I made a bolt with MAZE threads - Don't strip these threads! - Can you solve the puzzle?
In this video I will make an even more complicated and difficult to solve maze bolt puzzle. I started by designing all of the parts in Fusion 360. Then I 3d printed each part using a plastic called PLA. Next I coated the 3d printed parts in a special ceramic slurry called Suspendaslurry. After that I placed the shells into a kiln and fired them at 1500° F to turn them into a ceramic. I filled the shells with bronze consisting of 92% copper and 8% tin. Once cool I broke off the ceramic shell molds to reveal the maze castings. Next I cast the bolt heads in a special sand called Petrobond. Once cast I machine all of the pieces on the lathe and milling machine to fit together.
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DUDE those castings were crisp as heck man. Absolutely beautiful details
this is the actual way to make art castings or other high quality ones i never understood why some still use the a clearly outdated process that make low quality
@@darkplasmo7921 Whats the "Clearly outdated process"?
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Damn man I’m new here but you work is spot on!!
That's exactly what I thought! Perfect straight lines and no blemishes at all.
Awesome result. I can see how having all the “dummy” set screws makes it way more difficult
Thanks!
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This is one of those videos that I expect to just click through and see the end result but that whole process was beautiful to see start to finish. Such a cool project
I do the same
The workmanship on display here is absolutly inspiring!
You've really become a proficient machinist! Single point thread cutting is an achievement no matter how you look at it and as always your casting and finishing is stunning. Really well done on this puzzle it is beautiful.
100% agree!
Ive been single point cutting threads for ages, it never stops being a worry.
but it’s satisfying every time you finish! I actually find it therapeutic to single point thread on a lathe. Haven’t done it since college. I really need a lathe at home.
Thanks! I appreciate it!
my machinist teacher only taught us Single point threading and it was maddening. But hey now i know it!
I can't believe how well the mould comes out. I expected bubbles and rough artefacts but those were perfectly straight lines. Amazing.
Super impressive results, amazing threading, and I can't help but envy the amount of detail captured by your maze cast! I'm now getting into pouring and forms, and man is this the kind of inspiration I needed!
That's absolutely fantastic work! The maze type pattern as a surface texture alone looks stunning.
wow, very impressed. i was a bridgeport operator for 20 years and your video brought me back to those days.
This is a great video and it shows how well you've progressed with your foundry work. The castings are so crisp and detailed they look as though they were CNC machined. And I love the way you incorporate the machine work into your projects - it's another layer of skill that most will never attain. Keep up the good work on these pieces of art and the videos that accompany them, it's always such a treat to open up KZhead and find one of your videos waiting for me to view!
These turned out amazing! I'm always impressed with how nice your polishing always turns out!
Beautiful work, and great process to get there. I'm surprised how cleanly you got the detail of the 3D prints, and with minimal post-processing of the castings. Excellent craftsmanship and presentation!
Every single part you did was superb and great to watch. I audibly went, 'wow', when you sandblasted the left over ceramic, amazed at the detail. Really well done!
I've really enjoyed the videos you post. I'm definitely amazed at all the molds that you have been able to do using 3D printing techniques. Keep up the great work.
I cannot tell you how many wood working, wood turning, sword/knife making, Japanese bowl making and other videos I've watched. This is one of the coolest ideas and projects I've ever seen!! The process is extremely similar to how we dentists used to cast gold crowns and how jewelers cast gold jewelry pieces. Wax forms, instead of plastic. Different investment material and the gold is spun into the forms with a centrifuge. But, still, very similar. Really great job!!
Sweet and polished outcome! I love the entire process from forming/melting/casting/polishing/finishing...the complete vision! And, the final product is a beautiful piece of art...well done!
It’s totally rad how awe inspiring you’ve become with machining. I loved that part the most about this video. More in depth than the foundry, which don’t get me wrong I love too. Last note, you should send one to Chris Ramsay and see if he could solve it. He’s a puzzle guy on KZhead.
I was thinking the same, but I think chris may have done it before?
i love that you left the mahcining marks on the outside of the nut, it adds such a nice look to the end result. fantastic puzzle.
These things are *gorgeous* -- wtf. Really well done on the process here, too. They're so complex but incredibly well made. Kudos!
Another beautiful creation. I am a big fan of the way the set screw filled nut looks.
Polishing the high points of the maze came out amazing. Looks very good.
I needed to see this. Thank you!
did you? really?
I love this! It was so cool watching you make these intricate mazes from scratch.
