Let's Build a Tool Sharpener - Part 6

This episode on Blondihacks, I’m working on a tool sharpener! Exclusive videos, drawings, models & plans available on Patreon!
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[@jonsmachineshop]

Just wanted to say 'good luck'. We're all counting on you.

[@PorchPotatoMike]

The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.

[@jonsmachineshop]

@@PorchPotatoMike Don't start with your white zone $h1t again.

[@tenaciousshaman]

I thought she was gonna go over. But she was under, then done.

[@kiwikaboodle]

looks like the wrong week to quit smoking!!

[@anachrocomputer]

"How's the radar range?" "Another five minutes"

[@swittman9123]

Wow, that angle block makes so much more sense in context, now!

[@Beef4Dinner22]

Yeah, once she put the angle block into frame, everything suddenly makes perfect sense now. I....uhhh...just want to make sure you understand it, so why don't you explain it to me so I can make sure you understand correctly.

[@leonida-alexandrudiaconu8660]

Actually, the angle block makes sense for about 2 videos now. 😂😂😂 You need to pay more attention. Lol. I think nobody knows what the heck that block is for

[@PorchPotatoMike]

I’m glad to hear you say that you aren’t sure how this thing works because I’ve been racking my brain this entire project trying to figure out what the heck you are making.

[@robert_g_fbg]

Work holding is the most challenging part for me. Your tips and wisdom are priceless!

[@OscarSommerbo]

"Make the noise", might Quinn be watching Bad obsession motorsports, building Binky?

[@larrylewislarry]

Where’s Binky at these days?

[@OscarSommerbo]

@@larrylewislarry I have no idea. They kinda finished Binky, and the channel went mostly silent. Just some random race stuff, with no Binky.

[@ensen89]

I thought so as well.

[@MLeoDaalder]

@@OscarSommerbo From what i can gather from Patreon, they are in the finicky little details stage of the project. And they were messing about with a DIY CNC circuit board printer made out of an old mill.

[@OscarSommerbo]

@@MLeoDaalder Thanks! I am the guy that never demands videos, because I know they are a lot of work, but just going dark is a bit irritating if you built up an appreciation for their work. I hope they start putting out videos again, they were damned funny.

[@Jim-fe2xz]

Good that Swarfie gets to have some fun too!

[@evelpete]

I bought the plans for this project a couple of years ago, but one thing led to another and I put on the shelf. You videos have inspired me to complete the project.

[@BetweenTheBorders]

I don't fully understand the tool yet, but I'm starting to piece things together. A number of clever mechanisms to specifically hold angles combined to allow for configurable and repeatable passes. Since it's a tool sharpener, it's not a terribly great revelation, but the clever combination of clever mechanisms is interesting, and showing them piece by piece certainly helps to understand how each part adds to the functionality of the whole. Wonderful!

[@firebird8600]

Yay! It's Blondihacks time!!!

[@Wachuko-1]

Ah carp! You are now ahead of my build... I need to KETCHUP!! All joking aside, great to see another episode of this build. Silly me... it never occurred to me to use some of my material stock to make those... I was using the material that came in the kit. That was soooooo much simpler to do!! Duh! 🤨

[@joemcgarry1106]

I am loving this project. Thank you Quinn.

[@johnmoorefilm]

Taylor Swift is playing LITERALLY outside my house in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin right now….and I am happily watching this…❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@chipperkeithmgb]

If she was next door I would shut the curtains

[@Bluswede]

Taylor WHO?!

[@UpLateGeek]

Oh good, I'm glad to see the cube part is still functioning exactly as designed. That means you haven't made any major mistakes. Or at least the errors have nulled out, so it hasn't affected the functioning of the cube.

[@warrenholmar1129]

I can't believe it's Sunday already! I'm so excited for the 0-4-0. However, I'm also enjoying this build!

[@thedabblingwarlock]

Woo! I've been waiting for more of these. I do wonder if you could make a drafting machine arm using some of the same design techniques here.

[@DavidLindes]

9:39 - anyone else think of Foamy the Squirrel when hearing “five more minutes”? 😅😂

[@olavl8827]

Lovely video as always. I especially like how you show (and talk about) various clamping methods. Also I'm sure you already know how a tool sharpener works. But yes, this looks like a very fancy one.

[@robbybobbyhobbies]

12:51 "a mangy old chunk" - what people called me at my last job.

[@paulputnam2305]

Surely a great job machining! Awesomeness Extreme!

