Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Homemade bellows covers?

At 22:56 01/07/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "cinelogic" <cnc@v...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Any cheapskates out there that have figured out a low-buck method of
> > making bellows covers for linear stages? Or are their other
> > strategies to use that are simple to build?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --SC
>
>Some years ago when my eldest daughter was still keen to please Daddy
>and had been doing origami at school, she made some very nice 'flat
>bellows' by cunningly folding a sheet of oilproof gasket material
>which fitted the dovetails of my (then) hand operated surface grinder
>a treat. Sort of three sided box with returns into the dovetail.
>Lasted very well up to the time I sold it. No way could I repeat what
>she did but it worked fine !
>

It is easy enough to make bellows covers out of heavy gauge polythene
sheet, using a (not too hot!) domestic iron to make the creases permanent.
I have fitted these to my mill; they work just fine.


Regards,
Tony