Badly need a piece of Graphite milled to a simple design

John,
Welcome to the forums.
A little more information would be a big help. What are you looking for? Where are located? How soon does it need to be done? And maybe most importantly, what kind of issues are you having with your CNC? Maybe we can help with that and you can mill it yourself much faster.

jgapril said:

I am having problems with my cnc machine milling a simple design for me, can anyone do milling for this project for me?

John

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First Welcome to the Router Forums.

Can you give us more information on the parts you need cut. Also what CNC machine do you have? We might be able to tell you what you need to do to machine the parts on your CNC.

Hi, thanks for your reply. I have one of those cheap Chinese machines and just cannot get it working. I don't mind paying some one to mill it for me. I am attaching the g-code of the design I need. It is 3 lapel pins and all are the shape of a shrimpers rubber boot. I need it milled out of graphite. Time is not a problem.

JOhn

HOW DO I ATTACH A FILE?

I may need to email it to you guys?

John

John I sent you Private Massage.


Why are you wanting them milled using Graphite? That would require hazmat equipment to be on the safe side.

MEBCWD said:

Why are you wanting them milled using Graphite? That would require hazmat equipment to be on the safe side.

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John,
I agree with Mike above. Why does it need to be graphite? There are many other materials that are easier, safer, and honestly more durable for something like that.

OCEdesigns said:

John,
Welcome to the forums.
A little more information would be a big help. What are you looking for? Where are located? How soon does it need to be done? And maybe most importantly, what kind of issues are you having with your CNC? Maybe we can help with that and you can mill it yourself much faster.

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wow, what a great response Chad!

jgapril

Graphite is the only material I can think of to use to make a mold to pour .999FS in for lapel pins>

Joe could you water bath cut the graphite so it would contain the dust?

John what post processor was used when the gcode was saved?

MEBCWD said:

Joe could you water bath cut the graphite so it would contain the dust?

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Well that's what I was thinking but I've read on Cnczone that it can be absorbed into the graphite and affect the quality of the parts being cast??
And my smallest bit is a .5mm TBN so?????

can you cast them in sand or plaster? I haven't worked with silver before

Guess I could try, never have done that before.
John

"POST PROCESSOR"? not familiar with that. If you mean what app I used, it's CURA 3.4, I do a lot of 3D printing

John

Doug, what plaster are you talking about???

John

Look at lost pla casting

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jgapril said:

Doug, what plaster are you talking about???

John

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Look up investment casting. There are a couple of silver casting/jewelry forums that have lots of experts. I have only done greensand casting of pot metal