RyanB
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Hey guys, the forum has been a little slow here in the past few weeks (everyone must be working on there winter projects and to busy to talk!) Anyway, I have a winter project of my own on the go and and last night while playing with Auto-Cad I thought this would be a great spot to start a post on custom machining and design work. Just curious as to what all options are out there and what most of us have access to.
In my area I have access to Waterjets, lasers, cnc mills, lathes, plasma tables, cnc brakes. On my own I also design with Auto-cad and am experimenting with Solid Works but most of the shops I have access to, I just have to convert my Cad drawings to .dxf files and they can do the rest. I also have access to some of the greatest "old timer" machinests I know that don't charge a complete forture to fire up there lathe for an hour or two and machine things the way I want them.
My "hobbie" shop (I have to shops and the other is full of woodworking tools for my bussiness www.premiercustomwoodworks.com is pretty basic consisting of the standard smaller Lincoln mig welder, tube bender, 20ton press, a full chest of tools and the most exotic machine I have in that shop is a Lincoln 175 Pulse Tig welder...just getting back into the tig welding after not using it for a few years.
Anyway, just thought it would be intresting to find out what others have or have access too and what kind of "custom parts" we can build. I just like to play with steel after hours and its great to get ideas from others!
Ryan
In my area I have access to Waterjets, lasers, cnc mills, lathes, plasma tables, cnc brakes. On my own I also design with Auto-cad and am experimenting with Solid Works but most of the shops I have access to, I just have to convert my Cad drawings to .dxf files and they can do the rest. I also have access to some of the greatest "old timer" machinests I know that don't charge a complete forture to fire up there lathe for an hour or two and machine things the way I want them.
My "hobbie" shop (I have to shops and the other is full of woodworking tools for my bussiness www.premiercustomwoodworks.com is pretty basic consisting of the standard smaller Lincoln mig welder, tube bender, 20ton press, a full chest of tools and the most exotic machine I have in that shop is a Lincoln 175 Pulse Tig welder...just getting back into the tig welding after not using it for a few years.
Anyway, just thought it would be intresting to find out what others have or have access too and what kind of "custom parts" we can build. I just like to play with steel after hours and its great to get ideas from others!
Ryan