The Flexichuck - A Bendy New Way To Hold Weird Parts

[@rbdesignsnh]

man props to whoever did the editing because the animation of the forbidden love child had me absolutely DYING.

[@Blondihacks]

This is a one woman show so that would be me. Thank you! ☺️

[@NateD77]

That was a good one Quinn. 😂

[@natthewsmith]

*pixelation increases for escalating depravity*

[@bobbob1730]

I am absolutely amazed you are able to produce interesting, entertaining, high quality videos so consistently while doing it all yourself. I don't think people appreciate how impressive it is

[@rbdesignsnh]

​@@Blondihacks i wasn't sure, but my goodness that was absolutely hilarious.

[@motobenbh4722]

I'm never going to buy one of these (cos of reasons); but this channel is what got me from ''someone gave me this lathe thingy'' to ''yes - I can make stuffs''. Thanks Quinn. Me and my 80 year old 'Zyto' are truly grateful. Sadly my raw materials are anything cylindrical I find in the scrap bins at work - which may explain my conspicuous absence from your list of Patreons.

[@RonCovell]

Clever tool, great explanation, hilarious animation. You're at the top of your game, Quinn!

[@JohnRineyIII]

"It appears to have Flexi'd, now let's see if it actually chucks." Excellently and succinctly put, Quinn!

[@TheBookDoctor]

That style of work-holding is so akin to how wood turners hold bowls by a mortise turned into the bottom of the bowl, which then makes me think it would be absolutely :chef_kiss: to see you do a Frank Howarth style bowl turning video, except out of metal.

[@martinpanev6651]

I second that :) Needs the calm voice and the cinematic video too ;)

[@wayneswonderarium]

Quinn's got the freehand turning tool 🤷🤣

[@mpetersen6]

The big problem with expansion collets is heat. If the work gets too hot it can expand and slip. I made a number of expansion collets out of Aluminum and engineering grade plastics. Delrin and Nylon mostly. I also made some Emergency Collets similar to the small ones you can see advertised in Home Shop Machinist. Except the ones l made would hold diameters up to 1.75 or so.

[@mpetersen6]

I've wondered in the past if some of the better wood chuck systems could be used with pie chuck type inserts as an emergency collet system.

[@mpetersen6]

If you love machining Cast Iron you would absolutely adore Graph-Mo or Graph-Air. Graph-Mo is O-6. Graph-Air is A-10. Machinability is 110 or120. Chip formation is very similiar to cast iron. They are graphitic toolsteels that feature high resistance to galling. Originally developed by Latrobe Steel. Latrobe is or was owned by Timken. As l understand it the steels were used by Timken for the manufacture of tapered roller bearings. Also they are low distortion steels when properly heat treated. Hsd a heat treating class taught by a Meralurgist who used to work for Lattobe. Plus he worked for Aampco. That another interesting material. They specialize in Aliminum Bronzes. Their first alloy they brought to market around 1910 was an Aluminum Bronze alloy developed for use as cutting tools for steel. Outpreformed the High Carbon cutting tools of the time.

[@JellyFishMachine]

An expanding mandrel? an expandrel!

[@StephenZabel]

OMG :) I totally lost it at the animation of the love child

[@richardlincoln8438]

Your abilities as an educator are appreciated Quinn. I am here for the machining but Your humor seals the deal. Thanks again and Best Wishes to You, Your Family and Friends.

[@ralphmartini2863]

Ms. B, thank you every so much for freely sharing your knowledge and experience, Ralph from Phx AZ.

[@EngineerRaisedInKingston]

My eccentric engineering shopping basket is getting "heavier" by the day, in large part thanks to your videos 😁 Evidently, it's only going to get heavier now. The "lovechild" section really cracked me up as well 😂 Awesome content as always.

[@AndJusticeForAll...1985]

You're very knowledgeable. Great vid.

[@peters9929]

So ultra proud to see MADE in AUSTRALIA engraved on this product. We made so many things in AU in the past. Time to bring it back, Well done guys

[@thethinbrownduke6412]

We're not all yobos 😉😜😜

[@peters9929]

@@thethinbrownduke6412 lol

[@keithpattison6763]

Hello Quin, when I went to trade school in the 1960's, for my trade of fitting and machining, machining of gears, etc, were made of cast iron. This was carried out before lunch and your comments on cast iron dust are spot on. In the afternoon, we went to our drawing class, white paper of course and even after washing our hands, the leftover cast iron would come out of our skin and get all over the drawing sheets.