[@mattilindstrom]

Hello Quinn, the mechanism of the tool sharpener looks to a layman like me quite esoteric. I love the mystery of how it's going to work, and seeing parts of to me unknown function being skillfully manufactured and fitted is absolutely great.

[@OGTtom]

Really enjoy your videos , I learn something every time , thank you

[@recklessroges]

The half-moon shape reminded me of a "rattle back"

[@cletusberkeley9441]

Nice..... good info on making clamping parts❤

[@tweake7175]

It would be really good to see a video of those tricky parts being made with the provided material. For someone who doesn't have spare material, but also as a comparison between the two methods.

[@manythingslefttobuild]

Great video Quinn. Starting at 7:30, that's a good one. You could have padded your outro 5 minutes for the lol's on this video. Looking forward to finding out what the mystery cube does.

[@pkjmfineart1593]

My next thing to make is a a 4 spindle Braiding machine for leather strips. Cheapest non chinese one I can find is $12,000 so its buy a dividing head, download pictures from the web and off we go! I'll probably make it out of aluminium first and have it be hand cranked but believe me, I only know about 1/4 of what you do lol. 8^)

[@johnapel2856]

Shirley you jest? Oh, wait. Sorry. This is going to be interesting to see what it actually does! And I like the little fiddley bits too. Thanks, and Meow to Sprocket.

[@owengrossman1414]

When you need to find the edge of a disk on the mill you can use the small angle cosine effect to your advantage. First you take a very shallow tangential cut on the disk. Then measure the width of the cut surface by eye with a caliper. Having that measurement and the disk’s diameter, you can trig out the depth of the light cut you made to a good degree of accuracy. If your disk is 1” diameter and your light cut leaves a patch that’s about 50 thousandths wide then the depth of your cut is only about 6 tenths of a mil. Of course the larger the diameter the better it works.

[@TechnoBillyD]

Excellent, I am up to this part on my kit too. The little bits supplied are on their way to the spare bits bin as we speak. I learn't heaps from your video as usual. In regard to uses, the designer; EccentricEngineer has a video that shows how it is used. While the work arm will keep the head at the correct angle regardless of where you move it, it has to be attached to the slide to keep it the right distance from the Wheel, as you move left to right. I also plan to make some alternative holders that fit for other tools like Wood Plane Blades, Chisels, etc. Utilising that rail to allow you to slide the blade across the wheel and keep the perfect distance.

[@seanalexander9531]

"Make the noise" 😍 All hail the algorithm 🤘

[@624Dudley]

Yahtzee it off! 😆 It’s now officially a verb! 👍👍

[@iain3411]

Can't wait too see how this works.

[@calebfaires9782]

The shop I work for here in Western Washington is in the process of filling out all out our collection of metric tooling. At this point if youre in indistrial repair in North America you need to have both. Heck, Cutting Edge Engineering keeps both sets of tooling around and they're in Australia.

[@bkoholliston]

I found some Regal R8 metric collets on ebay in 8mm and 10mm but for smaller sizes like your 5mm, I use a small ER11 collet chuck with a 1/2 shank and hold it in a 1/2 R8 collet. Yes, the stack up adds a little run-out but not much if you are careful. This also lets me hold funny imperial sizes that I don't have an R8 collet for.

[@allangoodger969]

Sunday morning 2am. Well worth getting up for. Your skill set is top notch. there is only only one problem with your build. Is an Aussie design. your building it upside down.😊😊😊😊

[@aliozbek1406]

Thank you Quinn here a metric thumbs up for you,i hope that works on that side of the world.

[@yakill]

That t-nut may be a bit snug if the corner radius is rubbing on the corner of the 5mm slot. Most satisfying part of mashining is when all the differnt parts come together and you get an actual working mechanism. Sadly not a thing I get to admire often in the shop I work at. We get parts from baking factories to chemical and petro industry to tank and warship transmissions, but rarely a complete project in house.

[@paullehmor982]

The T-nut will never reach the ends of the slot. The stop block that it locks to arm is always somewhere in the middle, and it moves just a about the radius of the end mill that is sharpened. The whole arm assembly is mainly used for end mill sharpening.

[@jeffarmstrong1308]

Great to see the progress on this project. I only get to work on mine in between side projects (does that mean this is a side-side project?) and then only in two or three hour blocks once a week so it has taken me literal years to get done to this point. This is one time that I am making mine from bar stock and not the kit of parts. Those little discs would have bene frustrating to try and use.

[@paulmorrey4298]

Thanks Quinn

[@raymitchell9736]

Swarfy the Duck should respect your time and need to get work done, I 've the exact same conversations with my stuffed animals... uh oh... err... WHAT I meant to say was... It's coming along wonderfully; I can't wait to see how this tool sharpener project turns out and works.

