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Another fun thing is to bring home a bag of chips to throw in the bon fire for the kids. Especially fun in the winter with snow. Throw snow on top of the burning magnesium and it goes insane.
Heavier finish passes. You don't want thin chips. Like Ron said, no dull tools. Don't leave machine unattended. Make sure you're not piling up chips inside the machine to mitigate issues should a fire start. Water based coolant seems to oxidize the xxxx out of it. Keep that in mind. Preferrable to run straight oil. If this is a machine that you run water based coolant in you'll destroy the coolant pretty quickly as the magnesium causes the hardness to skyrocket and the emulsifiers decide to go home (coolant splits.) Other than that can't think of much. I've machined a fair bit of it without issue.
Right now just one 3 axis VMC that I'm in front of all day. How the current shop is, you are the programmer, the setup, and the operator. Previously at another job several 4 axis VMCs, a few 3 axis VMCs, a 2 axis lathe, and two wire EDMS.
Been using bambu lab x1c since april for all kinds of stuff. Printed almost every material it can print. Also have a flashforge creator pro that I've modded quite a bit to get it where I wanted it to be. Even so, the x1c blows that thing out of the water in terms of print quality and speed.
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