RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Milling Materials

I thought about plexiglass, but the materials I could find in my hardware
store really didn't match my needs, I whould like to make the coins about
3/8 of an inch thick, and with some weight.
I haven't looked into either delrin or nylon, I'm going to have to find an
industrial plastic supply house.

As for the cutting, I aquired froma Dentisit, that I know, cutting bits
that they use, .4 through .8 mm in size. I was also able to get through a
used dential supply house, a drill set, high speed motor and wand, I
replaced the wand with one from dremmel.

I found on the Internet a proram that converts true type fonts to cad files,
and another that converts bmp to raster, or cad files.

With this I have been pretty suscessful in making the "art", but If anyone
has a better solution, please let me know.

thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Marconett KM6VV [mailto:KM6VV@...]
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 2:06 AM
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Milling Materials


Hi Michael,

Sounds like a great project. How about nylon, delrin, or plexiglass? I
was thinking about milling a holder for the new quarters out of
plexiglass, not quite the same, but would be an interesting project to
make for gifts.

Have you figured out how to cut it yet? Fred's got some programs that
might help!

Alan

Michael McLaughlin wrote:

>
> Hi, I'm a newbie to CNC, and the news group. First, let me say how

great

> the information that I have found to be, thank everyone so very much.
>
> This summer while I was vacationing at Disney world with my family, I saw
> this really cool machine that was milling a Mickey Mouse picture, in a
> "plastic" circle. I happened to meet the gentleman who built the

machine,

> and he told me a little about the process, and well here I am.
>
> I'm getting married next year, and I thought it would be very cool if I
> could make small, two inch coins for the wedding. Our names and Date,

and

> two wedding rings machined into clear "plastic".
> Something similar to what I saw at Disney, just simpler. The question is
> does anyone have a suggestion on what material I might use to make these
> coins. At Disney I think, that the gentleman said that it was

"lumalite",

> I can't really be sure, and I haven't found any information about what
> would be a good choice and how to work with it?
>
> Any information would be appreciated......
>
> Thanks
>
> mike mclaughlin
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