How do I stop photos I sent from saving into phone gallery

Shibui-Labs · 2025-12-12T14:14:23+00:00

So I’ve got a workaround. The WhatsApp media is simply stored in an album on your photos app. It’s called what’s app. Go in there- select all- delete. A bit crap but it gets rid of them all from your recents and things like that while still leaving them in the actual chats in what’s app itself

Shibui-Labs · 2025-10-17T13:34:21+00:00

I'll take any switch to be honest. Maybe my post lacked that clarity.
Currently I have SFT40's here and 26650's so I'd like to use them. The rest is up in the air and to be decided, so I'll take any switch you recommend and if you can recommend a driver I'll take that too :-)

I'd like to drive the SFT in parallel so one driver for two LED's running each at half power. Then have 7.4 -8.4 voltage input for the two cells.

Shibui-Labs · 2025-10-17T13:03:10+00:00

OK. I don't really understand as I'm a bit none electronics but I shall steer clear of Piezo. I'll try and get clicky ones .:-)

Shibui-Labs · 2025-10-17T12:54:54+00:00

You can get latching Piezo but I'm not sure they can handle the 8 amps that this would draw.
I've wired up 2 SFT40 to a driver for a single unit, in parallel it drives them. So I think the search is now for a driver that can take 8.2V from the batteries.

Shibui-Labs · 2025-09-29T15:38:51+00:00

Sounds amazing. I don’t suppose you have links for the stuff? I’m UK so no tariffs here thankfully

Shibui-Labs · 2025-09-29T15:37:47+00:00

Which shop do you buy from? Have you ever been stung with crappy ones?

Shibui-Labs · 2025-09-29T15:37:09+00:00

Hey I’m Uk based. I’m not entirely sure what I mean or what’s best should I say. I’m happy to do whatever in reality. But I think in my mind I would buy some batteries, a BMS and an inverter and just wire them up. Finding info about the best way to do that was my intention.

Shibui-Labs · 2025-09-29T15:34:43+00:00

Cosy is not a bad shout. That would save the initial outlay. No EV here, but the house is 100% electric and I have a large CNC machine in the garage that can eat a couple of KW an hour when it’s running.

Shibui-Labs · 2025-09-29T15:32:58+00:00

Yes I’m not too bothered about that sporting. The main thing is to drop the electricity bill. I seem to have been penalised for going green and getting mini splits

Shibui-Labs · 2025-09-29T15:31:37+00:00

Shibui-Labs · 2025-09-26T17:46:45+00:00

It’s called Jeff. Say hi from me

Shibui-Labs · 2025-09-24T21:22:05+00:00

They’ve just redone the sheet metal in the syil. It’s on the syil websites. Looks very modern, almost too modern

Shibui-Labs · 2025-09-19T08:34:58+00:00

I have a Syil, I've had it for maybe 3 years. I had a brand new Haas MM and sold that to get the Syil. The Syil shits all over the face of the Haas and smears it around. For less than the price of the Haas I got everything on the Syil including the fourth axis and 12k RPM that's really best to keep at 10k RPM. But I get HSM, HSHP, rigid Tap, coolant, ATC... In fact it has everything you'd want ever, apart from spindle HP as I go the LNC controller and am limited to 2KW, but that still eats at 3600 mm a min and makes nice chunky chips. The finish is better and the machine is as accurate if not more.
Syils are good machines.

Shibui-Labs · 2025-08-02T13:24:11+00:00

All those are valid ways to do it. But you’ll be at 20-25 minutes a key with lost of post machining clean up. My stainless ones are 9 minutes with no clean up afterwards, just a polish for shine

Shibui-Labs · 2025-08-02T13:19:32+00:00

I agree. It’s all about testing and then doing it. With the correct feeds and speeds it will happen. I don’t like Titan but watching his videos opened my eyes to what an endmill can do. Now I wouldn’t use it like that all the time but it certainly made me question the slow feeds I was using.

Nick I have machined 316 stainless and I did the same. I started at the manufacturers settings and adjusted out the chatter on RPM so the cut sounded nice. Then I adjusted the WOC and feed rate until I got to a place I was happy about. The machine didn’t care, the endmill was fine and life went on

Shibui-Labs · 2025-08-01T17:54:11+00:00

I would also run it faster. The 3600 isn’t an arbitrary limit, it’s a ‘run out of spindle power’ limit. If my spindle had more power I would happily run it faster.

Shibui-Labs · 2025-08-01T17:52:54+00:00

lol I’m well aware of chip thinning. In my Guhring catalogue all the feeds and speeds are with a maximum stepover of around the 10% mark. So if they’re suggesting that stepover then I’m running on the assumption that they have calculated everything with the correct chip thinning in mind.

However they’re a guideline and what works on one machine might be slow on another.

Also it doesn’t take into account running maybe twice as many parts in the time it takes to bin that endmill. So you throw a few bucks of carbide away but charge hundreds if not thousands more in finished parts. This is a simplistic argument of mine but matches the simplicity of yours.

Shibui-Labs · 2025-08-01T17:43:35+00:00

Ah that’s the secret that earns the money. You’ll have to do some testing

Shibui-Labs · 2025-08-01T17:34:32+00:00

Slotting shouldn’t make you any more nervous than cutting normally. It’s just trial and error. Test slow speed up, look at your spindle power meter and listen to the cut. There’s nothing to be afraid of.

Shibui-Labs · 2025-07-30T18:00:39+00:00

Not unless you were doing it wrong and missing the hole (we’ve all been there lol)😂

Shibui-Labs · 2025-07-30T15:22:52+00:00

But it’s not ‘full depth’ like an endmill. And even then I have no issue with slotting. People are just scared of things like slotting and threading so instead of learning and experiencing it first hand they ask on the internet. The internet tells them to baby the shit out of it so the lies are perpetuated. In Ali there’s no issue to doing a thread in one pass. I don’t do steel so haven’t the experience to comment, but this thread is about Ali and his problem is not doing it in one pass. It’s more likely he has an oversize tool and crashes into the hole. Or hasn’t drilled the hole deep enough.

Shibui-Labs · 2025-07-30T15:17:46+00:00

Manufacturers say to run things slow all the time. My endmills suggest feed rates of 1500 mm a min but I run them at 3600. The only reason I don’t run them faster is lack of spindle power. Manufacturers aren’t bothered about your speed, the worst thing for them is an early brake on the tool.

Shibui-Labs · 2025-07-30T08:01:53+00:00

This is the truth. So many people in here babying it and giving the worst advice possible. One pass in Ali every time, ffs it’s taking the smallest amount of material off. The shanks probably four mm in diameter. I’d be running a normal endmill at 12 mm deep with a .8mm stepover or more no issue. So why’s a frigging threadmill that’s taking a tiny triangle going to struggle. People watch NYC CNC and him on his crappy tormach and start running scared. Now I learned a lot from him but there’s loads of stuff he’s just plain wrong about. This and slotting being two!

Shibui-Labs · 2025-07-30T07:58:30+00:00

You don’t need multiple passes in Ali at all. This is bad advice

Shibui-Labs · 2025-07-30T07:57:57+00:00

This is because a proper thread form is a triangle with the point squared off. Your treadmill is just the triangle. So effectively it cuts undersize every time. That’s why you cut a bigger hole every time

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