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From disaster, comes knowledge and good things.
Obviusly, by looking at the before (from last night) I was starting off with problems.
I had a dull end mill on my first pass. It landed in the garbage.
That's part of why I switched to the 17mm that I was hogging with.
You can also see where the bit grabbed and disaster occurred.
This shows the grab best.
I went with what, should have been, plan A. I drilled two holes through the length of the piece and then used the band saw to cut the bulk of the material out. It took all of about 4 minutes to cut with the band saw. I would have spent 4 hours or more hogging out that much metal.
I have to make a second one of these so I'll start with drilling holes.
Another angle of the drill hole-saw cut. That's going to be a little bit of work to get the piece all flattened out but it's still preferable to hogging out the metal.
And here I have the galley all cleaned up and ready for the next step. It cleaned up pretty nice, all things considered.
And this is what that piece does. Eventually it will connect the rail slide from the bottom of my Z-axis rail to the plate that secures everything.
The width will have to be extremely precise, or I have to add shims. Most likely, I'll have to add shims.
And just to assure you all that the right tool, for the right job, from this point further I will be using this.
I forgot that it came with the machine. It should suffice in keeping the mistake from happening again.
Obviusly, by looking at the before (from last night) I was starting off with problems.
I had a dull end mill on my first pass. It landed in the garbage.
That's part of why I switched to the 17mm that I was hogging with.
You can also see where the bit grabbed and disaster occurred.
This shows the grab best.
I went with what, should have been, plan A. I drilled two holes through the length of the piece and then used the band saw to cut the bulk of the material out. It took all of about 4 minutes to cut with the band saw. I would have spent 4 hours or more hogging out that much metal.
I have to make a second one of these so I'll start with drilling holes.
Another angle of the drill hole-saw cut. That's going to be a little bit of work to get the piece all flattened out but it's still preferable to hogging out the metal.
And here I have the galley all cleaned up and ready for the next step. It cleaned up pretty nice, all things considered.
And this is what that piece does. Eventually it will connect the rail slide from the bottom of my Z-axis rail to the plate that secures everything.
The width will have to be extremely precise, or I have to add shims. Most likely, I'll have to add shims.
And just to assure you all that the right tool, for the right job, from this point further I will be using this.
I forgot that it came with the machine. It should suffice in keeping the mistake from happening again.