CNC thread

[Sj1782]

we need photos...

If im allowed I’ll get some [emoji106] when we went to hass you wasn’t allowed


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[Andy_con]

If im allowed I’ll get some [emoji106] when we went to hass you wasn’t allowed


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so ghay

 

[Sj1782]

The mazak facility wow!! No pictures allowed unfortunately! Properly impressed!

Full tour of the factory seeing the machines being built from scratch, they build over 100 a month.... they cover the whole of Europe, the best bit was the canteen.... loads of Japanese food to try! Hopefully the general manager does a buy and I can operate a piece of art


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[Clio_fool]

After 3 weeks I'm finally back on my machine and it's got new spindle bearings and lots of other new parts fitted. OMG it's so f**king quiet now??. Should have been done 18 months ago, the old bearings have about 5mm of play in them!

 

[Andy_con]

 

[Andy_con]

Halloween p**n

 

[Andy_con]

does anyone on CS have access to a decent sized cnc router? something like 1m square?

 

[Jaff.]

anyone able to make me a pair of these in here?

id do it on my lathe but i just cant get the accuracy i want on the tiny thing

 

[Clio_fool]

anyone able to make me a pair of these in here?

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id do it on my lathe but i just cant get the accuracy i want on the tiny thing

@Sj1782 you got a cnc lathe at your place?

 

[Jaff.]

@Sj1782 you got a cnc lathe at your place?

it’s ridiculous at the moment. Nobody is open lol

 

[Andy_con]

some cnc p**n in lock down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xW22MYvqXY

 

[Andy_con]

bit of a naff video, but I made this as a facebook friend requested he wanted to see what i do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNXyHko7C04&t=4s

 

[Clio_fool]

Wow, you do play with some tiny parts😂.

 

[Andy_con]

Wow, you do play with some tiny parts😂.

LOL sadly its not the smallest part I make

just got a 0.2 threadmill and one of these m3x0.2 hand taps from thorlabs -

https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_ID=1189

for making more small parts

 

[Clio_fool]

LOL sadly its not the smallest part I make

just got a 0.2 threadmill and one of these m3x0.2 hand taps from thorlabs -

https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_ID=1189

for making more small parts

😯We thread milled some M48's last year, that was fun. Anything under an m6 I leave for the fitter to hand tap🤣.

 

[Andy_con]

😯We thread milled some M48's last year, that was fun. Anything under an m6 I leave for the fitter to hand tap🤣.

cos im building lasers I need things to be straight, so like to start off with a threadmill before finishing with a hand tap.

I use a lot of m2 allen key bolts, m2 holes are a fucker to tap by hand
got a couple of tapmatic tapping heads, but they are really only good for m3 or bigger.

photos of the part in the video, put the other bits that go with it

 

[Andy_con]

this is the smallest part I make

 

[Clio_fool]

I'll stick with bigger stuff thanks 😂. Some plates we milled down last week:

Before on the left and finished on the right. 1000 x 870 x60 milled down to 20mm thick with a 20mm wide 55mm thick strip at one end! Aparrently that's more cost effective than welding a strip on because welds need testing for ages in this sector.
And part of my next job:

That'll end up 30% lighter when we're finished with it. Shame it's 100mm longer than the travel on the machine so needs a reset🙄. But yeah, you can keep your tiny parts😂.

 

[Andy_con]

I'll stick with bigger stuff thanks 😂. Some plates we milled down last week:

Before on the left and finished on the right. 1000 x 870 x60 milled down to 20mm thick with a 20mm wide 55mm thick strip at one end! Aparrently that's more cost effective than welding a strip on because welds need testing for ages in this sector.
And part of my next joat'll end up 30% lighter when we're finished with it. Shame it's 100mm longer than the travel on the machine so needs a reset🙄. But yeah, you can keep your tiny parts😂.

Those are pretty big parts, possibly bigger than my whole mill.

 

[Clio_fool]

Those are pretty big parts, possibly bigger than my whole mill.

Some of the jobs they try to give me are bigger than our machine 🤣. They showed me one in the fab shop that was 2m diameter x 2m long with a big casting welded on the end. The machine table is 1600 x 1200 and anything over 2m the crane won't go high enough to get it on 🤦‍♂️😂.

 

[Andy_con]

did some wood work today on the router

 

[Andy_con]

Proper CNC p**n

 

[VenomUK]

Something we produced today for one of our customers

 

[Clio_fool]

Proper CNC p**n

I'm mostly jealous of their coolant 😂. Mine looks like slurry at the moment!

Here's a job I'm doing for a customer:

Putting a shiny bit on a dirty greasy battered lump that's been dragged form the bowels of a steelworks. FML🙄.

 

[Clio_fool]

The slurry 🤣😭.

 

[VenomUK]

F'in mud water

 

[Andy_con]

I've given up with flood and have just switched to mist.

 

[Clio_fool]

I've given up with flood and have just switched to mist.

Yeah, I'm not so keen to inhale that crap!

 

[Andy_con]

Yeah, I'm not so keen to inhale that crap!

Mines not like that, it produces droplets rather than actual mist. It's a fog buster

 

[197.]

did some wood work today on the router

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That's bloody ace!!

 

[Andy_con]

That's bloody ace!!

did a ford one today

 

[Andy_con]

ill take two please...

(why don't my youtube links come up as videos?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuMY8BkZmFY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7YFtABknuk

 

[Andy_con]

something ive been faffing around with for the past two evenings, but it came out pretty amazing

 

[Andy_con]

Tool changing on another level!!!

 

[Clio_fool]

I bet that lot ain't cheap!

 

[Andy_con]

I know this isn't strictly CNC, but it's the same xy setup as a CNC.

Made these on my laser engraver for my kids today

First one on the left, last one on the right. They improve with each one I did

 

[Gav_r26]

Tool changing on another level!!!

Shrink fit is great until someone roasts the arse off the tool holder and destroys it by making it too brittle.

Also a pain when you are changing a tool in a hurry! Very accurate and solid though providing you make sure everything is nice and clean.

 

[Usr117063]

For a while now Ive really wanted to be able to make parts in cad. After following tutorials I made this pedal box base plate as I thought it was a good solid design to practice with. Most of the dimensions are correct bar the fillets which I had to guess, as the sheets on the ap racing website only give some of the dimensions.

Only problem Im having is this fillet, I originally made the fillet before the hole but I was struggling to make the hole! Anyone know how to do it? I selected the edges and the 2 bolt hole edges but it wont have it.

 

[Louis]

For a while now Ive really wanted to be able to make parts in cad. After following tutorials I made this pedal box base plate as I thought it was a good solid design to practice with. Most of the dimensions are correct bar the fillets which I had to guess, as the sheets on the ap racing website only give some of the dimensions.

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Only problem Im having is this fillet, I originally made the fillet before the hole but I was struggling to make the hole! Anyone know how to do it? I selected the edges and the 2 bolt hole edges but it wont have it.


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Just cut extrude if it's not letting you auto fillet.

 

[Usr117063]

Just cut extrude if it's not letting you auto fillet.

It let me fillet after all. I think I had a line drawn when I originally tried and it was messing with it.