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Hi there!

Strange, what a man can do to save 5 gramms weight of a car.

Michael

Nice work, bummer it only saved 5 grams though. Funny enough I just got done milling some aluminum also but it's for something entirely different.

I could save 20 gramms in the same process, if Team Associated made a Wolfram-tub chassis.

Michael

Nice! You did this with a standard drill press?

Thanks!

It´s a semi-professionell milling machine from a friend´s father in his hobby room. Not really good, but okay for that work.

I miss the REAL milling machines from my old job as precision mechanic. I love to mill. Even better is a nice CNC-milling machine, but nobody wants to make me this gift. Hello! give me a CNC and I never need TV!

Michael

I personally love the Bridgeports. Spent many hours behind one when I worked nights at my last job. You know, those darn govt projects.....

bngiles wrote:I personally love the Bridgeports. Spent many hours behind one when I worked nights at my last job. You know, those darn govt projects.....

At my work, we have a Bridgeport a Deckel mill and a Wells CNC. I like when I get projects to make some little implement.

i wish i had access to those kinds of machines.

guess i'll just have to stick with my drill press, bench grinder, and my trusty ol' dremel.

thats a sexy chassis there. take it off take it off!!!

my best friend back in kansas is a machinist. the mills they had were haas or something like that. i always loved hanging out there just to watch the machines run programs. i wasnt into rc back then or i would have been raiding the scrap pile instead.

How did you mill the angles in the front and back to get back up to the original height? Did you have to re-fixture it for those cuts?

I think he did the sides by hand. This post was just showing removal of material in the bottom of the tub.

Looks like the head of the endmill is moved to an angle to do the ramped sides. They definitely don't look hand-done.

Hello there!

I did it with a belt-grinder. It´s very easy to do it. You only need heat-resistant fingers. haha!

But I did cut another tub-chassis with a Dremel and after with a file by hand. Both is possible, but the belt-grinder is much faster (5 minutes)!
Cheers!

Michael

siebenelch wrote:I did it with a belt-grinder.

Hah! Low tech at it's best... nice work.

Ahhhhh, that makes sense. I was thinking that those sides would flap around and make horrible noise on a mill since there's no support.