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-Cutting Polycarbonate-


After my Raptor 50v2 experienced traumatic earth deceleration, the fin/boom support mount exploded.
Instead of aluminum I tried it in polycarbonate. Awesome!
Aug. 29, 04


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Here is the stock, left over after making my router table mount. 9.75mm of pure polycarbonate, Sweet :)
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The 2 flute endmill made butter of this stuff. Cutting this was literally a piece of  cake.
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Here you can see the lower piece being cut. Sorry for the lousy pics.
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The pieces came out to 7.1 grams and fit very well.
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I drilled and tapped for 3 mm socket screws. Almost done.
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Mounted with boom supports and fin.

TOTAL TIME
CAD  10 min
CUTTING  10 min
TAPPING  4 min
TOTAL  24 min ish
Wanna See Where This Piece Goes? Back to the Raptor 50v2 Page Click Here


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