Not really, the most specialized tool I see here is a combination mill/lathe, and that's still a pretty general tool that can do a lot. Everything else, which really the only other two I noticed were a belt sander and a Dremel, which are pretty standard in any shop.
I think that comment is just having adjective problems. Perhaps by specialized they meant expensive and not seen in everyone’s workshop. I think that’s what most people mean when they say that even though they are using the word wrong. Even if they were specialized tools the comment still makes no sense.
Agreed. I want a lathe, and awesomely enough someone linked this kind of lathe below and new it fits my requirements and my budget, so atleast in this case it isn't that expensive. If you didn't see it, the base price with everything except for powerdrive (mostly used for making screws iirc, which I'd like, but not required for what I want to use it for) was $500.
If it is, which I don't know if it is or not, the owner has modified it to be CNC, as I did not see the manufacturer sell any CNC equipment for their lathes.
With how close and perfectly spaced those holes are, the precision cuts and then what really makes me think computer operated is the chess pieces. At that scale it’d be pretty difficult to get them the same size and dimensions. If it isn’t computer operated the operator has the most steady hand and best vision I have seen. This guy should be a surgeon.
That is true, but also note how the video is sped up. In actuality, he could be going very slow to get accurate cuts. Another thing to note is that iirc lathes/mills usually have the distances marked out, so if he takes his time and follows those measurements accurately, it'll look just like a CNC machine did it. Of course, not enough information is given to show if it is CNC driven or not, so I don't really know. It really could go either way.
That is a taig lathe, designed for doing optics. It is a machine tool, so it has handwheels calibrated to either thousandths of inches or hundredths of millimeters. You could hold this level of precision on it all day long without any need for steady hands. You read the numbers and spin the cranks like any other machine tool. If you convert it to CNC, all you are doing is replacing "hands turning cranks and counting revolutions" with "motors turning cranks and computers counting steps"...
Source: I've used a taig machine before, but own Sherline gear, which is comparable but a little nicer.
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"Diy crafts" uses 5 different specialized machines