This is the future of anti-right to repair
lmao, I can already imagine Apple and Tesla acquiring a patent for something like this and calling it "user-protecting security screw" or some bullshit :'D
The shape of bolts to come
Yeah don't tell apple about this design.
Oof! Don’t speak it into existence! Horrifying.
I hit this with my big hydraulic ugga ugga impact wrench I will make all the threads go in one direction
can bronze be blued? it would look nice with darker grooves
It can be darkened but not really blued.
@@robinson-foundryaluminium and anodise it ❤
Bronze is so purdy polished you don't want wreck.. brass even more but steels and aluminium you can anodise afterwards
Go ahead and do it yourself
It can be “blued” (turned black) just like copper and brass. But the term of bluing isn’t used for bronze.
Awesome work, the puzzle looks amazing and really shows off your attention to detail!
I think what's most impressive to me, is that beyond the immaculate craftsmanship and aesthetics of the objects in general, you also managed to design an entire maze, in 3d, on a *cylinder* and then just kinda glazed over it entirely like NBD.
There are tutorials for it. You just generate a maze on a website, import it into your chosen design software like Fusion 360 then wrap it around a cylinder.
A true craftsman at work. Thank you for sharing.
Wow man, the quality of work in every step of this project is truly impressive. I want one of those on my desk made out of solid copper and or titanium. Great work, thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing your amazing work and artistry with all of us! Not only your creativity and excellent machine work but the quality of your video - such great shots and editing! It was very satisfying to watch you work even though I know almost nothing about these processes. Thanks again!
These are beautiful. I print puzzles for my nieces and nephews for gifts with money inside, but this takes it to a whole new level of gorgeous. Wish I had the equipment (and skill) to do something like this.
It puzzles me how one person can make something so amazing, on the first try too! Props to you sir.
Great job! You really turned your work into art.
No pun intended 😂
Thank you very much!
@@theorangebaron1595 Sorry, I dont get It.
Turned, as in on the lathe.
Great video! The lost PLA method to cast is so cool! I love the final result!
Glad your process works so good no channels clogged in the pattern
The workmanship on display here is absolutly inspiring!. DUDE those castings were crisp as heck man. Absolutely beautiful details.
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Very impressed with the use of liquid porcelain, the outcome is spectacular!
This is probably one of the coolest and most satisfying things I've ever come across. Almost makes me want to start casting my own pieces of art!
I just discovered your channel today. It is good to see that someone found a practical use for 3d printers. I noticed that on a couple of your videos your casting had voids in them. I remember seeing and old school craftsman doing castings years ago. He would push a broom straw through the sand mold to let air escape and avoid some of those voids. I don't claim to know anything about casting from a practical standpoint, that is just something I remember seeing and I thought I would pass that tip on.
Your talent is astonishing. This puzzle came out amazing. I thought you were making a custom puzzle for Chris Ramsay to solve. Truly a work of art.
They look great.
So relaxing watching the machining of the parts, beautiful video and end product
Very cool project. Great job! The attention to detail is 10 out of 10.
I'd love to have a collection of puzzle bolts that would be so cool, physical puzzles like these are my favorite type of puzzle.
There's lots of them! Hanayama sells some great metal puzzles and I think they have a few bolt ones. Or if you want to 3D print something yourself, Oskar van Deventer posts lots of unique puzzles, and even some bolts kzhead.info/sun/iZWBZZaJcHyCnoE/bejne.html
Really well made! Its incredible what pouring hot metal can create, especially if you have machinists tools for finishing. Maybe you should give away the extra maze. It would create more comments from your audience which increases engagement and youtubes algorithm loves that.
Wonderful process and thank you for this refresher of sculpture procedures with metals. Just satisfying and a beautiful result.🕊
Lovely work - you make it look very easy (with the right equipment and knowledge!)
Fantastic as usual! 🙂
Thank you!!
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Cool project. Very clean. Great attention to detail!
Absolutely amazing skills. Beautiful craftsmanship.
You should collab with Chris Ramsey. This looks totally up his alley. 😁
Supreme quality video! awesome 😮
THIS IS CRAZY. Another level of skill!
These are beautiful. Amazing job!
These look super cool! Actually thought this was gonna be a 4 axis cnc video lol. Any reason you chose not to cast the whole bolt as a single piece and put the spruce at the other end of the bolt?
Awesome design! You should send the second one to Adam Savage, I'm sure he'd love having this oddity on his shelf and would give your channel a nice shoutout.
That is a great suggestion!
