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New manual milling machine

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

There is a new manual milling machine in the lab, an Optimum WF-20. The design of the machine is similar to the Aciera or a Maho, with the table moving in X and Z, spindle in Y. The spindle can be flipped over for horizontal machining. We decided to get a machine with a small [...]

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Milling MDF

Monday, February 2, 2009

Jari is making plugs for our latest IOM-project, and he posted two new videos: Rough milling:   Finish milling: The 1000 mm long hull plug will be made from a left and a right half, and each half consists of three parts. This is the first part from the bow to around 300mm.

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First cut with servo-mill

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Got the XYZ servos mounted and tuned. The first video shows a test program with some drilling G-codes. Rapids are set at 5000mm/min with around 400 mm/s^2 accelerations. Following errors stay below 0.02 mm. The second video shows a 40 mm face-mill at 3000 rpm cutting a 20 mm wide aluminium bar with 1 mm [...]

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