Pictures of things made in Home Shop CNC

[cs900]

You might need to try out making 8, 12, and 20 sided dice for the D&D crowd. Never seen this done as a Turners "cube" but it would be
interesting if you could do it. I can't see how its would be done, but then I couldn't figure out how to make a 6 sided turners cube until
somebody on HM showed one being made. Those you made are incredible with the numbered faces and colorings.
Are they painted or anodized? If anodized, do you do your own?

Again, very cool.

Well thanks! Yeah...oddly enough I hosted the picture on imgur and within minuets had messages asking if I made more than just the 6 sided dice. I would like to try something a bit more complicated. Might be a good project for next Christmas! Pretty sure even with some strategic hole drilling a 20 sided dice could look pretty neat.

They are anodized, and yes I do my own. It's pretty easy really. Hardest part is making sure everything is perfectly clean before they go in the acid bath otherwise you get discolorations on the surface. But anyone with some battery acid, distilled water, and a power supply (even a battery charger) can do it.

 

[Robert LaLonde]

Just some stuff. Sitting here board out of my gourd at a mixer for the wife's work. I'll ready did the escort her around the room and make small talk thing... an hour ago.

I tried to pick only things done with CNC, and not to many molds. I have a lot of other cool parts pictures on my phone, but they aren't CNC machined. I think one might have slipped into the post.

 

[ch2co]

Bob
You make some incredible stuff there!
I don’t ever see me getting into CNC but when I see stuff like this I start to get itchy for control.

PS that dog you made really looks like the real thing! I’d love to see the code for that one.

 

[Robert LaLonde]

Well yesterday... I hunted all over my shop for some PW-04 locking tab washers to lock the nut that holds the thrust bearings on the ballscrews for my bigger mill. I finally found, not one, but three of them hiding in this piece of steel. I just had to cut them out.

http://tacklemaker.info/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;pic=51

 

[Groundhog]

Well yesterday... I hunted all over my shop for some PW-04 locking tab washers to lock the nut that holds the thrust bearings on the ballscrews for my bigger mill. I finally found, not one, but three of them hiding in this piece of steel. I just had to cut them out.

http://tacklemaker.info/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;pic=51

Funny how little things like that can hide in a chunk of metal.
What substrate do you have the thin plate screwed (pop-rivited?) to?

 

[Robert LaLonde]

Funny how little things like that can hide in a chunk of metal.
What substrate do you have the thin plate screwed (pop-rivited?) to?

Its the back side of a piece of aluminum flat bar. I say back side because the front side has a failed attempt at an injection mold partially machined into it. I clamped the steel in place, drilled holes, tapped through, screwed it down, and then separated out the tab locking washers. They are a funtional equivilent to a PW-04. If anybody finds themselves needing to make some I posted the CB file on the CamBam forum. I used a fiber wheel on a rotary hand piece to clean up the outer tabs, and a triangle file to clean up the inner tabs.

 

[shooter123456]

I made a couple timing pulleys for my scratch built CNC lathe. Pretty easy to do and they work great.

 

[stioc]

My first CNC project after converting my RF30 to CNC (the build thread is in this section).



My fancy plywood sub-plate :lol:


That mark to the left is from the second broken bit


I'm using an old drill-bit as the stop since I didn't have a 3/8" rod handy.

 

[Boswell]

While not made out of metal, I did use my 3D printer to make all the mechanical parts to an old school style Annunciator for my home automation system. I did all of the CAD work in Autocad 2012 then used CURA as the CAM program and an Ultimaker 2+ to print out all the different parts. Here are a few pictures. You can also check out a little more about it on my HackaDay project page HERE including the Autocad file and STL files for all the 3D printed parts.

 

[stioc]

CNC'd this address plate out of 1/4" alum 6061 - thinking of scrotch-brite'ng it to get the brushed-alum look?

Here's a quick 20sec video of it in action:
https://streamable.com/bbab2

Now this will be fun cleaning up! :scared: