After a lot of fund raising and crazy problems we are up and running thanks to my woods class and Scott Worden
Here are some pictures.
Getting Power
Assembling the table
After a lot of fund raising and crazy problems we are up and running thanks to my woods class and Scott Worden
Here are some pictures.
Getting Power
Assembling the table
Kyle Stapleton
River Falls Renaissance Academy
Math/Technology Education Teacher
PRS Alpha 96x60 2.2 hp spindle, Double Air drills, 6" indexer, Fein 5 zone vac table
Desktop w/spindle
Potter Pen
Aspire 8.5, Creo 3.0
More pictures.
Making of vac table with two fein vacs
Remade Jim Stoddart's vac box to fit the new fein vac III
Kyle Stapleton
River Falls Renaissance Academy
Math/Technology Education Teacher
PRS Alpha 96x60 2.2 hp spindle, Double Air drills, 6" indexer, Fein 5 zone vac table
Desktop w/spindle
Potter Pen
Aspire 8.5, Creo 3.0
Little more.
First kid made project for our local Baseball team.
More to come....
Kyle Stapleton
River Falls Renaissance Academy
Math/Technology Education Teacher
PRS Alpha 96x60 2.2 hp spindle, Double Air drills, 6" indexer, Fein 5 zone vac table
Desktop w/spindle
Potter Pen
Aspire 8.5, Creo 3.0
Thanks for all the pics Kyle, helps me understand the full size better.
scott P.
2013 Desktop/spindle/VCP 12.0*
Maine
Trying to make it like Alison Stoddart's post but I think his is way to good and clean to beat.
Kyle Stapleton
River Falls Renaissance Academy
Math/Technology Education Teacher
PRS Alpha 96x60 2.2 hp spindle, Double Air drills, 6" indexer, Fein 5 zone vac table
Desktop w/spindle
Potter Pen
Aspire 8.5, Creo 3.0
First production run, props for a dance class that does free Zumba for our PE class.
Everything cut great but the bit slipped and the table will look a little fancy for a while (last picture is the table 3/16" deep).
Kyle Stapleton
River Falls Renaissance Academy
Math/Technology Education Teacher
PRS Alpha 96x60 2.2 hp spindle, Double Air drills, 6" indexer, Fein 5 zone vac table
Desktop w/spindle
Potter Pen
Aspire 8.5, Creo 3.0
Well Kyle-They look great and now you learned to crank down on the wrenches when tightening your bit! I make it a rule to set the wrenches so I can squeeze them together with one hand so I get a strong grip and don't waste half my strength pushing against the axis and possibly screwing up my x or y location.
(A day without learning something is a wasted day )
Shop seems to lack dust...
Tie your wrenches together so you can lose them both at the same time.
As above, wrenches should be used at a small angle and squeezed together (like a scissors) to change bits.
The decimal point seems to be the most important on the z axis... x & y not so much....
ShopBot... Where even the scraps and things you mess up and throw away are cool....
The bit was tight but it was not high enough up in the spindle.
It was the first time I had a student do it. (guess I need to watch better).
Will be posting all the good and the bad.
Kyle Stapleton
River Falls Renaissance Academy
Math/Technology Education Teacher
PRS Alpha 96x60 2.2 hp spindle, Double Air drills, 6" indexer, Fein 5 zone vac table
Desktop w/spindle
Potter Pen
Aspire 8.5, Creo 3.0
Maybe if you got some gun bluing and dip the bits' shanks to the proper depth. Then you could have a teaching element and a visual cue to the proper depth.
No blue below, good to go. Or something. And the kids can also self monitor each other.
"Once a person moves away from the computer and CNC some of the most important work begins." ~Joe Crumley