I am looking forward to making a lot of low cost
parts on this machine
for rotary engines in aircraft and having a lot of
fun doing it. I'll probably
never recover the cost of the mill  but the old man
that dies with the
most toys wins :)

Paul Lamar

-Kevin Richey wrote:

Hi Paul:

Would you be interested in using your new mill on a
Johnson snowmobile single rotor wankel project of
mine?

I need to have machined a taper to add to the
eccentric shaft for a Rotax gearbox. Down the road I
wish to connect two eccentric shafts with an internal
shaft inside the ecc. shafts and a sleeve outside them
to tie them together for a two rotor engine.

This is for my gyrocopter.

I have owned a RX-3 in the past and love the wankel!

I've bought Tracy Crook's conversion manual and am
reading it for the 3rd (or 4th?) time.  Would like to
do a Mazda 13B engine someday in some sort of
aircraft.

I wish to make these 35 & 45 h.p. OMC's an inexpensive
alternative to the Euro-Bandit's two stroke engines
for light aircraft, as well as Mid-West's and Wankel
GBMH's high prices.

My email address is:  kbr1954@yahoo.com
Please let me know if you're interested.

Thanks,

Kevin- 

Well depends. NC mills are most suited to making dozens of parts.
That is... there is a huge up front cost of programming it. If you have
skills with say Master CAM then much of this labor can be done by you
and then you can email me the NC machine tool program.

I am myself am far from up to speed on MasterCAM. I can design
parts in Rhino and import them to MasterCAM but there are some steps
I have to go through in MasterCAM before it will output the final
NC machine tool code. Unfortunately Rhino will not do that directly.
I am in the process of getting a book on MasterCAM.

BTW a taper is usually done on a lathe and not on a mill.

Paul Lamar

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