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TITO - Ticket in Ticket Out, Slot Toppers, Stands and Add-on Accessories => Slot Toppers => Topic started by: slotdoofus on December 23, 2016, 11:44:15 AM
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I decided to design/manufacture some base adapters so I can install polygon toppers on my S2000 machines.
This is probably as close as you're going to get to that "stock appearance".
:odie:
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One last picture.
It fits like a glove....
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Hello,
Very nice job ! :applause:
You used a 3D printer ?
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3D Printer? I've been wanting to get into that, which one do you have?
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Are you selling them? How much?
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Looks CNC milled. My 3D printer is nowhere near that quality. Very nice!
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He has a few CNCs in his shop.
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I didn't use a 3-D printer.
These are CNC machined on one of my machining centers. I doubt I'd sell any. The price would be too high.
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3D might be around $50.
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I didn't use a 3-D printer.
These are CNC machined on one of my machining centers. I doubt I'd sell any. The price would be too high.
What material did you use to fabricate the bases? Looks great and fits well.
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Black Delrin, (Acetal)
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I have an adapter for flat top machines as well. Much less time consuming to make, no 3-D tool-paths.
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I was wondering about that fit to the curve on top of the machine, how it was measured and input to the CNC software. Do you make a template, then trace it's curve with a mouse or some other input device and the CNC software plots the movement?
My brother-in-law uses autocad (I think) for his machine shop and I've heard him talk some about the process. He makes a test run with some cheaper material just to debug the programming steps. On some of his machines it will change the tool/bits automatically, on others they have to install the next tool by hand, or maybe that is just when the next tool/bit is an oddball that's not already in the machine. Not sure.
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I didn't get that scientific when came to obtaining the geometry for the round top curve. The radius was half the width of the machine.
I used a tape measure..... :Scratch-Head:
As for the rest of the design, I use my MicroVu optical comparator. I use this geometry to create the part in MasterCam (level 3). All tool-paths are generated on MasterCam and sent to the machining center.
I have one totally enclosed machining center w/ tool changer. The other 2 machines are cnc knee mills, manual tool change.