Making a Helicopter Camera Mount Spacer | Machining & Drilling

how you going guys Kurtis from cutting edge  engineering today's job we have something a   little bit different so i have a customer that  has a couple of helicopters and he's asked can   we please make them a spacer to mount underneath  the aircraft to hold a camera mount it's not a   big job it's not complicated it's just one of  those little jobs we get through the workshop   if you take a look down here i'll show you what  it looks like so it looks like a millennium falcon   this is a aerospace grade aluminium the way it  works is that gets mounted up underneath the   aircraft and there's about a half a million dollar  camera that hangs off this so all we need to do is   make up a 20mm thick spacer that suits that center  pattern there just to space it off the aircraft   when they're doing their testing of this camera  once they've worked out and they've tested and   made sure everything works they will then have a  spacer manufactured to the right height they'll   delete this this one here off the actual frame  and they'll make one the right height they need   they just need to test this thing to make sure  everything's going to work and these cables   that suspend the two that is the shock absorber  that removes any vibration as the aircraft is   running and they're trying to film so what we're  going to use for this we've got a piece of 160 mil   25 mil thick machine grade aluminium so what  we're going to do first we're going to set it   up in the lathe we're going to face it off turn  it around face the other side to size we're going   to bore out the center to three inch and then  we need to grab it from the inside and then we   need to turn the od down to five and a half  inch then we've got eight holes to drill in   first thing i'm gonna do i'm gonna go get it  set up in the lathe i'm gonna start turning it sticky material because this spacer is not super critical on the  thickness of it and it's going to be quite hard   to get a measurement from there from the edge  of that on my calipers all i do is i just bring   the tool in i touch off off the inside jaw what  i'm going to back this piece of material out to   touch off on that that gives me a zero come  out 20 mil and i'll face it off so quick and   easy way to do it being that this is not  a production part it's just for testing   they said give us a spacer about 20 mil  so 20.1 19.9 either either it'll be fine tool height be a bit high 35.4 righto guys so we've completed the machining on  the inside we've faced it we've got it to the   id and the thickness now we need to machine the od   because my jaws of my chuck can't go  down so i can fit the plate over the jaws i need to make up a mandrel  that i can put the plate   on then support it with the tail stock and  just use basic friction to keep it in place   and then i can machine the od down to size  so what we'll be using is a piece of three   inch induction hardened chrome bar i have  a plate here that i put a live center in   i push that up against the job using the tail  stock and then i use basically that plate to drive   the plate i'm machining so we're going to get that  set up now and show you how it's done it's not   probably not the best way to do it but  i don't have a plan b so this will work not bad for a touch-off job righto guys we've completed all the turning that we   need to do on that spacer we do need  to drill the eight holes in it now   i will be using my super indexer super indexes for  those who don't know are basically a rotary table   except in the super indexer you have multiple  plates you can put in the back of it to do   eight six so on and so forth holes all accurately  so all you have to do is pull the lever spin it   around to its next notch and then you can  drill the hole and we'll end up with eight   perfectly spaced holes a few people mentioned  in the last time i use my super indexer why   don't i just use my digital readout i got  brought up with one of these our machines   where we used to work didn't have digital  readouts on them i waited a long time to   get this now that i have it i'm just going to  enjoy using it so we're going to set that up 60.95 righto guys so we've  got it set set up in the um   super indexer now we used our little wobbler  center finder to find the center of the part   now that that's done i've got the hole spacings  now we have to do is just offset it and we can   drill in our eight holes so we've taken our  whole spacings which is 121.9 divide that by two   advance the table over to 60.95 from  where we are now is our hole spacing just debur these holes problem with ally grubby fingers stand out forever righto guys we've completed our little spacer  now from start to finish a job like this will   generally take about an hour that includes all  your setup time all in all pretty quick little easy job turned out pretty good pretty happy with  that the customer is going to be happy they'll be   able to do any testing and making sure things  work on the aircraft that this will be mounted   on it could be as simple as they just needed  a bit of extra room to get around something on   the aircraft or they've changed out the gimbal  mount or something like that this won't actually   be flying in the air hanging off a helicopter this  is solely just for the positioning of the camera   underneath the machine once they've proven that it  works that everything moves where it's supposed to   engineering will happen someone will then  redesign the part removing the first spacer   that's already on here someone will then  manufacture that out of the correct material   it'll be anodised and fitted on the  machine still pretty cool that we can help   and build a little cheap component for  something that's worth half a million dollars   and will be flying around our skies  here in australia so very cool job done ready ready ready so ready so yeah we'll bore out the center  to thr just oh [ __ ] me thr oh [ __ ] hard talking in bananas 5.5 mil in diameter or 7 30 seconds i think they were   [Laughter] i think freaking banana talk [ __ ] yeah it's confusing 5.5 mil so easy 7 30 seconds that's what the hell what were they is that time  are you talking in time 7 30 seconds oh anyway is it co-ordinates to somewhere [Laughter] who knows i probably spent 15 minutes  looking for the piece of material   i knew it was here i just wasn't sure where very sticky material [ __ ] sticky [ __ ] you're [ __ ] kidding me HUH i'm a tits and ass man here we [ __ ] go hey mate what's happening not bad for a touch-off job   touch-off job [Giggle] so that's why i'm using it  very good so so take that [ __ ] you haters did you actually i need to go slow-mo that footage hmmm ohhh [Laughter] oh they're gone forever always make sure your table's  locked before you drill your first hole yup but i want to explain a bit more about the  rig okay so we'll go back down to that then   i'll hold it okay okay you haven't talked  about that yet so [ __ ] sake well you haven't i didn't   say put that in just like i don't know are you going to be using that boring bar yes want it out of the way yeah i should explain that actually  well yeah what did you just do right ready well no what go 60.95 this way or that  way and it'll still pick up the hole centers   well do you want to do you want to somehow explain what you've just done right so much shine what are you doing can i take it out now oh yeah come on good boy

Channel: Cutting Edge Engineering Australia

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Id: 2pDw8C8965I

Length: 25min 37sec (1537 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 01 2021