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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: September 15, 2010, 04:54:47 AM »

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That looks awesome Tweakie. It would be neat to see that being made. (hint hint, nudge nudge)

Here you go Sam - It's a bit like watching paint dry

(ignore the intro spelling mistake) . http://www.cooperman.talktalk.net/Aztec2.wmv

Music is good though.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Milling Vise for pocket work

« on: September 15, 2010, 02:58:27 AM »

Excellent work Ken.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Couple of simple gifts...

« on: September 15, 2010, 02:55:02 AM »

Excellent work Dave. I would like to see more of this.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: rounded corners

« on: September 15, 2010, 02:48:24 AM »

Sounds silly but are you looking at the tool radius as being your rounded corners ?

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: September 15, 2010, 02:01:04 AM »

Hi Sam,

There is quite a lot of smoke and debris with raster scan and I don't think a video would be too interesting but I will give it a go. In the meantime here it is half done

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: September 14, 2010, 05:56:18 AM »

Both X and Y are 16mm dia. x 5mm pitch pre-loaded (twin ball circuits) not certain but I believe they are from NSK (Japan) same as linear rails.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: September 14, 2010, 05:24:27 AM »

Hi Amir,

No I haven't built another machine (yet

).
Because I do not have any cutter torque requirements, when using the laser, I can drive my X Axis right up to my G0 rapids feedrate and still get 100% reliability.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: September 14, 2010, 04:56:42 AM »

Hi Guys,

An Aztec calendar, laser cut into Traffolite (engraving laminate) using the Mach3 impact engraving plugin. CO2 Lasers seem to like hard stuff and it makes quite a noise when it chews into this Formica like surface. The image is 90mm diameter and I used a stepover of 0.1mm and feedrate of 4500mm/min (took around 10 minutes to complete).

Tweakie.

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