NicT

Yes, more carina owners. This is good

The 2 finished halfs.

Ordered carbon fiber from ACP Composites in America, Tooling Gel coat and West Systems Epoxy resin from Fiberglass NZ

CNC is a Craftsman 60-40, it was $3600 inc GST

It comes with machine, collets, computer (yes they give you a computer), controller box, VFD. You need to buy, keyboard, mouse, monitor, and tooling. He sells tooling too and really cheap. Tungsten carbide 6mm end mills for $9 a pop (trade tools as $48 at trade price and retail them for $89 each!).

Machine takes ER11 collets so maximum tool size is 7mm, spindle can do 26,000 rpm and is 1kw i think. It cuts aluminium, but does complain about it. 

I am cutting MDF with a 6.35 (1/8") cutter at 2500mm/min at a cut depth of 1.4mm for roughing. However the way it processes lines of code means it does ramp up and ramp down in speed, so it proberly averages 800mm/min for changing contours and splines, and can do 2.5m/min for cicles and straight lines.

www.craftsmancnc.co.nz 

Real good guy, lives in his workshop and makes the machines from scratch here in New Zealand. I highly recommend and wish to show him support by putting you guys on to him.

I agree on it being more versatile then 3d printing but there is a shitload more to know about CNC machining and is a heap more dangerous than a 3d printer.

Ive been a little quite around here lately as I have been quite busy.

Thought i would show you guys something I managed to part trade a 3d printer for.

I bought this little guy, a 300 x 600 x 100mm CNC router.

So Ive always toyed with the idea of making a carbon fiber race seat for my BMX, and we make composite molds at work I have learnt a little in the past 7 months to design one and have a crack and making it myself.

So this is the design I came up with. Single layer 3k weave, 0.28mm thick carbon fiber sheet, bonded with Epoxy resin (probably West Systems 403 or what ever we have at work) I was going to Vacuum form it, but I thought it maybe intersted to try a compression mould using a Male and a Female. Most companys dont opt for this as Mold costs are so expensive, but when you are making them yourself and its costing you PVA and MDF I thought why not (also give me a little more practice with 3 axis programming.

Test Print

Z Finishing after Roughing

Semi Finished Male Mold. Needs sanding, surface prep

Will be an interesting learning experience and if you guys are keen I can put up progress of my attempts at Carbon Fibering this (i know its not car related).

However I have very grand plans that involve car components, maybe not my crown but definitely a couple of Carinas that need some love

Only word that i could describe your build to someone else is "clean", so very clean. Inspirational even, keep it up

Oil leaks are factory. Good job on getting it all going

Diff is complete, mega thanks to Liam. Now i have to build him a 4age in exchange for his fabrication skills.

Intercooler will be turning up soon, so we will start poking around the front of the car soon.

2 stroke diesels make me goey in the knees, this truck threads awesome!

We are working on our plumbing in the Rina, and I am apprehensive about having this stuff up front. Would only take a love tap up the backside of someone and you are leaking oil everywhere.

Fabrication work looks awesome tho, keep it up.

What welder do you have?

You should take up rally driving

I am pretty slack, so ill just convert the files i know people will want

Cant upload solidworks files?

Have to be DXF?

Just saw CAD Library when I logged in this AM, came hunting in here to see how oblivious i was to it before.

So awesome that you guys have done it.

Will upload tonight when i get home

Ballast resistors for spark plugs injectors? (wednesdayitus)

Yea sorry cam belt cover

When you leave flash bits on display it just means the other stuff looks shit in comparison, then you need to re passivate all the attachment hardware then strip the alternator for anodising and before you know it it's going sheepers spec which is beyond my current care factor. Its not intended to be a show car..

Having my cam gears seen made me feel better about all the money i spent on a 4age head when i looked at them and they looked good.

Ditch the cam covers pleeaase

http://oldschool.co....noriginal-ae85/

^ done this, it sucks. I feel for you.

Just put up pictures!!!

Good work on the peck drilling, dodgy post code is a painful thing. If you have a touch probe one day you will get it.... not enough sleep/someones talking to you/complacent then 'ping' there goes $600

Writing code by hand is better then hand tapping 30 x M30 holes 150mm deep because the tap stalls ur spindle out

It can read line by line g01 and g00 no probs but my post won't output this for it's drilling.

That would be a rubbish thing to hand code, got an example line the post outputs?

What does it do when you feed it a G83 string? Stop what its doing? Do the line as if it was a G01? Wildly whip around and hastily rapid at your vice making your sphincter tighten?

I wouldn't say a lot at the moment. I'm having a few issues with post processors and my machine not running peck drilling cycles. Hopfully my tech man will get it Sussed tomorrow. I'm very new to cnc but i know manual machining and solid cam well

What machine/controller is it? What cycle is it trying to call for peck drilling? G73 or G83?

Post cant output line by line G01 movements?

No idea really what you guys are talking about. . but do these programs basicallu convert a 3d model into code for the machine to read?

I wish it was as simple as that haha.

I am a huge HUGE fan of Surfcam, and quite like Gibbscam.

I use VisualMill 5.0 (2006) on a daily basis and it is good for the tasks we need to do and cheap at $1995 + GST

Are you doing a lot of 3 machining eke?

Cause everyone likes octopus

This engine SHOULD make a resurgence one day aye Beachlander...

Solidcam is good, are you purchasing it? $$$?

How did i not see this thread, awesome car man!

Love the wheels, its what i dream of for the Crown