machining chess pieces

[Cavman]

Carving A Chess Rook From An Aluminum Is Strangely Fascinating
http://wimp.com/aluminum-carved-chess-piece/

 

[Chupaca]

Automation....

those machines are fun to watch. Did some miniature cannons on a revolving lathe way back when they were manual so appreciate these new machines...:thumbup:

 

[ARtraveler]

Fascinating to see that. :yes::yes:

 

[spacetiger]

very cool!

 

[Bob Denman]

I want to see that machine carve out a couple of Knights! :2thumbs:

 

[mowin]

I want to see that machine carve out a couple of Knights! :2thumbs:

I'm more of a Queen kinda guy. :roflblack:....

 

[Bob Denman]

I'm not judging... :roflblack:

I've always enjoyed Chess. I've got a hand-carved set, that my folks brought back from Germany back in the early seventies. We've also bought a couple of sets here, that are as much decoration, as they are "Chess"...

 

[bronzeflex42]

WOW

It's just amazing what machines can do, and even more amazing is the people that build and program the machines to do what they do, beautiful work. The human brain is powerful. :2thumbs: :2thumbs:

 

[Cavman]

Before I became retired (not my choice) I worked for a company called Sidel. We had 50% of the world market in the blow mold technology. Made molds and the machines they went into, for the plastic bottle (PET) industry.

The molds were machined out using CNC equipment. Our department hand polished those molds to a mirror finish, assembled them and tested them before shipping around the world.

In the photo is a fond or base for a large soft drink bottle. That base design is a Sidel innovation. I was told they didn't patented it so other companies could copy it. This was so less plastics would be put into land fills. The design got rid of the big black part on the bottom of bottles so that they would stand up.

 

[Bob Denman]

:shocked: So THAT's what happened to the black bases, that they used to add to the bottles. :clap:
Thanks for filling in that gap! :thumbup:

 

[Cavman]

They were round on the bottom like steel scuba tanks. Aluminum scuba tanks are flat because they are machined instead of formed from a flat round plate of steel.