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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: CNC Pipe Bender

« on: January 11, 2009, 11:04:00 AM »

Brilliant machine and expert programing, I just pity the poor old electrician trying to get  his wires down that conduit.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Routing Wood

« on: January 11, 2009, 10:54:07 AM »

Hi Dave,

I assume you mean the pencil.

The tag is 'Trafolite', which is an engraving laminate - this one is white on the outside and black in the middle, you just engrave through the outer layer and bingo. Its available in all colors and color combinations. It must be known by a different trade name in the US.

Regards, Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Routing Wood

« on: January 11, 2009, 08:35:59 AM »

That is beautiful John. My complements on your work.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Routing Wood

« on: January 11, 2009, 05:26:43 AM »

A really silly thing.

First the engraving in Trafolite then profile cut to shape. Pocket milled the pencil then inset the piece.

Has anyone done anything more useless than this ?.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Software to convert Dxf to Gcode, aka CAM. Recommendations wanted

« on: January 09, 2009, 09:24:23 AM »

I use CamBam for dxf to GCode - it's also extremely good at creating the tool radius offset paths. Easy to use and fully supported by active forum and it's Free.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Routing Wood

« on: January 07, 2009, 05:43:13 AM »

Teak, being a particularly oily wood, does not take too kindly to double sided sticky tape - so I thought that the vac table would hold it better. Unfortunately the teak blank was not flat enough and moved during the first (particularly savage) cut. Luckily the through hole (just below the letter E) can be easily filled and the job was completed on the reverse side using double sided sticky tape after all. Let this be a lesson to me.

This is nothing special but I thought you guys may like to see the photo's.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: terrain

« on: January 07, 2009, 05:31:03 AM »

That is just brilliant - what more could I say.

Tweakie.

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Tangent Corner / Re: Careful where you put your tattoo's!!!

« on: December 30, 2008, 04:04:00 AM »

Nice one Ed.

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Tangent Corner / Re: What the.........?

« on: December 24, 2008, 06:10:53 AM »

Bump.

I just knew that somebody would make one.

If you haven't already visited there are lots of ideas and info on this site.

http://webferret.search.com/click?wf6,vcarve,13,www.cnc-plasmaschneidanlage.com%2Fhtml%2Fphotovcarve_cnc_fotos_frasen_b.html,,entireweb,1

Regards, Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Skeleton Clock

« on: December 24, 2008, 02:31:33 AM »

Excellent job David. Roger will be proud of this one.

Thanks for posting, it's things like this that give us all inspiration.

Regards, Tweakie.