Make sure you're wearing full breathing apparatus if you mill PCB material.
I was thinking along similar lines - why not Delrin or some other appropriate plastic? DougM On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Erik Christiansen <dva...@internode.on.net> wrote: > On 14.02.12 15:20, gene heskett wrote: >> The encoder wheel >> itself will be trapped between the spindle bearing lock buts. > > Gene, have you considered using a piece of thin PCB material for the > encoder wheel, since all your sheet Al is toffee? A piece of the brown > phenolic stuff would be easier on the tool. Copper is needed on at > least one side, if the green fibreglass board is used, because it lets > too much light through. (About 34 years ago I was cautious enough to > check a piece before making a wheel, and switched to PVC sheet. But > I had more room, for a thicker wheel, than you do.) > > Erik > > -- > A man with one watch knows what time it is. > A man with two watches is never quite sure. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
