Today I'm going to show you how I made this awesome GoPro Mount for the Stepcraft Q Series
CNC machine to get some different shots within our videos. Without further ado, let me show
you how I made it. I made a design for a GoPro Mount for the Stepcraft Q Series CNC machine. So,
let's get to cutting it. So, I got everything clamped down to the Stepcraft M.1000 CNC machine
using the 46225-K 1/8" downcut bit. I'll go through and make all of the holes that
are smaller than 1/4" that I need to be able to mount everything together. So,
we'll go through and drill some areas here that I'm going to drill all the way through
later. We're just marking those with the bit. So then using the 46202-K 1/4" downcut bit after
picking it up with the auto tool changer, we can go through and cut the rest of the parts.
We're going to go through and cut all of the pockets first, as it is definitely best to
cut all of those. These are going to be the mortises where everything is going to fit in.
Now, we'll go through and cut the remaining pieces. Some of these I used pockets if they
were going to be too small. I didn't want to have to deal with tabs on some of the smaller pieces.
And it was easier to just pocket those out. If you love this type of content, be sure
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We did leave tabs on all of these pieces to make sure that everything was held in
place nice and securely. And we went through in three passes at a 1/4" depth per pass.
The down cut action of this bit leaves a really nice, clean top surface which is exactly what we
wanted to see here. So, we didn't care too much about the bottom since we're going to be rounding
those over anyways. So now that everything is cut, we'll get it pulled off of the CNC
and using the Fein MultiMaster, we'll get all of the tabs cut free. So that way,
we can go take those over to the router table. Now that that is done,
we can get everything pulled off and taken over to the router table and using the MR0110 Mini
Roundover bit. This bit has a 3/16" diameter ball bearing and is able to get into all of the really
tight spots. It flush trimmed all of the tabs but also was able to get into the 1/4" areas and get
those nicely round over which is definitely something that not many bits are able to do.
It did a great job leaving nice clean cuts. So that was definitely really nice to see.
Now that that is done, we can get everything assembled. I'll get everything set out so
that you can organize our parts and then using the Fein 12-volt drill,
we'll just go ahead and extend those holes all the way through the material, the tenons fit
absolutely perfect into those mortises which is definitely what we wanted to see, really nice
tight fit and this thing turned out to be super beefy and is really pretty strong. It's always
nice when you have to get the mallet out to tap everything in. It means you get a nice tight fit.
Then we'll get everything screwed in using the Fein Impact. I really like using it for this
application as it has a variable speed on it. And it definitely makes it really nice so that way you
don't overdrive things, which I've definitely been known to do in the past. So, this is done.
And now we'll work on getting it actually mounted to the spindle. I got some M60 nuts that I'm able
to slide into the T-Tracks on the Q series and so that just slid in there and then I'm
able to tighten the bolts around that after getting all three lined up and fully put in.
So now that that is done, we got everything tightened and this mount is going absolutely
nowhere. It turned out really nice and it fit great on the machine itself. So,
then we can get the camera equipment all mounted up. I have two lights that I'm using on some
adjustable ball screw tripod mounts, and those did a nice job letting me angle everything.
Then using the GoPro Mount with the same setup, we are able to get the
lights turned on and you can kind of get a preview of what that's going to look like.
Moved it around. There's absolutely no flex in it and we did a test cut with it with the RC-45711,
90-degree V-insert bit. And you can see this mount is perfectly stable. I've been through a
couple of commercially available mounts before and they definitely did not work very well.
There's a lot of flex in them and vibrations that were caused. But with this one, there's
absolutely none. Super happy to see that and I really liked the
footage that we're getting here. But definitely let us know what you guys
think about this one. Hopefully you guys enjoyed it. Have a great day, everybody.
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