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Re: Advent Santa Truck

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Mike,
The camera must make the truck look fat. The actual cargo box size on mine is 8.25" long, 4.25" wide, and 6.26" high.
Still plenty of room to cram in goodies.
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Bob,

I was just looking at the truck plans you had posted (which no longer works for me) and they had the truck listed with quite an overall length (I can't remember for sure but I think it was around 30" which seemed pretty large). I like your dimensions better! Hopefully I'll get a chance to bang one or two of these out but the first is right around the corner...

Thanks! :D

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Not just for you, Mike.
Seems they have taken it off the website :)
Maybe they liked Bob's better.
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Don't think it was plans they were selling Mike, looked to me like they were selling the actual truck as a flat pack, if that is the case then maybe it's been taken down because they are out of stock. Quality looked quite poor to me but then for the money they were asking I suppose you can't really expect to much :lol: :lol:

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You are probably right Martin! The thing was way too big anyway. I'm going to use the smaller size suggested by Bob and see if I can get something done this week (Instead of watching football on Thursday - our Thanksgiving Holiday - I'll play out in the shop! I'll be home alone the last half of this week so I'll be able to have some fun!). I know I won't be able to finish any in time to mail them to out-of-town young family members but I have at least one little friend locally who will be getting a surprise!
Did I mention that I love this forum? Thanks again Bob!

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martin54 wrote:Is that the story where the truck stop motel was full ???

Bob, something I have done in the past when making boxes which might have worked for the draws is to draw rectangle the size of all 4 sides added together & then place lines where the corners are. Profile cut on the lines with a 90 deg bit almost right through the material & then cut out the rectangle. It then just folds into the right shape :lol: :lol:
When you say "almost through" the material, are you talking a few hundredths say for 1/2" material? Thanks.

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Dave,
In theory...Through the wood, but not through the tape.
In practice...Almost through the wood. This is how I end up doing the fold.
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Dave to be perfectly honest I can't remember how much I left but it wasn't very much at all, sort of onion skin idea, I tried it because I used to make sign trays from aluminium composite where you do the same sort of thing, machine almost all the way through the material & then fold. The bit I thought was 90 deg & has something like a 0.3mm flat on the bottom. I bought it for folding composite panels a long time before I got the cnc . Bob said 91 deg works better & it is quite possible that this bit is 91 deg haven't actually checked it & had it for a long time. I do remember that the flat on the bottom was quite important & prevented the composite material splitting when it was folded.

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Thanks, will experiment and give this a try just to see how it works. Seems like a quick way to make a small box.

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Dave sorry I can't be more specific. I've got a few different methods of making boxes & this is one way I have used a few times with good results but not used it recently. unfortunately I lost some files on my desktop computer when I had a major leak in the unit roof, had a lot of stuff backed up but no where near as much as I thought I had, lesson learnt :oops:
Did some boxes like the cool cubes project & some about twice that size using 12 & 15mm material, I always "z" zero to the top of the block but when I am doing anything where I want to leave a small amount of material like an onion skin then I set up a little bit differently. I use mach3 & will zero the z axis to the top of the block for all the toolpaths until I come to the final profile cut out. If I have my material thickness set in vcarve at say for example 12mm I will use the machine bed to set the tool at zero rather than the top of the material BUT instead of pressing the button to zero the z axis I will enter the value as -12mm (don't forget to hit return). That way I know it is going to leave exactly the right amount of material plus I don't have lots of bits cut out the spoil board :lol: :lol: :lol:

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I have learnt so much since I started to visit this forum and not just about CNC.
Take signmakers for example:
I had always believed that signmakers painted signs on windows or, maybe, made them from adhesive vinyl.
It had never even entered my mind that e.g. those big shoppping centre signs were a very specialised industry.
Thank you all for educating me, not just on this but on a lot of other things, not the least that despite the belief otherwise, there are a lot of kind and generous people in the world still.
:D :D :D :D :D
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Martin, thanks again for the details on your methods- sorry about the backup problem!!

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One of the best ideas I've seen in a long time..
Great work Bob..
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Thank you everyone for the kind comments.
Thank you also for the segue into drawer and box making. Now I'm getting interesting in playing with those ideas.
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Bob Jr glad you are making trucks... sometimes simple is good!

Saw comments about using pockets to make the drawers. Somewhere I believe there is a post where I used pockets to make some of the truck/pickup beds from one piece [or rough glued box]. For small items this works really well, fast and simple. You could even pocket in or inlay dovetails on the edges for effect.

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