Time consuming details

“Kleinvieh macht auch Mist!”

This little nice german proverb—which means translated: “Flock makes also muck!”— describes very well the last weeks. Though the CNC machine technically runs since a couple of weeks, not until today most important details were solved. We had to take care of having a proper workholding. This included a tooling table with many drillings and face milling the surface. It is ready up to some changes in the cooling system and vacuum cleaner:

We had to learn a lot about milling. Without experience it is difficult to have a feeling for a good feed rate and turning speed of the spindle. And in case you are wondering: Yes, we broke a couple of tools while testing. At least nobody got hurt. I guess we found now a good combination for wood.

Look at those nice chips:

It is ready to work for Schneewittchen! There are a couple of styrofoam pieces and templates for the cabin’s plug waiting to be machined …