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7th March 2024, 07:41 PM #1Most Valued Member
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Metal shaping with the metal shaper
I've never done this on the shaper before, manipulating the downfeed to follow a marked line on a workpiece. It took aaaaages, mainly because I had a lot of extra material to remove (oh for a vertical bandsaw) so multiple passes were necessary to work my way down to the line before I could work along it. A hit with a flapwheel resulted in a good finish after the shaping was complete.
spacer shaping.jpg
The piece is 35mm thick, cut from a forklift tine as the only material I had of the required thickness.
How would others have gone about cutting this shape? I have a second piece to do. I'm thinking perhaps I could bolt it down to a sacrificial base plate and go around the outside by plunge-cutting with an insert endmill. The triangle is too big for my mill vises and too tall to hold securely on it's side for milling (I tried).
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