A *** NEW *** Challenge is issued

This minimill might grow up to be a Bridgeport.

Aluminum lice at a baseball game?

SW

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I think this new picture really gives it away ... you've decided to go into the Big Mouth Billy Bass business (some of us here are old enough to remember those) and you are aiming at the high end market with what you will call a "hand carved plaque" even though it's being cut out by CNC.

You're not really making anything. It's simply an excuse to make fine aluminum powder as a base for several kilotons of thermite you're making for the Tea Party and Unintended Consequences crews. ;)

Milling that stuff is a messy procedure, isn't it?

A round tuit?

Steve

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Kilotons? For what? To simulate the glass crater at White Sands?

It wont be for the Tea Party people. They are non violent.

"A conservative who doesn't believe? in God simply doesn't pray; a godless liberal wants no one to pray. A conservative who doesn't like guns doesn't buy one; a liberal gun-hater wants to disarm us all. A gay conservative has sex his own way; a gay liberal requires us all to watch and accept his perversion and have it taught to children. A conservative who is offended by a radio show changes the station; an offended liberal wants it banned, prosecuted and persecuted." Bobby XD9

Nope, as you can see I already got aroundtoit. If only just.

This one is more obvious than the last challenge.

And you are looking at the actual work piece, not the leftover stock.

Hint 2: Most people would make this out of thicker stock.

I'd think the parts are likely to be housing ends for new spindles, since this is the area that you've been involved in recently.

Here, does a picture of the other side help?

There was no Picture 3, sir.

NFI on the product.

Question: What's the reasoning behind using a 1/8" mill for a 2+" piece? The right corner radius?

Picture 3 was mentioned in Bob's "A *** NEW *** Challenge is issued (Picture 3)" post, ca 13 Aug 2010 21:26:57 -0700 at link vs. earlier #1 and #2 and later #4 and #5

Looks like a female of the mounting plate for a servo motor. Perhaps it is to adapt the motor to something needing the round projection on the other side for centering?

Enjoy, DoN.

Mostly because I am using a hand piece that won't hold larger mill instead of the main mill spindle right now. The motor weight causes this mill to bind up on the z-axis, atleast with the stepper motors I am currently using.... so I am improvising.

Well, there is that too I guess. Actually when I measured it a 1/4" cutter would have been a closer match, but since I can't use it right now.