Still confused by Waynes Maths
brainsnap
Something just 'hit me' after I put the audio file in the other Wayne
thread where people are asking about the end of 2009 and still no MM's
- U should all take a listen to that by the way.
In THAT interview Wayne giggled and said that he had worked out that
his CNC machine initially was going to take 2.5 hours to cut ONE
cabinet out.
In the past I have taken pinball cabinet plans to my local plywood
dealer, and , in about 35 minutes the guy ( who had NEVER cut a
pinball cabinet out in his life) - MANUALLY loaded a sheet of ply onto
the table saw and then MANUALLY sliced each piece for me and I had me
a WHOLE cabinet cut to shape and loaded in the back of my ute - in
UNDER 40 minutes in the door and out again.
So how can Wayne's 'pre-programmed' automatic CNC machine take 2.5
hours to slice up a single cabinet when, in my own experience(s) ONE
young dude who hardly knew what a pinball machine was could do it in
less than a quarter of that time?
Dont believe I have had cabinets cut and rebuilt them? - go see my
Gorgar or Flash pages at Wottos Pinballs
Ron - NYP
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"brainsnap" <brai...@kooee.com.au> wrote in message
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kirb
> In THAT interview Wayne giggled and said that he had worked out that
> his CNC machine initially was going to take 2.5 hours to cut ONE
> cabinet out.
The machine you heard was a blender...he was making a margarita.
Kirb
kreed
Its a different matter to just cut out out plain plywood sheets to
shape compared to doing that and also routing out all the grooves,
mitred or jointed corners (on some pins), cutouts for doors, all the
holes for everything, that can be present in a typical pinball
cabinet. CNC may also be slower to cut in straight lines accurately
and depending on how it works, might be slow to cut things like
circular openings too..
Think about using a router (similar method to how CNC cuts wood) to
cut a straight edge a few feet long compared to a regular circular saw
for an example. Much slower.
This might be what takes all the time, as well as unloading, stacking
the finished pieces, loading the next sheet etc afterwards (unless
automatic).
Of course, he could just be talking shit as usual.
brainsnap
> Its a different matter to just cut out out plain plywood sheets to
> shape compared to doing that and also routing out all the grooves,
> mitred or jointed corners (on some pins), cutouts for doors, all the
> holes for everything, that can be present in a typical pinball
> cabinet. CNC may also be slower to cut in straight lines accurately
> and depending on how it works, might be slow to cut things like
> circular openings too..
>
> Think about using a router (similar method to how CNC cuts wood) to
> cut a straight edge a few feet long compared to a regular circular saw
> for an example. Much slower.
>
> This might be what takes all the time, as well as unloading, stacking
> the finished pieces, loading the next sheet etc afterwards (unless
> automatic).
Yeah - that would be it - silly me !!
brainsnap
> The machine you heard was a blender...he was making a margarita.
>
> Kirb
Really - a margarita ? - I thought it would be a thick-shake
milt
>
> Of course, he could just be talking shit as usual.
>
>
That's what is more than likely. What would Wayne know about making
pinball machines anyhow? He's never made one and probably never will!