Let's actually get those Two Stroke Cylinders done already.

Welcome back to my garage. Been a while, much longer than I expected. Sorry, I'm sorry about that. And thank you for still being here and thank you for still supporting me on Patreon. And I'm sorry for not, it's okay to take some time off, not so okay to not say, you know, so I'm sorry about that. Been a couple of rough years. On that subject, BetterHelp is the paid partner of this video and they're on a mission to make starting therapy easier. Solving your own mental problems alone is hard and often counterproductive. It's hard being the problem and the problem solver at the same time. And there's like a haze, like it's hard to see clearly what's going on. A therapist can help you see things from a different angle and create a safe space for you to share your thoughts and help you solve underlying problems that you might not even be consciously aware of. 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So I'm using this and I've been using this for many years now. Well, not the same filter, but the tank. Could be the pump, but I think more probably it's the the nozzle. So I'm gonna see if I can have a look at that. Well, it's probably this being clogged, but I have a feeling I'll have to get a new one that I can't properly clean this, I think because of the filter and stuff. And of course, I'm out of brake cleaner. So I'll soak it in acetone for a little while here and then blow it out with compressed air. And hopefully that helps. And hopefully this is the problem so we can actually get back to work here now. too conservative with the feeds and speeds. I noticed some ridges here, almost as if the tool wasn't as big as it was supposed to be. And so I made a new toolpath with more overlap to fix this. And I haven't run that yet, because I wasn't going to say we're back in business, because I always do. And then it turns out we're not. But this time I really feel we're back in business, because a classic two stroke stuffing mistake. Because the diameter here is also two millimeters off. And why is that? Well, because in the software this tool is supposed to be 10 millimeters, but it's eight. So classic two stroke stuffing mistake. Classic two stroke stuffing. Classic Alex mistake, actually. Easy fix, but I have to go inside and tweak it in the software. I'm reading like 99.96, 97 max here. But it's hard to, like this is not the most accurate measuring method. Preferably I want it to be a little bit tight, rather tight than sloppy. So there's a nasty half cut through little sliver here. I'm just gonna cut that off before we mount this in the lathe and start turning. So we won't have like this thin piece flopping around. So this will be quite a bit of turning before this is flat. Hooray, my tiny little weak lathe. Well, good thing I didn't cut anymore, because that is, that's not as tight as I wanted it to be. I think it's tight enough. Now let's see how terribly off balanced this will be and how long I will have to spend turning this flat. It's not too bad. Okay, I'll see you in 10 to 15 hours. Getting this to where it's now clean and straight and all that took all of yesterday. Took longer than it had to though. And that was my fault. I was blaming the lathe for being too weak and making me have to take really, really tiny cuts, which I had to do. But here's the waterfall of chips. This is half of it. The other half is on the other side. But you can clearly see, this is the beginning. And you can clearly see the point where I switched out from a dull insert with a favorable geometry for a strong machine to a sharp insert with more rake and stuff for more suited for my tiny little machine. And you can see the heat generated in the chips here. You can also see some points where more heat has been generated. And that's where I, so this is where I broke the tip of the insert and had to flip it. So that's kind of cool, isn't it? The stories you can read out of this. I've tightened up the belt as much as I can now. It is the wrong belt, of course, and use some belt dressing, some sticky spray for it not slip. So hopefully, the drilling here with the bigger drill bits will go okay. So this is the plan here. I'm making a mounting plate for my cylinder, the PIP2 cylinder, so that I can machine the bore, get it ready for plating. This operation will also take a very long time with my tiny little broken weak lathe. And that's time I don't have today or this week. But so thanks for watching. And I feel we're backer in business than in a long time. So crossing fingers, I won't just disappear again. And I don't think so. I don't think so now. And next week, maybe two videos, at least one. And we'll get this done now. I think it was probably three months ago, I said I was gonna start machining this. See you next time.