Shimming Rails with Stainless Steel

Описание: In this video, I show you how I shimmed my aluminum rails with stainless steel to raise them to an acceptable height. I share the tools and techniques I used to cut, measure, and mill the steel to fit the channels. You'll see how I use a CNC machine, a master precision level, and a test indicator to ensure a proper fit. I also show you the final result and discuss my plans for future videos.

0:00 Introduction and getting more metal
2:21 I’ll be using the metal cutting blade previously used to cut the panels on the chip pan.
3:46 Plan to drill with the stainless steel with carbide drill bits
4:57 Measuring the depth of the rail channels.
6:53 CAD model of the rail channels to mill in Solidworks
7:25 CAM operations in Fusion 360 for the channels
7:58 Tim Paterson’s Post Process All Fusion 360 GCODE script
8:38 Aligning the aluminum face plate to the Y axis on the CNC machine with a test indicator
9:02 Work holding
10:05 Using an edge finder to get the origin.
11:12 Blue the aluminum channels with Dykem steel blue layout fluid
11:18 Previously I levels my Y axis rails to each other with a master precision level
12:14 Facing the channels with passes of 0.05mm and 0.1mm in succession till the channels are all milled.
15:45 Setup to cut the stainless steel with the circular saw and a metal cutting blade
16:37 Cutting stainless steel
17:34 Using a flap disk on the grinder to cleanup the saw edges
18:10 Test fitting the shim width
20:56 cutting the shims down to final lengths with a diamond cut off wheel
22:07 Test fitting the shim length
22:47 Sanding down the high spots (in width) of the second shim with a sanding wheel
23:36 Results of shimming the rails with an acceptable amount of clearance.
23:57 Plans for the next couple of videos. Thanks for watching!

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