Solid aluminum helmet
 

LGT a amazing video of a 5-axis milling machine carving a full-size helmet out of a solid block of aluminum. How soon before NHRA requires one of these?

http://singularityhub.com/2010/04/05...-butter-video/

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Amazing and pretty cool.

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Don't give nhra any ideas

Hammer

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Does that give a new meaning to "Hard Head"? Humm....That just MIGHT stand up to a few rolling pin or skillett bashes.....

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But, I'm allergic to aluminum!!!

JimR

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I can do that too...It's all in the model and the machine..lol..Sometimes I have to do 5-axis work on a 3-axis mill. It's neat no less. I got to see this some time ago. Anywho...Specialty machining is exactly what I do.

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Would make an awesome trophy!!!

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I heard Bill Simpson just bought the patent and is planning on engraving the SFI Approval into the helmet as part of the machining process.....should be a winner :p

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Now thats funny!!!!:D

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Being an old geezer I remember Clymer brand racing helmets in A.M.A.motorcycle 1/2 mile dirt track racing around 1949 and later. They were also used by Indianapolis U.S.A.C. drivers. I personally wore one in drag racing in 1958 and 1960
in my N.H.R.A. Altered Roadster.
The helmets were lined with cork inside the aluminium cup and had leather straps for around the neck. They also had a small bill on them.

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But can it make a diaper? :rolleyes:

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That's Funny...I just noticed it's a Deckel Maho Mill...I worked with a very similiar one @ an aerospace machine shop..That's a German Machine used by this Japanese company...To funny...I can do this job with a cheap Has and a rotary table...

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Deckel Maho is a German Machine, I've worked with this same machine very acurate but the plc tool changer is a Ba@#erd...Funny how this Japanese company used a German Machine...I could do that same job with a 3 axis Haas and a rotary table with about five to six operations or setups...they did it in two.

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Tiger Woods could have used one when his wife went to work on him with a pitching wedge.

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Ed you always seem to have a way to make me laugh!!!