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

Hi,

Any stone cutting company worth their salt will have no problem at all in
cutting and polishing a lump of stone to make a super machine bed.
Gravestone makers would be a logical choice or a fireplace maker. However,
bear in mind that they are usually only buying their stone in from a quarry
so you will have their mark-up and you will not be talking to the man who is
actually going to cut your stone. It may be worth a little research to find
a quarry which can do you the job first hand. I've had some very complicated
sections of stone made for building restoration work at one of our local
quarries and actually stood by the machines while they were working on the
stones.

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield UK
www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk

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From: "Marcus & Eva" <implmex@...>
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Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] re:defiance vmc wasRe: Re: wrong conversion
factor ...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ballendo@... <ballendo@...>
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> 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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