Bunch of Bananas

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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.

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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

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Ok so it's really a pile of bananas


The bananas are all drilled for the big belly weight.

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Baby bananas

5" should finish out to ~2 oz

playing with this idea.

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They look ripe and ready to go lol

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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.