Some Machining Shizzle

[Carl B]

Did mine come out of that block of brass or is that a further run of mounts?

Impressive looking mill.

Carl

[andy_con]

No idea never milled copper

I'm making another run of 50 Carl got lots of orders

[andy_con]

a bit more machining shizzle for you all

this time face milling, included with the mill was a 100mm face mill. 4 cutters and indexable




this is how the base plate looked at the start




doing a few passes at 0.1mm depths it ends up looking like this

[danielbriggs]

I see you've sussed it treacle.
*cough* not running it at 3,000RPM *cough*

[andy_con]

man up i was running at 3200rpm ;-)

now i have new cutters the final result is a lot better and i have enough cutters to last me a life time

[andy_con]

so i need a load of cylindrical lens raisers

i started with a lump of ally 60mm by 150mm by 10mm



machined some holes and slot in it and machined it down to 7mm thick



then made a jig with holes only this time, each one tapped with my tapping head



bolted the bit of holes and slots to the jig



then cut each one out



spent most of the day faffing round with this but its done now

[danielbriggs]

Con... those pics are like a flipbook of awesome.
Pog on.

[andy_con]

thanks chop, when yours it up and running you can post some milling porn in here to

[andy_con]

so i needed a load of single diode holders, so here goes another run. i want 20 in total

so machined the ally the right size



drilled and tapped all holes front and back and mounting holes



made a jig




bolted the bars to the jig



cut them out and bosh 20 diode holders

[kitatit]

Nice work Andy

You've got that thing hummin!

Your tapping tool info has inspired me to get one. I'm going to take the plunge and buy a tapping head soon.

Cheers
Kit