[@scottb8175]

When I was an automotive/race engine machinist, daily machining and grinding of cast iron made everything in the shop look filthy. But, older Cadillac engine blocks and heads were made of a very different cast iron than the rest of the GM, Ford, and Chrysler stuff. It was much cleaner to work with and machined more like a free machining steel. Without any tooling or machine changes, the Cadillac stuff machined to a brighter, smoother surface when all the others generally were dull gray. It even smelled cleaner. Lots of nickel, I think.

[@JanBinnendijk]

these are nice and handy tools.. I made something similar 'bout 10 years ago, and it is a great way of holding things on the tiniest of features, like holding a watchcase in the seat for the glass.. that's only 0.8 mm deep.. works a treat! The only thing is, i drilled a hole straight through, with a conical seat at the front, and i pull a conical piece in there with a piece of threaded rod through my spindle.

[@zrobotics]

7:19 "Cast iron is wonderful stuff" - Yes, I know it machines well, I just really hate the mess it leaves behind to the point where I will avoid machining it. Especially on the lathe, those small chips it generates just seem to fly hundreds of feet and end up all over the shop instead of in the chip tray. I know you addressed this with the chip brush comments, but I'm curious if anyone has any tips for keeping the chips at least semi-contained when machining it on the lathe.

[@imqqmi]

Magnet?

[@crichtonbruce4329]

@@theseldomseenkid6251 I do this with the vacuum a lot, it works a charm. I've used magnets some, but then you need to clean the magnet.

[@norfolkflyingboyz2404]

Sending you ❤. Another great video. Thank you.

[@Preso58]

Best tool ever, and highly underrated. Make Australian Manufacturing Great Again! MAMGA😂 Cheers, Preso

[@nurgle11]

Making Australian's Great Manufacturers Again (MAGMA)

[@brucelonsdale8422]

Too right mate.

[@cameraforchristmas]

Tommy Bar? I learned a new term! I always love that. I think Tommy Bar sounds like some kind persuader that a bartender might use. Also I heard but didn’t understand from context: bayonet mount. I’m sure that’s a mounting intended for close-in hand-to-hand combat machining. However, I intend to go off and make sure I’m correct.

[@bouchikhiabdelghani7203]

Hello, you are really talented. Good luck

[@courier11sec]

Thank goodness I finished my coffee before watching this, or I'd be wearing it after the love child bit.😂

[@heighRick]

Thanks Quinn, helps a lot!

[@gregorythomas333]

Pretty dang neat tool...and definitely love the animation :)

[@Lukers_tinkering]

Lovely video! You guys are so lucky with the tooling you have commercially available. Typically, we need to make these...

[@williamfausett5200]

I don't subscribe to much, an I already know enough about most tools to not need instructions. If I do it's not enough to aquire subscribing lol but u got my subscription. Well done. Funny name especially since ur definitely intelligent, an I like the way u educate. I bought a metal lathe an that has required more edjumucation then I'd normally need , I'm definitely gonna watch more even on tools I already know. I gotta feeling ull make sure I actually know everything I need to know lol. Well done

[@garychaiken808]

Great job. Thank you 😊

[@swordfish1120]

Good vid. Question: How would you hold down the shaft on a 1/8" burr bit (for rotary tool) if you wanted to turn it down to 3/32"? The tricky part is the head on the burr is 3/8" egg shaped tungsten carbide bit. I'd like to do this on my lathe, but I can't think of way to hold the burr head in my 3 or 4 jaw chuck without destroying the burr head.

[@bluegecko6770]

Thanks for the introduction to this new part holding device. In your final thoughts you covered my burning question about the consumables great video

[@johnmoorefilm]

This is a nice crowd, so indulge me while i tell you a story about happiness : I worked in the entertainment business, fat pay checks and private jets….miserable. Now? Saturday evening, a Quinn video and it’s bliss…funny old game.

[@robertberger8642]

Great!

[@tonyperez716]

Quinn, I recently found your channel. You do a great job explaining what you are doing. Not sure you’ve ever revealed this, but where did you get your apron?

[@ikkentonda]

I think you will be surprised how often you use this. I’ll be astonished if it’s LESS often than the 4-jaw. A huge fraction of the parts I machine have a simple central bore with complex but concentric features on the OD, yet most people always try to hold on the OD. See Rovi expanding collets for a similar idea. Make the consumable aluminum (or leadloy) mandrels😮 yourself - Gary is awesome, but shipping consumables from Oz is just silly. Make a bunch.

