Recent content by Casey Spurgeon

Alright, you guys have officially scared me out of doing it this way. There will be a metal bit into the graphite. Does that mean the voltage would short through the router? New idea: What if we put a precipitator between the current...

Bystander, I could get a dust hood such as this one by laguna tool: http://www.lagunatools.com/accessories/CNC-Dust-Hoods/IQ-Dust-Shroud But that defeats the purpose of a senior project and creating a new product or process. I'd like to at least like to give this a try!

Bystander, I'm pretty sure graphite itself is quite abrasive and wears down bearings when there is a build up in the grease. Either way, it all needs to be contained. Mike, If you are talking about having too much graphite on the plate, we plan on writing a small program through an Arduino to...

Hi all! This is my first post here and I really hope you guys can help! I am currently in senior design at Purdue Fort Wayne in the MET department. I also own a company called Graphite Customs where we make graphite molds for glass blowers. When machining graphite, the powder is very abrasive...