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General CNC Chat => Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) => Topic started by: budman68 on June 13, 2010, 02:26:06 PM
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I took a shot at making one of the Butterfly Puzzles in .063 aluminum this morning and it turned out beautifully. I used a .062" 2 flute with a bit of kero to lube the aluminum running at 8 IPM's with .022" depth cuts.
I think if I had to do it all over again, I'd do it without tabs as it needed a lot of clean up. My wife loves it in the rough brushed natural aluminum, but I'd like to see it anodized in a color.
I had to seperate the parts into 3 sheets of 4X8" as I did this on a Taig Mill. Took about 120 minutes to machine and about another half hour to clean up the edges and put a rough 220 grit finish on it.
I have the "bug" now to make more of these, but time is not something I have a lot of :roll:
Thanks,
Dave
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Very cool Dave. 8)
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That's neat Dave!
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Thanks fellas, I'm actually playing with the idea of moving the wings support slot as I think it would look nicer with a wider wingspan. We'll see.
Thanks,
Dave
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That is really cool! Where do you find the DXF or GCode files to do something like that?
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Excellent work Dave.
Here's a Dragonfly if you are interested in making a set of these puzzles.
Tweakie.
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Thank you all :)
Here's the dxf for the butterfly :)
Thanks,
Dave
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That is awesome , Dave! Thanks for showing.
Daniel
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Thanks Dave, that looks great.
It would be sharp if you anodized it in some bright colors.
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Thanks fellas :)
Dave
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Thanks for the DXF files guys. I'm not sure that this would be a good project to cut my teeth on my new CNC machine or not, but I hope to do it at some point.
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SuperNice !