Machining envy...

[zooom]

http://singularityhub.com/2010/04/05/5-axis-robot-carves-metal-like-butter-video/#more-14509

forget the fact that the example is a damn helmet....that is just freeeckin waaaaay cool!

[Popeye the Sailor]

Meh.


I can do it with a hand file.

[Slide Panda]

Derb anways...

[SacDuc]

Um, that was cool and all. But this technology has been around for 15 years and basically any 6000 series aluminum will cut that easily.

sac


/pro tip: don't send your boss out to buy aluminum stock
//he may come back with 3000 series aluminum
///he may not tell you
////he may get pissed that you broke a few bits before you figured out what the make the beast with two backs was going on
/////he will never accept the blame

[numbskull]

Derb anways...

yup:
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=34475.0;topicseen

[He Man]

Meh.


I can do it with a hand file.

i could do it with sand.

[lethe]

i could do it with sand.

I could do it with a long hard stare.

[Duck-Stew]

I could do it with a long hard stare.

WINNER!!!! 

[lethe]

WINNER!!!! 

No no, Nate would win because he could do it with his mustache.

[mtuduc]

This is the coolest lathe I have ever seen...

[DucLeone]

This is the coolest lathe I have ever seen...

now thats AWSOMER!!!

[hcomp]

Gears made on a lathe???

[Monsterlover]

That sort of thing has been around a long time.

Still neat to watch though.

http://www.hornusa.com/products/other-applications/

Note the second example on this page is for thread whirling. . .

any of you that have bone screws after a crash. . .

the threads on those screws were made this way.

[Bigbore4]

I was down at the PRI show in Orlando a few years back.  The vendors set up all their machines and tools on the show floor to run, and crews can test tooling and welders.

I don't remember the manufacturer, one supplier had their 5 axis machine tooled up machining billet cylinder heads on the show floor.  I could have stood there all day and watched.

Aint technology wonderful!