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Upcoming Q&A (Patreon)

Published:
2019-08-07 03:51:05
Imported:
2026-06

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Hey Patrons!


We're approaching the one year anniversary of the Blondihacks YouTube channel and I want to do something fun, in the form of a Q&A. As my loyal and honoured Patrons, you get to ask the questions! Comment on this post below with your questions, or you can message me privately if you prefer to be anonymous. Ask me anything! I'll try to answer as many of your questions in the video as I can. The video will come out some time in September.

Thank you all for being awesome. I know I say this a lot, but you Patrons are the reason this content exists at all, and it means a lot to me that you vote for what I'm doing with your wallets.

-Quinn

P.S. Sprocket says "meow" which either means "hi" or "murder". It's hard to be sure with her.

Comments

Robert Garthwaite

Quinn, I'm confused with a spelling issue. Don't you mean "Sprocat"?

Kelvin D. Olson

The picture of the cat that occasionally blinks onto the screen has me curious and perplexed. I think ONCE I saw it appear at the same time as some filing-screech noise. But then, some other times I saw it appear, it didn't seem to be associated with a particular sound. What are the parameters which factor into the appearance of the cat?

Trevor Flowers

Are there good purchasing and training resources (in addition to Blondihacks!) for newbie home-shop machinists? I'm interested in finding a good example of a starter set of tools, a guide and source for materials, and then training for those tools.

r mcpheely

Do you have any tips on navigating Youtube/blogs for accurate information? Looking at the comments on other videos can sometimes be confusing -- people seem to enjoy disagreeing and it can be overwhelming! Also: Do you think a cat is the optimal companion for a DIYer? And can we have a Sprocket Lens video? :-) :-) :-)

Amar Kulo

I think that lathe skills series is missing video about threading, both internal and external, would love to learn more about it. Small tips and tricks, like one you shared you learned from Joe Pieczynski about external threading away from lathe instead like most of people do. Also I would like to know more about oils and fluids, what do you use for cutting, what for general maintenance of tailstock or headstock, etc.

Chip Wood

Mostly I’m curious about how you got started. So many YouTube machining videos show someone making some useful lathe attachment on their mill or vice versa. On one video, you showed a nice round metal block that your dad made for you. Did you start with his shop and then gradually buy your own equipment?

David Hicks

In the lathe series, you mentioned looking up speeds and feeds in reference books. What are some of your favorite handbooks, references, charts, tables, etc. Thanks!

Jim McCorison

I'll soon by buying my first metal lathe. I too have settled on either Precision Mathews or Little Machine Shop, although I'm favoring PM. Having lived with your lathe for a while, how happy with it are you? If you were to get a do-over would you stick with the same choice or spend a little more to get something like the 2HP PM-1228VF-LB instead?

Marc McKenzie
>>25533425

Trevor, i just spent a year going through this if you’d like a phone call or two? Frank Hoose did that for me, and sure helped....

MR MARK BRUTTON

Yes to the Q&A most definitely, Quinn. So many questions I could ask. And after much thought, I pick this one. There's tons of instruction on the angles to which you can/should grind a cutter (and I am for the present working only with hand-ground HSS). But what is the proper angle of cutter to work? Is there any sort of universal rule? Excluding form tools and parting-off blades (which are form tools of a sort) I surmise that ... how to describe it ... if you imagine a right angle where one side is the surface you are machining and the other side is perpendicular to that, your cutter should sit within that right angle with the same degrees of angle to either side. So if the angle across the front of your tool were (keep it simple) 45 degrees, the angle of attack would be total 90+22.5 degrees on the advancing side, 22.5 degrees on the trailing side. Does that work for you? I suppose what I am most asking for is some views down onto various single-point cutters, set ready to do their work. That would be most useful.

David Wurmfeld

I have just started watching and you have already helped me with some turning finish issues I have been having (pics to follow). Would you consider a scribe project in the future? Thanks again - David Wurmfeld, Falls Church, VA

Blondihacks
>>26454387

That's good news! I'm glad I could help. I have thought about doing a scribe, and I may still, but Clickspring's is so good that I'm not sure the internet needs another one. :) I made his scribe as one of my first projects, and I use it to this day.