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Congrats on the baby and those cubes look excellent...:triumphant::toot::thumsup:
Awesome inlay work,I hope to use that technique on my guitar building projects.
Congratulations for the new family member!!!
Love the blocks! You can never start too early in developing a mature, discriminating aesthetic sense in the young.
Sorry to quote such an old post but isn't the hole spacing for BK12 46mm? Does it just work with the 45mm spacing on the extrusions? Definitely would save some work if so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clive S
Evening Folks.
One of my original aims for this machine had been to help with the other half's glass work. We've made jigs, and aluminium bead making tools, but until now haven't touched glass itself.
I kinda expected to need a water cooling trough, and to use a diamond burr to grind the glass away. Recently though, we stumbled on some people using a scoring wheel without any of that faff and thought we'd give it a try. Wheel cost us a couple of quid and is a drag style.
I first probed the surface because it's not spring loaded yet, so you'll hear the machine doing some funky Z adjustments as it goes.
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https://youtu.be/YuUrgRtUUt0
Anyhow, she's delighted with the results, mainly because the CNC maintains a perfect perpendicular to the score line, so the pieces break out really nicely in comparison to amateurs cutting manually!!
Here's our first test piece where we cut a large hexagon and lots of small diamonds before a brief trip to the kiln:
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All float glass so far, we'll start using the good quality stuff next for a real project :)
Whilst I'm doing project updates... One of our other time sinks is being on the water. I'm currently rewiring our boat and thought it would be nice to give it a custom control panel. I've blanked out the identification area, but it was great fun to design and make this exactly how I wanted it.
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Being a sailor also comes with a drinking habit, so you also need a nice drinks table for the cockpit. We grabbed some appropriate plastic tumblers and used the CNC to carve perfectly fitting cupholders, and nicely inlay the hinges into some Sapele. The hardest part of this project was the varnish :/
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Finally, the tender needed some love too, so along with steam bending new gunwales I also CNCed a new transom for it. Don't ask my why we've called our tender floss - I'm not even sure I know myself.
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And last, but by no means least, my Daughter's Christmas present. I took a few months over this one, which probably says more about how little free time we get these days!
I saw the solid oak toy boxes from makemesomethingspecial - and was utterly obsessed. I had to make one, and now I have an excuse to have a toy box around... So off I went to find some appropriate oak, and into CAD I went. Here is the result - although again I've removed her name which is carved in the front through the wonder of Google's magic eraser (hasn't it done an amazing job matching the grain?!) - Complete with the box's owner playing peak-a-boo inside. Don't worry for her hands, the hinges are rockler's torsion spring hinges, so the lid stays exactly where its left.
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One of the features I really love are the finger joints. Because I lack manual woodworking skills, I decided they had to be fully CNCed. So I chose the round the edges of the fingers to match the cutters radius on the internal corners. This meant not only rounding them in the profile cut, but also using a matched round over bit on the back face of each piece.
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And then of course the lid needed some inlays. I couldn't think of anything better than the Disney Winnie the pooh quote, so I went with that alongside some purple-heart purple hearts. Corny? Yeah. But cute, too.
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Hi Andy
Amazing use for your cnc router - never thought about cutting plate glass using CNC. I have a big slab of 10mm float glass that I use for tramming the spindle on my machine because it is relatively flat. My machine is currently in its transport cradle since December 2021 when I moved house. Getting the garage sorted out now and just need 4 burly guys to help me lift it into position...
Great build!
Not sure if I missed it, but did you do any stress relieved given that you welded? If not, i assume residual stress would affect the structure overtime. I ve been asking this question on DIY facebook groups but havent received a good answer. Given that you are a physicist by trade I would love to hear your opinion on the matter.
Thank you!
One thing to think about is where the stress comes from - Its all about the cooling and contraction of the weld as it goes from hot hot hot to room temperature. This is effectively quite a short term process, once the stress is there, it will cause strain in the material resulting in some deflection. There isn't particularly any reason for this to change over the period of years.... And then of course, we go and epoxy level / scrape / machine the surfaces to make them flat, so that's all done once the strain is there and accounted for.Quote:
Originally Posted by nhan863240
But always ground yourself in the practical world - its all too easy to get lost in theory and what-ifs. Experience trumps most of it. Plenty of people around here have welded frames, and I haven't seen anyone have an issue with stress. Just be sensible and tack weld everything slowly and move methodically around the frame to avoid building up heat too much before completing the full welds - but thats standard welding practice anyway.
Wiring Diagram update, to include new control panel switches, a 10W Diode Laser, and 4th Axis drive (Step and Dir lines not shown yet, but you get the picture).
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Thanks for sharing .
Happy new year to you Andy!
Cool, so your using the machine as a diode laser engraver? Been thinking about this recently myself too :distracted:Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyUK
Yeah, just a bit of a experiment really. £130 for a 10W 450nm Laser Tree 80 24V from their AliExpress store.
Made the first couple of cuts tonight - was a bit of a bitch to setup and I'm not particularly enjoying how dangerous it feels for my eyes (I have reputable laser Goggles etc, but I used to work with similar lasers in an optics lab so know how evil these things can be), and it's quite fumey too. That and the fire risk.
Having said that though, very happy with the results so far. Here was my first ever time running Gcode on the laser (UCCNC seems relatively capable, although clearly not designed with lasers in mind - there is a recent lightburn import plugin which is really helpful). Flipped the axis for the next cut and it looks fantastic - although in my first material test squares I ended up blasting through the 3mm ply and then on all the way through 20mm of MDF.... Whoops.
The below test text is about 50mm wide, took about a minute with a single pass at 3000mm/min 50% power.
Hopefully some point I'll do a summary post with a few complete projects, and more on the 4th Axis testing I've also been up to.
https://youtu.be/Rh5VqiiP9DE?si=_7JdKGh7pR9uXCO-
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Anyhow, Happy New Year all!
Another little project:
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4 Twist Umbilic Torus. What's cool is it only has one face.
First project with openSCAD programming to generate the shape, which also allows all the variations to be generated (like different widths, radii, number of twists etc)
It is very beautiful.
Can you please share more information about the dimensions, the way you hold down the wood on the cnc bed, the cutting bits ,how you turn it and align it etc...
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Originally Posted by Nickhofen
It's 130x130x36mm, two sided machining operation with an 8mm endmill to rough, 4mm ballnose to finish. Ideally I'd have used a long tapered ball nose but didn't have one to hand, so had some silly stickout on a standard ballnose for clearancs. Held down with 3D tabs. Alignment with brass pins - you cut pockets for them on the first side, then the matching pattern into the spoil board. Ugly in progress photo attached.
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Wow, that's an impressive looking piece mate !! I don't suppose you would be able to share the drawings/cutting files ? I'd like to have a shot at that.