slngsht Posted December 22, 2011 Posted December 22, 2011 eventually you can put two of them together and do something useful. LOL. Finally got around to making something for the car after it sat around so long :-/ This particular attempt failed because the torch dragged the piece - 2nd attempt moved a tiny bit too, but the piece was useable
S1Steve Posted December 22, 2011 Posted December 22, 2011 Hey Mazda, Cool idea !!! Looks like its going to hold the rad in place ??? Post more photos Man !!!!!! LOL
Off Road SHO Posted December 22, 2011 Posted December 22, 2011 So are the two tools a plasma cutter and a CNC mill? Also, it looks like the tip of the torch is angled. Is it really or is it just an optical concussion? Tom
locost7018 Posted December 22, 2011 Posted December 22, 2011 Must be nice to have cool tools!!!!!! Russ
Automoda Posted December 22, 2011 Posted December 22, 2011 The things I would build if I had such a shop! Bwahahahahah! I spent some time last fall building a fiberglass fan shroud for my Birkin. The whole plug-to-mold-to-final piece process. It got cold before I could attach it (and I cant get the car up to temp in this kind of cold anyhow to test it) so it will have to wait till spring to try out. But I sure know how it feels to make something yourself that turns out great.
MHKflyer52 Posted December 22, 2011 Posted December 22, 2011 Very cool Mazda. Plasma cutters are so cool especially when mounted to a CNC router / cutting table.
slngsht Posted December 22, 2011 Author Posted December 22, 2011 So are the two tools a plasma cutter and a CNC mill? Also, it looks like the tip of the torch is angled. Is it really or is it just an optical concussion? Tom It's very slightly angled... only because I wanted to fit it in between those white plastic pieces... those are my holders for the dremel, when i want to use that. The torch is mounted on a piece of metal with U bolts, and that piece of steel is connected to the router using 4 little magnets, so if the tip hits an immoveable object, it falls off the gantry. If I wanna get fancy, I could put a kill switch for the torch trigger as part of that too, but I wanna get busy building actual parts for the car and move the project along.
slngsht Posted December 23, 2011 Author Posted December 23, 2011 What brand of CNC is that? Made by me
powderbrake Posted December 23, 2011 Posted December 23, 2011 Shameless plug and thread hijack: We have a 5' X 10" CNC plasma cutter with a watertable. We built it from a kit from Torchmate, and designed and fabricated our own water table. If anyone needs parts, we can make them. Here's what we make: http://www.custommetalprod.com Here's a pic of the table, being filled with water for the first time.....make that second time, we had some leaks the first time. We also built the crane to lift the sheets on and off the table.
slngsht Posted December 23, 2011 Author Posted December 23, 2011 Jerry, Arya loves his torchmate CNC setup... Really digging your crane setup. Very nice.
slngsht Posted December 28, 2011 Author Posted December 28, 2011 I gotta put some marks on the bender... the bottom bends on the main part are just slightly off from each other :-/ but it should work. These will get riveted to the floor once it goes in.
locost7018 Posted December 28, 2011 Posted December 28, 2011 That is sick(meaning great)!!! Looks like someone is missing a cookie baking sheet or am I mistaken? Russ
slngsht Posted December 28, 2011 Author Posted December 28, 2011 That is sick(meaning great)!!! Looks like someone is missing a cookie baking sheet or am I mistaken? Russ Russ, I have realized I will need regular delivery of sheetmetal now. LOL
powderbrake Posted December 28, 2011 Posted December 28, 2011 Mazda, neat looking part. Do you have any sheet metal layout software, or did you do it the hard way by cad?
slngsht Posted December 28, 2011 Author Posted December 28, 2011 Jerry, I do everything the hard way. LOL. These are simple enough where I did the bends with ruler and a protractor. I don't even have any software like you get with torchmate. I use CamBam, which is a basic 2D cad/cam software to generate the GCode. Then I wrote a little script that does the torch on/off functions at the right places as well as the little delay when the torch is turned on. It's still not nearly as nice as what torchmate does - things like starting the cut slightly inside the hole, but good enough for my home-made operation (matches the rest of my tools).
notakit Posted December 28, 2011 Posted December 28, 2011 I love to see innovation! You're WAY more advanced than my shop! (condo sized garage) In the rare chance I need quantities of something cut, I email a DXF drawing to the laser cutting shop. One-offs, prototypes and my Lotus parts are all made with a hole- saw, band-saw and hand-files. My plasma cutter sits on a shelf.
jimrankin Posted December 28, 2011 Posted December 28, 2011 I love all of the cool work that a CNC program can turn out, especially compared to my tools which are a felt tip pen, a hammer, a bigger hammer and my great BIG hammer. LOL. Oh, and lots of spare raw materials.
slngsht Posted December 28, 2011 Author Posted December 28, 2011 laser cutter will be way cool - i'm still playing with the settings to minimize dross.
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