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It's looking good Steve. What size Styrene are you using?

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thanks guys :) @ Mike I'm using .100

A few more Pics with the sunset :(

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1105.jpg

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1104.jpg


OH Rob the green bottle is the empty 1 :P

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That's the first thing I checked. Well done!!!!
Rob

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Looking better all of the time:D:D

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I'll be up awhile :rolleyes: I waited a long time to do this :D milling out new frame rails for this beast :D not the best vid :confused::o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLyOWczx1DQ

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Nice work on the cab looks good can't wait to see this one haulin

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me too Henry :D gota get it ready for winter for loading the coal hopper ;)

well my butt is draggin today :eek: finished up about 4 AM 8 hrs of cutting :eek: but then I kept my feed down I hate breaking EM's mid way through :mad: I tried to flip it over and do the inside this morning but the stock is a lil out of square + being tired I was running the wrong program :o :rolleyes: oh well enough B.S. pics

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1338.jpg

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1339.jpg

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1340.jpg

back to work ;)

Re: Mack M75SX
 

Steve. You knocked that one, right out of the park, and there must have been quite a pile of chips on the floor. The frame on this truck looks like it will be rock solid and heavy duty. :D
Rob

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thanks Rob :) I got the back milled out just off the mill 30 min ago :eek: ( I'm gona get some sleep :D ) everything went well till the drill cycle :( for some azz reason my holes are out .125" :( I should have waited and bored the 2 together manually :confused:

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1345.jpg

the "I" profile

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1344.jpg


looks like the verizon strike is effecting my I-net :mad:

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Nice work Steve....your skills amaze me.

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Hmm, Did you forget to take .100'' off from the edgefinder?

Any pictures of your set up on the machine?

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yes I remembered that other wise the backside pocketing would be off . It may be that when using the cam I clicked on the circle edge and not center :confused: I'm not sure you can see it in this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLyOWczx1DQ
if not I'll take a pic when I do the other side or a trailer frame I'm going to set up . It's basically a fence that I can bolt the stock to .This trailer frame set might take a few days + igot to get more plate for the othe side :(

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For drilling, I draw points to generate the code .

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Looking good!! And everyone thinks that running a CNC mill or lathe is just push the go button and everything comes out OK :rolleyes::rolleyes: Slowing down the feedrate is not that bad of a thing to do. Recommended feeds and speeds are not all what they are cracked up to be!!!

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yea I just looked it over clicked the circle not the point :o:mad:

thanks Lynn , tell me about it :rolleyes:I tried to tell my wife that :eek: now she gets it :p , I just never spent so much time at the puter then the machine :eek: I cut the recomended feed down by 30% seems to work well I just worked up the next op for those trailer frames with the other frame in it 12 hrs :eek: I'm thinking I need to find a water jet guy for the basic profiles :confused:

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"Any pictures of your set up on the machine?"

Steve , as I promised :) also this time I decided to use a bigger EM and crank the feed up also the spindle much better time

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1346.jpg

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1349.jpg

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1351.jpg

more tomorrow :)

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well the 2nd frame fell out of the plate this morning about 3 am :eek:

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1356.jpg

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walking beams ;)

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1366.jpg

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1361.jpg

now these get chucked up in the lathe to turn the ends where the arch stops . there's a pic of it I just got to figure how to get it on here :confused:

thanks for looking :)

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Hey Steve, are you going to chuck the walking beam's in your 4 jaw chuck? or use a dead center and lathe dog? Center drilling for the tail stock(live center) look's like fun.
Later, Neil#2 aka doodlebug.

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Neil , yep alredy done ;) did them last night while I had the mill working on a jig plate for wheels :D . the old hendy need soom work , the handle where getting rusty :eek:

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1370.jpg