Thor, or should that be Zeus?

[m_c]

Ill take that as a no then ;p

It is doable, however, the big question I'd ask is, how much effort is it going to be to swap between lathe and router?

[Chaz]

It is doable, however, the big question I'd ask is, how much effort is it going to be to swap between lathe and router?

Understood. If the lathe tools / turrets are mounted to the right of the spindle, it could be as easy as just starting the correct Mach 3 profile, no other work needed.

[needleworks]

Have you ever checked out Cliffs Utube channel ? He does some cool stuff with gang tooling on his Tormach.

[Chaz]

Have you ever checked out Cliffs Utube channel ? He does some cool stuff with gang tooling on his Tormach.

Nope, checking now, thanks.

[Chaz]

So Ive finally gotten around to doing something 3D. Took Thor's hammer (Mjolnir) and then cut in half and milled it out. Looks like an anchor unfortunately.

However .....

1.5mm ballend mill, 24K RPM, 0.1mm stepover, scallop operation in Fusion 360, around 25 mins.

Normal camera pic and then two high res macro pics to show warts and all. From the naked eye the part looks good. Polishing / Finishing will improve it even further.

[Chaz]

Have you ever checked out Cliffs Utube channel ? He does some cool stuff with gang tooling on his Tormach.

And this works exactly as the idea I came up with for Thor. I need to look at implementation and the ease of moving the 4th axis off (and remounting accurately).

[Lee Roberts]

And this works exactly as the idea I came up with for Thor. I need to look at implementation and the ease of moving the 4th axis off (and remounting accurately).

Yea I was going to suggest the RapidTurn unit to you as I also follow Cliffs channel, I would imagine your best bet would be to use some real hard stops you can then "bump" into for locating, as you say implementation on Thor is tricky because you dont want those fixtures to get in the way for other jobs.

Thanks for taking the time to take and share the macro shots, its nice to see exactly what the finish is like from different machines.

[Desertboy]

Having now seen Thor in real life I can tell you the pictures do not do it justice and then she moves and when she moves the earth moves with her lol.

A true work of art

[Chaz]

Yea I was going to suggest the RapidTurn unit to you as I also follow Cliffs channel, I would imagine your best bet would be to use some real hard stops you can then "bump" into for locating, as you say implementation on Thor is tricky because you dont want those fixtures to get in the way for other jobs.

Thanks for taking the time to take and share the macro shots, its nice to see exactly what the finish is like from different machines.

No problem, Ill do more of it as I do more machining and work out the good / bad / ugly of the machine's ability.

The macro shot makes the part look fairly horrible however in reality, its not. Its 'as it comes' and can easily be polished up.

[Chaz]

Does anyone know what NT30 spindle this guy might be referring to?

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/uncate...uminium-4.html

Impressive little machine ....