Trying to get hurt on the lathe 😅

[XEMON]

Hello y'all,

Not sure what I'm gonna do with it yet, but here's the first step.

Trying to to take an airborne tank to the face

That carbon fiber is hard on the tooling ... Had to sharpen the blade 4 or 5 time before I made it through.


AFter 1/2h, finally got 2 pieces 😅


And a close-up of the cross section for the curious


Got a few ideas, but not sure where it'll end up ...

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[DocsMachine]

Noice! Also be extra-sure to thoroughly clean off all the dust and chips. CF and fiberglass dust is very abrasive, and you don't want that on a machine tool.

Doc.

[Siress]

Noice! Also be extra-sure to thoroughly clean off all the dust and chips. CF and fiberglass dust is very abrasive, and you don't want that on a machine tool.

Doc.

...nor in your lungs. Hope you used a respirator. CF in your lungs => Cancer anywhere in your body (typically the liver and kidneys IIRC)

[XEMON]

The fist picture is when I stopped to attach the shop-vac to the carige. I've worked with fiberglass and carbon fiber quite a bit, this thing can be nasty ...
The CCI feed tube I make, they eat one end mill for every 7 or 8 tubes.

And yeah, cancer everywhere 💀

One of the idea I'm kicking around is making it into a freak case 🤔