FTO AUSTRALIA

Posted: **Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:18 pm**

my new toy at work is a desk top CNC milling machine.
http://www.larson.150m.com/CNCMill.htm

I will update as and when I break something, if anyone has any experience with programming CNC's I will be eternally greatfull.

CYA tarkus

Posted: **Sat Dec 31, 2005 6:36 pm**

So what are you going to make for us in the group buy section

Posted: **Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:13 pm**

got to get the bloody thing working 1st

then I am open to ideas?
Tarkus

Posted: **Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:35 am**

Sorry to sound like a moron but what is a CNC Milling machine?

Posted: **Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:52 am**

Back in studying comp science in the uni, I did learn about programming CNC machines and robotic arms,
Cant remember much now but it was pretty easy to deal with.
You spend more time on the paper correcting the measurements then programming.
The rest is trial and error at the beginning.
It is amazing what you can do with these machines though.
You need very good quality needles (or what ever they called) and need to know the dimentions and strength of it

Posted: **Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:07 pm**

hmmm kinda makes my new matchbox toy look a bit mundane

Posted: **Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:41 pm**

This is for "nacho", and anyone else that does not know what CNC means.

CNC
Computer Numerical Control.

basically you can input a drawing 2D or 3D and the machine will then cut the shape. The drawing part for me is easy. getting the machine to understand and make what i have drawn is just not working.

Tarkus

Posted: **Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:35 pm**

when it works u gotta make us stero blacketing plates whch have fto logo!!

Posted: **Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:05 pm**

Maybe you can make us some of those dash plates so we don't have to buy them from the uk anymore.....

Posted: **Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:38 pm**

Gee and here I was thinking Tarkus was gonna go making us up some you-beaut big port heads!

Posted: **Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:29 am**

Are they made of cast iron?

Posted: **Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:15 am**

Some are, some are alloy

Posted: **Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:17 pm**

Hmmm.......maybe in conjunction with forged pistons, some cylinder sleeves can be fabricated using this machine?

Posted: **Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:45 pm**

Well the term 'forging' is a different method of producing things. That is usually done with molten steel run into casts and put under extreme pressure.

A CNC would then be deployed to fine tune a forged product - for instance get the critically accurate shape across the top of the piston etc

Its basically a robot machinist... a 3D metal etch-a-sketch

Having said that you can turn out just about anything you could imagine on a CNC. Get yourself a couple of billets of the material you want & go for it!

Posted: **Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:34 pm**

Actually I didn't mean the pistons. I should have worded that better. I meant if we got bigger pistons for some reason then he can make us the resized cylinder sleeves.......

Or he could just make us some dash plates......hehehe

I would buy them on group buy you but you haven't replied to my PM yet ben......

Posted: **Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:42 pm**

wanna make me some molds out of foam so i can mass produce kaze kits for really cheap?