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My new toy for future PAM builds arrived today...
- Thread starter marlin2284
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nycreplica
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Oh my gawd!
This is a whole new level of modding.
Toys for big boys
Im proud of my Bergeon screwdrivers, but come on..
Looking forward to see your future work.
This is a whole new level of modding.
Toys for big boys
Im proud of my Bergeon screwdrivers, but come on..
Looking forward to see your future work.
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Progress continues (Pen Test)
UPDATE:
For those of you keeping up with the progress, here is a pen test I just preformed. I loaded a ball point pen into the collet and ran the CAD/CAM program script I put together. Please note, the ball point on the pen is still too large in diameter to print the characters correctly so it bundles them up. The lines to be engraved on the characters need to be .2mm or 0.0078 of an inch thick in order to achieve the desired effect. but it seems the size is correct and from the little I can make out the characters and font seem good. I am waiting on some micro end mills, micro diamond tips and micro profilers and hopefully some time next week I can try this on a movement.
On the left you can see another test I ran with the fonts being too large to look correct, however you can distinguish the numbers better.
To be continued........
UPDATE:
For those of you keeping up with the progress, here is a pen test I just preformed. I loaded a ball point pen into the collet and ran the CAD/CAM program script I put together. Please note, the ball point on the pen is still too large in diameter to print the characters correctly so it bundles them up. The lines to be engraved on the characters need to be .2mm or 0.0078 of an inch thick in order to achieve the desired effect. but it seems the size is correct and from the little I can make out the characters and font seem good. I am waiting on some micro end mills, micro diamond tips and micro profilers and hopefully some time next week I can try this on a movement.
On the left you can see another test I ran with the fonts being too large to look correct, however you can distinguish the numbers better.
To be continued........
this is too cool - cant wait to see the final products. As they say when there is a will there is a way. Im sure you will pull this off perfectly marlin.
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Luckily I have an engineering background so I know the programming, I use Auto Cad to design, then move the design to Vectric software for processing, and finally to Mach 3 for output to the CNC.
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More refinements needed...
Certainly you can do better but by golly, isn't that nice for a first pass.
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