cnc lathes and mills are used for what exactly? any chance this type of craftsmanship being replaced by tech?
I am a CNC machinist. CNC lathes can be used to produce anything a manual lathe can. This is also true of CNC lathes.
CNC machines are much more economical to use than their manual counterparts (at least for high-volume production) due to their repeatability, their lower per-piece cost, their ability to be left unattended, and their ease of control. Once programmed and debugged, a CNC lathe or mill can theoretically produce millions of identical pieces, provided the cutting tools (Titanium-carbide inserts on tool steel cutting tools) are maintained.
By the way, the lathe is the only tool that can be used to reproduce itself.
I am looking for blocks of plastic parts for milling and also for use in a lathe. Really looking as 3 "x5" x3 "block type. I do not care what kind of plastics that are just something to practice. Any help in search of plastics budget. I really do not want to go with plastic faucet because they are expensive. I'm in the Bay Area. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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