CNC Milling
I added some more pictures of my work area here. It hasn’t been this clean in over a year, and yet I’d be embarrassed to show you the mess looming on the opposite side of the room.
After I completed the furniture rearranging and general clean up I was ready to spin up the mill and do something, so I secured a scrap piece of aluminum to the mill and set up the software to cut a 0.2″ deep 1.5″ diameter pocket. Given this was the first time I was running the mill under computer control I set up everything carefully and made many trial runs without tooling. I also set the feed rate very low for the actual operation so it took 45 minutes to complete the operation. Even so, it was terribly exciting!
I made a short video clip of three different parts of the operation. The variable lighting was due to the sunlight streaking in the window behind the mill. Hope you enjoy it (click either the picture or here to watch).