain the board!

[@evugar]

- How emotionally attached are you to the to that part? - It's not attached anymore!!! 😡 😂😂😂

[@RotarySMP]

Separation is hard :)

[@johnchefnet]

Your parting words were 100% on point! Keep working on the project every day!! As my wife says: "Little bites is how you eat an elephant" LOL

[@RotarySMP]

So true!

[@johnchefnet]

@@RotarySMP I enjoy your videos! Your LinuxCNC videos were very helpful to me, Thank you!!!

[@RotarySMP]

@@johnchefnet Thanks for the kind feedback. I appreciate it.

[@RickRolling-tc7vb]

Always good to have friends bring you things to work on, as you can burn the end off it with impunity - after all, it wasn't your choice to pick you. Some of my jobs have to sit on the healing bench for a while until I can find the space in my head for them. When my subconscious has time to get a handle on the shape of things then I can tackle them and knock a few jobs over at once. Then there is the dichotomy of done vs good enough, and that is an internal state that fluctuates, sometimes to the point of action to transform it into finished. It will be perfect one day, but in the meantime I will use it like this because pragmatism.

[@RotarySMP]

Thanks for your feedback Rick.

[@gorak9000]

You told me that advice of "touch the project every single day until its done" a couple of years ago on my mill re-build project, and well I didn't take your advice, and it didn't progress much. I was going to work on it this summer and get it done, and then a free cnc lathe project came out of nowhere that took over (which we briefly discussed in the comments a few videos ago). I have been touching that project almost every single day, and it's nearly done! There's definitely something to that method! I have the spindle drive repaired, and running on single phase, I have a VFD installed and the hydraulic pump, and thus the tool turret running, there's only a couple of things to do before I can actually make some parts, and one of them is waiting for the chuck jaws I ordered to arrive.

[@RotarySMP]

Good on you. A CNC lathe is a pretty big project.

[@gorak9000]

@@RotarySMP I have a couple vijayos up if you're interested. It is a big project, but I think it's way faster and less of a project than doing a LinuxCNC conversion - THAT was a lot of work :) I actually just got a manual lathe a few weeks before the CNC (a small one, 10" x 22", 254mm x 558mm) and was going to LinuxCNC it.. I guess that project is cancelled now!

[@Projects101_NZ]

I’ve recently fallen down the rabbit whole of the gridfinity storage solution, really cool and open source

[@RotarySMP]

It was suggested to me... I have the first grids on the printer right now :)

[@NicoCarsAndCookies]

@@RotarySMP These gridfinity woudl be to my OCD what a gooey brownie would be to my sugar addiction... very appealing, badly ending. I need to find someone who can print me Brownies...

[@RotarySMP]

@@NicoCarsAndCookies Yum.

[@LCalleja]

it always nice when old projects come back to life. the up side is you get more space :)

[@RotarySMP]

Yeah, that is a nice 1/2 sqm.

[@vfxsoup]

I could listen to you two all day.

[@RotarySMP]

It would drive you nuts :)

[@vfxsoup]

@@RotarySMP I’m married, so having my nuts driven would be a plus.

[@Johannes58934]

The ending was great! I had a tow box like that, but now just the frame. The box didn't handle freezing to well. I used it to make short trips to Edeka to buy beer and a kiester fit perfectly! The ride was downhill to the store, but uphill on return.

[@RotarySMP]

He wants to use it for taking car parts to his garage. I assume it will be back soon when my crappy weld fail :)

[@NicoCarsAndCookies]

@@RotarySMP How long do you provide guarantee on the weld-jobs, now we are talking about it?

[@RotarySMP]

@@NicoCarsAndCookies 90 days from the time of welding, which expired about a year ago :)

[@JorisKofman]

That is how we do it in France, love it

[@RotarySMP]

Glad you enjoyed that :)

[@robertfontaine3650]

"Winter" cycling. Here that tight space would get bogged down with snow instantly.

[@RotarySMP]

Here as well. He also has a mountain bike :)

[@squelchstuff]

This could be a documentary of my life. However, sometimes a few safety beers are consumed while the job is discussed with mates. The safety beers of course are a sanity check that prevents us from operating machinery while imbibed. End result - No stale beer and a mountain of things to do next time - rinse, repeat...

[@RotarySMP]

Yep, that is a good process description :)

[@mumblbeebee6546]

Just to repeat what I wrote recently - very different video, but I really enjoyed it! 😊

[@RotarySMP]

Thanks for your kind feedback.

[@Timeonabike]

Don't start too many projects? Bwaaahaahaahhaaaaaaaaa. Nice video.

