Oh - this certainly isn't a production way of creating shapes (internally and externally).. (although some shapes it might be)
sam On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 7:44 AM Leonardo Marsaglia <ldmarsag...@gmail.com> wrote: > I must add, that lately we're considering making the camshafts this way: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkHgf5SSsAQ > > This would eliminate the roughing process at all. > > El jue., 22 oct. 2020 a las 9:35, Leonardo Marsaglia (< > ldmarsag...@gmail.com>) > escribió: > > > Looks like this would be perfect for roughing camshafts prior to heat > >> treating and grinding. I bet the guy with the camshaft factory who > adapted > >> LCNC to control induction heat treaters would be interested in this. > > > > > > This is what I achieved so far Gregg > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjBXa6RHSPQ > > > > The thing is, we have an old landis grinder that can rough those cams in > > about 25 seconds (1.5 mm of material to remove in the radius) per lobe > > (using 60 grit grinding wheel and dessing it with a high feed). So, we > are > > waiting until we have a little more time to make a live tooling gig to > > rough them (I already have that on paper but didn't have the time to > > implement it yet). > > > > Without live tooling it's not that practical to rough the lobes/cams for > > production. > > > > El jue., 22 oct. 2020 a las 9:27, Leonardo Marsaglia (< > > ldmarsag...@gmail.com>) escribió: > > > >> Yep he is in Chile. > >> > >> > >> Argentina actually. It's similar, but out shores face the atlantic > >> instead of the pacific. Also we're closer of being an eleventh world > >> country than they are... > >> > >> El jue., 22 oct. 2020 a las 3:08, andrew beck (< > andrewbeck0...@gmail.com>) > >> escribió: > >> > >>> Yep he is in Chile. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 6:47 PM Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users < > >>> emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >>> > >>> > Looks like this would be perfect for roughing camshafts prior to heat > >>> > treating and grinding. I bet the guy with the camshaft factory who > >>> adapted > >>> > LCNC to control induction heat treaters would be interested in this. > >>> > > >>> > On Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 9:35:26 PM MDT, Sam Sokolik < > >>> > samco...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4sKHBh6rDk > >>> > _______________________________________________ > >>> > Emc-users mailing list > >>> > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >>> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >>> > > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Emc-users mailing list > >>> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >>> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users