Four Sided Machining of Aluminum Tube with the Indexer
I'm making a prototype of a future product and one of the things I needed was a right angle pipe with a certain dimension. The part is going under the hood of a car, so has to be rugged. The pipe ends, a magnificent display of engineering cajones, will be filled in with metal and the unit powder coated black.
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Here's the center connector being machined with the indexer. I'm using a 1/4" 2 flute upcut running at 8k taking tiny bites as the pipe has some deflection.
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ShopBot Details:
2013 PRS 96x60x12 (Centroid upgrade)
4hp Spindle
12" indexer
Aspire
Rhino
Fusion 360
Ferrari 360
Prusa MK3S+