BobWarfield
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I thought this was a wonderful idea when I saw it:
Seems brilliant not to have to deal with hardening a piece of tool steel or laboriously grinding out an arc when there's a tool at hand that will already do the job.
You'll need a QCTP or other holder capable of holding your corner rounding cutter (or other shapes you may have), but this seems like it works well. I wish I could take credit, but it came from a fellow I've learned a huge amount from called "Widgitmaster". He posts over on CNCZone. He makes CNC routers for others, but his own work is done (so far) on a manual lathe and mill. Here is the thread that photo came from:
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?p=458319
It's a long thread, but he is building up a beautiful large CNC router. Lots to learn from the various machining ops he performs. He's done a number of other interesting things including adapting a surplus Hardinge turret to his import lathe to speed up various ops. All of it is detailed in various threads over there.
Cheers,
BW
Seems brilliant not to have to deal with hardening a piece of tool steel or laboriously grinding out an arc when there's a tool at hand that will already do the job.
You'll need a QCTP or other holder capable of holding your corner rounding cutter (or other shapes you may have), but this seems like it works well. I wish I could take credit, but it came from a fellow I've learned a huge amount from called "Widgitmaster". He posts over on CNCZone. He makes CNC routers for others, but his own work is done (so far) on a manual lathe and mill. Here is the thread that photo came from:
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?p=458319
It's a long thread, but he is building up a beautiful large CNC router. Lots to learn from the various machining ops he performs. He's done a number of other interesting things including adapting a surplus Hardinge turret to his import lathe to speed up various ops. All of it is detailed in various threads over there.
Cheers,
BW