Some of these are painful to watch

Can I have some of whatever unobtainium alloy that drill bit at 1:20 is made out of?

Also, those slow feed lathe clips are like watching a truck wreck in slow motion, you know something bad is gonna happen, you just aren't quite sure when.
 
Thankfully most of these are cheap hobby machines, but yeah all of that was avoidable. There's a few videos on youtube of tombstones getting knocked off HMC's and stuff, now that's $$,$$$.$$ every time, just the spindle can be $30k.
Still can be easy to make a mistake though, only takes 1 out of 100's of things that have to happen perfectly, and sometimes machines have the own problems that cause it. Had a brand new machine almost wipe itself out last year due to 1 screw coming loose... I was happy...
 
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Most have moved to smashing Haimer 3D tasters and probes.
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LOL! Yep.

Yeah, mostly hobby grade machines, so best classed as....educational experiences. Most of those wrecks cost the owner a couple extra minutes getting his mill trammed up and loss of the materials he started with. Broken end mills are pretty cheap education, really.

Laughed most, I think, at the inside cleanup of the hex part in the vise, where it spiralled up and out through the side of the part. Have read tales of shops doing lights out machining (unattended machines working with feeders, in the dark, with nobody around to check) that pulled stuff like that. LOTS of parts only fit for recycle.

Sometimes the learning curve while getting a handle on all the 'little' details, feels like running full speed into brick wall. The Military shop I learned in, the CNC equipment had been run by a guy that outright lied about what he knew, refused to pass on any knowledge, and generally was a useless POS. <spit> I hope he ends up in the hands of Doctors that were treated the same way when they were trained.

I've done a lot of those that made the video. But I did actually try to make sure the guys that came along behind me, knew what I learned.
 
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