Progress on my Lathe project #23 - Plettenberg Bay, S.Africa

[swatkins]

Double Wow

[Kobus_Joubert]

Look like you are busy. Pragtig

[liaoh75]

Hennie, that's some beautiful work!

[hennie]

NOTE. WHAT I DID MUST NOT BE DONE WITH OUT SUPERVISION TREAT IT AS IF IT IS YOUR NEWBORNE BABY.

I took a soldering iron and mounted it on my MM to see if I can do some letters onto wood by burning it with a soldering iron.

and the results are see for yourself!

[Kobus_Joubert]

Het jy nie werk nie..

[Robert M]

Nicely done !
Amazing what one imagination & ambition can accomplish !
May I ask what set up specs you dialed? IE: Welder wattage, feed rate ?

[hennie]

Ok Robert I should have shown you how it was done, I made a bracket calling it " a Boer maak `n plan ".Quite a high tech method of doing it
Kobus it is my work.

[hennie]

Kobus have a look at my website nextweek Friday then you should see what I am up to

[Lex]

Wat doen jy nou? Buy matches if you want to smoke 'skelm'.

[hennie]

I never had the urge to smoke because I never asked my Mom.
nice to try it once but another 200 times ( need to brainwave again)

[MariusL]

Nice job Hennie. What is your website URL please?

[hennie]

post # 394 shows it Marius. busy working on it

[hennie]

Kobus this would have been something you would have liked to do

[Brad Maritz]

That looks very nice Hennie.

[Kobus_Joubert]

Well done, how long did it take to cut each one. How did you keep them on the spoilboard ?
Earning income ???... sorry but I have enough to money to stay alive and enjoy old BBB

Groetnis

[hennie]

Rough cut 15 min with a 6 mm 2 flute cutter,final finish pass 43 min with a 4.8 mm round ball cutter. Hold down with same double sided tape that I sent you.
O, I forgot Eskom just increased our electricity prices.Darn to think Eskom is on my payrole and so also the one`s working for Eskom.

[Kobus_Joubert]

And I am working 4day week.....Heaven

[hennie]

I am working only if there is work

[Kobus_Joubert]

I stopped work...because my little 500w Makita died on me this morning.

Why does this happen on a Saturday

[cvriv.charles]

Hey Hennie. Really interested in the PVC wrapping. I did a quick google on it and didnt find much. Do you know of a good place I could read up on how to do it? Would the PVC wrap stick to aluminum? Care to share? If not, I understand. Thanks.

You work is amazing. Sometime after I build my machine, I would love to use it to create a custom kitchen for my house. Looking at what you do totally has me intimidated.

[hennie]

Charles throw those questions on the pvc wrapp?Havn`t tried wrapping alu Why do you want to wrap it? I did explain to I think Irfan some time ago on the process there should be a thread somewhere on it.
I am working on ventelation grids that one can put on the sides of cuboards as living by the coast one have a lot of moist in our cuboards this would be wrapped in white to match the melamine. I would use my MM to make the mould for it or a couple of them.
The one thing that I like about pvc wrapp is that you can clean it with anything and the colours won`t rub off, if it is a painted kitchen it is another story.

I have a friend that is making coffins and the question came up that can we wrapp a coffin with it so you should probably see some coffins soon being wrapped.

[Gerald D]

Isn't a coffin supposed to de-compose within a couple of years?

[hennie]

Only sides and top will get wrapped and they want to use chip board so it shouldn`t take long to rot.Pvc should take some time to go.

[Lex]

Windgat nê!

[cvriv.charles]

Thanks Hennie. I will search for that thread. I also did some more googling and found more on thermoforming. I am a tiny bit familar with it. I know that you can thermo form all kind of plastics. PVC being one of them.

Does the PVC stick on its own after forming or do you apply an adhesive to the wood before the forming process?

Why would I want to wrap aluminum? Why not? the PVC wrapping is a protective coating. Its just an idea. I always wanted to give it a try. I did once with acylic. A very simple setup that envoled a coffee can with a hole the the top. The can to rigged to a shop vac. I placed 1/16" acrylic on top and heated it with a heat gun. after hot I turned the vac on and it created an acrylic dome. Wasnt a serious setup but it worked for what I needed it for at the moment.

Might build a real thermoforming rig one day. Along with working with composites, thermoforming is great for creating shells. Which is exactly what I need.

[hennie]

You have to apply glue to the timber first, there are foils on the market that are preglued but we havn`t been able to get samples of it.

[hennie]

This is a project that we completed recently.All the v-grooves were cut on my MM, also notice the moulding that is under the one wall unit.It was also done on the MM and then wrapped with white foil.

[cvriv.charles]

That is so nice. I cant wait to do my kitchen now I was goping to put it off for awhile. Way after I have done and built my machine. BUt I think I might give it a go shortly after.

[hennie]

Charles mail me your floor layout with measurements for windows, plumbing points,wet appliances stove points,ceiling hights and all the type of units that you would require in your kitchen I would like to try something ( design a layout for you and see what the outcome will be)

[cvriv.charles]

I will do that. Give me time. I planned on doing a few things to open up the kitchen more too. Not completely sure how I will do that just yet. I have an idea though.

My kitchen doesnt have a ceiling. My kitchen is actually one big room. A bit less than half of the house. This big room is kind of like two rooms but theres no wall dividing them. And the ceiling is,... is a bit lower than the actually roof of the house. We have old 1800's wood beams over the kitchen as a false ceiling. But I was going to take those down and then make new ones to work with the new kitchen. The kitchen was kind of built around them.

I'll take measurements, get some photos, and even draw up a model for you.

Thanks.