Makers Minute | Cutting Aluminium | WorkBee CNC Machine
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- Опубликовано: 13 авг 2018
- This makers minute concentrates on cutting aluminium on a WorkBee CNC Machine. We get a lot of requests about how to machine aluminium, so we thought it needed a makers minute. In this video we create a 4mm aluminium v-slot gantry plate, this is an ideal project to do at home on your own CNC Machine. With the correct settings aluminium is a very easy material to machine, with superb repeatability.
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One where our 2D thoughts are turned into 3D realities and where you have full control of your creative experiments, with a little help from an online expert community that loves to share what we do. Ooznest is a proud cog in the maker community - supplying the fellow builders with what they need to grow and thrive. We design and manufacture CNC Machines, our latest machine being the WorkBee.
If you have any questions about the video, and want some further explanation, please leave a comment.
Thanks for sharing your F&S for this. That's something a lot of the videos unfortunately omit.
Nice video! It'd be really cool if you could publish the technical details (bit type, feeds and speeds) that you list of really quickly in the video
Thanks for the feedback, will do that in the future!
How does the thickness of the material affect the operation? If I wanted to cut 3/8" (about 9.5mm) aluminum (either 6061 or ATP 5), would it simply be a matter of doing more passes and making sure the chips are cleared?
Yes that is correct, with thicker materials more passes are required.
what kind precision we can get from this machine in let say 20mm thick alu or brass ?
Hi, from the screw drive you can expect to see 0.1mm, Ryan
How about copper or brass? :) I'm thinking of producing plaques for houses, and some clients would like to have them fancy and weathered after few years.
Hi, yes you can cut other soft metals on the WorkBee CNC Machine.
Do you know what alloy the aluminium is?
Thanks
Hi, It was 6082 T6
what feeds would you use for 1/16 tool in aluminium ?
Quite low, as that is a small endmill, maybe around 300-400 mm/min
@@ooznest Thanks, I had chosen 500 as a start and then I went and snapped my bit by moving the z in the wrong way....
Will it be able to cut 1050 grade aluminium just different spindle speed feed rate
Hi, it can cut aluminium. But 1050 is not easily machinable. Is there another grade of aluminium which you can use?
@@ooznest not really it's the most readily available where I live
Can you write the setup in descriptions, I can't really understand well! :(
6082 Aluminum?
First part, I think you are using 2 flute upcut carbide, didnt catch the size, I think it's 1/8 by the look.
RPM 27K on the Spindle
Feed : 600 mm/m
Plunge : 300 mm/m
Pass??
Seconds part is 2 flute upcut carbide 1/4"
RPM 16K on the Spindle
Feed : 730 mm/m
Plunge 360 mm/m
20mm ramp?
No pass what? Can't understand that! :(
Thanks! :)
Hi, thanks for your comment, you mostly got it:
6082 Aluminum - Correct
First part, I think you are using 2 flute upcut carbide, didnt catch the size, I think it's 1/8 by the look. - Correct
RPM 27K on the Spindle - Correct
Feed : 615 mm/m - Correct
Plunge : 300 mm/m - Correct
Pass?? - 0.5mm
Seconds part is 2 flute upcut carbide 1/4" - Correct
RPM 16K on the Spindle - Correct
Feed : 730 mm/m - Correct
Plunge 360 mm/m - Correct
20mm ramp? - Correct
0.5mm Pass
@@ooznest seems I'm not that bad! thanks ! :D
You should sell your own plates on your website, if the machine is good enough to make high quality parts surely it would be cheaper?
We would love to, but haven't got the room, manpower or time to invest in bringing manufacturing in house. We would prefer to out source the manufacturing so we can concentrate on new products, content and customer service.
Have you ever thought about outsourcing some of the manufacturing to your customers that buy your machines? like a "makers plates" sort of thing, offer the plates on your website as an option and if you sell one then you get some of the markup for being the seller and the maker gets a cut too, all to standard g-code files, bits, and plate specification. you could make a standard for anyone wanting to participate and you don't pay for the plate until it's sold?
@@ChimpyChamp I translate his answer for you: we are not interested in producing anything here, we rather keep importing from our sources in china, it is cheap, it requires less space, less manpower, less headaches and we make loads more money. Thats the reazon he dint bother answering your second comment.