| V8 block machined from a solid aluminum cube - Click HERE for Original Thread |
| EK9Hatch |
Wow, thats amazing! I bet that would cost a pretty penny to do!
Jamie |
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| newaccorddriver |
| that cutting bit is pretty savage. i wonder how many of those things they go through for that block... |
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| Prudz_lude |
| probably very very few.. Im sure they were smart enough to use a strong metal to do the cuting. Aluminum is very ductile. |
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| Fish_e_o |
and they use replaceable carbide tips so
their cuts don't look to large, they go at a reasonable speed for what that machine is capable of doing
pretty amazing to think of all the drafting and programming etc. they would have to do for that |
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| Prudz_lude |
| thats what i was thinking. the actual cutting is not as crazy as the amount of work that must have been put into just desiging all of that adn then getting the computers to do it all correct. |
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| Thegnome |
When I worked at one shop, they had an aluminum block in stock and I thought my boss told me it cost upwards of 4000$ I think, its been a while.
I doubt they are using tooling with replacable inserts. Its probably just high speed steel end mills and fine carbide roughers.
Aluminum is cheese and on the manuals you can basically bury your tool and take as much as the machine can handle obviously keeping in mind you want to control your chips and heat.
However, thats the beauty of the NC's, they take smaller cuts, but at a pace a manual guy can't keep up with. So with an enclosed environment you can flood with coolant, all in all you prolong the life of your tooling and still produce 10 times faster than a guy doing the 20 operations on a manual.
Plus being an engine block with ...tigher than average tolerances. You dont want heat to become a factor.
With that said, they probably didn't change any of the tools for each cycle. |
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| ImporTuner |
| hmmm very interesting |
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| omniman69 |
that was very cool.
mike |
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| EDISKRAD EHT |
| That was pretty cool.:thumbup: |
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