[@JonatanGronoset]

I see cylinder end caps for the A3 switcher. ;)

[@HippoXXL]

Yeah, cast iron is great, as long as you don't wanna weld it. Greetings from Germany, Marcus

[@LaraCroftCP]

Oh, another German! Hallöchen

[@HippoXXL]

@@LaraCroftCP, hallo aus Lübeck! 👋

[@redoorn]

Hiya Swarfy, good to see ya. :-)

[@davidwillmore]

What are the tools that you put into your bib pockets at the end of the intro? Thank you.

[@nephewbob7264]

I did not know that cast iron was self-lubricating. Now I do. Thank you for that.

[@eliduttman315]

There's more than 1 type of cast iron. Most common are gray and nodular iron, which do contain graphite. However, in white iron, the "excess" carbon is present as ferric carbide. White iron is too hard for machining with HSS tooling. Tungsten carbide is just hard enough too cut white iron, but will not hold up. CBN tooling will definitely work on white iron. Traditionally, white iron was ground to size.

[@firebird8600]

Yay!! It's Blondihacks time!!!

[@briancleveland2082]

Where did you find the hex key with the big plastic handle on it? I have been looking everywhere for a long handle 10mm with a big handle and I can't seem to find anything like that.

[@lynnmorton7544]

Are the four brass parts for the locomotive?

[@OceanViewLocomotiveMachineCo]

Hello, those look like A3 cylinder head decorative covers.

[@deucedeuce1572]

I always thought drilling cast iron would be hard, because it's brittle and grainy. Thought it would want to crack.

[@ryanmgill]

i am getting This Old Tony vibes from this origin story...

[@robertoswalt319]

I probably won’t get one of these chucks, but I am the proud owner of a pair of the diamond shaped lathe tools. Thanks to your showing how functional they are, I decided to add the pair to my collection.

[@CreaseysWorkshop]

You did a much better job of explaining it than I did in my review.

[@taranson3057]

The event of creating the love child was hilarious, kudos to the creative creator. Awesome tool is right, I may never have a need for one, but ya never know. I always look forward to watching your videos, the tools, side projects etc, can’t wait to see what’s next on the Pennsylvania A3 build.

[@deucedeuce1572]

There's graphite in cast iron?

[@marcfruchtman9473]

Thanks for the review of the flexichuck.

[@locomotive110]

Keep checking as machining progresses as expansion is the enemy of this holding method.

[@RealLatinGeek]

Seems like a perfect fit for small production runs. Being able to have a specific flexi for specific steps in the process, and then working through the parts in sequence, would more than make up for the value of the "consumable" chucks. Imagine running through a series of watch casebacks, decorative dishes, trays, lens hoods etc.

[@lohikarhu734]

I wonder, dear ex-🇨🇦 Quinn, if there * might* be any issue with axial runout ( I mean the angular "wobble" rather than radial runout) with different orientation of the 4-jaw chuck when remounted in a "random" orientation?

[@Jerguu]

Hey, uh, for no reason whatsoever, could you provide a video of how to fix what you described not to do at 3:49? Totally no reason at all - just curious!

[@davidgibson5756]

An inside out collet chuck?

[@stevee5668]

@ 9:00 The lower extension line for D1 is not located to the top of the taper. Can't help it, it just jumped out at me and I can't unsee it.

[@improvsax]

I recall you saying you have a ELS (James Clough) setup- but never installed. Did you ever do it? I have a 1030V and installed one. Probably best thing I’ve done for it. Super quiet, no mucking about with gears and very nice to adjust speeds on the fly. Thanks for the vids.

[@russcole5685]

Designed and made in Australia. Philtec. They slso make model ic engined

[@markloving11]

Hmmmm, those test pieces look a lot like the decorative end covers for a 3 1/2” gauge A3 Switcher cylinders to me🤔

[@Blondihacks]

🤫

[@ShopHumor]

Great video as always. Thank you.

[@johnapel2856]

That's neat! But did you really need to pixelate the love scene? I mean, we are all adults here. Yes, we are! ARE TOO! ARE TOO! Oops... sorry. Thanks, and Meow to Sprocket.

