New parts and some other progress

I got first phase of the tank cap done yesterday. All in all it took way longer than I expected. I made the NC program ready before so I could go ahead for program testing and setup straight away. I started setting up the lathe at 1400 and the first phase was finished at 1730. Milling the grooves took most of he time and based on that experience I'm going to find another way to make the grooves for the tank itself.

Here are some pics of the working process. Too bad that the initial setup pics were destoyed, thanks to the old Mavica and the disks the company has for these purposes and of course I forgot to take my own camera with me. How nice that no one uses diskettes anymore...



Milling the grooves. Almost 2 hours of that already done in this pic.

I managed to break a few of those cutters because of too high feed values and too deep cut. I changed the 5mm cutter to 6mm and took only 2.5mm deep cuts at time also reduced the feed rate alittle bit. Problem solved.

If you take a really close look, you might see my boo-boo there.





Finished first phase. Now to remove the excess material and we're ready for the second phase I hope I can do today.

Here's the stuff I needed to get rid of and the first phase ready





Then I ordered some new parts. Here's the list.
Thermaltake Flow TX+ 25.00 eur
Swiftech MCP655 89.00 eur
Arctic Silver Arctic Alumina 5.00 eur
Aerocool GateWatch 2 Black 44.40 eur
Adding the S&H the total is 171.10e

Lets see how fast they are.