ewlsey
Diamond
- Joined
- Jul 14, 2009
- Location
- Peoria, IL
I like browsing youtube for interesting videos related to metalworking, machining, and machine repair/rebuilding. However, at least 99.9% of the videos I find are home shop hobby guys dicking around on toy machines (Tormach included) and moaning about the high cost of everything or bored retired guys who endlessly wax poetic about the old days of manual machining.
Where can I find some decent videos of guys doing cool shit at a pro level? There was a guy who posted here a few years ago, Abomb79. He has a youtube channel with some good content. He's definitely a pro. Tom Lipton has a channel with some good stuff but it's buried under piles of useless crap about hammers and esoteric minutia related to every detail of machining. There is Keith Fenner, but something just rubs me the wrong way about that guy. Some of the repairs he does are good but others seem like he spends 2 weeks scratching away at something to avoid spending a little money to have someone with the right tools do the job for him in a fraction of the time. Plus he's always trying to sell a bunch of junk.
There are corporate videos which are just adds for new machines or tools. Some are interesting. Most are not. I can only watch so many impellers be machined on 5 axis mills.
I know that it's only logical that the hobbyists would dominate. The pro guys are busy making money and it takes a lot of time to make a decent video. Plus they probably never assumed anyone would want to see something they do every day.
Any suggestions? I intend to make a few myself but time is an issue for me as well.
Where can I find some decent videos of guys doing cool shit at a pro level? There was a guy who posted here a few years ago, Abomb79. He has a youtube channel with some good content. He's definitely a pro. Tom Lipton has a channel with some good stuff but it's buried under piles of useless crap about hammers and esoteric minutia related to every detail of machining. There is Keith Fenner, but something just rubs me the wrong way about that guy. Some of the repairs he does are good but others seem like he spends 2 weeks scratching away at something to avoid spending a little money to have someone with the right tools do the job for him in a fraction of the time. Plus he's always trying to sell a bunch of junk.
There are corporate videos which are just adds for new machines or tools. Some are interesting. Most are not. I can only watch so many impellers be machined on 5 axis mills.
I know that it's only logical that the hobbyists would dominate. The pro guys are busy making money and it takes a lot of time to make a decent video. Plus they probably never assumed anyone would want to see something they do every day.
Any suggestions? I intend to make a few myself but time is an issue for me as well.