View Single Post
  #20   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 26-03-2004, 10:59
Stephen.Yanczura's Avatar
Stephen.Yanczura Stephen.Yanczura is offline
opportunist
FRC #0195 (Cyberknights)
Team Role: Mentor
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Rookie Year: 2001
Location: Southington, CT
Posts: 80
Stephen.Yanczura is a name known to allStephen.Yanczura is a name known to allStephen.Yanczura is a name known to allStephen.Yanczura is a name known to allStephen.Yanczura is a name known to allStephen.Yanczura is a name known to all
Re: To CNC? Or not to CNC?

Quote:
Originally Posted by kid robusto
eric195 please stop mouthing off. But anyways, I would seriously recommend finding a local shop that has a nice Bridgeport (or similar) and try it out. It does take more time to do, but will mostly likly save your whole team much time in trying to make stuff.

and as eric195 said, we do have 2 Mini Cnc's and 4 milling machines. these are all veryoild, and heavly abused. most of the decks are ~.05 off, and all the endmill the school has are broken. Even with with these Supermax's(that the brand,i laugh everytime i say it) we were able to make most of our robots parts. Tooks a fair amount of time,but alot less than trying to set up the CNC correctly.
I think (READ:"hope") the decks are not 50 thou off or we have some serious problems. I think at most the machines are off by +/-.002"ish and that could just be because none of us are machinists.
Reply With Quote