[@RotarySMP]

Yeah, I should try that advice some time. :)

[@MikelNaUsaCom]

Here it is Sunday again... All my projects are slated to me done on "Someday" which sounds nothing like Sunday... Anyways... don't get me wrong, I enjoy the destination, I can dream about it all day long... but it's more about the journey for me... =D (and the day dreaming.) Happy Sunday!

[@RotarySMP]

Have a great Sunday Mike.

[@RalfyCustoms]

Loved it, great job both metal waise and in the video production 🎉 thanks for sharing

[@RotarySMP]

Our pleasure!

[@Rustinox]

If it was me, I would have come back without the beer after the test ride. But it wasn't me...

[@RotarySMP]

Yeah, Nico missed a big opportunity there :)

[@iolithblue]

I oftem find that pefection is the enemy of good. I get what i call perfection paralysis, and my fear of not doing it perfectly means i cannot complete the project, when really 'good' or ' good enough ' will do the job.

[@RotarySMP]

There is definitely a middle way with the best efficiency.

[@mazchen]

Ah, this clip was much too short. You two are hilarious 😂

[@RotarySMP]

Thanks, Nico is all humor :)

[@clasdauskas]

For Nico's further education: you weren't CADding, you were CAMming :) Nice to see the Aldi 'miscellaneous bits' pack in the trolley. We have Aldi in Australia, but not where I live. I miss Aldi!

[@RotarySMP]

Good luck with that education :)

[@kBIT01]

I have been on a shop organization kick lately. To the point that i ordered 12kg of filament and 1600 magnets to dedicate to gridfinity. It is a problem that must be solved. I also have a number of stale or dead projects and can agree with you on how they die. Another reason they die is that you get stuck in a boring part for ages and can't get the willpower to get past that rut.

[@RotarySMP]

Oh wow, you are way down that gridfinity rabbit hole. I only ordered 200 magnets, and started printing with some left over filament :)

[@leaflee2066]

I "try" to apply the 3 minute rule to stale project and stuff I put off in general!

[@RotarySMP]

What is the minute rule?

[@leaflee2066]

@@RotarySMP Sorry that should have been 3 minute rule, didn't press the 3 key hard enough! it was a book about how to get the most from your pitch or presentation, but people use it to avoid procrastinating by doing tasks you don't want to do for only three minutes a day, the logic been eventually it will get done, but people find once they start they can usually go a bit longer than 3 minutes. PS loving the channel and content, Lee.

[@WillemvanLonden]

Entertaining as always. Thanks Mark.

[@RotarySMP]

Thanks Willem, glad you enjoyed it,.

[@E1nsty]

Truly. For example scrubbing the nameplate on the Schaublin day after day is going to pay off.

[@RotarySMP]

Good point. :)

[@henrikskott]

Touch it every single day? Hmm, it does seem to work for you so I'll give it a go. Thanks for that tip!

[@RotarySMP]

That has really helped me. Even if I am really unmotivated, and just pop down to the shop, sit and gaze at the project for a few minutes, and decide I can't be bothered doing anything, this time and activity helps.

[@624Dudley]

I spy cushioned Adel clamps! Methinks an aircraft mechanic was involved. 🧐

[@RotarySMP]

He actually found an assortment in Amazon. I was not involved :)

[@wibblywobblyidiotvision]

Stale projects are the worst. For me they start with "I want A". Then "I need B to make A". Then "I need C and D to make B". But I need E and F and G to make C. And I need D to make F. And I need A to make D. and so on... I'm back on to making the vertical head for my mill, finally. Haven't filmed anything though.

[@RotarySMP]

That is how I end up int he CNC rabbit hole. I cant even remember what Project A was :)

[@robertsneddon731]

The A-B-C Dance, also known as "yak shaving". You start out to do A and three days later you're shaving a yak. There's a complete series of totally logical and necessary steps between your decision to do A and you standing there with the clippers and the yak.

[@RotarySMP]

@@robertsneddon731 I love that description :)

[@Chris-bg8mk]

OK, another coffee and then I’m on to project

[@RotarySMP]

Procrastination is underrated :)

[@ColinLennard]

It is good to see that you are human! Even that was enjoyable > Thanks.

[@RotarySMP]

Glad you enjoyed it Colin. Thanks for the feedback.

[@joansparky4439]

IMHO lots of stuff gets finished all the time, just not the stuff one likes to work on, but what needs to be done or wasn't even on the drawing board.. otherwise, top video!

[@RotarySMP]

Thanks Joan.

