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[pontiac428]

What is it?

It's a hand-held piscine attitude adjuster and combination ice bag reorganizer!

 

[Aukai]

It's a purpose made fishing bat, short for tight quarters. Our ice for fishing comes in 50lb bags that accumulate a layer of solid ice on the bottom of the bag about an inch or more thick from melting and re freezing. The conventional bats sold do not last long before breaking apart. It will also dispatch fish on the deck to keep them from thrashing around.

 

[Eyerelief]

We used to call them “priest”. Used to “administer the last rites”

 

[Deleted member 69715]

Possibly useful in "Social Athletic Events".

 

[mmcmdl]

Mike , you could triple the price if you made it over to the little league world series coming up ! Or better yet , for keeping the kids and spouse in order around the house . Being serious on the CNC time , if the bar would fit thru the spindle ................
cut bar 1" over finish length
mount in chuck , face and center drill one end
pull bar out and use tailstock live center
run profile canned cycle (G72) to rough and finish profile of bat
run profile cycle to form radius on bat handle end ( I'm old and can't remember the cycle # )
Straddle knurl the handle or bump knurl ( I have a very nice knurler for CNC , kinda of cool and definately very quick )
Remove bat and flip
G73 canned cycle for facing and radius on bat end



If the bar did not fit thru spindle , just face and center drill on manual lathe and proceed with the above .
Programming this bat would take less than 10 minutes
Machining would take 15 minutes TOPS , knurling being the longest operation .
Bypass the interlock on the lathe door and hit that baby with liquid soap and a scotch brite pad . ( you didn't hear that from me , I would never have done that ) ( the interlock that is ) a simple string bypasses the interlock allowing the spindle to run while door is open !

You going into production ? You need a programmer ? A CNC lathe ? How bout a shop helper ?

Note . This would be on a slant bed CNC lathe with conversational programming .

 

[Janderso]

Hand made in the USA ~3hrs work +1/2hr clean up. I was wondering if Mr. Hanson, or another CNC guru could tell me after programing what would the run time be for this on a CNC machine? It's a niche market, and I've sold 70-80 in a year in my local market, so a CNC might be un profitable.

Baseball Bats?

 

[mmcmdl]

Hand made in the USA ~3hrs work +1/2hr clean up. I was wondering if Mr. Hanson, or another CNC guru could tell me after programing what would the run time be for this on a CNC machine? It's a niche market, and I've sold 70-80 in a year in my local market, so a CNC might be un profitable.

Found some old programs from the lathe . Makino Slant bed Count 15 with Fanuc 6MB and conversational programming abilities . Hand written and hand loaded in 15 minutes . Once in the puter , they are in . These were for the ABE contract which stands for Automatic Boresight Equipment . Berilliam (sp) so I had to suit up while machining .

Programming is so easy a caveman could do it !

 

[Aukai]

I absolutely have no inkling of how to do that. I can just barely do manual. What I wanted to know was how much time would the bat take to machine on a CNC, so I can be depressed on how long I'm taking

 

[mmcmdl]

I absolutely have no inkling of how to do that. I can just barely do manual. What I wanted to know was how much time would the bat take to machine on a CNC, so I can be depressed on how long I'm taking

I said 15 minutes TOPS ! Any longer , a walk down the hall of shame is in order . I have a book load of programming stuff here . No computer is neccesary . Simple math , some trig , but really simple . I could program it and run it before someone could set up a manual lathe !

 

[Aukai]

Okay I thought the 15 min was to write up the code, and load it in the computer.