Hiya folks. Thought I'd introduce myself after lurking around your lovely forum for a few weeks. I got into machining as part of my previous business venture, making high power lighting systems for drones and UAVs. Needed aluminium heatsinks. Started out manually machining them, got old really fast when you're doing batches of 50-100 and each one has to be exactly right to fit the mould. So I built a CNC adapter robot thing that mounts on the lathe bed with gang tooling. I'll put some details of that in the CNC section at some point. Anyway, had to wind the business up a couple of years ago, get a real job. Now I've finally managed to get a workshop setup and the tools out of storage and I'm looking to build engines ;-)
My main interest is engines for RC model aircraft (and robots, 3D printers, electronics.....). I've designed a couple of engines in CAD, but just bought some plans to get the hang of things before jumping off the deep end. I've got a Warco WM280V-F lathe, and a WM-18 mill. Currently working to convert the lathe to full CNC, making tooling etc while I wait for the plans to arrive from Germany. I've attached some pics of my setup.
Really like the forum, some amazing projects on here, hope I can add my own soon!
Cheers,
Olly
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My main interest is engines for RC model aircraft (and robots, 3D printers, electronics.....). I've designed a couple of engines in CAD, but just bought some plans to get the hang of things before jumping off the deep end. I've got a Warco WM280V-F lathe, and a WM-18 mill. Currently working to convert the lathe to full CNC, making tooling etc while I wait for the plans to arrive from Germany. I've attached some pics of my setup.
Really like the forum, some amazing projects on here, hope I can add my own soon!
Cheers,
Olly
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