acetal parts turned lathe work

[dazza]

hello scott
thats excluding materials the cheapest place i know of is plastics direct unless who ever wants to do them has the materials in stock i will cover the cost,thanks
ive ordered in sheet to do this originally on my cnc router which would make light work of it but then id have to flip the sheet and i dont fancy that..

[Jonathan]

You could cut them out on the CNC router, remove them from the sheet, then machine the other sides individually if aligning the whole sheet is going to be a problem.

[dazza]

yeah its as much about time as anything else mate,i will probably need a thousand of these disks over the coming months and i must have 20 crappy jobs need doing and they all need doing first.
the call for a lathes getting louder and louder.

[dazza]

are these parts more complicated to lathe than i know?im not up on lathe work,never owned one so if im taking the piss a bit do say ;)

[Swarfing]

Do they have to be acetol or delrin? could they not be a polyurethane plastic? if they can i would have a positive made and use that to make a mold, and then pour the buggers, much cheaper and you can do them yourself.