implmex
Diamond
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2002
- Location
- Vancouver BC Canada
Hi again All:
So here is the last of the difficult parts for the project I'm working on right now.
This one is fragile, hard to hold onto and has features on 5 sides, some of which were a real challenge to make.
So I did the milling while it was still on a big solid lump and then put it on the rotary axis on the wire EDM and cut the features that were going to be hard to mill.
It worked well but it's pretty tiny and it needs to be finish tapped and deburred under the scope.
M1.0 x 0.25 tapped holes again, but this time going through 0.135" of material.
The goofy looking hole in the end of the part was cut with a 0.015" ball cutter and it's surface milled as you can see.
My stepover was 0.0005" and if you look closely I really don't have the machine I'd need to do this well... it looks pretty rough at 20X magnification with evidence of cutter bounce and crappy servo resolution along with insufficient spindle speed (6K).
Oh for a nice Hermle...hey, a man can dream can't he
.
So I'll stone it in under the scope...tiny cables slide through it so it has to be decent with no burs and no sharp edges
Attached is a sequence of pix.
Cheers
Marcus
Implant Mechanix • Design & Innovation > HOME
Vancouver Wire EDM -- Wire EDM Machining
My apologies again for the out of sequence photos...PM just put them where it wanted, not in the order I uploaded them.
So here is the last of the difficult parts for the project I'm working on right now.
This one is fragile, hard to hold onto and has features on 5 sides, some of which were a real challenge to make.
So I did the milling while it was still on a big solid lump and then put it on the rotary axis on the wire EDM and cut the features that were going to be hard to mill.
It worked well but it's pretty tiny and it needs to be finish tapped and deburred under the scope.
M1.0 x 0.25 tapped holes again, but this time going through 0.135" of material.
The goofy looking hole in the end of the part was cut with a 0.015" ball cutter and it's surface milled as you can see.
My stepover was 0.0005" and if you look closely I really don't have the machine I'd need to do this well... it looks pretty rough at 20X magnification with evidence of cutter bounce and crappy servo resolution along with insufficient spindle speed (6K).
Oh for a nice Hermle...hey, a man can dream can't he
.So I'll stone it in under the scope...tiny cables slide through it so it has to be decent with no burs and no sharp edges
Attached is a sequence of pix.
Cheers
Marcus
Implant Mechanix • Design & Innovation > HOME
Vancouver Wire EDM -- Wire EDM Machining
My apologies again for the out of sequence photos...PM just put them where it wanted, not in the order I uploaded them.
