milling

[coolcatpete]

i am new at this and it looks fun to mill your own stuff so i was wondering what every one uses for milling and how you do it.

[coolcatpete]

Oh yeah i also may want to see some pics so i have an idea of what to do and if you send a pic tell me if it is easy or hard.

[rapidshooter]

FIRST YOU NEED A MILLING MACHINE
THEN YOU NEED BLOCKS OF ALUMINUM
HARDNESS OF PROJECTS DEPENDS ON WHAT YOUR MILLING

[coolcatpete]

What is the milling machines name. Can I use a dremel.

[GT]

Originally posted by coolcatpete
What is the milling machines name. Can I use a dremel.

[rapidshooter]

a milling machine ia called a nilling machine and it cost a lot of money and no you cant use a dremel tool

[WickeDKlowN]

Milling machines cost $1000's of dollars usually. And yes, you can use a Dremel, but It can and will look like ****.

[TheJester]

a milling machine, AKA just a mill. is a REAL fancy drill press. but it can do what a drill/drill press couldn't even imagin doing. a drill press is used for holes, a mill has a bunch of knobs and dials, and are used to cut precision parts, usually cuts are taken from a side to side manner unlike a drill press cutting a hole in a vertical manner. there's also a hudge arrey of cutters, most of the work you see here are done with end mills. sticking w/ my drill comparison, end mills are like a drill, except they have a flat bottom, and the sides of them are sharp, so you can cut along the side of something using the side of the end mill.


disclaimer- i'm sure most of you are smarter than this, but don't not try to use a drill press as a mill. it will not work, and you'll prolly end up hurting your self in the process

[Lopy-slopy]

Last weekend I was board and used my dremmel to mill my tank, wow, it's so much lighter now. try it

[Brak]

ive seen some incredible work done with a dremel. it wont always look like crap if you use a dremel. it just takes lots of time...and talent wouldnt hurt either. look at some milling projects done (search) and you can see what has been done with a dremel

[68magOwner]

i did dremel milling on a cheap electro i got. My object was to make it lighter, not cooler, soooo it didnt have any intricate, cool-looking patterns that i had to do, but it turned out really light and fairly smooth. LOL, im gonna have to post pics of this gun when i finish it, its been modded in every way, the bolt, the body, the barrel, the trigger, the board!, everyting. I named it "the beast" (sorry BT) but its very beastly, and it rips like no other $70 gun

[billybob_81067]

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Originally posted by 68magOwner
i did dremel milling on a cheap electro i got. My object was to make it lighter, not cooler, soooo it didnt have any intricate, cool-looking patterns that i had to do, but it turned out really light and fairly smooth. LOL, im gonna have to post pics of this gun when i finish it, its been modded in every way, the bolt, the body, the barrel, the trigger, the board!, everyting. I named it "the beast" (sorry BT) but its very beastly, and it rips like no other $70 gun

What kind of gun is it??? Post some pics for us to enjoy!

[magmonkey]

here is one of our milling machines ( we have two of them, two lathes, and a surface grinder)

soon one of the milling machines will be up for sale becuase we will be buying either a three axis prototrak or a small milling center.

[Catch22]

Forget endmills and lathes man. That's childsplay. Just go buy yourself a $200,000 CnC machine. you can take a block of aluminum, Draw a design on the computer, and it will mill it for you!

[Statik7]

Originally posted by Catch22
Forget endmills and lathes man. That's childsplay. Just go buy yourself a $200,000 CnC machine. you can take a block of aluminum, Draw a design on the computer, and it will mill it for you!

wrong. its slightly just a shade more difficult than "drawing up a design" and throw it at a cnc machine and expect it to mill down material for you.

cnc programming isnt as easy as it seems. true there is software than can render a drawing into gcode but i really doubt the most of us has that kind of money to spend on a single program.

sorry to burst your bubble