Sieg SX2P mini mill review
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2020
- Overview of the Sieg SX2P mini mill. How to change chuck to collet chuck. Also a review on the milling vice, end mill set and chuck.
I purchased this sieg mini-mill and lathe, this is the video of my son and I unboxing this and my Sieg SX2P.
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Great video. Very concise and just what I needed to know. With your collets make sure you insert the collet into the cap first and not the mill. The collet should snap into the cap then be screwed to the machine. This way the collet will grab the entire shank of the bit or mill. This will reduce vibration and wear on the bit or end mill and give a cleaner result.
Awesome cheers man yeah I've learned that since but obviously had no idea at the time lol 👍
Major props for how you treat your son. Onya mate. :)
Thank you bud he's a good kid. Cheers for watching
Nice bit of kit!! I can’t wait for tax time!!! Great vid as always
Yeah it really is mate. Thanks Chris
Just found your channel and Subscribed. Very nice mill
Awesome, thank you Bud
Maybe you could make a magnetic broom to clean up after you finish working with it nice bit of kit Toby great to see
these are nice little mills , you need to click the collet into the black screw cap first then screw it in , you are going to have fun
Oh right thanks heaps do you put the bit in at that point too or once it lightly screwed in? Thanks heap for the advice and thanks for watching
Great video Lads, well done.
I'm gunna get the SX2LF with the R8 Spindle after much studying up on things, distances, wattage, brushless, blah blah blah. Ive been using a drill press with a X n Y Vice and a few modifications for too long now so its time to modernize. I've wrecked 2 drill presses so far and had some hairy breakages along the way...
Anyways Lads thanks once again for the vid, best of luck to yas both.
Awesome cheers mate I really live mine it does exactly what I need of it. Food luck 👍
@@TobyFireandSteel Hahahaha..slurring your words. Bit early to be on the Plonk.
Hahaha sorry I was working out and replying. And predictive text decided to help lol 😆
To hight! Haha. Good stuff (great music at the start haha!)
Cheers mate
Great vid on the SX2P 👍 I’m stuck between this and the SX1LP for my small workshop. I don’t have a lot of space so need it for general drilling too.
To be honest mate that would be a real pain having to change the chuck over every time. But I guess if you will use as drill mainly and rarely as a mill it would be fine. Id go with the 2 personally mate. It doesn't take up much if any more usable space but is much more capable from what I read
Thanks. I hadn’t thought of the chuck changing thing. I think I’d use it mostly for drilling.
Also looking at pillar drills but it was suggested that a hobby mill is way more useful.
Yeah would be more versatile loads more money though
Hey great video the young fella will be teaching you how to use the computer to turn it into a CNC machine in a few years Cheers have a great Christmas
Lol its the truth bud
Lol I have one of these but the older version which I have upgraded with the little machine shop belt drive kit. These are good mills. I like your fly press work to, I have just got a press not long ago. I’m still yet to learn how to use it but I’ll be using it for model engineering.
Awesome mate yeah I really like mine. The fly presses are cool to but very versatile if you have the right tooling
@@TobyFireandSteel Yeah. Mine is not really a fly press. It's something else. I got a video of it on my channel now. It's a bit of a rare one
Oh cool I'll take a look bud 🤘
I am surprised no one mentioned this by now, but the ER collets need to be popped into the screw cap at an angle to lock them in place, otherwise you won't get proper grip on the end mill. At 16:25 you can see just how big of a gap there is between the cap and collet, when their faces should be flush when properly installed. Though you may have figured that out by now, but for anyone else watching, please don't just plop the collet into the chuck and screw the cap back on, you'll end up breaking something, or at least get sub par surface finishes due to misalignment.
Anyhow, I'm really tempted to get either SX2P or SX2LF with an R8 taper when many of the alternatives have a less rigid Z axis.
Thanks heaps man yeah I working out a while back and someone mentioned it a few months. I really appreciate your help. And your watching
@@TobyFireandSteel Cheers. Has the mill been serving you well? I've been trying to decide between ER32 and ER25 if I get the mill and was wondering if you've had need for the larger chuck capacity? Thing is, I already have both metric and imperial sets of ER25 collets and would likely use a face mill rather than bigger end mills if I need to go bigger, but I still could get a heavily discounted set of R8 ER32 tool holders while it lasts...
