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Recently I printed a couple of puzzles from Thingiverse to take to work and frustrate my colleagues. For some of them the puzzles were relatively easy. Others are still frustrated by them. Now that I’ve tested my coworkers it looks like some of them need me to ramp up the challenge a notch, so I’ve started designing a few puzzles …
On New Year’s Eve I put together a quick 2017-2018 light painting image. Here’s a quick run down of how it came together. The Scene It’s cold here in south-east Michigan, so I didn’t want to go too far in temperatures around -15degC, so my backyard it was. The original plan was to use the trees as part of the …
A few nights ago I sat in my basement staring at my cache of light painting tools trying to figure out what to do. I messed around with a few torches with filters but nothing was quite turning out the way I wanted. Then came my go to for fun – the $2 battery powered LED string. As light painting …
An interesting process that creates a very useful hole in metals is friction drilling or flow drilling. Rather than using a fluted drill bit to cut a hole, friction drilling uses a conical bit coated made of a high heat-resistant material from the ceramic family to form the hole. In this process the bit is pressed into the target body …
Using investment casting to make hammers from Titanium.
I love to see what is really happening at the interface of a cutting tool and there is no better way to see it that slowing down a high-speed video. Ingersoll Cutting Tools have once again made a high-speed video of one of their tools in action. This one is their Quad Drill+ cutting a half hole in 1018 mild …
Here is a short video from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers that takes us through the hydroforming process for both tubular and sheet products.
A quick video of some CNC lathe operations to make an egg shape in 6061 aluminium.
Watching a multi function machining centre do its work can be mesmerising. Here is 8 minutes and 40 seconds of chips and swarf flying courtesy of Machined Component Systems. A series of lathe and milling operations are show on what I am guessing is mild steel. It was nice of them to turn off the machining fluid for us to …
Stratasys shares how Rutland Plastics utilises Polyjet 3D printers to make jigs and fixtures for their operation in this video. According to Rutland Plastics’ engineer Simon Grainger, by manufacturing their jigs and fixtures using a Stratsys Objet350 Connex 3D printer they save time and money when compared with the alternative of machining them from wood, metal or plastic. It also …
