Mike Shull
Let’s go…
He will just have to start in September for SAS10.Sounds like you just got voluntold to keep making em![]()
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He will just have to start in September for SAS10.Sounds like you just got voluntold to keep making em![]()
He will just have to start in September for SAS10.
Had an afternoon of sorting and packing this years swag. Its almost time and everything is coming together after months of planning. Much appreciation to the folks behind the scenes organizing and sewing it together.
@80Lady , @Mesa Woman, @mesa man , @BombCity , @NotYou60 , @CenTXFJ60
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Yessir, one of those totes is nothing but kids raffle stuff. Much appreciated my friend.Hopefully there is a box from me for the kiddo’s in one of those totes ….
The inside of the frame on those topo maps looks like a sugar wafer! They are going to once again be awesome!
Really starting to make me itch that I’m unable to attend this year due to another commitment.
I am interested.1969 FJ55I’ll be leading a trip on Monday to Last Dollar road- Ames Generator- Ophir Pass- Yankee Girl Mine area and back to Ouray KOA. Below is the preview. If anyone wants the .gpx file, send me a DM and I’ll forward it along. I’ll give a little history lessons or two along the way. I am by no means an expert but I find it’s a great way to start a conversation while we are out exploring.
Departure: 0900 from Ouray KOA
Pace: Easy going and depending on the group’s thoughts in the morning, we can stop along the trail for lunch, eat in Ouray or back at camp.
Difficulty: Easy and novice trails, depending on conditions
Let me know if you are interested and I’ll get a list going.
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This looks like a fun route!I’ll be leading a trip on Monday to Last Dollar road- Ames Generator- Ophir Pass- Yankee Girl Mine area and back to Ouray KOA. Below is the preview. If anyone wants the .gpx file, send me a DM and I’ll forward it along. I’ll give a little history lesson or two along the way. I am by no means an expert but I find it’s a great way to start a conversation while we are out exploring.
Departure: 0900 from Ouray KOA
Pace: Easy going and depending on the group’s thoughts in the morning, we can stop along the trail for lunch, eat in Ouray or back at camp.
Difficulty: Easy and novice trails, depending on conditions
Let me know if you are interested and I’ll get a list going.
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But it’s not the size that matters…..
Thanks Mike, I figure it’s a good route for the first day to get in the rhythm. Ophir is always one of my favorite passes from a scenic standpoint.This looks like a fun route!
it's plywood....turn up your feeds/speeds and chip load and run two flute high helix high feed end mill. if your desktop mill doesn't have the rigidity to go full flute length on your z-depth toolpath then do a roughing op with much larger tool and then come back with your ball mill to ball track your spring pass. make sure you aren't just doing a single adaptive strategy. holler if you want to talk through it. it's a neat idea that everybody likes and maybe we can do some bronze or 6061 for SAS10 to keep it cost effective. nice work.New machine doesn't like all the up/down.
I need to tweak some settings. This is 4½ hours on one map, just to rough things out. Should've been done in about 2 hours.... grrr
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This might be the last year for these maps. They are so much effort. I'm slammed at work to boot, so now Chris and I get the last minute stress of banging these out late in the game.
it's plywood....turn up your feeds/speeds and chip load and run two flute high helix high feed end mill. if your desktop mill doesn't have the rigidity to go full flute length on your z-depth toolpath then do a roughing op with much larger tool and then come back with your ball mill to ball track your spring pass. make sure you aren't just doing a single adaptive strategy. holler if you want to talk through it. it's a neat idea that everybody likes and maybe we can do some bronze or 6061 for SAS10 to keep it cost effective. nice work.
try turning your smoothing rate up so your paths don't take sharp corners which forces feeds to decelerate, and keep the tool in the cut with a trochoidal path so not a ton of lead-ins and lead-outs. do you have a tool magazine on your gantry mill?It's my acceleration curve that's killing things. It just can't get up to speed.
I regularly annihilate plywood at 17m/min with a half inch 2 flute. But it takes more distance than I had to get up to those speeds. The machine is pretty well honed to crank through panels, this stuff is tough work for it.
These i used a ½" compression to rough out, and a ⅜" ballnose to grub out enough for Chris's machine to not be working it's tits off the whole time.
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try turning your smoothing rate up so your paths don't take sharp corners which forces feeds to decelerate, and keep the tool in the cut with a trochoidal path so not a ton of lead-ins and lead-outs. do you have a tool magazine on your gantry mill?
Karl you had one job and you killed it !! Beautiful shop man.. I love clean !!!!!!!!!!It's my acceleration curve that's killing things. It just can't get up to speed.
I regularly annihilate plywood at 17m/min with a half inch 2 flute. But it takes more distance than I had to get up to those speeds. The machine is pretty well honed to crank through panels, this stuff is tough work for it.
These i used a ½" compression to rough out, and a ⅜" ballnose to grub out enough for Chris's machine to not be working it's tits off the whole time.
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I spend almost all of my awake time inside those 4 walls. I don't want to work in a dump, and nobody has given me a good argument on how a dirty shop makes more money than a clean one.Karl you had one job and you killed it !! Beautiful shop man.. I love clean !!!!!!!!!!