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I made this outdoor solar sign with 16 LED solar street lights I bought from amazon. ($350 in lights)

Acrylic/HDPE box , 1/2" acrylic raised lettering with 1/8" black acrylic letter masking.

If...

the same way I always cut.

3/4" double sided HPL plywood.

5.9" a second
1800 rpm
.33 first pass (which is when it went off course)

Today is the 3rd time it has happened.

Cutting a circle, and the bot took a straight line out, and the bit breaks.
The bot went all the way past Y 48" until it hit the limit switch.
The circle...

On my standard. prefinished birch is actually the slowest cut i ever cut.

3 passes.
14 rpm 2.9 IPS

.38 first pass
.15 the last pass.

those 1 oz dry transfast dyes make A LOT.

Minwax PolyShades Espresso Gloss.

Once you get it the color you want, then add more poly only coats if you want more gloss.

Other than polyshades, I would die it, and poly it.

Volusion is not bad.



I myself like open source & FREE carts myself. I use, as well as am a developer on the virtuemart.net shopping cart for Joomla.


amazon and ebay integration is very...

I do not,

I have actually outsourced my prefinished plywood tables to china. I now import the whole table top with T-mold & everything for $8 each.

For sheet goods, I only import double sided...

this is because while it was in limbo the importers did not import any. So supply is lower.


I actually started importing my own containers of birch, and HPL birch when all this started happening.

Burkhardt, the wood needs to be more flat

1/4" centurion tools double compression bit.
I use it for everything except plastic.

It's not the best choice for laminated MDF, because the dust does not move,. but i buy so many at a time, i...

just got my container

400 sheets of laminated plywood. As you can see, I got my work cut out for me.

1 man 1 bot:D
...

You should see it on container day.
I have 400 sheets of HPL plywood coming in on the 18th. It will be a nightmare for a week.
But thanks to my double router table I built (you can see it in top...

I cut prefinished a lot on my bot.

I have a standard.

I cut 3 passes with compression. .37,.58, and last pass .15 (your 3/4" is actually .7 if its Chinese)
2.9 inches per second gives the best...

My shop is 20x25 with very high ceilings.
I have a 4x8 machine.
I have a double router table that is 40" x 72".
I have 36" wide x 18 foot long pallet shelving.
I use my pallet stacker to put my...

On my standard. For veneer plywood I use a compression bit 1/4". 2.9 inches a second feed rate. any faster i do not get the perfect edge I need.
any slower, the bit will go out faster.

also is it veneer? prefinished? etc?

The small displays I make for them.

Simple, $50 in materials each.
Double sided HPL white 3/4" plywood.
Pockets, glue, + angle brackets. Black t-mold.

...

cut 2 inch angle aluminum into a bracket on both sides of each leg.
Drill holes. gorilla glue & screws

what I have been doing is sanding 80 then 400
Then, running a "polisher attachment" hooked to my drill.
The heat gun did not work for me.
I bought a bench grinder yesterday & am going to try it...

Thanks

I did get the business, plus another display.

I told him max 20 units at a time.

I cant store that many units at a time, + I have my own products I make & sell.

Most of the time i just cut round & square table tops with my shopbot.

I made this today for a customer that might want 500 of them.
Needs a little work, but I am surprised it went this well the...

will it leave it satin smooth?

Guys, I need to buff edges on HDPE table tops.
I do mass production more or less (100 + at a time)

I need to have a setup like a router table that has a buffing wheel.
In other words horizontal....

Guys thanks for the suggestions.

what I ended up doing was recreated the piece with bent plywood. Then clamped to it.
There was a small bit of "play" as you can see from the cut.
BUT, it was...