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Current state of the CNC machine

So the last video of the CNC machine was snooze worthy. This one is a little better and it shows where we were at on Sunday night.

In case you are wondering that is my brother, Andrew in the video. The next stop will be some cutting tests in a couple of weeks time. Once dust extractors have been purchased and installed.

The other stream of work that is going on is the analysis and design of the foils. The first set will be ultra conservative with the goal of catching back up with everyone else, before anything else is tried. So yes that means boring old NACA 63412 and semi-elliptical profiles like the Mk5 Prowler.

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3 Responses to “Current state of the CNC machine”

  1. Grant Says:
    June 12th, 2008 at 9:56 am

    Bruce,

    It looks great mate, well done.

    Alot of work by the look of it, I look forward to seeing the end result.

  2. Tom Whicher Says:
    July 17th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    We can probably sort you out with dust extractor fans, if you still need them, one mothy to another. http://www.northey.net

    Cheers,

    Tom
    GBR3192/3230

  3. Bruce McLeod Says:
    July 17th, 2008 at 2:09 pm

    Thanks tom but we have the extractor now.

    Bruce

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