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 PXL_20220803_015152350.jpg

That carbon fiber is hard on the tooling ... Had to sharpen the blade 4 or 5 time before I made it through.
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AFter 1/2h, finally got 2 pieces 😅
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And a close-up of the cross section for the curious
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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 🤔