Rodrigo Castellanos
Well-Known Member
Hi Guys!
After "finished" my Boll Aero, i had some 1.5" aluminium bar (from Aero Boll head) and Weaver plans.... this really was not a real attempt to build a Weaver, i just want to have fun and see if i was capable to make the crankcase... hoping bad results, or having trouble with measures is i´m really new in my mill. so, i decided to start... so first i turn the crank bearing to dimension and printed the plan at 50% (plan drawn is 200%) and cut a template, glued to the aluminium piece and hopping the best, decided to go the the bandsaw.... My bandsaw is a wood one, so extra care must be taken... decided to glue the piece to srap of MDF to keep the piece far of my fingers, and slowly cutting about 1mm far from the line... sadly, as was a challenge step, no pictures of this stage... but it came nice and safe.
so decided to keep going.
so i put the piece on the late, swing the parting took and start to "Carve" the curved part.. was a hard step, and my parting tool was very thin, having not very good results.. so decided to use the tool i made for my boll head, and had a lot better results.
after really finish that part, decided to try the mill.... holly... this is hard, i have no DRO, or other fancy tools... so first i found the angle of the side cuts... about 8 degrees.. having a nice adjustable vise, decided go that way...
After "finished" my Boll Aero, i had some 1.5" aluminium bar (from Aero Boll head) and Weaver plans.... this really was not a real attempt to build a Weaver, i just want to have fun and see if i was capable to make the crankcase... hoping bad results, or having trouble with measures is i´m really new in my mill. so, i decided to start... so first i turn the crank bearing to dimension and printed the plan at 50% (plan drawn is 200%) and cut a template, glued to the aluminium piece and hopping the best, decided to go the the bandsaw.... My bandsaw is a wood one, so extra care must be taken... decided to glue the piece to srap of MDF to keep the piece far of my fingers, and slowly cutting about 1mm far from the line... sadly, as was a challenge step, no pictures of this stage... but it came nice and safe.
so decided to keep going.
so i put the piece on the late, swing the parting took and start to "Carve" the curved part.. was a hard step, and my parting tool was very thin, having not very good results.. so decided to use the tool i made for my boll head, and had a lot better results.
after really finish that part, decided to try the mill.... holly... this is hard, i have no DRO, or other fancy tools... so first i found the angle of the side cuts... about 8 degrees.. having a nice adjustable vise, decided go that way...