dimple dies

[CRaSHnBuRN]

saw this a figured a few other people here would think it was pretty neat

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=551328&highlight=dimple

[Sharpe]

Perfect for Jimmy's SPEEDHOLES!

[BMFScout]

Flem made some, they almost worked!

[agjohn02]

Flem made some, they almost worked!


we shall see...

[BMFScout]

we flame hardened them and then quenched them in a special mix of Keystone Light and 30 weight.

[Doug Krebs]

I have access to heat treating furnaces if he doesn't think the flame hardening worked.

[agjohn02]

how long would it take to get that done?

[BMFScout]

I think flem's design was more the problem than the heat treating, but it seems like we were trying some thicker stuff I can't remember.

[robertf03]

.125 was the thinnest we did, and that was on the larger one

doug they are 304 SS and after we did the the heat treating I read up on it and I think I saw 304 doesn't respond well to it. Any ideas?

[Doug Krebs]

how long would it take to get that done?

If it was as easy as sticking in the machine and hitting start it's one thing... I'm not even messing with my own **** right now.

[Doug Krebs]

.125 was the thinnest we did, and that was on the larger one

doug they are 304 SS and after we did the the heat treating I read up on it and I think I saw 304 doesn't respond well to it. Any ideas?

any reason you used SS instead of a tool steel?

[robertf03]

any reason you used SS instead of a tool steel?

it was free

same reason my pinion spacer on the rover is inconel 600

[agjohn02]

if i program the code and drill two little holes will it be easy as sticking it in the machine and hitting start?

[Doug Krebs]

if i program the code and drill two little holes will it be easy as sticking it in the machine and hitting start?

yup, but radii have to be accurate to .xxxxx else the machine will crash

[agjohn02]

so can i just change the significant digits on my dimensions to five places?

[Doug Krebs]

so can i just change the significant digits on my dimensions to five places?

sure... what kind of program are you going to write? Incremental would be better.

[agjohn02]

i was just gonna draw it up in MasterCAM and generate g code. maybe ill just save the program and give it to you to tweak to fit the machine since i dont know whats best.

[Doug Krebs]

i was just gonna draw it up in MasterCAM and generate g code. maybe ill just save the program and give it to you to tweak to fit the machine since i dont know whats best.

you weiner thats been the problem the whole time is we don't know how to use the software we have. I think it's feature cam...

Anyways, you can give it to me in a txt file, thats the easiest way for me to edit it. Also, I remember the inner diameter had a flat on it, does that need to line up to anything specific, or just be concentric with the gear itself.

Did the incremental makes sense to you? Like it's point to point instead each line relating back to (0,0,0)?

I might even be able to start it after work if you can get it to me quick enough.

[agjohn02]

yeah, featureCAM thats what i meant, not masterCAM. you dont know how to use featureCAM? or you just dont know how to import my solidworks file?

the flat does not line up with anything. theres a flat on the shaft and that just keeps it from spinning.

ill play with it when i get back to CS and see what i come up with. ive never done incremental but i can probably figure it out if i can dredge up my old featureCAM skills well enough.

[Doug Krebs]

yeah, featureCAM thats what i meant, not masterCAM. you dont know how to use featureCAM? or you just dont know how to import my solidworks file?

the flat does not line up with anything. theres a flat on the shaft and that just keeps it from spinning.

ill play with it when i get back to CS and see what i come up with. ive never done incremental but i can probably figure it out if i can dredge up my old featureCAM skills well enough.

We don't know how to use feature cam... I know it's not hard, but most of the stuff we do it's just easier to write by hand. We normally don't have more than 100 lines of code and most of the things we do are symetrical and we can copy and paste and change a few things...

I think we used featurecam once or twice in the beginning before we knew what we were doing.

[robertf03]

ill play with it when i get back to CS and see what i come up with.

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[agjohn02]

thats so twelve of you, robert

[DRAGOONRANCH]

thats so twelve of you, robert

you're just mad you got called on it, I was going to do the same thing untill I figured I better check the end of the thread and see if you had been busted yet.. :flipoff2:

Flem Rules :cheers:

[CRaSHnBuRN]

if i program the code and drill two little holes will it be easy as sticking it in the machine and hitting start?

let me know if you do decide to design and build some dies. I would like to have a set or two. If you need materials for this, let me know, and I may be able to scrounge some stuff up at work.

[agjohn02]

we arent speaking of dimple dies... your thread got snaked

[CRaSHnBuRN]

I kinda understood that, but really, I would think it would be pretty simple to build dimple dies. I don't have access to the machines or the programs needed at the moment, but I can get the material, if anyone else would be interested in working together to build a couple