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Thursday, March 21, 2024
Inventors SA presentation:
“Custom building a CNC lathe and gang tooling for plastics”
Gerry McCuish
Director / Service Engineer, Gerard Scientific Pty Ltd
Machining of delrin bar in 16mm diameter requires a precise setup, along with correct feeds and speeds.
Simply providing a machine shop with drawings and specifications never yielded accurate results for us.
The process also requires tedious setup and fine tuning of spindle rpm, feed rates, depth of cut and delays.
We wanted to invest in our own CNC, but first prove the concept!
Introducing the mini CNC based on open source software and hardware.
A possible hobbyist or makerspace machine contender, which can produce production quality parts.
Bio:
Work –
Managing Director of Gerard Scientific May 2011 – Present
Sales, installation, calibration, repair, service and custom built scientific equipment.
Previously –
Scientific equipment – Sales and Service
Royal Adelaide Hospital – Biomedical Engineering – Ophthalmology, ED, Recovery, Surgical, and General Ward equipment.
Olympus Australia – Service Engineer – Endoscopy, Microscopy.
Arcomed – Service Engineer – Peristaltic and Syringe drive pumps.
Qualification –
Electronics Engineering – Advanced Diploma – Regency TAFE
Electronics Engineering – Degree – University of South Australia – Mawson lakes
https://www.gerardscientific.com.au/
Tea and coffee etc. is available at supper time.
See you there…
See notice below about having a meal together prior to the meeting.
The Inventors Association of SA meetings are run under the instruction and health guidelines issued by the Government of South Australia. (from July 2020)
- If you are not feeling well, please do not attend this meeting.
Stay safe and keep on inventing, innovating and tinkering with those ideas!
Eric Rodda
President – Inventors SA
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A meal before the meeting?
All members and visitors are welcome to meet anytime from 5:30pm for a relaxing meal at:
Excelsior Hotel, 110 Coglin St (Corner of Hawker St. and Coglin St.) Brompton SA 5007(83462521)
If you would like to join us for a meal, please notify Eric: Click here for email
as we need to advise the Hotel of the numbers.
We have a permanent booking – just ask for the Inventors’ table on arrival.
This is a good time to wind-down from a busy day and just chat (and eat great meals or just a coffee!) before the main meeting.
It is only a short walk to our meeting place (see above).
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