CNC Workholding Solutions - Designing a new fixture for making The Truer Skewer

The Truer Skewer is a bicycle wheel building tool I designed in 2021 and make in my garage/shop. I wanted to improve the manufacturing process and decided to design new fixtures. In this video, I talk all about it.

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[OctaneWorkholding]

Cool seeing our t-slot covers installed at your shop!

[CallanChristensen]

That is a huge process improvement! What an optimization of small scale manufacturing. I can’t imagine how frustrating it must have been with the Mk1 process after you got a couple dozen into production and realized your processes needed simplifying. Hats off to you though for out-slicking yourself and rethinking your assembly fixturing system from scratch! Thanks for showing it to us!

[gillisdebilio]

On vacation from cnc programming and still watching cnc stuff. I can't push cycle start button but I can push the subscribe button. Nice work

[BigAlS]

Thanks for the peak into your manufacturing process. It's always nice to see how others tackle efficiency and "headache" issues. Very robust cycle and follows the one-piece flow, or JIT mentality.

[tegheim]

Very well done! As a machinist for 20 years (and mountainbiker/maker), I really like this approach. Keep it up!

[AmericanMakerCNC]

The art of fixturing! Both fun too watch and educational. Nice job.

[jasonwilliams]

I would use a pallet system instead of vices but good work mate, keep it up!!!!

[Sean]

Nicely done brother! I always have said to people when they ask what is the hardest thing about being a machinist, I say how am I going to hold it.

[ChrisMurrayEWC]

As someone still trying to learn machining I definitely love content like this!

[samuelt]

Nice improvement!

The rod ends seems to be accessible in your fixture. To me it seems that you could mill them to length and then use something like a lollipop style endmill to deburr/chamfer the ends with a quick XZ circular motion...
Just something to consider.

[nicksetudeposturale]

omg, congratulations! I'm in the same boat trying to optimise production. Thanks for sharing

[TrekSLDuraAce]

As a Cyclists 🚲, Bike Mechanic 👨‍🔧, and Tool Maker/Machinist/Engineer I understand your enthusiasm. You've made some valuable improvements to the process, but you're not done yet!
Once you have everything setup, I'd like to see your mill in action. Let's see where we can shave off some cycle time. 😁

[jasonh]

Cool fixtures man!!! It’s a constant battle for sure and this new solution is awesome! Great job man.

[mrsnrub]

Well thought out and nicely executed. Thanks for sharing

[KUGW]

Very cool, I need to clean up my vise, I can watch machining videos all day long lol

[Cthorins]

Awesome setup you have there! Just purchased a one.

[johnpaulcarter]

New subscriber here - liked everything - the technique and also the shop (new to machining).

[billstrahan]

Great improvement. A few things 1) write down your machine offsets for g55 and g56. At some point you might accidentally setup a one-off job on your machine and forget which WCS you’re in. If you can just type the offsets back in it’s way faster than proving.

And 2) if you love that you would really love a Pierson pallet system. The vises would move to a pallet, so they’d never need to be trammed, and you’d make pallets for any new parts you have. I started production with large fixtures clamped in vises, and still do that to prove an approach to fixturing or get a part in production, but I can’t imagine making the thousands of parts I’ve made in the last 18 months without the pallet system.

I’m
Enjoying your videos and appreciate you sharing!!

[xyzspec]

Well, you got a new subscriber 😁🙌🏻
Nice content 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[praveenkumarva]

My doubt is how do you locate both jaws every time u remove them, caz when I remove n try to install them they are not perfectly aligned