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

« on: June 22, 2008, 11:42:18 AM »

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the compliments - now it's your turn to post a picture of what you have done.

Tweakie.

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

« on: June 21, 2008, 12:04:57 PM »

Brilliant - I will now have to try and see if an air pump will work for cooling the cutter and plastic when I cut Lithophanes. If it does I can increase feedrates and reduce the machine time. I had never thought of using airflow but it seems obvious now you have said it.

I am learning lots from you guys, please keep it coming.

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

« on: June 21, 2008, 11:48:34 AM »

Nice work Budman68

I don't think my machine is up to cutting metal but I may give it a try. Did you use any coolant or just spray mist ?.

Tweakie.

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

« on: June 21, 2008, 09:00:52 AM »

No everything turns out as expected - this little item was intended as a butter mold but a mistake in the programming made the recessed knights into raised knights. It is now just a curiosity.

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

« on: June 21, 2008, 06:18:16 AM »

Hi John S,

Brilliant work.

What did you use to fill the signs ( black stuff) please ?

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

« on: June 21, 2008, 05:25:37 AM »

Just found this in the garage, I thought it had been dumped. It is the test sample I used for cutting signs that are longer than the working area of the router table. This was compiled with the Script font within the Mach3 write wizard and was cut in two stages. It was stained to make the characters more visible.

Come on all you guys, the idea of this thread was for YOU to post pics of items YOU have routed, it is not just for my stuff.

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

« on: June 20, 2008, 10:10:59 PM »

These were cut 4 mm deep in pine (smells beautiful whilst being cut). Incidentally it is a lot more difficult to compile a word with just one letter upside down than you might think.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: UK CNC Convention.

« on: June 20, 2008, 02:15:39 AM »

You could take yours Jim - Looks like it doesn't need tracks.

Tweakie.

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

« on: June 20, 2008, 02:13:31 AM »

Hi RC,

Yes you are right the files are stored in Adobe Illustrator format. I am lucky and have a friend who's work computer uses Illustrator and she converts the files to bitmap for me (during her lunch break, of course, not during working hours - well I believe her anyway).

Tweakie.

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

« on: June 19, 2008, 01:22:31 PM »

I downloaded the Harley logo from here:-   http://www.logotypes.ru/

(I am a bad boy).