showing off : )

[mayday]

seeing we all stare at the same interface all day long how bout some pics of some of the fun jobs youv'e done or the nightmare ones

 

these parts kept me thinking but where fun to make

 

 

 

 

finished product

 

 

[crazy^millman]

Nice looking Parts May^day wish I could show off our work but all concerned get freaked when we even talk aobut work to other customers so kind of a damn ifyou damn if you don't type deal.

 

Crazy Millman

[Thad]

That's not fair. Mayday gets all the gravy jobs!

 

Nice work Mayday.

 

Thad

[Tom Flyer]

Ya know that whirly, pointy thing on the end of a jet engine? Yeah, we got that!

[Brent Wilkerson]

No pics of tools but here are images of drawing for carbide cutting tools we make day in and day out with Ø0.006" wire on an EDM. These tools are used on our production floor. We have hundreds upon hundreds of different tools.

 

By the way the dimensions are millimeters not inches. ±0.005mm spacing with a overall profile tolerance of ±0.010mm.

 

 

[jrykrl]

Nice part mayday, what the heck does it do?

Jer

[mayday]

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Mayday gets all the gravy jobs!

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I dont know bout that Thad,how would you like to load these parts

 

they only wiegh 45 TON

 

 

zt909, the alum part is a proto for rear wheel electronic steering. made 8 of em

[Tom Flyer]

>>>By the way the dimensions are millimeters not inches. ±0.005mm spacing with a overall profile tolerance of ±0.010mm.

 

Metric, schmetric. This here is Amurrica, boy. Leave that foreen crap at the door. (Besides, those damn little lines kill me!)

[CAM-mando]

WOW mayday, I remember when they used to build houses out of wood

 

[ 12-05-2003, 02:23 PM: Message edited by: CAMmando ]

[Brent Wilkerson]

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Metric, schmetric. This here is Amurrica, boy. Leave that foreen crap at the door. (Besides, those damn little lines kill me!)

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LOL...

 

I no ats Amurrica but do's mallymeters r just so much ese'er to do'um.

 

We dual dimension alot of things, in the toolroom / job shop here it's inches. Piston rings on the production floor all metric.

 

It's all German, Japenese and Swiss machines here. It's funny we're the only ones in the world, beside s England I think, that uses inches.

 

I hate first angle projection. The US I think also only uses third angle projection in the world still. I will give up inches for millimeters but not 3rd angle projection.

 

Brent teh metric boy

 

[ 12-05-2003, 02:36 PM: Message edited by: Brent Wilkerson ]

[jrykrl]

I cannot beleive the size of that thing!!!!

can ya machine me a house 2?

[robk]

Damn it MayDay, You make some interesting things over there. My work is boring compared to yours. I am very jealous.

 

Rob

[P_Scott]

Mayday,

 

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the alum part is a proto for rear wheel electronic steering. made 8 of em

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For what? A city block? HMMM!! Brings a whole new meaning to Mobile Home.

[mayday]

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For what? A city block?

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wrong part back up to the top of the post for the steering housing.

 

the house is a base for a twin spindle crankshaft lathe. worse yet our fab shop guys had to fab those things in our shop cause they dont have the crain for it. it took both our 25 tons to pick them up and roll em on there sides.

 

by the way Rob I do the fun part - gramming them. I only run stuff when I have to. aint to often anymore,just the way I like it

[Thad]

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I dont know bout that Thad,how would you like to load these parts

 

they only wiegh 45 TON

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I was just kiddin' about the gravy job. It really is an impressive part.

 

I wouldn't be interested in cutting parts that big. I respect the guys who do it though. I prefer the smaller stuff.

 

Is that an FPT (Italian) boring mill? Their North American facility is right down the street from us. WOW, how much bigger is the table than what we see in the picture? I'll try to get a pic up of our boring mill.

 

Thad

[Thad]

Here's some details that I made. Not too fancy, just typical work we do.

 

 

 

Here's our boring mill. Looks like you've got us beat on size, Mayday.

 

 

Thad

[Trevor Bailey]

Thad & Mayday,

 

Do either of you have nay video clips of your machines running. It would be cool to show students and a nice add to my collection.

[Thad]

Trevor,

 

I don't, but a digital camcorder is almost at the top of my list of toys to buy. I'll get back to you when I get one.

 

Thad

[mayday]

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FPT

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Thats where we bought it Thad , by the way your shop picks and parts look familiar. are those mock autobody parts??

 

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how much bigger is the table than what we see in the picture?

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It has 46' of travel, 2 heads for it. one is a ridgid straight spindle and the other is a A,B, ring indexing head to do stuff like this

 

 

 

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video clips

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I'll see what I can do Trev

[G Caputo]

Well if I did this right, this will be a picture of our floor bar as it was getting installed 2 years ago.

 

web page

[Thad]

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by the way your shop picks and parts look familiar. are those mock autobody parts??

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Mayday,

 

Those are some die sections that make 'real' auto body parts.

 

Thad

[J Coulston]

Here are a few shots of a billet aluminum laptop housing I finished a short time ago. Each half started as a 22lb blank, one side weighed 1.5lbs the other 1.7lbs after about a 4 hour cycle time per side. The finished product is pretty cool, it has no keyboard. The unit has 2 15" LCD touch screens. You can view it as a book or as a conventional laptop with a virtual keyboard.

The biggest problem I ran in to was holding it, 10' draft on the sides, ended up using a nested vacuum fixture.

No thinking back the biggest problem was with my customer changing his mind and sending new models of the part. What I have a magic wand I wave to get new code and parts. I guess that falls under you pay, I will play. Why is my job so much fun?

 

This was my second Level 3 job, O I learned a lot about MasterCam on this one.

 

John