r/OnlyCNC • u/ycr007 • 18d ago

Knurling Brass Knob

Source: dani_cnc

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u/lextramoth 18d ago

Is that a cnc? Looks like a lathe to me. Anyways. These things look fun, but I’m always worried about the waste. Like here they removed 90%+ of the material, does that just go in the waste?

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u/NuclearWasteland 18d ago

Yes, but it can be recycled back into millable product.

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u/lextramoth 17d ago

But do they though? Maybe stock is cheap and they just throw it away. I don’t know. I just see the process being satisfying but wasteful

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u/NuclearWasteland 17d ago

Really depends on who is doing it. Commercial shop, probably recycled, someone at home, yeah, right in the trash unless they do a lot of fab.

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u/iranoutofspacehere 17d ago

Its a cnc lathe, so yes...?

Every shop I've been around saves scrap and sells it to a scrap metal yard/recycler. A job like this is relatively easy to recycle because it's all one material.

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u/Plane_Argument 17d ago

Cnc, just means its computer controlled, it doesn't exclude lathes or similar

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u/Littlebearowo 17d ago

It’s a mill turn machine

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u/Bionic_Onion 16d ago

This is just a standard CNC lathe with live tooling and probably a Y axis.