[geeks] Plasic casings

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:18:04PM -0800, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> On Monday, January 21, 2002, at 09:18 , Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >
> >or routing are hard.  In fact, I'm told that you can route using a
> >regular old wood router and bits.  I think I'm likely to try it one of
> >these days, as soon as I find a place to get the blocks of plastic
> >from.
> 
> What y'all really need is one of those cool 5-axis CNC milling machines 
> like we have in our lab at work.  I know it will do damn near anything, 
> but it also costs $250K (w/o tooling) and has to be shipped from 
> Germany...

Smaller models (and the phrase 3-axis comes to mind here) can be had for a lot
less.  Of course, what we really need is one of those machines that form the
model out of a vat of liquid plastic (something lithography machines is what
they are called, I think).

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd