US Marine, Navy Seal & Dragon

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Constant Laubscher

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I have done these on a milling machine. It is a 3D Design ( Marine, Navy Seal, and a dragon) When milled it forms sleeve with a 0.5" ID.
This was just a quick try to see if the concept will work and I think it did.

I did not do much to it after it was milled just chrome polish and a light buff.
I did broke a few cutters because I was to impatient and was running the feeds to high.
I was using a 1/16", .04, .03 Ball end mills. I did a .001 step over for the final finish cut.

Here you can see the sleeve from the inside


Comments are welcome.
 
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Very nice Constant! Those have got to be expensive, hrs and hours of light machining and flood coolant. Thats why i bailed on something similar a few years ago, i just couldnt make it be even close to cost effective.
 
workinforwood said:
Very nice Constant! Those have got to be expensive, hrs and hours of light machining and flood coolant. Thats why i bailed on something similar a few years ago, i just couldn't make it be even close to cost effective.
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It is not that bad, I have done one a couple of years ago on a 4th axis knee mill and it took 14 hours for a much smaller design because of the spindle speed.
All of these were less than 3 hours.
These were just for fun, now for the crazy cool stuff .:smile:
 
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