Amazing! Both the puzzle and the video. I enjoyed every second watching it.
youtube recommended got me here, but i stayed the whole time for how interesting and well made the video is. Amazing work!
Well done bud!! They look fantastic. If I didn’t know any better I would have thought they were all machined out of solid brass stock. You’re very good at machining. Keep it up!
Looks a-maze-ing!
Tip: instead of making 8% tin bronze, 10% aluminum bronze is notably stronger. Also, using water to cool them down quicker like that actually makes them softer. The screws still look beautiful, and I'm sure there isn't really a problem with softer metal, since it's not undergoing much stress at all.
ah. I forgot to mention how utterly fantastic I think this puzzle is - Absolut fantastisch!
Wow. I love it. As a fan of puzzles and machinery this was incredible to watch.
I think you just invented the lock picking lawyers worst nightmare, the maze keyway! Just imagining trying to complete the keymazeway from muscle memory at 2am is dreadful 😂.
This is such a cool project! Question from an aspiring amateur machinist: at 04:31, the bolt is protected from the chuck jaws by wrapping it in a metal sheath. That sheath overlaps itself a short distance, so that there are two layers of that metal between one of the chuck jaws and the bolt, while the other jaws appear to only have one layer between them and the bolt. Does this additional layer of material affect the precision of the lathe in any way, e.g., situating the bolt off-centre on the lathe by the thickness of the metal sheath? Or is this something that can be corrected for by individually adjusting the chuck teeth? Thanks to anyone that's willing to provide some guidance!
From what it appears, you could adjust the other jaws to account for it. However, we are probably talking of a 1/1000 shim (0.001 IN) so it would be a negligible difference for the accuracy you need on a project like this. I could be wrong though.
@@Twitchy239 Thank you for the insight! I guess it makes sense to use faster and easier techniques in cases where tolerance is less of a concern.
Beautiful work. I have some cheap bronze puzzles that drive people crazy where you need to get an internal pin halfway through the inner cylinder before you can continue. Nothing as difficult as yours. I've done foundry work with bronze so watching your explanation of having a sprue for shrinkage was nothing I didn't know, but having the machine tools you do really kept me watching the video. Bravo!
Ohh wow, these casts came out perfect. Nice job!
Chris Ramsey would solve it
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Instant follow and amazing video! I love this. Thank you for sharing your process!
Awesome work man, this is incredible.
Amazing well rounded skillset and creative genius! Hats off to you!
This is real art. Refreshing. Nice work.
Absolutely riveting. Looks like a real nut twister to solve. The inspiration must have came like bolt from the blue.
The overall outcome is amazing, and the finishing, and engineering are worthy of praise for this creation. All steps are meticulously planned. Kudos to you
Fantastic Job. Just love the skill sets you present.
Amazing project! looks great.
VERY NICE video! My dad worked on huge brass and stainless centrifugal castings and I worked in plastics. This video was a perfect application of both. I especially appreciated you melting most of the plastic out before burning the remainder. Even though the plastic is pretty much unusable, it wasn't dispersed into the air. KUDOS!
I'm only half way through and I must say Thank you. This is a lot of work.
This is one of the best things I've ever seen to have lying on your coffee or end table. Brilliant work.
Absolutely beautiful. Those look fantastic. I love all the detail in them. Great job on this.
Beautiful work!! Congratulations!
magic work mate, love your work
An absolutely fantastic and impressive professional work of art. Thanks for sharing this. 😀
this whole process was very satisfying and fun to watch you earned a sub and Patreon member!
simple concept and a brilliant and beautiful execution! That looks otherworldly it's so intricate and geometric
this is a beautiful puzzle design, when I saw it I could imagine it as an special key giving access to a locked door. Imagine using two o more of these keys as a combined locking system. Wonderful work, mate.
That's beautiful (and ingenious) work. Man I miss having my drill/mill/lathe set up . . .
Absolutely magic job. well done.
Amazing craftsmanship!
Amazing, I thought it was only a decorative maze, I didn't expect it would be a real maze escaping "toy". Such a beautiful work!
fantastic work with beautiful results, Love the concept and you earned a subscriber, thanks!
that was some of the best content I have seen in ages, bravo.
Amazing craftsmanship! 👌
Absolutely mesmerizing.
Very well done! You've definitely got talent.
These look awesome dude. I like the part where you combine the coper and tin to make bronze, hits a soft spot.
Beautiful, satisfying and a generally brilliant video!
Mega Impressed, a really great job!