Initial CNC Machining Operations

performs a different function so if you look at how a block starts when it goes in every step along the way we're just breaking up the machining into small bite-sized pieces so it's kind of like having an elephant one bite at a time that's how we machine a block so when we go in you can see that we'll start out and we'll do the end that will do the bell housing the timing cover a lot of the starting of the bolt holes and things of that nature and as you go through along the way you can see different steps have been completed so this one the lifter bores aren't done the deck isn't finished yet the oil galleys don't look like they're completely done yet so you can see the transformation from that casting and see how it's starting to look like a machine block when they come out and they're finished this is after that first operation you can see that a lot of it is still in place our second operation does a lot of rough machining so it goes through and just removes a bunch of material and then when it gets down to the end after we've got a lot of the main machining done we put on the mains you can feel that there it's not fully machined and