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0 pointsbsder3y ago0 comments

> Abom79

What in particular are you referring to that could have been designed on CAD in 15 minutes here?

Normally, whenever I have seen an Abom79 video doing something, it was some big-ass part that they were doing manually because either:

A) they were refurbishing something so they had to kind of cope with any non-idealities that arose

B) the part was very simple but was just a really big-ass part that really didn't fit well on anything so that had to kind of make it up as they went along.

Of course, it could just be that I don't really watch Abom79 videos unless it's about some big-ass part, so I could very well be biased.

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kragen3y ago

Yes, quite commonly he spends several days making a part where he gives you all the dimensions and tolerances in three minutes at the beginning of the video, and the reason it takes several days is that if at any point he screws up, the part will obliterate him, his lathe, both, or his client, so he doesn't rush anything. And, yes, he spends a lot of his time coping with non-idealities. These are among the reasons that whipping up a quick Perl script is so much faster than whipping up a quick hydraulic cylinder.

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