[@earlledoux9824]

Great video Quinn. I ❤ you. 😊

[@tomdubya9217]

I love these videos...surely.

[@stevedaenginerd]

15:51 ah, someone trained in the mystic process engineering arts! 🤓

[@rexmyers991]

I love my ScotchBrite wheel too.

[@petervillano3484]

The return of the mystery cube gets me every time

[@paullehmor982]

The left side should have a sliding fit, not a clamping fit. The clamping action on the right side is sufficient. By tightening the left clamp you lock the angle of the arm, and it can easily move up and down the side of the table, keeping the angle constant. As far as I understand, the main reason for tilting the arm is to compensate for grinding wheel wear when sharpening end mills, so you follow the actual surface of the wheel. Work piece angles are then set by turning the work head.

[@Blondihacks]

Yah I figured this out when I tried to use it. 😁 I correct the mistake in the last video in the series

[@bfven]

You're shown the cute little duck before. Do you drive a jeep? Let's see your "duck pond".

[@JayFude]

Machining and semi truck driving have something in common. If you can see daylight, you are clear!

[@stevenhavener7327]

I am using, to good effect, ER to R8 collet adapter to handle Imperial/metric. Chinese ER collets are stupid inexpensive, even If you have to buy 4 sets to make 2 good sets. best regards Steve

[@fellipec]

10/10 Airplane! reference

[@ironmaidenkai]

airplane reference, binky reference... this vid has it all

[@disgruntledscientist]

Good Morning!

[@StevenStyczinski-sy8cj]

Your automatic coffee coaster placement dispenser is pretty interesting.

[@recklessroges]

This is a fun mystery.

[@andrewjames7616]

Thankyou👍

[@PatrickPoet]

thanks:)

[@Rebar77_real]

Slow and steady for that KZbin bread'y!

[@larrylewislarry]

I’m excited also, but I haven’t been this confused since I watched The Matrix 🤯

[@Suinsap]

I thought you’d probably collected all the chips and give them to someone who eventually melt them and do another bar, does it bother to have aluminum and iron chips all mixed up? Easy to fix with a magnet though. Also, could you have used a piece of noble wood? Maybe not oversized along the sides? My guess is that the noblest of materials (the one that comes from trees) has a tendency to shrink under pressure…? And that would not give you a solid bench..? But you didn’t square the aluminium bar either. Best wishes! You r the best

[@pressokaytocancel]

The Never-ending Mystery!

[@drewbrown9678]

The clamps on the left and right: why were they designed with two different size holes?

[@paullehmor982]

The right side handle has a M5 screw to make it slide smoothly in the slot. Contrary, the position of the left handle is fixed. A M5 screw there would interfere with the cut out in the clamp. The position of the hole is choosen so that the two clamping pieces line up nicely with the end of the arm. It looks great when finished!

[@chilifinger]

"We're in the short rows."😊

[@jeremylastname873]

Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing swarf.. 🎉

[@billdoodson4232]

"Have too". Exactly. I could do with you having a chat to my wife.

[@barclaac]

And how many of your viewers got the reference to "make the noise"?

[@larrylewislarry]

Quinn - what was the steel that you machined the two washers from? I need some!

[@jimsvideos7201]

12L14.

[@darrellstephen3085]

Finger of Cthulhu wanted to cut that shelf.

[@BarryLitherland]

ty 4 zmi.

[@cichlidae]

Wow, so that was airplane grade aluminium? 😂✈️

[@richardjamison711]

Roger

[@geosynchronous4386]

Praise the dark master.

[@mq172]

17:56 Vot! No *Yahtzee!*

[@jimsvideos7201]

Sending those two discs is proof that someone at the company has the same of ha-ha as the devil and housecats.

[@johnmoorefilm]

My uncle Tony was an Irish Olympic fettler….😂

[@donaldsutherland244]

Yah! I'm the eighth!

[@leighmackay7486]

KZbin’s most erudite machinist.

[@dakel20]

ehhhhhh... What's our vector, Victor?

[@dwaynepenner2788]

Roger, Roger.

[@dazbeamish8144]

yay im the first to comment

[@h-j.k.8971]

Concerning when machinists start playing with their ducks during work hours.

[@SuperAd1980]

Roger, Roger. Next time can you explain the correct vector Victor?

[@dirtapple1716]

Seriously you made a Shirley joke but missed the clearance Clarence joke?

[@dstenger]

In situ...look at you using fancy words.

[@ping6246]

I'm here!