O/T the largest part

[mayday]

hey everyone

 

another ? topic

 

whats the largest part anyone has programmed with Mastercam?

 

mine was a machine base 20' long 13' wide 4' high and wieghed in at 80,000 lbs

[cadcam]

It was a form mold that made a Milatary Tank gas tank.

It was 105" X 40" X 12" a mixture of Alum And A2.

[chris m]

Check this:

 

How Big?

[kkominiarek]

lay-up mold for bomb bay doors

120" x 59" x 14"

 

i can't recall for which aircraft though....

[Mark Lovelace]

I made a giant guitar neck that was 4' long and about 6" wide. It was a store display, not to be played. I designed and programmed a body to go with it, but we never cut it.

[TREV]

oh man you fellas do some really big jobs .i built a mold for a GRACO childs car seat a while back and i thought that was big, i guess thats nothin compared to whats out there.

trevor

[George_Gerhard]

A deck for a floating bridge for tanks 25 feet long 6 feet wide

George

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

This was not something I did but it was something one of my old customers did.

 

While I worked for the local MC reseller, one of my customers (Allied Mechanical) was machining Submarine Hulls (32 FEET in Diameter) on a VTL. Is that big?

[Rekd™]

A 1/2 gallon mug of Rum & Coke!!

 

Oh, machined parts? Not very big, maybe 60" or so square, 1" thick.

 

Lot's of small, highly detailed stuff. (Much preferred over big, sloppy, hard to handle parts)

 

'Rekd teh difference between welders and machinists is that welders make big stuff from small stuff, and machinists make small stuff from big stuff

[McRae]

Simple part really - about 30 ft long, Fabrication shop couldn't hold tolerance on a bridge plate 3/4" thick with 1-1/2" Diamter holes - 24" Width, 30 ft long. Had to do the part in sections on a Hillyer CNC200 Gantry machine and repostion the part every 60 inches.

 

Sure wish I had a nice floor bore to do it all in one setup.

[Keith M]

The largest thing I have machined is a 34 foot boat hull and deck. They were about 10 feet wide and 5.5 feet tall. That is using a 5-axis router to do that.

[Keith Graydon]

The biggest machine tools i ever saw were in Karls krona in Sweden 100m ton VTL's. they had an 800m gantry crane above the shop floor that could go right out the wall of the shop to load seagoing vessels

 

The biggest mill was a gantry mill at the old De Laval Turbine plant in Trenton, NJ. It had an 80 foot long bed.

 

The biggest single part that I've made was about 100 + pound alumninum bar machined down to about 3 1/2 pound part. Should have been made out of sheet stock.

/darn engineers

[G Caputo]

Heaviest - 88,000 backup roll. Had to machine keyways. Real fun to try and roll in v-bocks

 

Biggest - The base of a cnc roll grinder 28' long x 14' high. Had to recut the way surfaces within .001".