Side projects, whats yours.........Hey Hardmill!

[chad fisher]

About a month or so ago I posted needing help on a raster to vec translation. Hardmill helped me out and gave me some geo to start with. It was rough but a big thanks goes out to you Hardmill.

 

The parts i made were for a friends 30 ft checkmate with twin blown 454's. I made a new swim platform, new air cleaner lids for the K&N's, and engraved all of his valve covers. Below is the out come. I am still polishing some of the pieces then when i am done our idea is to get them blue anodized.

 

What side projects have any of you been working on?

 

 

[Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc]

chad,

Whats the car you can see in th pic? Another side project?

[chad fisher]

That side project is finshed for now.

It is a 64 fairlane.

 

[Jim at Gentex]

Hey Chad...Awesome work!

What a sweet ride!

 

I am interested in designing / machining Pinewood Derby cars when one of my CNC's is free. I got the idea from the old "car.ge3" sample model that came with an earlier version of Mastercam. All I needed to do was tweak the model to fit inside the standard size Pinewood Derby car block and then machine it. It came out very nice and it was lightning fast. Unfortunately, my designing skills are limited. I have many ideas for some radical cars, but I don't get to use Mastercam for designing much, so it's hard for me to implement my ideas. I am almost exclusively at the machining end of the process, so I never really learned to construct a freeform 3D model from scratch.

 

If anyone else here is interested in this side hobby, I would love to hear from them. I'd love to get my hands on some other car models to play around with when time permits.

 

Any input or resource would be appreciated!

[Brendan P]

Chad,

That is one nice swim platform!!!!

I think gold plate would look better

[lou]

Hey Chad, Very nice Side work!!

Here is mine. It is on a much smaller scale.

the other programmer and I made out own custom R/C trucks. A spin off of the ClodBuster.

 

[mayday]

Very Cool work guys. I have lotsa things floating in my head of things I want to make. the only setback is forcing myself to staying after hours to make it.

[Bullines]

It has nothing to do with manufacturing, but...

 

JustCheckers

[Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc]

Bullines,

your definetly a computer nerd. I mean that in a good way.

[Noel]

I've been working on this one for 20 years and I hope to have it on the road next summer.

 

 

my project

 

 

Noel

[Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc]

Noel,

your link doesn't seem to work.

[cadcam]

No steve it works that is just how far he has gotton. (Comes up with blank page)

[Hardmill]

Looks nice, glad I could help out.

 

PEACE

[Guest]

Jay:

 

You are cruel.

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

Noel ,do you mean this

his project

Teh vicious

[Noel]

So what did miss the link worked on my box at home

and at work.

 

 

Noel

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

44307 instead of 44308

[Noel]

Thanks Pooh

 

 

Noel