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Title: Butterfly Puzzle In Aluminum
Post by: budman68 on June 13, 2010, 02:26:06 PM
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
Title: Re: Butterfly Puzzle In Aluminum
Post by: bjm323 on June 13, 2010, 04:20:48 PM
Very cool Dave.  8)
Title: Re: Butterfly Puzzle In Aluminum
Post by: Sam on June 13, 2010, 04:31:57 PM
That's neat Dave!
Title: Re: Butterfly Puzzle In Aluminum
Post by: budman68 on June 13, 2010, 08:51:10 PM
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
Title: Re: Butterfly Puzzle In Aluminum
Post by: gpraceman on June 13, 2010, 10:34:22 PM
That is really cool!  Where do you find the DXF or GCode files to do something like that?
Title: Re: Butterfly Puzzle In Aluminum
Post by: Tweakie.CNC on June 14, 2010, 02:50:36 AM
Excellent work Dave.

Here's a Dragonfly if you are interested in making a set of these puzzles.

Tweakie.
Title: Re: Butterfly Puzzle In Aluminum
Post by: budman68 on June 14, 2010, 09:42:57 AM
Thank you all  :)

Here's the dxf for the butterfly  :)

Thanks,
Dave

Title: Re: Butterfly Puzzle In Aluminum
Post by: Dan13 on June 14, 2010, 10:43:34 AM
That is awesome , Dave! Thanks for showing.

Daniel
Title: Re: Butterfly Puzzle In Aluminum
Post by: Jammerm on June 14, 2010, 12:50:45 PM
Thanks Dave, that looks great.
It would be sharp if you anodized it in some bright colors.
Title: Re: Butterfly Puzzle In Aluminum
Post by: budman68 on June 14, 2010, 03:31:30 PM
Thanks fellas  :)

Dave
Title: Re: Butterfly Puzzle In Aluminum
Post by: gpraceman on June 14, 2010, 05:51:34 PM
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.
Title: Re: Butterfly Puzzle In Aluminum
Post by: Chris.Botha on June 20, 2010, 05:53:25 PM
SuperNice !