Square knife spacers on a cnc lathe - Square pegs, round holes.

Come along with me, as we journey into the world of material science, and making square things on round part making machines. Startup - 0:00 1:15 - What we're working on 3:00 - Orientating the sub spindle 6:59 - Aligning a cut spacer with the sub 8:25 - 24 hours later, after spending some money in carbide 8:55 - Explaining how I lined the sub spindle up 12:24 - Indicating the sub spindle jaws 15:30 - Explaining the importance of jaw closing distance 16:23 - Final concentric check between the main and sub 16:45 - Machining a spacer 18:27 - How I machine the hourglass like shape of the spacer 19:26 - Live milling the square 20:40 - Drilling / tapping 22:44 - Finished part before transfer 23:00 - Aligning C axis 23:48 - Final alignment check between main and sub 24:18 - First time clamping between spindles 25:35 - Code overview for transfer 30:26 - Final boss stage 31:12 - Explaining the sub orientation subprogram 32:18 - Jaws soundtrack 32:35 - Taking candy from a baby 34:16 - Things didn't work very long 35:00 - The grand plan 35:46 - Outro Spoiler alert, tig welding rod isn't harder then 4130... But you know what is? Drill bits.