hey gorgeous people welcome to well.com today we're going to be doing a man versus machine
episode so what we're going to be doing is i'm going to be beveling one plate and the machine
it's a goku machine kdm-18 is going to be beveling one side of the plate we're going to be beveling
3 8 plate and it's going to be 10 feet long alright so let's go ahead and start the race
all right so what process i'm using is flux core i'm using the spray transfer i'm using the esop e
35i rebel i'm using 70 30 select arc wire o45 with neural drive rolls running 75 25 and running
about 35 cfh and yeah that's about it i attached every 35 inches uh to make sure the plate's not
going to move while i'm beveling it all right so what i'm going to be doing here first i'm going
to bevel about an inch of it inch and a half with this little grinder i want to set my angle
we're aiming for 30 degrees i'm using this to check my angle and get it dialed in
within a couple degrees once i like it um i'm going to switch over to seven and a half but i'm
going to use this wheel that's wider right here big cat 40 grit i want something aggressive you
don't want something fine and it's going to take you forever all right higher the number
finer it is you want coarser number i mean lower the number coarser so i got 40 grit
remember that all right and also you can tell if it's rough right here it's a low it's a lower
number it's pretty rough so seven inch i'm gonna do this one do the big boys grinder i'm just gonna
be using this tiger ceramic after i do my two inch and get my bevel set i'm gonna do this all the
way down all right on this quarter inch hard rock and hopefully it flies pretty quick i'm not gonna
work the whole dang thing or work six inches at once i'm gonna work a little bit at a time
all the way down i'm not working like this work a little bit and keep going like that
i think it's counter-productive when you're working good six inches
all right i'm gonna work a little bit and look at the front edge of my grinding wheel all right and
see what it's doing now i'm just going to carry that bevel 30 degrees all the way down all right
that's it nice and simple i'm gonna throw my safety gear on earplugs face masks cover my neck
up because i don't like the grinding crap on me face mask shield mcr stuff and we're good to go
i took my degree finder at 30 degrees i mean 60 degrees i set it up because we're running off at
90 90 90 minus 30 is 60. set that on here and to my soap stone kind of laid it out so i went over
grind then i took my square set it to that line i talked on the top of this plate and just dragged
that line all the way down what that's going to do is help you stop from over grinding and wasting
your time wasting your money but still obviously i suck still i still was over grinding by like
eighth inch so that's what i did there and eighth inch on the lane i basically did the same thing i
just kind of set my land and took my uh square and drew it all the way down the same same thing so i
went over grind try to kind of keep consistent i used a little four inch wheel four inch hand
grinder with tawbo to set my little uh set my bevel by hand at first to set the right angle
i want and get it fine tune in with it that's what i did exactly with it or not fine tuned
just like get the angle i wanted basically and after i got that i went over to the big seven
seven and a half inch wheel hard rock on there and just started beveling with
the wire and just kept beveling it was kept it was long and forever it felt like
and just had to sit down and just kept moving all the way down carrying that same angle then after
i got that done well i didn't really get that done i started having problems down in the middle i was
getting fatigued tired i was dr uh grinding very consistent so i switched over to flapper wheel
that started speeding me up a little bit then that thing started wearing out so that's why i jumped
that's why i like the hard rocks they stayed nice and consistent and they stayed brand new for a
long time and i just switched back over there and just kind of kept consistent again and finally got
it done then i took a flat for this and just kind of fine tuned in my degrees on this within the
tolerance of it six degrees couple more a couple less so yeah that's what i did on mine
all right i just got done beving this plate i took me roughly about 46 minutes and 12 seconds
to be exact but i think i did pretty good pretty quick uh this is the way i did it
this is what works for me so let's go ahead and see what this machine could do all right
so this is like a little makeshift jig right now so i had to use this i-beam
because this plate's not long wide enough out in the field you would have like a 15 foot wide plate
by like 35 feet long or 50 feet long that's why i'm used to running so
and this plate's only three inch thick so i want to make sure it's staying kind of straight
or basically almost straight so i use this i-beam i-beam don't have much of a sag in it it's almost
perfect it's the closest thing i have on hand so i tipped it tip tipped it up vertical right
over the bottom of the uh bottom of it and put tax goku once you attack every 35 to 45 inches that's
the best way you said it so i did it all the way down so right now all we got to do is grind this
