Message from @Kaytee
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making it taller will cost a terribly lot more since the entire frame is gonna have to be much thicker and more rigid, and the price does not scale nice and linearly
im gonn have to build one specifically to deal with cutting metals a ton
otherwise the movement and pressure on the tool head is gonna cuse the whole z axis to wobble around as you cut
even then, a router with a tall z is gonna have to be extremely rigid
you aren't talking aluminum extrusion or even steel angle anymore, you're talking thick steel plate, welded not bolted together
thats not particularly hard tbh
it isn't but do you really wanna spend all that instead of yknow
$200 on parts for a 3d printer on the side
true
3d printer would only be for prototyping anyway
since those can be fairly light and flimsy since there's not much force on the effector
you ever pressed aluminium?
in what context
like into shapes
sorta how car floors nd shit are made
tho just aluminium
nah, only pressed holes in
ah
i don't have room for a Serious PRess, just kinda a POS "big ole bolts and a long handled wrench" "press"
im interested in it because it'd be a really cheap way to mass make some cheap ass headphone cups with some complicated designs
way cheaper and more time effective than cncing wood at least
i dunno, aluminum can be kind of a bitch to work with acoustically
wood is much nicer
yeah no i know
id have to do a fuck ton of rearwave damping
ive fucked with aluminum housings before
if anything you could try pressed wood
eh
would be prone to cracking would it not
just wood-fiber-slurry+glue, mold tool, press
it can be pretty strong
wouldnt look that great tho
it's literally what most speaker cabinets are made of, just in sheets not fancy designs like you could potentially do
id rather just do resin cups with shit embedded in em at that point
save wood for muh premium designs
take up whittling
hand carve earcups
god no
easier to just do on a lathe
sell audiophools $5000/pr grado cups