[@lucasandri5462]

I really like your videos, i always learn something new. I recently started to tear down an old wood cnc mill in my family business. The olan is to scrap it and sell it to a steel dealer. But there are some electric and electronic components that I think are still valuable or could be useful to someone. So I thought that as you surely know better than me what could be still useful and what not and also you probably know some people who could be interested. If I make a list of components or even a picture of the components would you be interested. For example I have a 2.2kw 18000 rpm spindle with er collet holder whic would be perfect for some wood some soft metals/plastics cnc project. Some old dc servo controllers etc. I'm not into this stuff enough to have a good understanding of the possible value or if it would be useful at all.

[@RotarySMP]

Did you manage to sell the parts?

[@lucasandri5462]

@@RotarySMP currently I'm a bit stuck because I have to give priority to studying. I'll get back to it soon

[@RotarySMP]

@@lucasandri5462 Always good to invest in your own education. Wish you great success with that.

[@lucasandri5462]

@@RotarySMP thanks, have a good week!

[@GeoffTV2]

I only have stale projects at the moment. I'll take this as inspiration to do something (starting in a few days or so). I think it would be good to have Nico pop in occasionally to advise/obstruct you. - Heather

[@RotarySMP]

Yeah, except everytime, it means more strange jobs :)

[@GeoffTV2]

@@RotarySMP LOL! yeah, I have never seen an egg whisk weld repair before.

[@RotarySMP]

@@GeoffTV2 I have never done one before... or ever again I suspect :)

[@kenthesparky178]

A very entertaining video this week.👍

[@RotarySMP]

Glad you enjoyed it Ken. Thanks.

[@theinfernalcraftsman]

Have many dead projects... Have a couple that are in hibernation until the temps are under 105. My friend that I used to do lots of projects with has gotten to where he can't do much anymore so I take care of his stuff for him. Age has caught up to him and i'm really not far behind. My neighbor will ask for tools but... He is a younger kid that bought grandfathers house and is an awesome neighbor. Always available to help each other and borrow stuff. It's just too hot to work on the Mustang or anything else. The highs here are still 100+ and 108* tomorrow and wont start cooling down for another month. And The weather saps any motivation I have to do anything other than fuel my anger of living here and that I want to move somewhere nicer more and more every day....

[@RotarySMP]

108 is brutal. That is desert heat. We have had a week of about 90°F here, and it was not my most productive week :)

[@theinfernalcraftsman]

@@RotarySMP Yeah it's like this for months... At least it's cooler than a few years ago where we had a week of 117 and the lows were 85. Our tap water is in the high 80s. Oh and don't forget the humidity here too. It's not dry desert here ..

[@RotarySMP]

@@theinfernalcraftsman Never really understood the appeal of Texas. I lived for a year in El Centro, but that was dry heat.

[@JCWren]

Ever feel like you need to set up a Gantt chart to get stuff done? This depends on that depends on this depends on that etc etc etc. And before you know it, nothing gets done. Also, not too sure about the handle that sticks up on the cart. Looks like it's capable of adding an unwanted additional bodily orifice.

[@RotarySMP]

Yeah, I often get tied up lie that in my projects as well. Good point. Nico should put a tennis ball on it.

[@joell439]

@@RotarySMP finally a good use of a tennis ball 😂😂

[@redstales]

It's what I like to call faux productive procrastination. You do something that seems productive (spending hours making Gantt charts/Kanban boards/etc) but end up not actually doing anything to further the cause of the project.

[@mazchen]

​@@redstales yesyes, that's like the first task on my daily outlook agenda to update the to-do list 😂

[@redstales]

@@mazchen To do - Spend 98% of time rearranging the to do list - Feel satisfied that I spent the time to adjust the to do list End of list.

[@mike9500]

nice work bud!

[@RotarySMP]

Thanks Mike.

[@Johannes58934]

Sorry, but at the start I have to say... I have noticed that people that speak Deutsch have as hard a time saying 'squirrel' as English speaking people do saying 'Eichhörnchen' 2:45 But Niko did well here! At least that has been my observation!

[@RotarySMP]

Yeah , he is french, but also speak DE and EN well :)

[@NicoCarsAndCookies]

WORST WORD EVER. EVER. Right after "don't buy this car". I have difficulty with it as well. 😁

[@NicoCarsAndCookies]

@@RotarySMP Technically. Yes. But in theory, no one understand me. Might not be the language, though....

