Man Ed, are you psychic? I found out that the material supplier says he can straighten the plates after machining on your run of the mill bearing press. I know it's an art, because I've seen a guy do it to a crank shaft, but DIX Metals says they can get them flat within .002. I sent a part off...
Mike,
You had acrylic warp? Man, I had to anneal polycarb, but in all my years of machining plastics, I never had acylic warp.
I talked with the metal distributor, DIX Metals, and they said that it might be possible to anneal the parts after rough machine, and they would stay as flat as the...
The distortion is pretty close to uniform. Each corner is lifting about .010 from flat. We have placed the part on small plastic blocks on the surface plate and then hammered the middle of each edge with a plastic dead blow hammer. This has helped some, but it's a long process and not totally...
Help! I'm trying to machine some plates made from 316L. I purchased the blanks water-jet cut to 9.00 x 7.08 and double disk ground to .400 thick. I'm machining a pocket that leaves .450 on each side and the floor thickness at .113. My problem is the corners are cupping up. The floor has a...
