Just about all new CNC metal working machines come enclosed, with Lexan windows. Then on the sheet metal enclosures are a dozen or so warning signs. I suspect that those are there from prior mishaps,...
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Just about all new CNC metal working machines come enclosed, with Lexan windows. Then on the sheet metal enclosures are a dozen or so warning signs. I suspect that those are there from prior mishaps,...
Looks great Andy. Are you aware that long stock may have to be taken in from outside via the large double doors? Your storing it, then to get into the shop your taking it outside, then back in if its...
Thanks Joe, thats fantastic.
This is sound advise and craigslist is a start. Depending where your at you might get a metal lathe, which you could convert. Good luck
Thats fantastic, a work of art. Thanks for all the pictures. They give much more of the beauty. Hope it will give everyone as much pleasure and satisfaction for years to come. CONGRATZ
Hi all, I was just wondering if anyone knew where you could purchase/obtain high density polystyrene in sheets about 2 inches thick? I saw some in a wooden box somewhere on this wonderful forum....
I saw Lexan/Plexiglas at Lowes which was reasonable here in Texas. Hope that helps.
I've been listening to all of you and this is all very interesting. Back in the early 80s I worked for an outfit called Anilam. They retrofitting CNC controls on machine tool, along with digital read...
http://www.toddlertime.com/machining/feeds.htm
Each type of material has a constant related to the type of cutter composition (high speed steel, cobalt, carbide). There is a speeds and feeds chart/formula out there some where. Google it. The...
A couple years ago I went to Florance KY to learn to operate this beast. It was company paid too.
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I would like to go to the Chicago tool show, its...
With CNC goes the hand made/hand carved that the woodwork has had. The same principals used in metal working should apply. NC (numerical control) was commissioned by the air force to make plane skins...
Thats a ladder (parameter) that typically a maintenance would set. There is something called a post, which is written to your machines parameters, that allows CAM systems to program that machine....