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CNC Mill turning Aluminium chess pawn

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CNC Mill turning Aluminium chess pawn (3 min 24 sec)

18-05-2010 at 07:35 PM
Uploaded by Lee Roberts

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Milling machine has been converted to CNC using 1NM stepper motors, pulleys, and a 'Compucut' unipolar 40Amp stepper driver. Toolpaths were written manually...

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Jonathan - 25-04-2011 12:50 PM

Only just noticed your comment. The milling machine is one I converted to CNC. I just used a simple CAD program to draw out the toolpath, then imported that into Cambam and used the engrave tool to make it follow the path. I then switched the axis in mach 3 so that the Z axis was Y...
El$syd - 17-03-2011 03:43 PM

What was the software you used? Is it your own homebrew?
Jonathan - 23-08-2010 06:31 PM

Hey that's my video!
I'm intending to make a whole chess set at some point - I'm leaving it until I've made my better4th axis though. This method using the drill chuck does work well however it wastes quite a lot of material since I can't clamp a long bar in the chuck.