Another Shop Video!

It makes me so happy to see you mention Clickspring and ToT. I watch their stuff all the time. I'm impressed how easily you handled that titanium. I understand that it can be a real pain to machine because of how quickly it work hardens.

I liked the subtle (sort-of) humor of "missing that one fitting size" and "in-character Mtn Dew bottles laying around".

Thomas Howlett

You never have too many vise-grips. Just like C-clamps.

Mark Trombley

You need to separate your male and female locking pliers, they are over-breeding their environment.

RivCA

Damn, man! That was absolutely awesome. Unlike others, I prefer to have the vid without narration. It's cool to just see what is being done and infer based on context. Looking forward to the next video!

Doc Nickel

What? The *part* is titanium, the *cutting tools* are carbide and HSS. Why a titanium pin? Well, in the older days, top speed- that is, the fastest rate of fire (ROF)- was king. Reducing the reciprocating weight of the cocking assembly to make it fast as possible was the "hot trick". Plastic pins tended to wear out relatively rapidly, and stainless steel pins were considered "too heavy". Aluminum worked just fine, though, but just for the sake of the exoticness of it, several people have tried titanium. And in this case, I had the bolts with no other real use or need of them, and I needed a small, simple project to try filming and editing. TL;DR version: 'cause I could. :)

Jenifur Charne

I watched the video, a mere 15 minutes after it had been posted last night. Absolutely great video Doc. The way the scenes were set up, to start, it _felt_ like a TWB strip.

Nice lathe! But why titanium instead of HS steel?

Doc Nickel

Oh, I am *so* swiping that... :)

Doc Nickel

Gimme time, gents, I'm *very* new at this. :)

Doc Nickel

Hey, consider yourself lucky you got readable handwriting. :) This is literally only my second-ever video that actually has any kind of real editing in it, and even then I kind of had to brute-force my way around it. :) Audio and captions and all that sort of fun stuff comes later.

ClickSplat?

Juha Linna

So there's some truth about Doc consumption of mountain dew :)

deefdragon

technically a style thing, but I am also one for narration myself.

Curt Hartung

very watchable, but only watchable, I can't do anything else since it's totally visual. I think the visual gags work but I want voiceover. I want you to talk about not needing coolant, what it takes to work titanium, what lessons you learned, what that crazy collet is with a hex head?! I didn't know they even MADE those.

Rod Shampine

Kind of a thrill to see one of my Titanium bolts getting an actual application! Those suckers have been sitting in a drawer for, um, decades...

Spoons

It's like paintball click spring!

John Arpin

Nice! My only suggestions are narrating the steps - what you're doing. The result made sense when you showed the before & after at the end, and what the bolt pin was for. Until then, I was just along for the ride. A cool ride!

A. J. Alfieri-Crispin

It’s amazing how you are able to take some standard stock part and make it beautiful. I’ve gotten lost on this guy’s YouTube channel, some of the stuff he makes is insane, and he’s totally addicted to his lathes and CnC machines I hope you enjoy it. https://youtube.com/channel/UCIa8y0yR-ABojLCpxX8BgDA.