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

« on: August 02, 2010, 07:17:09 PM »

Hello everybody!

Finally managed some progress this week. I spent the weekend at the Detroit Maker Faire so today I almost finished the intake manifold. I drilled all the holes for mounting and fuel and water passages.Bolted it on the block to be sure it fits. The only thing left is to drill the distributor hole and finish threading a few holes and it should be a keeper.

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

« on: July 24, 2010, 05:37:05 PM »

That's it for the night. I think one more night and It should be completed.

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

« on: July 24, 2010, 03:38:44 PM »

This is the bulk of the CNC work for the intake. Still need to drill the ports and the hole for the distributor.

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

« on: July 15, 2010, 09:01:33 PM »

Steve I talked with andy and he is interested in helping you understand how CamBam works if you are interested.
Let me know, (;-)

There is going to be a slight delay in the program. I have the Gcode for the intake 80% done and that part will be made shortly. After that I will be switching to CamBam for all my Gcode. If I don't jump into it fully, I will never learn it so that is what I will do. There wont be much happening while the learning curve is kicking my a$$ but in time it will be worth it. I will start out with the most simple parts that need pocketing and drilling and work my way from there. Bear with me and this thing will get back on track soon (I hope).

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

« on: July 13, 2010, 08:57:13 PM »

Steve I talked with andy and he is interested in helping you understand how CamBam works if you are interested.

Let me know, (;-)

I am interested. I looked into Alibre CAM $1,000. Aint no point in looking any farther into that.

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

« on: July 11, 2010, 03:07:49 PM »

HIYA STEVE, try this, talk to CamBam and show them your toys and explain how you do show and tell all over the world (WWW) and see if they will give you an OPEN seat for your show and tell work with cambam as your CAM .

Been known to work,(;-) TP

What good is it if i cant figure out how to use it? MeshCam was easy to use, maybe I should write to them.

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

« on: July 11, 2010, 03:05:57 PM »

HIYA Steve, I guess I need to ask(;-) Is cambam your first choice for a CAM to work with?? How about CAD
(;-) TP

For Cad I use Alibre. I have been with it for about 2 years and find it incredibly easy. For Cam I use LazyCam for everything. I was looking for a 3d cam program for things like the blower case and found CamBam but I cant figure it out. I must have tried meshcam because when I downloaded it to try it my 30 day trial period is up.

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

« on: July 11, 2010, 02:08:21 PM »

I have a pattern drawn up but I cant figure out how to use Cambam to create the tool path to cut out a wood pattern. I am quickly running out of free trials.

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

« on: July 11, 2010, 01:36:31 PM »

Wouldn't a SuperCharger look great on that block?

Yes it does!!

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

« on: July 11, 2010, 10:54:34 AM »

Completed the bell housing adapter plate today. There is a small channel in the back that needs to be milled for the coolant to transfer between cylinder banks.