Full profile button cutter. By Clickspring. 3:05 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDiBYHSHq7k
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Full profile button cutter. By Clickspring. 3:05 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDiBYHSHq7k
I don't know what a "full profile button cutter" is used for.
Where can I see one performing?
Yeah, these goofy vids that start off and don't show what they are making or how it is used only receives about 10 seconds of my time 5 at the beginning and 5 at the end if that.Quote:
Originally Posted by rayh__
Yes I agree, but maybe that's why this channel is named Clic spring
It's for you to Clic many times ...
-That title might be thought of as some sort of a New Year's Quiz, but it's actually pretty explanatory,
IF you've seen (the late) John Stevenson's method of having two spaced, hardened buttons as a quick & dirty form tool
for turning and relieving a DIYed involute gear cutter (of your chosen # of T and its pitch/ Mod and PA).
Writeup (for the happy few of us not too hungover today): Cutting Involute Gears with Form Tools | MetalWebNews.com
Mike's Workshop: Making gear cutters - mikesworkshop
Thor Hansen's PDF (Pics within!): https://thor-hansen.webnode.com/_fil...uteCutters.pdf
Cheers
Johan
PS: Personally I don't see myself "wasting time" at Clickspring's site, anytime. But to each his own I guess?
How he uses them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cml_ZaleUuk
Anybody who thinks time spent at Clickspring's site is wasted must already be a master machinist. Anyone who isn't a master machinist could profitably spend quite a bit of time there. Among things he shows how to make are hand-cut files, a replica of the Antikythera machine, and square broaches. I suppose if you're only interested in CNC, his site and videos might not be of much use to you. If you have any interest in the history of tools, how things came to be the way they are now making things, or in making interesting and unusual things, he's worth checking out. YMMV, of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by DIYSwede
Bill
Asking for quite a bit from a 3 minute video. OK. When making a gear cutter blank into a gear cutter, you can cut one side of the gear cutter at a time, or you can cut both sides at once. "Full profile" tells you it's to cut both sides at once. The same Youtube channel can show you the cutter in this video being used, and the whole process of making such a cutter, and using it.Quote:
Originally Posted by rayh__
The guy is a wizard. And he shows how to do things quite well. He also knows how to show others how to do what he's doing.
Frank's a wizard, too, but he sometimes expects people to get how to do what he does when it is not obvious to those of us who are not wizards.
I've spent much of my spare time the past 7 years learning how to be a machinist. In a good week, I might get 5 or 6 hours of practice. 6X7X52=2184. That is the maximum time I could have effectively learning machining in the past 7 years. Assuming I got to go every possible day, every week of the year, for seven years. Not a good assumption. Minus a week of fall break, another of spring break, and two of winter break, sicknesses, too tired to go, etc. I've maybe got an actual 2000 hours. To become an expert, you need (so they say) 10,000 hours of practice. AFTER you know what you're doing, I believe. I ain't there yet, though my teacher says I'm becoming a decent machinist. I'm 66 years old. If I live to be 100, I might, maybe, possibly, get to do that 10,000 hours. Five years of 8-hour days, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year, and I could have that 10,000 hours in. Sure I could! ;)
Bill
Here is a gear being cut with a cutter made with the full profile button cutter tool, or perhaps the large button cutter tool. Lots of ways to do it. That particular channel is just short clips of various things. The main channel has the full procedures for smaller projects, and the series for larger ones. The Antikythera machine sequence, for example, starts with him making the tools a Greek mechanic/machinist would use to make the original of that machine, including the files used, back when that machine was created perhaps as early as 205BC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iu2sYW4a3Q
And here is a preview of the Antikythera machine video set.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRXI9KLImC4
Bill
Ok I didn't know this channel. I guess the initial trouble is simply because the video has been posted out if its context.
Most of what you do is with wood. And in that material, I think you also qualify as a wizard. I'm a wood butcher. I find metal working easier and more forgiving than wood working. ;) in other words, MY mileage varies quite a bit!Quote:
Originally Posted by Christophe Mineau
For those who don't know "Clickspring," his YouTube channels are well worth the price of admission, even if you just want to be mesmerized by the work he's doing and the quality of his work. As his name implies, he does a lot of work with clockwork mechanisms. I've been subscribed for years, and he never fails to post something interesting. The shorts are either excerpts from longer videos, or they expound upon some method he used in one of his other videos. That man is a master with a file, at the very least! (There's even a video on hand-making files.) And he doesn't really use a lot of specialized gear, working with a small combo lathe/mill, a scroll saw, and hand tools for the most part. Try it, you'll like it!
True that, every word.Quote:
Originally Posted by schuylergrace
Bill