'Home made' wheel spacers

[V8MoneyPit]

My colleague at work has recently finished converting his vertical mill to CNC, so I thought I'd take advantage. What do you think? Just £15 each for the aluminium billets, 20p each for the studs and 30p each for the wheel nuts to hold them on. The aluminium is certified 6082 T6, so a perfectly good quality grade.

[Bush Tucker Man]

Nice one, but te problem might be selling them???
 
People cautious of a probably low price, & Product Liability'??

[v8kenny]

Well I would have a set if the price was right !

[andrew2986]

I could be interested as well !

[V8MoneyPit]

We weren't really thinking of selling them! They were just made as an excercise in testing the size limits of his mill. And saving me some hard earned cash!

However, we are doing a feasability study with a view to buying a fully enclosed CNC mill with auto tool changer for work (£20k-£30k  :shock:). That would be for making bling parts for Mini's mainly, then moving into other markets...... so now you have me thinking  :-k

As BTM says, pricing parts too low can have an adverse effect on sales. The decision on the mill will be made within the next 3 months so we can tie in with the next VAT quarter. If we then decide to make a small batch run, I'm sure we can offer favourable rates for MC members. I'll let you know  :D

Product liability isn't an issue. Firstly, we are automotive design engineers by training so, we can do the sums! Secondly, our business has to be insured for Product and Public Liability anyway. Making these would just come under the same policy.

[Tommo]

so easy to make with a CNC miller. at one time you would have turned them then milled the holes but now you can just interpolate the lot with the same cutter, its magic isnt it!

[lee celtic]

We have 11 cnc machines at work, mainly Haas ,doosan ,kia machines if your getting a new machine avoid anything called puma we've had so much trouble with them that we sent them back after 6 months!!!

I've been thinking of making some spacers but the insurance issue means I wouldn't be able use them on the road legally, so get making them  :dance:(as long as they are a reasonable price ;))

[Tommo]

all ours are deckel maho. anything with a heidenhain interface is generally pretty good.

[littlepow]

They look really good, sure I can come up with some wacky designs to test your milling machine!

[dazzawhipple]

I used to use Hurcos very easy to program, used to get them running very well on 2d and 3d cad/cam programming Peps and Powermill Delcam

Now using a Okuma (fanuc type) CNC mill here in OZ

[V8MoneyPit]

We have 11 cnc machines at work, mainly Haas ,doosan ,kia machines if your getting a new machine avoid anything called puma we've had so much trouble with them that we sent them back after 6 months!!!

Thanks for that. Haas is what we had been looking at.

[lee celtic]

Haas are good machines ...

plus they use them on American hot rod to make the wheels ... mmm there's an Idea ;)