Machining the Tube for the Finder Scope

[@JohnBlaze505]

The stars have finally aligned!!!! 🎉

[@LaneyMachineTech]

Ha!

[@orange-micro-fiber9740]

Welcome back! :D

[@steejans]

Good to see you posting again!

[@LaneyMachineTech]

Thanks!

[@NavinF]

The king has returned!

[@stephenrobertson2197]

Any chance there will be a continuation of the air bearing videos?!?

[@LaneyMachineTech]

I'd very much like to go back and finish that series, yes. A lot has changed in the intervening time though. I no longer have a need to make a DIY ultraprecision lathe because our shop got one donated. But there are some other fun inspection fixtures I wanted to share that use the air bearings.

[@Engineerd3d]

Very nicely done. I hope to see the rest of these in the coming months.

[@LaneyMachineTech]

Thanks! I'm trying to crank them out as fast as possible for my students.

[@Engineerd3d]

@@LaneyMachineTech thank you for also sharing with the world! Awesome to see this as a hobbyist I love the techniques.

[@PracticalRenaissance]

Oh I am excited for this project!

[@LaneyMachineTech]

Me too 😁

[@iplop]

Glad to see you back! 🥳

[@LaneyMachineTech]

Thanks!

[@LimitedWard]

He's alive! This knowledge is effectively useless for me. My job has nothing to do with machining, and yet somehow I watched you make a really fancy tube for 30 minutes.

[@LaneyMachineTech]

Haha! Happy to waste some of your precious time.

[@outsidescrewball]

Enjoyed..great video production/discussion/instruction/demonstration/build

[@bdgackle]

Hey, just noticed you are back on YT. That's awesome! I loved your auto collimator series. If you ever get around to building that thing I would watch the heck out of that.

[@christopherkarg6546]

I love all of the things that you post on Instagram but I have been really missing you long form yt videos. Either way keep up the amazing work!

[@LaneyMachineTech]

Glad you like them! I have been wanting to get back into YT for years and these instructional videos were a good opportunity.

[@kuglepen64]

OMG IT’S HAPPENNNNNNNNNIIIIIINNNNGGGG

[@rkalle66]

You missed to mention that treads taps usually have a transition part before threads are cut in full. So you have to check whether you get the required thread count with full specs.

[@LaneyMachineTech]

This was mentioned in another video I did for my students and I also sized the lead chamfer on the threads to basically cancel out this effect.

[@pahom2]

The draft is so cryptic. Why dimensions are so tiny and what is Aluminum?

[@jasonpowell8582]

Hey bud, whatever happened to part 4 of the anodizing series?

[@LaneyMachineTech]

You mean the air bearing series? I'll pick it back up eventually. Many other priorities at the moment.

[@radiusnorth1675]

I'm hoping for some context . When finished what willthe finder scope "do" / be used for??. Thanks for your videos

[@LaneyMachineTech]

There's a bit of an explanation in the video description. The Finder Scope is the student project in MACH 210 - the intro course in machining and manufacturing at Laney College. It's a low magnification refractor telescope with an integrated altitude-azimuth mount. It is intended to aid in finding objects of interest in the night sky when using a larger, higher magnification reflector telescope which will be the capstone project in the machine technology course sequence. These are instructional videos I use in my course to guide student lab work.

[@radiusnorth1675]

Thank you@@LaneyMachineTech