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I have a Sherline controller. Unfortunately I bought the wrong motor looks like I'll have to get another one. I noticed someone asked about using a unipolar motor with a bipolar driver in another...

Is there a way to use a 4 wire stepper with a 6 wire stepper control. In this case a Sherline controller?

My experience with wax is that you want to use a 2 flute mill at high speed (2000 plus RPM when possible) to keep a nice clean tool path. This is especially true of bull nose or radiused cutters....

Are you still looking to have this part made?

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If you have a model I might be able to make a few suggestions.

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Nate

I made about 85 lbs of the wax I mentioned in this post. If anyone wants some let me know.


Nate

here is the other link, I searched for the wrong thing. Read this and get back to me.

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23207&highlight=Machinable+Wax

Actually I didn't use the hot glue mentioned there. I ended up doing something different. I have another thread on here but no idea where it is. I tried searching for it and now can't find it :(....

Forgot to mention, I tried Activated Charcoal, its a no go but makes a nice black color wax. The idea was that it will chemically change the low grade wax into high grade but it did not do that. So...

Just thought I'd update, I have made more headway with wax forumulas, quite interesting actually. I repeated the above experiment with a a few variations on the prefered formula. I have found that...

I haven't worked with it but I pulled the datasheet

http://www.matweb.com/search/SpecificMaterial.asp?bassnum=NTIMK009

it appears to me that the material is age hardenable, so you have to know...

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