Home Built Auto Tool Changer in action with 2d adaptive and Drilling today

[@rosswoolley2854]

Another good video Bill.

[@williamnorris1516]

Your to kind Ross not so easy to put a reasonable video together I always forget to say something just old age hay never mind cheers Bill

[@rosswoolley2854]

@@williamnorris1516 I knew when i started making you-tube videos it was not going to be the best viewing content, but if someone was interested in watching it, it was good enough for me. Well it is too late in the day "10, 48 am" to do any work so i might go to the coffee shop and see what's new. Cheers Ross

[@benmo2227]

I like how you made the cushion for the toolholder. Simple but looks rly good.

[@williamnorris1516]

Hi thanks for the comment yes ATC tool holders need a little bit of flex which you get with the fork style holders but I needed two rows to get enough tools in the rack and so had to go pick and place style shoulder bolts and springs easy to do I got the idea of another guy on KZbin I 3d printed the holders which lets you play around with the height and length all seems to work great cheers Bill

[@SimsonSupermoto]

A little tip, you should double the holder for the milling spindle. This improves stability when milling.

[@williamnorris1516]

Hi yes that well could be an upgrade for the future and not hard to do and not very much money cheers Bill P.S I like you channel impressive

[@SimsonSupermoto]

@@williamnorris1516 Thanks for the flowers😉 You don’t have to hide behind your work either. Anyone can buy one, even the worst ones can build it themselves. Is your milling machine equipped with a Masso control? Looks interesting.

[@williamnorris1516]

@@SimsonSupermoto yes it has a Masso G4 touch screen 5 axis controller I really like it and Masso are continuously adding features and working on development cheers Bill

[@Lucas_sGarage]

are you planning on showing how to set up the atc?

[@williamnorris1516]

Hi Lucas do you think many people would even want to see that ??? there are several areas to it like #1 settings in the Masso controller #2 the sliding tool rack, rails, sensor, tool holders #3 tool change speeds and feeds #4 problems and solutions etc it would need a series of videos I think to cover it what part of it are you most interested in let me know cheers Bill

[@Lucas_sGarage]

@@williamnorris1516 personally I'm making your machine so a breakdown of everything that is needed and how to configure everything would be much appreciated for sure, cheers 🥂

[@williamnorris1516]

@@Lucas_sGarage Ok I will put it on the to do list but in the meantime are you on the PrintNC discord if not you will fine it at Three Design Print NC Discord then look in Blogs and you will find my Bills Print NC PRO blog it's a start to finish build log of my machine lots of photos and some videos cheers Bill

[@xyzspec82]

Did you hit the screw in the end?😅

[@williamnorris1516]

Hi the left hand one was deep enough but it just milled strait over the right hand one hardly heard it I realized it would but decided to just let it continue well spotted cheers Bill

[@DizzyWood_shop]

😮hello. Can u give some info on the face mill? Maybe a link I like the fact that it is small. Thx

[@williamnorris1516]

Hi it's called a Bap 300 R it takes 3 inserts and you can get all kinds of inserts for them it has a 12mm shaft 80mm long Sorry I have no idea of how to do a link but there are tons of places selling them on AliExpress I got mine from a very good supplier it's BB tools on AliExpress I have bought CNC drills and end mills of them very reliable I hope that helps cheers Bill

[@DizzyWood_shop]

@@williamnorris1516 thank you for the info.much appreciation

[@jordanlangton8273]

I know wood is pretty soft but good practice is to keep all swarf off tool holders and spindle when swapping tools.

[@williamnorris1516]

Hi Jordan yes you are correct, the spindle uses an air blast as it is coming down on the tool it's about to pick up and I can adjust this pressure but as well I have an air gun in my hot little hand to clear chips of the tool rack . and now that I have my Fog Buster mist coolant / air blast system set up this will also help and give me time to be more time to keep the tool rack clean thanks for the comment Cheers Bill

[@FikretCicek2263]

Wow this is really great. But what i wonder more is the sound of your machine, why is it so quiet? It sounds like everything runs on air. Maybe a stupid question, i know nothing about machines. I only know they make a lot of noise. A specially milling machines, if the spindle reaches 17-18K rpm it really makes a hell of a noise. You even hear them moving with an anoing electric sound when you just move the gantry for instance, yours doesn't. wow. i'm truly amazed. Does it run on compressed air?

[@williamnorris1516]

Hi I know what you mean I had another machine that I did a cnc conversion on 15 years ago and the whine of the stepper motors drove me insane and yes cheep spindles can be high pitch and when you combine the two you get a lot of noise and people start to talk about building enclosures with sound proofing etc I did not what that with this build and so went with servos which are almost silent . and when I was researching a spindle I found out about just how quite the Jianken spindles were Piotr Fox Wysocki did a good in depth video using a sound meter to compare a cheap Chinese spindle to a Jianken 2.2 Kw spindle to prove just how quite and smooth they are I run my machine during the day with the garage door wide open and the neighbors never complain I have asked a few of them and they said they had never noticed it at all I am sure I could cut a part at night with out any problems cheers Bill

[@FikretCicek2263]

@@williamnorris1516 thanks for the explanation, you’re right, i really did compare your machines music with the noise of a stepcraft m1000 with stepper motors and a 0,6kw AMB German spindle.

[@jacobmiller6664]

Did your surfacing op hit the screws? I was sad you skipped that part, i was interested in how the inserts handled that. Awesome machine.

[@williamnorris1516]

Hi yep ran strait over it, only just heard it, did not worry it at all . And I have used this same 3 insert Bap to surface mild steel with a very light cut with good results cheers Bill

[@deadcxap755]

Why such a low speed when changing tools? The coordinates when changing the instrument are known, and you can fly g0, with the exception of the last few centimeters of descent.

[@williamnorris1516]

Hi only finished the machine 6 weeks ago so I started steady with all the setting and have crept up on my feeds two weeks ago I upped my X and Y feed rate from 1500 to 6000 and couple of days ago I increase my rapids from 40 mm/sec to 500 mm/sec and only this afternoon I increased the speed of the tool change cycle so getting there but it's early days thanks for the comment cheers Bill

[@askkostya]

Интересное реализовано крепление инструмента, это какие-то вкладыши напечатанные на 3д принтере ?

[@williamnorris1516]

I would like to reply but I can only read English sorry cheers Bill

[@DalyMalcolm]

a hoover would have been better than a blower, still love your machine though!