[@mumblbeebee6546]

@@NicoCarsAndCookies 😂

[@wizrom3046]

Don't let an Aussie ride off with your case of beers! You won't see him for... at least half a day 😁

[@RotarySMP]

Nico is French, so it was safe....ish :)

[@murrayedington]

We all know of the 80:20 rule but for these "jobs", we have our own 90:10 rule!!

[@RotarySMP]

Yeah, Murry, sometimes it is 90:20 :)

[@my1987toyota]

This seems to happen to everybody who knows how to build and fabricate . I am no different . Right now my poor G0619 in in build purgatory. It's mostly operational but I don't have any projects to utilize it. Sigh.

[@RotarySMP]

Hope the right project comes along and you get back into it.

[@my1987toyota]

@@RotarySMP Thanks RotarySMP I guess I will have to make something for my cnc foam cutter with it. LOL

[@theoriginalDirtybill]

dont start too many projects..... lol i have a 6 foot white board to keep track of my projects and theres not enough room on it for all of them...

[@RotarySMP]

My wall has one as well :)

[@robbiepotts8541]

Great video as always. What keyboard did you use for lathe control panel?

[@RotarySMP]

Hi Robbie, it is some old Belgian manufactured membrane keyboard I bought used off german classifieds years ago.

[@claeswikberg8958]

LOL, poor Nico ;)

[@RotarySMP]

Hi Claes. He got three projects finished in one video. No sympathy :)

[@mike9500]

he can be the beer boy! ;)

[@RotarySMP]

He should be :)

[@The.Talent]

I have a Voron 3d printer that I started in 2021. It's pretty stale. I really should finish that.

[@RotarySMP]

Oh you really should. Those are amazing printers. My IR probe on my old Mendel90 style printer was playing up the last few weeks, so I was looking at those CoreXY machines with big eyes. But I just needed to resocket the connector, and it is working again.

[@The.Talent]

@@RotarySMP the connectors is where I died. I've literally built the whole thing and programmed the board and everything, but the wiring loom was not right from the store so I had to do it myself and that killed me.

[@RotarySMP]

@@The.Talent Wiring is a tough place for a project to get stale. It can be a fair bit of work to understand where you were at when you stopped.

[@The.Talent]

@@RotarySMP we've also moved house since then and my kids are growing up and taking up more of the house and I just don't have a space to work on it. Your video does help remind me of these stale projects I have and I do really want to get them finished! Soon.

[@RotarySMP]

@@The.Talent Can you get a kid excited? My printer is pink, as my then 14 year old got to choose the color if she helped build it :)

[@aarondcmedia9585]

Great!

[@RotarySMP]

Thanks Aaron.

[@thigtsquare950]

RotraySMP -“Where do you find the sweet spot for order?” Me - “What is order? You are not alone… you need $[insert-cost-of-your-machines]X2 in drawer cabinets. AND the mind to organize your tools, AND the mind to maintain said organization.

[@RotarySMP]

I think many videos show organisation overkill. Many tools dont need perfect locations.

[@joeo6378]

90% done, 90% to go.

[@RotarySMP]

:)

[@TradeWorks_Construction]

Aren’t friends supposed to BRING THE BEER for helping with projects NOT TAKE THE BEER after you get done?! Oh good he brought it back, yep the beer stays.

[@RotarySMP]

I will forward your excellent comment to our #1 fan :)

[@mrtnsnp]

Were you in the lucky zone without too much rain yesterday over there in Vienna?

[@RotarySMP]

Oh it bucketed down here as well.

[@mrtnsnp]

@@RotarySMP But your workshop is still OK?

[@jimsvideos7201]

I think you need the initial disorder to show you what the organized state looks like.

[@RotarySMP]

Good point Jim. That is why I did it :)

[@joell439]

and that approach also drives inspiration and urgency 👍👍

[@RotarySMP]

@@joell439 It does. I have some Gridfinity base on the printer right now. :)

[@mumblbeebee6546]

That’s what Nico is for :0)

[@thaiexodus2916]

Is it even possible to do a simple job without it turning into a project which requires other projects, usually one of which can't be done immediately because of X, Y, or Z Or you finally can breeze through a project but you promised her to.............. And then a few months down the road the shop is wall to wall semi completed projects. (I'm 3 weeks into painting the kitchen with no end in sight but the shelf is now level, the fridge no longer growls and oh crap I forgot to buy the light bulb when I picked up the receptacle. And the switch..)

[@RotarySMP]

In homebuilt plane building, they say "change one thing, change everything" :)

[@Hichamhasan]

joyeux anniversaire Nico 🎂

[@RotarySMP]

We sung him happy birthday at work last week :) With a cake.

