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IM BACCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK..... it has been one hell of a year but i am back and Arclight is still alive. I am sorry to anybody whos replies i have missed for all this time
BEHOLD AN UPDATE.... yes, yes, I know, took my sweet time. HEY!! you try modding and having 6 kids
So where were we...
The lower rad is super thick 66mm, plus fans on top 91mm, the space under the cover is only 110 and i needed to get tubing in the spaces, fans are running 900RPM in push, the rad is quad pass so so far it is working just fine with the one stack of fans
just a quick message to my followers
I have been rather ill this week and completely unable to even look at a power tool let alone operate it safely, i am now recovering and will be back to my insane self in a few short days
I will be reworking the res slightly, i need to swap them for EK multiport 150s and add a GPU block, not sure how i am going to get space for that so i am open to suggections
Visual Mill 6.0 for the path generation
So its not just me who loves tool marks... yay
CAD Solidworks 2012
CAM Visual mill 6.0 with Visual CAM 1.0 pug in
CnC control Mach3 2.1
continued.... erm.... some more
back to milling the center this time leaving zero stock, this was make or break, if i had planned anything wrong the whole piece would be ruined, but it seemed that lick was on my side
full cleanup can wait until all the cutting is complete
for some scale...
continued......
after getting the centre to full depth the tricky work can begin, the endmills i use have a flute that is 12mm long, this limits me to 12mm depth or i will not get any kinf of chip evac when cutting......... but i ignored that and took them 20mm deep
mach3 with custom...
yes up cut clockwise, the compacting is more due to the geometry im cutting then any tooling issue, air is working well for the most part, added a small holder for an airbrish and currently modifying a hydroponic plant drop feeder to supply coolant
some 1f endmills are on the way om hoping that...
ive done a lot of research in to feeds, this is also a cast, make up (due to supplier) being more similar to lexan then true acrylic so the melting point is through the floor, im also limited on speeds with a max rpm of 11k, ive bought some metal cutting pol and its fixed the melting issue...
once my confidence with the machine grew i finally ventured in to alu milling.... with TERRIBLE results, screaming mill and terrible tooling marks. after 3 weeks i finally worked out what was wrong, no coolant/lubrication, so out came the WD40 and away we went
the arclight main bezel for the...
It is finally time for an update
As most of you know by now a short while ago i acquired a small CnC mill with which to being my twisted imaginings to reality.
here is how it went
As i completely forgot where i left my shots of my mill here is a stock shot of the exact same model, I was...
I am VERY pleased to announce that EK is now official sponsoring Arclight, they are kindly supplying enough equipment to rebuild the entire double loop set up
Stay tuned for a supply drop and more updates