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General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: LXE on September 25, 2010, 06:17:59 AM
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I have a few questions.
- Is it safe to use a toaster oven to cook food after you've heated acrylic, perspex, or other plastics in it so that you can bend it?
- Which is lighter? 18 gauge Aluminium sheet or 3mm thick Acrylic sheet?
- Which sheet of material specified above is easier to bend?
- Which shee of material specified above do you choose to make micro-servo brackets with?
- Would cutting two pieces and gluing them perpendicular to each other be an alternative to bending?
- Any easy to use CAD to design parts?
Note - The Aluminium sheet and the Acrylic sheet are the same length, same width and same price at where I'm buying from, and that's 195mm x 195mm.
Note 2 - The Micro-Servos I am using are 14 HXT900's.
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I have a few questions.
- Is it safe to use a toaster oven to cook food after you've heated acrylic, perspex, or other plastics in it so that you can bend it?
- Which is lighter? 18 gauge Aluminium sheet or 3mm thick Acrylic sheet?
- Which sheet of material specified above is easier to bend?
- Which shee of material specified above do you choose to make micro-servo brackets with?
- Would cutting two pieces and gluing them perpendicular to each other be an alternative to bending?
- Any easy to use CAD to design parts?
Note - The Aluminium sheet and the Acrylic sheet are the same length, same width and same price at where I'm buying from, and that's 195mm x 195mm.
Note 2 - The Micro-Servos I am using are 14 HXT900's.
I would use aluminum if it's no thinner than 1mm and no thicker than 2mm. Ideal is 1.5mm thick. I have no idea how thick is 18 gage. You can use a vice or just pliers to bend it and cut it with scissors and drilling... you have to drill both materials so that doesn't matter. Use a press drill if possible. Scribe the center of the hole and punch it with a sharp punching tool to keep the drill bit from sliding off center.
You can also glue the parts, but it may break in use. Good enough for a scanning sensor mount, but I believe it can be too weak for legs, especially if you accidentally drop it.
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The easiest CAD is 1/10" graph paper and a pencil.
The most familiar CAD is AutoCAD but that is also the most expensive.
There are quite a few free/cheap CAD options out there but I've never come across one that was really good.
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You can use Google Sketchup.
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You can use Google Sketchup.
Google Sketch up is bad for CNC.
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Read this: http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=11740.msg90688#msg90688 (http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=11740.msg90688#msg90688)
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Read this: http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=11740.msg90688#msg90688 (http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=11740.msg90688#msg90688)
OK, I think I read a while back that it was. But I wonder if they improved it so it is better with CNC machines.