{"id":1330,"date":"2010-12-11T23:52:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T04:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thmsblog.tedatum.com\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2021-10-19T14:14:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T19:14:48","slug":"4-mayan-in-wax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"4&#8243; Mayan in Wax"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>I use the Mayan&nbsp;calendar as my CNC test program. It is highly detailed and makes the stepper motors&nbsp;really&nbsp;earn their keep. In these photos I show where I have reduced the circle diameter to just under four inches. This is about as small as I can go with this design. I got it off center a skosh. That&#8217;s OK, it&#8217;s not a keeper. The test is not of the Taig mill but rather the tiny wax profile bit I bought from<a href=\"http:\/\/bitsbits.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Bits &amp; Bits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bit is 1\/8&#8243; in diameter half round with a 15 degree included angle. The end of the tip is 0.005&#8243; It looks and feel like a very sharp needle. The RPM was 10600 (max for the stock CNC Taig) and the feed I had set for 30 IPM. With ramp up it seldom got to 30 IPM except for long paths.<\/p>\n<p>The total run was just over four hours. The Taig and CNC controller took this run without a blink.<\/p>\n<p>I use plain air to clear the wax chips &nbsp;but you can see they still liked to stick around. The problem could be the slow feeds&nbsp;because&nbsp;of the&nbsp;intricate&nbsp;details. I am going to try a faster more aggressive&nbsp;feed on the next Item. I am thinking of trying a small lithophane carved in wax.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use the Mayan&nbsp;calendar as my CNC test program. It is highly detailed and makes the stepper motors&nbsp;really&nbsp;earn their keep. In these photos I show where I have reduced the circle diameter to just under four inches. This is about as small as I can go with this design. I got it off center a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[138,89,73,57,93],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workshop","tag-cnc","tag-milling","tag-mini-tools","tag-steppers","tag-vectric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3854,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/3854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}