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Custom Cut the UHMW Material

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What happens here

The new cutting edge is made from Ultra-High Molecular Weight (UHMW) polyethylene. This material is fed as large sheets into a KOMO CNC router, which uses a vacuum table to securely hold the plastic in place. The CNC machine is programmed with the precise dimensions and bolt hole locations (as measured in the previous step) to custom-cut the cutting edge components. The machine operates at high temperatures, and safety barriers are in place around the vacuum pumps and cutting area.

Goal: Manufacture the new cutting edge components from UHMW using a CNC router.

Tools and materials

  • Forklift — Moving large sheets of UHMW plastic to the CNC machine
  • KOMO CNC Router — Precision cutting of UHMW material
  • Safety Barriers — Protecting personnel from high temperatures and moving machinery
  • Vacuum Pumps — Securing the UHMW sheets to the CNC table during cutting
  • UHMW Polyethylene Sheets May Wes — The raw material for the new cutting edge

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you'll roll we don't counter the holes just them through see that's the other thing that uh Nancy you were saying is typically you guys like to Center the holes so you can flip the blade right y but on this plow you can't do that because you've got this hard Edge right here that eliminates it but if this was just putting it on a board like this you'll Center that hole when one half wears down flip it around flip it around twice the life makes Twice As Nice [Music] okay so this is vacuum stck to the table right now right Matt these vacuum pumps here supply vacing for the colos run through that hle is there so you have these barricaded off because they run at 190° 190 plus so at times I mean like in the summer they can get up 225° at the airs that's coming off of so you can get quite hot back here all that is just to make sure that while you're cutting this that sheet doesn't move yeah cuz the vacuum pressure is all that holds this material down to the table [Music] w so this is the program you designed in you yes sir so you wrote that 150 to 200 lines just off from the measurements I gave you that's [Music] [Applause] [Music] so here's our Center and here's our two Wings button ready to

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