[@Hichamhasan]

@@RotarySMP Hopefully in this heat wave was an ice cream-cake

[@mazchen]

4:08 why aren't you using a proper app for technical drawings like everybody does, like EXCEL?

[@RotarySMP]

I'll suggest that for his next project :)

[@robertjung8929]

nah.... mspaint ! 🤣

[@diepieche]

Hahahahaha😂

[@RotarySMP]

Thanks.

[@gworx-247]

yeah, i like to do this, but then, there is that and what's about this one and...what was i am doing today?...ah yeah...this one..but... The story of my life! 😂

[@RotarySMP]

:)

[@TheDistur]

Must be nice having whisk repair man on your resume now.

[@RotarySMP]

It was important to me :)

[@vincei4252]

LMAO, doing CAD in Microsoft Word. If that isn't the definition of masochism I don't know what is. I do everything in my power NOT to start Word. Ask Niko to do his next technical drawing in Excel, LOL.

[@RotarySMP]

Yeah really. Way easier to learn Onshape than learn to do that in Word. :)

[@NicoCarsAndCookies]

@@RotarySMP It's complicated. It is on the short term (+/- 25min) always the best and easiest solution to me. Since I spent 2 f*cking evenings on 4 version of the drawing, well, you make the maths. But remember, that's easy to come with a crap design, and it take genius to end up with the smart solution. But I prefer the other rule: If it's worth doing, it's worth ovedoing it.

[@RotarySMP]

@@NicoCarsAndCookies It is really easy to learn OnShape.

[@belatoth3763]

Last week I saw a network drawing in excel. Not by the excel drawing tools but by excel cells borders outline.

[@vincei4252]

@@belatoth3763 I worked in a bank. If it can be done with Excel someone will find a way.

[@weemanling]

Mates?

[@RotarySMP]

Mate = friend in NZ.

[@Sam-zz3jw]

FreeCAD for CAM?... masochism.

[@RotarySMP]

It will get better. :)

[@Hilmi12]

The channel @needitmakeit had designed 3d printed holders for organizing hist tools in the drawer

[@RotarySMP]

Is that the gridfinity system? I already have the first parts on the printer. :)

[@Hilmi12]

@RotarySMP no, he made holes to match the tapers and had them slot in nicely so they don't roll around the drawer. Pretty neat, look up the video

[@FunctionalPrintFriday]

You sure you're not thinking of my channel? Not trying to take anything away from his channel, it's great, but I just finished a 2-part project to store taper tooling in my kennedy chest on my channel.

[@Hilmi12]

@@FunctionalPrintFriday yep, I was confused

[@philiprogers5772]

yeh. touch the project, great advice. It really works.

[@RotarySMP]

Thanks Phil.

[@lucasandri5462]

I really like your videos, i always learn something new. I recently started to tear down an old wood cnc mill in my family business. The plan is to sell it to a steel dealer as just plain steel. But there are some electric and electronic components that I think are still valuable or could be useful to someone. So I thought that as you surely know better than me what could be still useful and what not and also you probably know some people who could be interested. If I make a list of components or even a picture of the components would you be interested. For example I have a 2.2kw 18000 rpm spindle with er collet holder whic would be perfect for some wood some soft metals/plastics cnc project. Some old dc servo controllers etc. I'm not into this stuff enough to have a good understanding of the possible value or if it would be useful at all.

[@RotarySMP]

Sure email me the list. There is an email address on the channel home page. Does the machine have ball screws? The spindle should certainly have value.

[@lucasandri5462]

@@RotarySMP thanks, I'll start disassembling and then I'll make a list. The machine has 3 ball screws with I think multi start "treads", I don't know the exact name but I don't know if I'm going to remove them mainly because of a lack of time(I'm a student and sometimes I help at work). One is almost 3 or so meters long and quite big in diameter for the main axes controlled by a Panasonic servo motor which I'm planning to remove. The machine has 2 spindles but I'm probably going to take one for myself because I have a metal lathe and I'm thinking about some grinding attachment.

[@RotarySMP]

@@lucasandri5462 Have you considered trying to see the whole machine? It would be a shame to part it out, if there is someone who could use it.

[@lucasandri5462]

@@RotarySMP We've considered it but the machine it's quite old and it is not accurate anymore as there are some issues with the main controller or something like that I don't rememeber exactly and trying to fix it it's not worth it. Also as we'll be replacing it with something more modern and more compact we need the space. The parts that are not too difficult to disassemble and could be worth it I'm going to try and see if I can give them someone who could use them.

[@RotarySMP]

@@lucasandri5462 Got it.