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Well, looks like I got my chance to actually finish my -other- final project that I figured I wouldn't get to do! You see, the CNC mill that we had went down sometime during the beginning of my course back in February of this year. The motor and whatnot else had just completely crapped out on the machine to the point that it just was no longer functioning. So we all had to do was wait for multiple months, get jerked around for a few months by different companies trying to vie for the right position for money wise. Then finally!....Yeah, just ending up getting the motor from the company directly rather than continue to play the waiting game.
SO! After all that waiting around and getting jerked around like a tool; more or less we got the new motor, got it fixed aaaand I got to run my final program that I made on the computer! Found the original image on google image search and then wound up having to re-work it using GibbsCAM at school. Took me about 3 days to write the program entirely.
After all was said and done? A Number 0 center drill, and a plate of quarter inch medical aluminum (aka, high gloss polish fish) aaaaand an hour and a half on the CNC machine making sure everything was hunky-dory, and bam.
Awesomesauce has commeth!
SO! After all that waiting around and getting jerked around like a tool; more or less we got the new motor, got it fixed aaaand I got to run my final program that I made on the computer! Found the original image on google image search and then wound up having to re-work it using GibbsCAM at school. Took me about 3 days to write the program entirely.
After all was said and done? A Number 0 center drill, and a plate of quarter inch medical aluminum (aka, high gloss polish fish) aaaaand an hour and a half on the CNC machine making sure everything was hunky-dory, and bam.
Awesomesauce has commeth!
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Medical aluminum? I'm a machinist too, we usually denote aluminum by alloy and process (like T6 2024, or T0 5054).
And your poor mill, it took an hour and a half for an ball end mill engraving? You guys must be working with a sad old machine. We do all our work on Mazak machines, fast, accurate, easy.
Looks cool though,
And your poor mill, it took an hour and a half for an ball end mill engraving? You guys must be working with a sad old machine. We do all our work on Mazak machines, fast, accurate, easy.
Looks cool though,
That's what it was called, at least by the guys that were at the school where I made it. And it was slow because we didn't have a ball end mill to use that was small enough, so we used a sharpened up 00 center drill instead for the engraving. ...I wish I could remember the name of the mill that did this...I had the damn thing apart more times than I'd like to recall to fix the stupid thing. But that's another story entirely. I was also learning so I was going slower, I think I was at about 50% feed rate or so. Maybe less. Mainly due to the center drill being used rather than a ball end mill. Ah well...it still got done regardless. *Shrugs*
A center drill? Yeah that explains it haha. Ball end mills are great, and the pointy end mills. But maybe I'm just spoiled. Each of my four machines has a carousel of 22 tools and I have no limit on what to put in them, I've got racks of specialty tools and extra spindles. It's a dream come true.
I wish. Heck, even when I was working professionally at a Machine Shop, the biggest machine we had was something from the 1970's that had been converted to CNC. When I was at school I think we had the vertical mill I made that on had a 10 tool carousel, aaaand it didn't work. *laughs* Had to load everything manually. Ah well, was a good learning experience at least.
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