Brian the blades are forged or cast ( lotsa hollow passages ) then details are milled or edm'd the blades are welded together into rings ( even with the fancy tree locators ) and machined again there some great sites explaining the aero and stationary engines and components this is great http://www.gentz.net/ regards tomp
BRIAN GLACKIN wrote: snip... > It would be neat if one of the Hydro turbine manufacturers in the area would > set up a demo on how they machine the huge blades. > > and for machining, it does take multi axis or a very very large investment in fixturing. engineers that can design the jigs can demand good bucks! regards tomp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