draws off right here for the machine to start and we're going to pre-grind about an inch and a half
of this an inch all right then we're going to go ahead and just set that machine up and she's going
all the way down by itself so i'm just using a stick to grain if you want to get stuff done fast
it's about 36 grit so we're going to hit about an inch like i said we're hitting this off right here
all right see how easy that was that was pretty quick all i had to do was pre-bevel that
and uh set this up there level this up 30 degrees this could do from 22 and a half degrees
all the way up to 55 degrees it could bevel thick as 19 millimeters
thick plate by the way we don't need no ear plugs i don't know why i got ear plugs in
right here we could have a conversation and talk normally and guess what this is what's really cool
it's not hot see it that's really good easy to fit up when you when you cut this or anything or put
what heat into your metal it's going to warp it so when your metal warps it's going to be harder on
the fitter and it's gonna be harder on the welder too because um it's gonna be a inconsistent root
opening inconsistent uh bevel you're gonna be in content and consistent and also this keeps your
bevel really nice and straight so it'll welder will have a better looking weld look it's done
so we've got a little land right here up front about an eighth inch right here
this is not hot and there's no burrs either
nothing i mean i'm hitting this with my fingers it's not even cutting me
so the machine got done running ran 10 feet all right uh 30 degrees eighth inch land
so yeah that machine did okay it only beat me by uh 45 minutes and nine seconds so
it did it in minute and three seconds that's pretty bad huh that's pretty bad i think i won
still but yeah that machine beat my butt i mean it's embarrassing a minute and three seconds how
can you beat that seriously a minute and three seconds it's impossible no one's going to beat
that all right so let's do a little comparison plate so this is the plate i grind right here
and this is the machine the goku machine that did its beveling on so we did 60 degrees we're going
to do a little quick measurement here so why i'm going to take why am i doing this because
i want to see if i re remove too much metal or the machine removed too much metal so we're going to
measure a foot down so i already got foot here put here i'm just going to measure across here
so i'm at 7 11 16 and an eighth inch land let's measure this one more time 7 13 16 and 8 inch land
so i got 11 16 on mine and 13 16. so 13 16 minus 11 16 is the eighth inch i'm removing eighth inch
material extra than the machine that's pretty bad i'm what it comes down to i'm wasting money
wasting time wasting my time and the company's time and i'm wasting grinding wheels grinding more
but the wilder grinding factories love me because i'm over grinding for sure
but uh but yeah and also man i was getting tore up so that's one one test we're testing right now
that's one way we're going to check so another way is we're going to check check it with this
and check our 60 degrees compared to mine compared to this machine so let's do the machine first
so we're gonna check so this is at 60 on the money let me just slide it up over here oh
damn i don't see no light through this thing hey crap let's check in more than one spot
random spots oh my god check like four or five spots it's like perfect perfect
[ __ ] mine i was in a hurry oh i see light let's make it different let's adjust it like
you would do when you're inspecting so i'm at 63 degrees so that's that's one degree if you're
doing really tight tolerances that's one degree over they would do in like critical work like
like boiler work or um when you're doing when you're doing uh what is it modules nuclear modules
so i can't really check right here let's push this down a little bit more
so i already know i'm going to be inconsistent
so let's adjust right here so i'm at 60 66 so i'm at 66 and 60
60 uh 66 in what 64. that's pretty inconsistent that was just two spots i'm not checking no more
but you already could tell i'm inconsistent my land land's going to be inconsistent
because i'm in a hurry i'm trying to get it done it's not going to be good as that machine
i mean that machine is beating my butt all day and it did it one minute and three seconds took me 45
something minutes and it ran colder and it didn't use no disc the disc life of that
or the knurl cutters on it is six thousand to ten thousand feet you get out of that
if you use it properly by the book that's with steel or stainless i mean it's gonna be way
cheaper going that way i think and i'm not numb i'm like i'm numbed right here still but yeah that
thing whipped my butt i dang it that was hard guys i want to cry i want to sit down and cry right now
so if you guys got a lot of grinding definitely get this machine it's definitely worth your while
even if you have a welding school i just figured this out
i'm going to start beveling my plates with that thing just you cut your plate six inches long four
inches wide and just feed it through five seconds that's going to be the best way for for me for
beveling learning is key my name is mancub merry christmas happy new year happy holidays stay safe