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Re: Fabricating Aluminum Sprockets
Unless your plasma cutter is CNC, I doubt it would work very well.
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Edited to add: We also have a CNC mill and CNC lathe, but we're interested in doing this only if we can do it quickly. Milling anything takes too long for my MTV-generation attention span. ![]() Last edited by Madison : 09-09-2006 at 22:58. |
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We're just really excited about the potential to speed the process of cutting plate along. There are a lot of things we'd have like to have done last season, but we skimped on a lot because of how long it took to set up and run the mill. |
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For aluminum, it's important to have a really good cutter on your table. I assume it's PlasmaCam, or a knockoff. Our lab got one last year, and I was very excited to be able to cut out parts in house. However, this was not the case because the cutter was not of excellent quality, and while cutting Al, it just melted out of the cut path. A shop in town actually uses a special gas or gas mixture to facilitate plasma cut on aluminum.
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Hah I wish I got into plasma cutting. But I think it would be a really difficult job to remove all of the melted aluminum inside the teeth. I'd perfer CNC Machining something of that sort. Anyways if you do decide to CNC machine the sprockets thennn i'll be right there awaiting to help
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