@@Kageitenshi yeahbit really has served me well but to be honest I haven't used it a huge amount. But see me needing a larger chuck I wouldn't have thought
really would like to see more of the dovetails... gibs...
the weak areas of the sieg range.
just debating about buying one of these for the cnc conversion, the extra travel sounds rather... appealing.
Thank you very much for showing this mill, i'm just seeking around to buy one, and this one seems to me very good to my basic needs ( and my little space ... )
Could you please tell me how many millimeters of travel there are for one turn of "x" and "y" handles ? And, in how many sector a dial is divided ?
Thank you very much for your help ...
Thanks for your comment. Yes it's definitely great little mill. Unfortunately I can't help with those details as its currently in storage after I moved workshop. 🤘Good luck
The 16mm collet should snap-fit into the black nut on the collet. You can hear an audible click, and the collet will sit flush with the black nut. Sounds like a beautiful machine for its size. Thanks!
Thanks heap bud I appreciate that
Nice video! Iv been looking at getting this mill for a while now for knife making. Is there enough height to drill holes in knife blocks 150mm tall for hidden tang do you think? Maybe without a vice using 1 2 3 blocks holding the handle block in place.
Heya mate thanks yeah is great for knife making. With my vice it about 110mm free space but with out vice it 190mm So heaps of space. I'll doing a 4 hour knife making challenge tomorrow live. And will probably attempt this technique
Awesome mate Will be sure to watch along i wont get to be in the challenge unfortunately was hoping to but the mailman didnt bring my steel in time.doh haha
Going to hit buy on the mill now. Thanks for advice
@@wittyfpv worth emailing the team at ausee.com mate for a bit of a discount
@@TobyFireandSteel great video Toby. How did you go trying to drill out for a hidden tang? Was there enough hieght for the handle material and a drill bit? 190mm I wouldn't have thought would be enough? I'm looking at getting one as well.
I actually couldn't quite do it. I drill out and slot guard and bolsters but my handle blocks are 150 mm and drill bits to long. I tend to drill out my handles on the lathe. Its ro tome consuming to change the collet chuck over to a drill chuck each time. Plus I have 2 drill presses.
I like the newer table's more than the old ones plus the newer x2 sounds alot more quieter than the older ones
Oh right that good to know cheers Joshua 👍
I'm thinking of getting this model, how are you getting on with it after 8 months?
Heya bud. I moved from Australia to uk in October and it only came of the shipping container a couple of weeks ago. So I haven't used it here yet. But in the few months I had it in Australia it was awesome. Im really impressed with it
@@TobyFireandSteel great video thanks but why on earth have you moved to the UK 😲😲
Hahahaha I sometimes wonder that myself but the answer is. I love my wife
@@TobyFireandSteel cool whereabouts I'm in Royal Wootton Bassett. Not stalking by the way. I lived in Sydney and brisbane years ago and foolishly came back to UK 😭
@@rwbcustompicks lol no problems bud I'm near Woodbridge Suffolk
4:27 T-Nuts :)
These spanners aren't solid at all. My 10mm one turned into 11mm quite soon so I chucked it bin.
Yeah wow ok thanks for the heads up. I've not needed to use mine much so haven't had an issue. Ta bud 👍
Hey bud... You can not do plunge cuts with an end mill... You have to start on the end of the X axis and work your way into the center of part... You could also start the cut from the end of the Y axis to the middle and then outward to the ends of x axis
Thanks so much brother.yeah this is something I went on to learn. Cheers 👍
@@TobyFireandSteel I just started about three years ago did the exact same thing... all of us newbs do it... I just wish someone had told me before I broke half my end mills
Lol cheers heaps mate.
You snap it into the cap then put into holder, if done the way you showed it will be running out of center. Ugh!
Thanks mate yeah I worked that out pretty quickly lol. 👍🏼
HEY STOP that is an ER collet do not do what you did on the video the collet goes into the collet nut and then you put it in the holder SEE Blondihacks
Yes thanks so mate yeah I learned that fast thanks. And thanks for the at ill check the channel out
Remember you can hurt yourself with this machine, it’s not a toy, you need to read up on machining first
Smart 🤔🤜🤛