PROJECTS

I'm always looking for projects to try. These are just some of the small projects I have worked on.

If anyone has any more ideas or comments

LET ME KNOW!

RING

I love my wife and used Mastercam to make a ring to show it. Pretty easy to make with a Mazak Integrex. Axis substution mill contour for the font, lower turret to turn and bore, upper turret to drill the pilot hole through.

WORM GEAR

This worm gear was one of my first Mastercam projects. It was used to test a Mazak Integrex post processor. Lower turret turning, upper turret grooving, contouring, axis substution for the text and a cyclindrical helix.

HOCKEY PUCKS

I enjoying playing hockey and was looking for a machining project and some how came up with the idea to engrave my rec hockey teams logo on a puck! Thats where it started and I have done many different designs since then including a puck for the Badass bar! Follow them on Twitter @BadassBar

MASTERCAM PROJECTION MULTI AXIS TOOL PATH

I was looking for a proect and when in doubt I seem to always use my rec hockey teams logo. I brought the logo in mastercam with the C-Hook rast2vec and engraved it using the projection multi axis tool path projection. This is a ball which kinda looks like a trailer hitch with a the logo projected onto the front of it.

BOTTLE TOP MAPLE LEAF

This leaf was milled on a MyCenter Kitumura VMC. It didnt really turn out as planned for a few reasons! The MyCenter has limited internal memory and I havent figured out how to set the machine to "drip feed" code as you could imagine it takes alot of code to machine even this 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 leaf. The program was created using the Mastercams Art function. This was my first attempt using the Art function.

COPPER GEAR BLANKS

These gears were a small project that I used to test EIA g-code and the C-axis on a Mazak Super Quick Turn Mark 2. These were made from a Solid that I got from www.Grabcad.com a great site for finding different machining ideas. Check out the the Link on my

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CHESS KINGS

Working afternoons and between set-ups and thought I would try making these parts. Not much to them lower turret turning and 1/8 endmill in the upper turret on the Mazak Integrex. Made a couple of these bad boys out of an aluminum and a copper bar end.

TURNER'S CUBE

The Turner's Cube is a cube whose faces have been carefully bored to reveal a cube within it. The process can then be repeated to reveal more cubes. Normally a Turner's Cube would be turned on a lathe (hence the name), held by a four-jaw chuck but I did mine in a collet in a Hardinge T-42 turning center.It turned out alright I had to make a few chages to the hole sizes as I went. It even got my wifes approval as she wanted it to put on her desk at work.

CHESS QUEENS

Every king needs a Queen!

I used mastercam and a solid that I found at grabcad.com to make these. Not much to them lower turret turning and a 1/8 endmill running a helix bore circle path in the upper turret.

ALUMINUM FACE

This face was my first attempt using "surface high speed" tool paths in mastercam. I roughed it out using "core rough" tool path then finished it using surfce high speed "waterline" and surface finish "leftover". Turned out alright a few tool marks from the 1/8 ballnose endmill.

BRASS CAMSHAFT

This camshaft was another Mastercam and Mazak Integrex project. I was trying to figure out how to use the multi axis tool path "parallel cuts" on the cams for something else I am working on. Part turned out great only 8 minute cycle time which probably could have been much faster as I was a bit cautious never using this toolpath before.

FORD STAMP

At work I have to sign my name alot. So I made a stamp to speed up the process. My last name is machined on a piece of aluminum which was screwed into a piece of brass which I had turned on a hardinge T-42 then milled flat on a manual mill , the ball on the end is a piece of copper that I drilled tapped and screwed on to the brass handle.

HOCKEY LOGO RINGS

These rings where the product of a long night! After finising up an afternoon shift I stuck around and ran these rings for a couple hockey buddies. Turned out well, even tho i'm huge fan of the design. Mastercam for the design and the Mazak Integrex do to the machining.

Aluminum

business cards

Nothing at all special here. I did the engraving with a 1/32 ball endmill faced off and contoured with a 2.5 facemill for fun.

FLASK - MISFITS LOGO

I made this flask on a Mazak Integrex with some help from mastercam x6. It turned out pretty good. Nothing special mill contour ramp for the OD and ID for the body and the Projection toolpath to put the misfits logo on. Yes thats an o-ring for the cap!