CEGEP de Drummundville Mini BAJA project sponsorship

Last march, a student contact me for a sponsoring request. They were in a bad position; their sponsor dropped them off at the last minute.
They urgently needed to have the body molds for their Mini-BAJA vehicle. We decided the quickest way to have it done was to slice their models and mill the slices from 1 inch MDF.
At that moment (weekend) I was playing with Triple Squid's MoI so I decided to try the new march features to slice and then nest the slices.



Next the nested slices models were loaded into Vectric's Cut 3D for toolpathing.







After five 4' X 8'sheets of 1 inch MDF, the kids were on their way back for gluing up all those slices into molds for their Mini-BAJA body parts.





A few weeks later they announce they finished 13 out of 75 team competing for the best Mini-BAJA vehicle... not too bad I'd say!

Here's the driver "digging" his way to victory!

Milwaukee router 5626 with a lower shield bearing might not be a so good idea...

This is an update on my trial of a shield bearing (lower larger one that is). The shield bearing failed this week. Dust got into it; shield bearing might not be "dust resistant" enough to withstand the wood routing condition.

I have replaced it with a factory (Milwaukee) supplied bearing which is a sealed one. I may look for something better than this PEER (low cost) for a one that is sealed but can reach RPM up to 18 000... probably an SKF low friction seal type.

The good thing is that I now have trained myself on MK 5625 bearing replacement within half an hour!

Stick with sealed bearing... or let me know of any better findings...