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Lathe work

Sunday, January 23, 2011

A 31mm long prototype part with 6mm diameter in one end and 3mm at the other. From an M12 stainless steel threaded rod (the only stainless at hand...)

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Steel Fin Moulds

Monday, February 22, 2010

Jari machined these steel fin moulds for the PIKANTO over the weekend. The fin will be moulded with a clear glecoat, one 200g carbon layer as a surface layer, and one 250g/m2 UHM UD carbon layer. We are going to use either cnc-machined balsa cores, or a 2-component epoxy foam core. The bulb attaches with [...]

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Milling Steel

Sunday, November 8, 2009

And here some pocketing in aluminium:

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Bulb Milling Videos

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Jari shot some videos during the milling of the beaver-tail bulb. They now appear on YouTube. For a mostly home-built cnc minimill of this size, this is pretty 'hard core' stuff...

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Steel bulb nr3

Monday, May 19, 2008

Jari made this steel bulb over the weekend. It has a slightly triangular cross section in the beginning which flattens out to a 'beaver-tail' at the end.

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