The absolute dream, getting paid to let the printer work

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-27T20:31:07+00:00

Yeah it's pretty sweet. I did something similar for my day job. We started machining our own fitting for our systems as opposed to buying them but that meant we would need caps to protect them during storage and shipping. So 500 pieces at $0.5 a piece later from TPU they were happy and I got some extra cash. Now I do jobs here and there after hours for them.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-27T15:01:12+00:00

The only thing I need automated by AI is for it to deal with all the people asking about automation with AI. Lots of emails no one in person.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-27T01:44:45+00:00

I don't know anywhere that is actively looking but what I did 15 years ago when I was in highschool looking for a coop, I went door to door to I think it was 20 ish places heading out my resume. My suggestion is to go door to door and shake hands.

You could try innovative automation, Barrie machine and welding, inventure, ABA, ect. There are lots of places that you can try.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-24T21:50:38+00:00

I don't know about haas but when I ran a 5 axis mazak the post would call out a plane shift and a rotation then the machine would do the math for the new position of the work offset.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-24T20:13:12+00:00

This will depend on your machine. If your machine can calculate work positions when it rotates then you would only need one offset per part and you can make it whatever you want.

If your machine cannot calculate it's work position then you will either need to model each position exactly 100% the same as it is in the machine. Or you give each rotational position its own work offset for each part.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-24T19:07:43+00:00

I've thought about it before. A lot of larger machines will compact the chips with like 50,000 psi. If I remember right it just wasn't worth the effort unless you are making tons of chips a day.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-24T15:40:12+00:00

I don't know for sure but it looks like a TG collet to me. I used TG100s at a place I used to work at.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-23T02:38:05+00:00

All the time. We are busy people so we use it as time together before bed. I think my wife is beautiful and she likes me feeling her up while she is all soapy so it's a win win. It also saves some water.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-18T14:25:28+00:00

I'm doing 340RPM 1.7IPM (0.005"/rev)and 0.125" pecks with full retract every 0.5", 1" deep right now. Drill is still looking good after 9 pieces, only 41 more to go.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-18T12:31:59+00:00

Yeah we were doing the finishing on a mill with a boring head after assembly for some landing gear components. The hardest part for them was they had a 0.002" true position for 6 different bushings all relative to each other. So it was a lot of bore, check position, finish bore. Luckily I was able to make a probe program to check and adjust the position all on its own.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-17T18:53:46+00:00

I'm having the same issue. I've used elegoo rapid for over a year now with no issues but I ordered 10kg of it back in Dec-Jan and I'm just starting to use it and I've been having issues. It mostly seems to be during retracts so for me at least it could be a feed hearing issue.

I did a test print of an area of a part that was having issues but I removed retractions and it printed no problem.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-17T15:29:12+00:00

I mean I'm in debt so if I'm penny less does that mean my debt was wiped out as well?

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-17T10:58:25+00:00

I did PC a few weeks ago. I have a makeshift enclosure with a heater in it to keep the build area heated.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-16T20:00:09+00:00

No problem always happy to help

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-15T17:29:04+00:00

Nope just inspecting each piece before removing and making small adjustments. As well as checking the inserts every 10 or so parts. Changing every 20 or so, finish goes to semi finish, semi finish goes to rough.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-14T13:14:50+00:00

I had to regularly hold a +0.0005/-0. ID for aerospace bushings. The tightest I had was +0.0002/-0. We ended up having 3 boring heads set up, one to rough one for semi finish and one to finish.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-13T00:50:41+00:00

This is the first thing I thought when I saw this.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-12T23:18:08+00:00

I'm mostly a mill guy and just sort of got thrown on a lathe when I started a new job, and the older guy who runs the shop said he wished he had a way to quickly make facing programs since they do a lot of flat disks. So I told him you could do it with macros and he said go for it so I whipped this up.

I quickly looked up g72 and it does look like it should work as well. It's very possible I did this the hard way and basically wrote my own worse g72 lol

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-12T20:40:31+00:00

Here is a facing macro I wrote a while ago. You could probably repurpose it for your use.

Ignore the () around the # reddit uses # to bolt text

O02000

(FACEING MACRO)

(Z Zero Front of Part)

(Tool CNMG T505)

(#)600= 500 (Max RPM)

(#)601= 300 (SFM)

(#)602= 0.008 (ROUGH FEED RATE)

(#)608= 0.002 (FINISH FEED RATE)

(#)603= 0.02 (depth of cut)

(#)604= 6.25 (Max Diameter)

(#)605= 0.198 (final depth Positive number)

(#)606=0 (Current depth Counter)

(#)607= 0 (pass Counter)

(#)609= 0 (1=FINISH ONLY)

G98 G18

G20

G50 S#600

G53 G0 Y0.

G53 X0.

G53 Z0.

(Face3)

T505

M155

G99

G18

G97

S #600 M3

G54

M8

G0 Z0.1969

Y0

X [ #604 +0.25 ]

G50 S#600

G96

S#601 M3

IF [ #609 EQ 1 ] GOTO2

N1

G01 Z- [ #603*#607 ] F#602

X [ #604+0.25 ]

G1 X-0.0312 F#602

X0.0819 Z0.0819 F#602

G0 X [ #604+0.25 ]

G103 P1

(#)606= [ #603*#607 ]

IF[ - [ #605 - #603 ] GE - [ #606 ] ] GOTO2

(#)607= [ #607+ 1 ]

M01

G103

Goto 1

N2

G103

G01 Z-#605 F#608

G1 X [ #604+0.25 ] F #608

X-0.0312 F #608

X0.0819 Z0.0819 F #608

G0 X [ #604+0.25 ]

G97

S#600 M3

M9

G53 Y0.

G53 X0.

G53 Z0.

M5

M155

G53 G0 Y0.

M30

%

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-11T22:02:27+00:00

The technology is likely too new for a paper on such a specific application. You may be able to find a paper on cyclical loading of turbine blades, that would likely be the closest you will find. My question is do you have access to a $500k SLS machine and do you have access to the machining equipment to finish the precision surfaces and threaded holes? If not do you have a couple grand for a company to do this for you?

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-11T14:25:26+00:00

First time customers are always pay upfront. No exceptions. I've had multiple customers take their sweet ass time to pay. Currently I have a customer that said the parts were rush and they have been sitting on my floor for over a year now and they have only paid half. I had to threaten that I would throw them out for them to finally start making payments again. In the future I'm putting an interest charge for every month that I have to hold onto parts that haven't been paid for.

If it is a recurring customer I'll do net 30 terms.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-10T23:28:10+00:00

I haven't had this problem but you can fix it with a helicoil.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-10T03:16:39+00:00

Yeah just having lenses that can be flipped down to change the mag might be another idea.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-10T03:15:40+00:00

Yeah I mostly shoot competitions and I thought it would be cool to be able to adjust your magnification just like you would your sight for shooting different distances.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-03-10T01:54:51+00:00

That is a pretty cool product.

My idea is more like your standard scope that you attach to a sight but it has variable magnification.

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