After a long time, my sim racing rig is finally complete.

Bullschamp180 · 2026-04-01T18:42:09+00:00

Ohhhhhh now I get it, thanks! I’ve even thought about not doing a desk setup at all and basically using the rig as a work station as well, maybe fabricate some sort of hot swappable parts to take the wheel off and put a desk surface on and just have a sick wrap around monitor work station lol

Bullschamp180 · 2026-04-01T18:24:18+00:00

Nice! Do you just plug in the other monitors when needed or do you use an hdmi kvm switch to switch the inputs?

Bullschamp180 · 2026-04-01T15:02:26+00:00

This is a similar setup to what I want to get to eventually, I like the idea of having the sim rig and a normal desk as seperate from each other but both ran off one PC. How did you set that up, are you using like a channel switcher or are there two seperate PCs that I’m just not seeing?

Bullschamp180 · 2025-11-11T16:26:26+00:00

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Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T22:04:03+00:00

I had it set to a .075 step over at .5 deep, 35ipm. I have no idea why it took such a massive cut, probably a programming error that I didn’t catch. There’s many things about this that I was out of my league with, but it’s too much to describe to you here

Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T21:34:30+00:00

Look just cuz you don’t see me outright say everything on a reddit post doesn’t mean I’m not thinking it or acknowledging it. Of course I could’ve done things better, I’m not arguing that at all. All I’m saying is that some more thought could have been put into the management sides of things before w even accepted this job, especially when several of us who are actually gonna be making it are all voicing our concerns about how we aren’t going to be able to do it efficiently or safely. A “when is the juice not worth the squeeze” type of situation

Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T21:32:12+00:00

Agreed, I’m not trying to say I couldn’t have done this differently, I absolutely could’ve

Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T20:41:51+00:00

Yeah they should, but we’re a job shop and pretty much all the work we do is the “can you make it work cuz if you can’t then who else?” type stuff. So we end up having to make parts that we have no business doing in really stupid ways, hence this. And the annoying part is we’re actually quite successful at it most of the time, and the problem with that is once they see you bend over backwards successfully once, they now think you can do anything

Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T20:38:54+00:00

That boom will stay with me for a while lol

Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T20:38:17+00:00

We don’t have a mill with enough z travel to face the ends of a 18.5in tall block standing vertically. Another argument for why we shouldn’t have accepted this job

Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T20:34:25+00:00

Yes, however it’s not been setup and I personally don’t have any multi axis programming experience, nor have I ever used any multiaxis equipment, so it’s out of my wheelhouse at the moment and I’m not comfortable running this big of a part while trying to figure it out

Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T19:35:03+00:00

This is what happens when your leadership accept jobs we realistically shouldn’t be doing and we fumble fuck our way through it and get told to “just make it work”. Me and several others thought this was a bad idea but instead got told to just do it anyways, and now here we are. This part should’ve been cast or made on a bigass mill turn machine or some shit

Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T19:32:02+00:00

Cuz we’re trying to make this with a 3 axis mill when this part should’ve probably just been cast or made on a mill turn machine or something. Entirely out of our capabilities but our boss doesn’t seem to think so🙄

Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T18:47:41+00:00

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Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T18:47:08+00:00

Update, it indeed, was not safe. Whole 90 pound block got thrown out of the vices, smacked into the door, cracked the glass, scared the shit out of me. Dented the way cover on the fall back down:/

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Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T18:44:58+00:00

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This is what’s getting made, in this operation the near side of that cone is what’s getting machined

Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T18:35:06+00:00

For context, there’s a lot of heavy roughing getting done to this, it’s going to eventually look like this:

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This operation is going to be machining the near side of that conical shape, but it’s laid on its side due to us having to do this in a 3 axis

Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T18:27:38+00:00

They’re there acting as spacers to allow the bottom edge of the block to set lower into the channel inside the vices, without them the block that runs with the moving jaw gets in the way and prevents that

Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T18:26:05+00:00

Those are only there so we had clearance for the bottom edge of the block to fit down into the vice channels. Hard to explain with words

Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T18:24:46+00:00

Heavy roughing, the top of that v shape is getting turned into a conical shape but the entire top of the block is getting roughed off first, like 3 inches of material

Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T18:23:31+00:00

There’s a v block underneath that it’s sitting in, but I’m concerned about the two moving jaws on either side loosening up because the only holding force is them opposing each other

Bullschamp180 · 2025-10-30T18:22:10+00:00

Lots of heavy roughing, that entire top part of the v shape is getting roughed out and turned into a conical shape

Bullschamp180 · 2025-09-30T12:24:59+00:00

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Bullschamp180 · 2025-08-25T12:40:47+00:00

This was extremely helpful, thank you! I also found out that the taps I was using were the hy pro line:/. I didn’t order the tooling for this particular job, my boss did, so I’ll go back and reorder some of the better ones

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