Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Re: re:Re: Lead screws for ever...(plastic)

For what it's worth....I learned a long time ago when I worked for a guage design outfit, that if your going to be machining wood, the best thing to use is hard maple. The reason for this is being that when you store guages in maple blocks, the guages won't rust! If you cut walnut and lots of other types of woods containing acid, you better clean the tool thouroughly after finished to prevent your machine parts from rusting!

Smoke
-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Ogborn <anniepoo@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com>
Date: Sunday, October 29, 2000 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Re: re:Re: Lead screws for ever...(plastic)

> > Something not often mentioned in the choice of ballscrews vs. ??? is
> > that ballscrews are EXTREMELY intolerant of dust/dirt/swarf/etc.!
>
> I've already got the bellows sorted out... at the end of the day this
> machine is going to cut balsa and plastic for models, probably not a big
> deal.. I also intend to have a "chip vac" or at least a buggered old vacuum
> cleaner...

Uh, actually, wood is viciously abrasive. Plastic only slightly less so.
Either is far worse as swarf than metal.

If you're cutting these materials the chip vac is a great idea. These
nonconductive materials (esp. the plastics) cling by static electricity
to everything around them 8cP
They're a real mess.

Annie

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