Pictures of things made in Home Shop CNC

[JimDawson]

Very nice !

 

[Boswell]

the knives are awesome. Great Work.

 

[cs900]

thanks guys. they are a lot of fun to make and were very well received. I've never seen my dad tear into a present like a 5 year old before, but as soon as he knew what it was there was wrapping everywhere!

 

[JimDawson]

My first real mill/turn project. These are part of a product we make. We had been doing the round part on the CNC lathe, and then doing a second op on the mill to do the slot & chamfer. I finally got the live tooling all set up and working on the lathe. So now can do the whole thing on the lathe. That old Hardinge Conquest 42 is worth every penny we have into it.

This is fresh off the lathe, from here it will go into vibratory deburr and be done. Material is 304 SS. I'll run about 300 of these in the morning.

 

[cs900]

looks neat. Do you do the chamfers on the slot opening with live indexing of the spindle?

 

[JimDawson]

looks neat. Do you do the chamfers on the slot opening with live indexing of the spindle?

Thank you. No, I wish I could do that, but that is about my next project. I am using setting the spindle brake and using a 82° countersink and just just moving it from the center out in a few passes to create the chamfer.

 

[burtonbr]

Been goofing around between paying jobs with some 1911 grips, just for fun and to test some different textures and patterns. Need to tweek the code a bit and get the machining time down.

 

[JimDawson]

Here is a bracket we are running for one of our products. We wind up milling away about 90% of the starting material. It's actually cheaper and much faster to do that than to make the parts in 2 pieces, less handling and fewer operations.

First cut blanks to length




We run them on this pallet. We have a 1 inch thick tooling plate bolted to the table, then have interchangeable pallets that bolt to it.


Roughing them out. Rough milling 6061 aluminum on the Haas TM 2p 1.5 inch insert cutter, 5000 RPM, 1 inch step over, 0.25 DOC, 70 IPM

And ready for finishing


And almost finished. Need a hole drilled & tapped in a second operation. The roundover is interpolated with a ball end mill. We get 1 pair per blank.

 

[r3292c]

3" wooden cubes. Black walnut, cherry and maple wood. Made on CNC lathe with a milling spindle.

 

[shooter123456]

Tool changer for my PM-25. It has about 35 parts, all made using the PM-25.