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This is absolutely ridiculous!

http://www.gaskrank.tv/tv/motorrad-fun/36-kg-schwerer-alu-daishin-cro-10963.htm (http://www.gaskrank.tv/tv/motorrad-fun/36-kg-schwerer-alu-daishin-cro-10963.htm)

I'll see your ridiculous, and raise it to

REDONKULOUS

That's make the beast with two backsing awesome.  [thumbsup]

very cool. probably not very comfortable.   [thumbsup]

It's an interesting project, but I can't imagine it's actually intended for wear. Not much room to absorb impact...

made to show off the machine it was made on.

think it succeeded in my opinion

just incredible... [clap]

I wish i had one of those in my garage [drink]

WOW a billet helmet in 2 minutes 31 seconds!!  That machine is badass!







  ;D

[laugh]

The possibilities for tooling and part destruction are endless.  [thumbsup]

Most all of the 5 axis machines these days are good ones.

The software is where it's at.

Some are better at tool path generation than others.

Coolest thing I ever saw (demo) was a 1:8 scale human skeleton :o

+1 !!
awsome to watch!

I made one using only a flathead screwdriver and steelwool

It only weighs 8 pounds. That way it wont hurt you head that much after it falls off the shelf during the next rumbler  [laugh]

Holy 5 axis!
Sure beats my 3 axis wood machine, but that's fun too.
Another 10 years and I'll have that in the basement....

 I just emailed the link to that to my NASA prototype engineer/machinist buddy. He said he'd be willing to make that exact helmet out of titanium for $1500 a shot. [bow_down]

Title translation: First SNELL M2015 helmet produced.


[laugh]

Was he serious?  And if so, how?

Material would cost more than that alone.

Machine time would cost more than that alone.

I'll take a case of 10.

;D

It's amazing, especially the details on the back of the helmet and mouth guard.  Even it's just for show, I still want one!

[clap]

That is super badass, and re-goddamn-diculous all at once! [thumbsup]

 [laugh] [drink]

It's easy...

NASA is paying for machine time and materials. ;D

Thats downright cheap, sign me up for one please
 [thumbsup] [cheeky]

ok -- if someone has one of the mills available -- please send it my way!  (I actually have a Boeing CAD/CAM guy that could actually use it)

I'll put it right next to another machine I badly want as well...

Nissin Tube Bender short2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVqX4VMocwo#normal)

Nissin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhGHALB4_hQ#normal)

That is awesome!

+1!

That is, of course, very cool, but I couldn't help but think that this is what it would look like if machines took a crap.

reminds me of my typical morning constitutional

Think of all the new handlebars you could make with that.

Very cool!

Haha...I was just kidding about him putting out a few batches. I just had to get everybody's panties moist. I DID run the link by him though and he seemed fairly unimpressed with the technology involved. In his line of work, I'm sure he routinely sees more elaborate machining taking place on a daily basis out of much more exotic materials. I still think that helmet is probably the coolest chunk of metal I'll see in 2010. Very nice!

To the OP - very cool video.  Maho stuff is not cheap.

mitt

Titanium is expensive but not that much more expensive than naval bronze.   I just got a quote for 1 inch round by 5 feet long of grade 2 titanium for 225$.  The helmet in that video can't be full size based on the size of the turrets and bits in the video.

Regardless, it's a sweet demo of what you can do on a 5 axis machine.

It takes a pretty big block of aluminum to weight 240 pounds (120kg).  I bet it is pretty close to full size.

mitt

quick math break - 120kg = about 14" each side if it is a perfect cube = close if not full size.

mitt

I've often wondered why things like rearsets are still so expensive when someone with access to the machinery could produce them so quickly and easily once they've set up the program on a more basic CNC machine.

I built a car a few years back and had heaps of help from a friend who had access to an almost infinite supply of off-cut and discarded material that suited my needs perfectly.  He had the lathes and CNC machines to turn the junk bits of billet bar stock into works of art.  We joked that we should maybe CNC engrave the logo of the government department that he worked for onto some of the parts, in acknowledgement of what they had allowed us to create!

Rearsets cost a lot because people line up to pay a lot.

;)

Say you had a set up to build 'em.

Would you charge a handy inexpensive price for a small profit or as much as the market would bear?