View Single Post
  #22   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 30-08-2011, 21:50
MWB's Avatar
MWB MWB is offline
Building and building.
AKA: Marcus W. Byrd
FRC #3716 (WABots)
Team Role: Mechanical
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Rookie Year: 2003
Location: Mount Pleasant, UT
Posts: 83
MWB is just really niceMWB is just really niceMWB is just really niceMWB is just really nice
Send a message via AIM to MWB
Re: pic: 254/968 More Swerve Parts!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cory View Post
These are made on a screw machine. Similar to a live tooled lathe, except there's a bushing in the headstock that allows the material to be fed out to the tool, so you're constantly cutting at the spindle nose with no overhang. I'm not aware of any machine that can make these more efficiently.
Oh we have 7 Citizen machines at my work, but my boss thought that it wasn't worth the setup time to use them for such a small order. I was even using ground stock that we bought for the screw machines too!
__________________
Marcus W. Byrd
Team 3716
Lead CAD/Design and Fabrication.
Reply With Quote