Gobsmacked.

ihatesissycars · Post by **ihatesissycars** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:00 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsmiIeAkE-o&NR

ian.stewart · Post by **ian.stewart** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:39 pm

I could do that on my 3 axis bridgeport, only take an afternoon

ihatesissycars · Post by **ihatesissycars** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:31 pm

name yer price!

IainB · Post by **IainB** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:04 pm

Holy crap....I knew I should have taken more notice in my CNC lessons

ian.stewart · Post by **ian.stewart** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:32 pm

I assume its is computer written programe, that would be mind numbingly hard to programe manually, and just one zero too many, and WHOOPSIE, or set the datum to a minus point. I did see an appreitice run an unchecked programe with a -z axis datum set to about 70mm below the table height, that made a mess of a very expensive machine

IainB · Post by **IainB** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:55 pm

ian.stewart wrote:I did see an appreitice run an unchecked programe with a -z axis datum set to about 70mm below the table height, that made a mess of a very expensive machine

I did hear a rumour that the tutor for our lathe and mill class (back in the mists of time when I worked for Britannia but did my first year at Bae) managed to wipe out a 146 wing.... probably not the best thing to do, one big chunk of metal

ChrisJC · Post by **ChrisJC** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:13 am

Question is - did it run?

Chris.

Lewis · Post by **Lewis** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:01 am

The Melling Hellcat V10 has heads & block milled from solid billets of alloy. Perfectly do-able!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mute_Vm4pXs

Sounds quite good too, not convinced entirely by the looks though! Quite tough lookin' I guess

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:59 pm

That is a COOL vid

They are just showing off by finishing the bores with a ball nose and pivoting the block every which way when a boring bar would be much quicker. No way on earth would you want to program that manually

Mark

HairbearTE · Post by **HairbearTE** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:16 pm

I have to agree, that vid is amazing. Great spot Gav.

scoobyv8 · Post by **scoobyv8** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:09 pm

thats just beautiful! cad cam at its best.

alex · Post by **alex** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:18 pm

Good vid.
The jetsprint boys in aus and nz are starting to run billet blocks, they get a 502 cu in out of a small block size from what i understand. they are awesome to watch.