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Mentor needed as well as help on a school project!
- Thread starter racer8412
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By the way. I've been looking over some of the parts we'll be making. These parts may require some fancy techniques. As interested as I am in this project, some of these parts may stump me on how to make them. I never claimed to be able to actually build this thing. 
I typically find a way to do most things. There are always tricks to be learned. This will be a great learning process for me as well. Figuring out how to make some of these parts will be a real challenge. Hopefully we can pull it off. Like I say, with the aid of your project thread I'm sure we'll get some brilliant suggestions from the machinists on The Hobby Machinists forum. We'll get her done.
You may need to do some milling, but as I said before, you can actually mill using a lathe. You'll just need to set up a nice vice on your lathe table. And you may need a vice that has x-y capability. But we can cross that bridge when we get to it. You can actually build a small x-y vice pretty easily. In fact, I watched a YouTube video not long ago where someone did just that for milling on a mini lathe. I'll see if I can find that video. It was an easy vice to build.
I typically find a way to do most things. There are always tricks to be learned. This will be a great learning process for me as well. Figuring out how to make some of these parts will be a real challenge. Hopefully we can pull it off. Like I say, with the aid of your project thread I'm sure we'll get some brilliant suggestions from the machinists on The Hobby Machinists forum. We'll get her done.
You may need to do some milling, but as I said before, you can actually mill using a lathe. You'll just need to set up a nice vice on your lathe table. And you may need a vice that has x-y capability. But we can cross that bridge when we get to it. You can actually build a small x-y vice pretty easily. In fact, I watched a YouTube video not long ago where someone did just that for milling on a mini lathe. I'll see if I can find that video. It was an easy vice to build.
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What I found was that the investment in lathe and mill were minor in comparison to all to the tooling to go along with them!
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Buying a machine is cheap.... Buying tooling for the machine will absolutely never end....