[@joe-wt7oe]

Love your videos. Sometimes when I miss one I go back and leave one of your playlists playing at 1/4 speed to boost your watch time

[@filepz629]

❤️‍🔥

[@0xFEEDC0DE]

Cast iron milling moment (TM)

[@mr.b2232]

👍😎

[@BarryLitherland]

Rated MA for Machinist Animation

[@angelowentzler9961]

That lovechild animation lol

[@RustyInventions-wz6ir]

Very interesting. Nice tool indeed. I enjoyed your video thanks.

[@h-j.k.8971]

Why are they called Tommy-Bars?

[@paulmorrey4298]

Thanks Quinn

[@davidyates748]

Hopefully you didn't have to wait 9 months for that little bundle of joy Quinn! 😁

[@thethinbrownduke6412]

Love your vids, love the humour, you're a Champ 🏆 😜

[@stephenbridges2791]

I wondered if that fixture was a consumable. Then, right at the end; you said it was. Pretty cool special purpose tool.

[@zachaliles]

I'm glad you blurred that out.

[@nocturnhabeo]

1:35 what the heck! I need eye bleach now

[@lescrooge]

That would work really well when you need to make shim washer/spacers. pretty cool.

[@DAKOTANSHELBY]

I bought a new PM1030V lathe last year December 2023 and a PM 5C collet chucks which was on back order. PM shipped the lathe right away, but now it's early October 2024 and they have not shipped the collet chuck. I've called them over the last 3 months. Last call they said they expect a order of 500 to arrive and I might receive mine in October. Still waiting. Did not want to cancel the order because I liked the cost vs quality aspect of the chuck from PM vs other suppliers.

[@TheMadManPlace]

I'm wondering how good a wood lathe chuck would work here. The type that is used for bowls.

[@manythingslefttobuild]

Great video Quinn, looking forward to seeing what you use the flexi-chuck for next. Did you get the 2011 or 7075 grade adaptors?

[@Blondihacks]

These are the 2011

[@lohikarhu734]

I wonder if cleaning the aluminum gripping surface with IPA between operations might improve the grip? Conversely, a light touch with 320 grit, by hand, to avoid making "lines" with the abrasive, as would happen if you used the abrasive cloth on the spinning "Flexi chuck" machined surface... BTW, I've not been on your channel for a bit, not being a model-maker, nice to see you, you have a really pleasant presentation style, nice voice, and no discernible "accent" 😉🇨🇦

[@johnmoorefilm]

Great tool!❤

[@bill3641]

Did I miss any mention of pricing ? I went to their website and found that they are inviting inquiries, but no costs are listed?

[@leestons]

Which probably means they cost a fortune. I bet Quinn wouldn't use them if not provided for free.

[@bill3641]

@@leestons Well, they are very shiny...

[@charleswelch249]

I can see you using this tool for some of your products. I like the idea it's not a set dimension, and it's designed for you to customize your own profile.

[@jimsvideos7201]

It seems to work pretty ok. 😀

[@akda5id]

I wonder if when using the consumable part down to the 'nub', it will preform worse due to the feature you cut into it becoming less parallel when expanded, than it would have done further from the flexure pivot point. Still worth it for what it does though, I think, even if you have to buy more of the consumable bit than you might first think.

[@yowie0889]

Perhaps Mick Jagger had a cast iron chips brush when he saw that red door he wanted to paint black.

[@briswolf]

Great episode :)

[@tonyn3123]

New-to-me type of chuck. But then, almost everything in machining is new-to-me. Thanks.

[@seldendaniel8819]

Cool tool indeed!

[@johnmoorefilm]

If you make a cuck ON a chuck, whi chucked the first chuck? Like, do boxes come in a box?

[@scottb8175]

Going to guess at what the brass parts are - the cylinder head covers for the A-3?

[@helipilotuh1]

Didn’t know this was filmed in Japan 😂

[@mattomon1045]

cool new tool !

[@seanalexander9531]

All hail the algorithm 😍

[@_BLENDRR]

I liked the "Al Lowe" moment.... Larry in VGA

[@thedabblingwarlock]

I think you missed your calling, Quinn. Not too late to start a career as a comedy writer. 😆

The loose graphite in cast iron makes the wood plane I was lapping last week make a lot more sense as to why my hands got so dirty. Learn all sorts of things from Blondihacks, not just machining!

[@joshclark44]

4:48 ooo treasure!

[@g.tucker8682]

Prediction: heads

[@r1mein54]

how many blue pills did the part need to achieve the right hardness for the mating? Neat lathe accessory.

[@billstoner5559]

Cool Tool.