Originally Posted by Ron111 Mr. FatBoy55,
Can't advise any thing differently, that the other guys have. But I can bring to your attention that there is one benchtop mill that has about 32 or so inches of X travel, it you choose to do your job in steps. Anyway, Industrial Hobbies make this large tabletop, so maybe that will give you an other option (you can find their link in the advertiser's section).
Ron |
Thanks Ron, I'll check that out. I also like the idea of making a seperate longer table for the full lengh of the bar. I need this to look VERY nice. The problem is I don't see that being an easy machine to make due to the stability needed.
Not too much of a difference between 2 or 3 passes. Its really about doing it in a single pass or not. Once you have the multipass technique down for the specific job and machine combo 2, 3 whatever. So with that in mind, I guess theres no reason to go nuts, 3 phase, all that stuff for a knee mill.
No time to build the big table rig right now but maybe later. The job with go on for a year or two with a few dozen of these made per year. With that in mind, I forget about cnc. This is a manual job. The lengh of the bars will change a bit with each made, not a lot but enough to keep them from being identical.
Theres going to be some welding and grinding of the welds involved in this job so I'll have the polisher do the edge too to smooth out any seams in the work where it was reset.
Does anybody have a good way to machine this with the least marks left where the cut was handed off to the next. When I tried this in the past I got a bit of a mark due to a new cut trying to match a cut where the tool had been deflected during cutting. I'm thinking a big insert face mill that won't bend as it cuts??? What do you all think?
Thanks for the help everyone.
Jeff