kevinj308

We've got 5 out of 10 on this list though LOL. 90 miles is more like 3 or 4 hours depending on time of day http://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-worst-roads-for-traffic-in-the-us-2013-4

Not if the club's not USPSA, most in my neighborhood aren't. Your profile says you're in Los Angeles, I ran a search and found 10 USPSA clubs in a 90 mile radius of LA.http://www.uspsa.org/locate-uspsa-clubs.php 90 miles isn't my neighborhood in my opinion. I've got 6 clubs in 25 miles and none are USPSA but one, SWPL.

Not if the club's not USPSA, most in my neighborhood aren't.

Welcome

Lapua brass, got a good deal from Grafs and it's easy to tell what's mine. Never had any extraction problems. I went through a couple hundred with mixed brass before I bought the Lapua, no problems at all. ETA coal 1.100 inches. to the 125JHP zero's and 4.6 wsf. Ran it in a match last weekend, couldn't be happier.

Hope it helps! If you end up making it happen I'd love to see it, I don't have time in hobby to do list to try it out.

If you wanted the walls of the cuts to be sloped back then don't square the block when your done. Cut a matching slope in soft jaws for the slide to sit in and machine away. That might be cool looking!

So I ended up getting it done like this. I know it isn't the pattern you had in the pic but technique should work. Basically I made a 3d block with the top angled. Then offset a plane off the bottom face. Sketch the circles or whatever on the new plane and push/pull them down to a consistent depth. It's weird but you the new plane I made got turned off after every extrude. I had to go over and click the light bulb for it so I could sketch on it again. Then rotate the block around with move command so the top edge is now square to the origin, and clean up the block to make it square. Really round about, but I had fun doing it.

Sure that'd work, I have to fool the machine all the time. Usually to make up for my lack of cad/cam skill. I'm a hobbyist as well. There may be a better way, but if it gets you the desired effect repeatedly then it's sure not the wrong way. Still not sure why this isn't working for you, I'm gonna try it tomorrow just for fun.

I see you already had the solid, try adding a plane on top of the solid. Under construction tab, and sketch your circles on that maybe. I'm not at my pc right now or I'd try it.

You're gonna need a solid 3 dimensional box if you want to cut semicircles into it. It needs the meat so to speak. Just sketch your rectangle the push/pull it out for .5.or something.

I can't tell from the pic, are the scallops progressively shallow towards the rear of the gun? If so I would draw a solid rectangle box in f360 with one side at your desired angle. Then draw your circles on that side in sketch mode and push/pull or extrude to progressively different depths. You could draw them individually or do a linear pattern. The key is to have a solid to work on, then begin a new sketch on the side you have angled. Give that solid to the cam and do a 2d toolpath. It will change Z for each new level.

That's pretty cool!!!!!Nice job!

We just score them in Auto division. Good people make the club better no matter what they're shooting. I joined my club because I liked the people in it, its an Icore club so I shoot a revo most of the time. But it's till about the people for me. Sometimes I break out a semi and still get to shoot with my friends. Kevin

That is good looking!!!!! With a benzomatic or something like that?

They'll go bang, no problem.

I'm annoyed by the 4" costing the same as the 6"

Seeing it in action for an x2 up to g0704 size of machine I would have bought this if it were available vs. building my own. Building your own is a pretty big project, and this seems to have more rigidity in the frame than the above mentioned. That and the very nice enclosure, the ready to go control and electronics, 10k spindle, and pathpilot far out weigh the travel concern. For me there's not a part I can't fit on there. Might I have to rotate the part on the table, sure but I have to do that now sometimes. Everything is a pita on the little guys. This will be less so. Much less so. The next step up in size is a pretty big one, not only in cost but in space. ETA this coupled with free Fusion360, wow what a time we live in if you like making stuff.

Looks good!!!!!!!

Sent you a pm, too many cool clubs to pick from here in socal to put up with that kind of stuff. Give your money and free time to somebody else. Kevin

Big time +1 on nycnc for cad and cam, and he's a uspsa shooter too!

a penny jigged is a penny earned

For me I learn as much from the toolpath and work holding experiments as anything else. Maybe I'm just a crappy machinist(good thing its a hobby), but getting it dialed in at least in mdf or aluminum is worth more to me than a prototype in plastic. I seem to have to tweak the toolpaths enough that it seems like a 3d printer is a bit of a waste of time. The soft stuff doesn't wear out the tools, and MDF, wax, or aluminum is pretty cheap. That's for parts that need to be machined in the end. some of the folks on here are doing some awesome stuff with printers. That's you Bmiller!

+1 for Fusion360