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Re: CNC Tooling
Although I'm not Cory, we usually put a good size tooling plate (just 6061 plate, about .75" thick or so) in a vise and face mill it to level it out. Then we run a program to drill and tap that fixture plate with our hole locations for our gearbox plate. Then we clamp 1/4" plate to that with little C clamps, then we drill the 1/4" plate only barely through, using the same XY part zero offset. Then we remove the clamps, bolt down the plate, and do all the pocketing and cut the outside profile.
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Teacher/Engineer/Machinist - Team 696 Circuit Breakers, 2011 - Present
Mentor/Engineer/Machinist, Team 968 RAWC, 2007-2010
Technical Mentor, Team 696 Circuit Breakers, 2005-2007
Student Mechanical Leader and Driver, Team 696 Circuit Breakers, 2002-2004
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