Whipped some up today with some work I have been doing to the banana machine. They take just over 7 minutes to do complete.
Believe I've got the fixturing right now I was able to cut these at a 150 feed rate which is pretty decent.
No more chattering and pieces are easily separated with uniform thickness. Hand sanding to flatten complete or done easily on a drill press with a mop or drum sander. I'm wondering what foil would look like over these as is.....
Next up is molds to flip them and route the inside for weight and wire. I have a neat idea to vacuum hold them since every one is exact size I think it will work.
(http://www.saltys.co/images/bananas.jpg)
Had a hiccup on the z axis yesterday which is what does the plunge. Not sure why I put it together like that. I put a collar and a set screw on the shaft instead of tapping a nut for the shaft. There were 10mm threads there. Course I flattened one spot. Duh. That killed yesterday pretty much.
Today this ran about 300,000 lines of g code with not one hiccup. At the speed/rate this cuts I will have to change the bit every day.
Here's a real bunch of bananas :)
(http://www.stripersonline.co/images/bananas2.jpg)
Ok so it's really a pile of bananas :)
The bananas are all drilled for the big belly weight.
Baby bananas
5" should finish out to ~2 oz
playing with this idea.
They look ripe and ready to go lol
Bananas got sold out pretty quick. I have a truck of wood showing up tomorrow. We'll be doing some more of these this winter stay tuned.
Several people have reported back that they swim nicely with just 2 belly weights in them and they don't need the full 4.