Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] re:defiance vmc wasRe: Re: wrong conversion factor ...

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From: ballendo@... <ballendo@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 2:38 PM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] re:defiance vmc wasRe: Re: wrong conversion
factor

>Re: the "synthetic" granite: Isn't this a polymer? Light machines
>corp makes a similar size machine (as the defiance) and uses
>ANOCAST "filled" polymer castings for the machine structure. When I
>first heard of this several years back, I investigated... GREAT
>STUFF, unfortunately it has a price to match! Since then, I,ve been
>lookin' for the hobbiest version (A metal? filled composite), and
>have seen some interesting developments, but nothing that
>really "fits the bill". Dennis Bohlke and Greg Pettengill at super-
>tech have used some aluminum filled urethane in their "kit" routers.

Hi All:

I wonder if a stone cutting company (someone who makes gravestones??) could
chop out a nice "L" shaped chunk of granite for a machine base??
How expensive are gravestones, anyway?? Might end up cheaper than
patterns,castings and machining.

Just a thought

Marcus

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