Machining Billet Aluminum Star Wars Droid Parts feat. @bytesizedengineering
This video documents the process of machining a Scomp Link droid part from billet aluminum, starting with optimizing a 3D model for manufacturability and setting up the toolpaths in Fusion 360. The creator experiences a workholding failure midway through machining but devises a method to salvage the part, ultimately producing a finished aluminum component. This content would interest CNC enthusiasts and makers looking to learn about aluminum machining techniques, workholding strategies, and problem-solving in the machine shop.
Description
In this video, I explain the process of taking my buddy Zach's 3D model for a Scomp Link and turning it into a machined aluminum part. Along the way, I experience a heartbreaking workholding failure, and devise a method to salvage the project. Check out Zach's video building the Scomp Link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akk-TeK5eno If you're curious about what the maximum rate of material removal the Shapeoko 5 Pro could manage in aluminum was, check out this test footage: https://www.y
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Good job! I would recommend kapton tape and cyanoacrylate glue instead of double sided tape. I've never had a mishap with this setup.
Hi Winston, long time since new content really like your projects and hope that there would be some more/new content soon. Keep up with the great quality for your videos.
One would expect to have only Imperial units on a Death Star.
Turbo Encabulator! The very height of technology in 1944!
Hi Winston, love your content man. On your last video you said the a atc is one of the only things you lust for on a desktop cnc these days. Have you seen the Carvera yet? Mines scheduled to come in by the end of the month, so I can't say from experience. But from all the videos I've seen with it, i
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