[chbot] Laser cutting at Fab Lab XCHC

[Andy Gardner]

Nice!

You'll be coating that MDF with something to stop it from sucking up the chlorine in that humid environment?

Andy
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On 5/12/2014, at 9:22 AM, hamster wrote:

> Yesterday I got some laser cutting of 3mm MDF at Fab Lab XCHC on Wilson's Road. I made panels for a perfect 600mm x 250mm x 50mm with about 160 holes 2mm and 3mm drilled in one of the panels - see http://hamsterworks.co.nz/mediawiki/index.php/Svg_box
> 
> Kerf (cut width) is about 0.15mm, so you can do pretty epic accuracy - I did a design with 0.1mm kerf allowance on the mitres, and it was a 'creaky press fit' tight when the joints were dry, and assembled nicely with a little bit of PVA lubrication.
> 
> Cost was under their minimum cutting charge of $35 - actual machine time was about $12 or so. I should have cut two.
> 
> If anybody is interested in getting some cutting done, all you need is your design in a vector file format (I used .SVG) and to make a booking.
> 
> Mike