On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 21:10 -0500, Martin Pinkston wrote: ... snip > As for the fittings being made on the spot. Having various sizes of brass > hex is fine as long as the fitting is not a 90 degree or even a 45 degree > bent fitting. > Most all those fittings are made from a casting, not bar stock. ... snip
I think the gist of the idea is to have a few metal primitives from which a range of parts could be made. Whether that could be practical is not known. The comment that a dual spindle or a means of flipping the part is a good point too. Either is doable with EMC2. I thought a pipe threader might be a simple application, but it too has the part flip or dual spindle problem. I wonder how the current pre-made pipe sections are made. To me, it's bazaar to think that it is cheaper to have someone in China cut and thread pipe and ship it to the other side of the world. I wonder where these products usually come from. The black and galvanized pipe fittings tend to be fairly large so the part primitives would be fairly large and take a long time to machine. I wonder if this could be overcome buy having the blanks made up with a 3D welder, but you would need a near net part to keep the machining time down. Then there is the plating problem. I think steel pipe fittings may be out of reach for real time retail manufacturing. Brass fittings, pipe nipples and keys may be the extent of of what can be done. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
