Blake Mantel wrote:

Heyah Paul,

Thanks for holding in there!
The mill was finally fixed, and I had some free time too. So the ACRE motor mount pockets are done!

:)

Looks very nice, but I did not bring home the digital camera this weekend from work. ;(

I think yours will be the only one made purely from ball end mills, too darn slow. So any future ones will use flat bottom mills to finish most of the pocket and then a single pass with a ball mill to add in a radius on the periphery. But the small ridges left behind form the ball mill do look quite trick, though.

It is still clamped up, so do you want any other holes/etc. put in? ( Ever make a IGES or DXF file with just the points for the drill holes and nothing else?)

The only features present are the center 1" drill hole and the ten pockets, nothing else.

Later,
Blake

That's fine Blake. Jerry Hey is also working on this project. Are you interested
in doing it on a commercial basis?

Paul Lamar
 
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