CNC cut Pure Aluminum Atari Major Havoc wall art SOLD OUT!

[Crazy Climber]

*EDIT - SOLD OUT!!
Hello
I only have 2 of these left over from a very small run I did for the KLOV forums a little while ago. It is a Major Havoc wall sign or arcade topper cut from pure eighth inch aluminum sheet stock. If you are unfamiliar with Major Havoc it was a somewhat obscure Atari vector arcade machine that has gained more popularity now then it did back in the day. They were a special request for a guy but I made a few extras to sell. I probably will not make anymore as with my machinery they turned into kind of a huge hassle and very long run time. I went for kind of a "starship troopers" theme. like a "camp major havoc" or something to make them a little fun Some of the guys bought them as arcade toppers and some just hung them on the wall, they are pure aluminum so you can easily paint them. It is scrap material used so some light scratching is common but nothing horribly distracting, you could even buff them out and shine them up if you wanted. Size is around 12" wide by 7" high

Thanks!

Edited August 19, 2014 by Crazy Climber

[Crazy Climber]

I have one more left that I found

2 sold, one available

[FND]

Being a Machinist myself I can attest to the fact you would never be able to have
one of these made for anything remotely close to that price Hell the aluminum could
run you that. Not to mention programming plus machine time cost would send you running
holding your wallet

[Hyperboy]

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[Crazy Climber]

Thanks guys!

FND - lol, aint that the truth! Machine time, around $100. Drafting, easy $75ish. Material, atleast another $20 so actual "shop" price..around $200

[FND]

Thanks guys!

FND - lol, aint that the truth! Machine time, around $100. Drafting, easy $75ish. Material, atleast another $20 so actual "shop" price..around $200

 

Don't forget set-up and tooling. Our machine time runs 160.00 hr.

Your very lucky the shop you work lets you use the machines,

Not many will do that. I have worked for a few and its a rare shop that will.

I have machined plastics, Steels, Aluminum and Glass (glass is really just grinding with diamond).

Biggest machine I set up was an 8 pallet Horizontal Mazak, each pallet had

1 tombstone with 8 stations each (64 parts). set-up start and come back in the morning to reload.

 

Great trade, love taking a project from paper to product and able to say I made that.

 

Edited June 11, 2014 by FND

[Crazy Climber]

 

Don't forget set-up and tooling. Our machine time runs 160.00 hr.

Your very lucky the shop you work lets you use the machines,

Not many will do that. I have worked for a few and its a rare shop that will.

I have machined plastics, Steels, Aluminum and Glass (glass is really just grinding with diamond).

Biggest machine I set up was an 8 pallet Horizontal Mazak, each pallet had

1 tombstone with 8 stations each (64 parts). set-up start and come back in the morning to reload.

 

Great trade, love taking a project from paper to product and able to say I made that.

 

Thats true! Creeping up around the $250 mark now, lol

 

I totally know what you mean. Very cool to just draft up a project and cut it. Not to mention the times I've needed some little bracket or part and it's actually easier to make it then try to go to the hardware store and explain what you need/etc..

 

Yeah, my machining job might not pay as much as others but being able to use the machines whenever I want, for whatever I want, not to mention having a hoard of scrap value priced sheet metal or sometimes even free materials I can use (within reason of course) is a HUGE benefit.

I also feel a bit indebted to the place since the owner hired me to run CNC with literally NO experience or school/training, I was a rent a cop and just took a shot on a want ads job and I'm glad I did, I would likely still be a security guard if I didn't, lol. Kind of funny, the owners son, who was present during the interview is a huge 8 bit era gaming collector. About half the interview was discussing our collections, I sometimes wonder how much of that had a role in getting me hired....thank you Atari

 

I've never set up anything as complicated as the Mazak, I run routers and some older mills (I guess my router is kind of like a giant mill, 20x6 foot table). We get trained with a lot of Mastercam, toolpath, autocad, solid works, V-carve, etc though so keeps me someone current

 

We mainly do aluminum sheet metal and composite metals. Some Steel, but mostly just brake bending and welding for that. We make a lot of column covers also, we have a few ancient rollers (used in WW2 for airplane wings) that we use to roll aluminum into a sheet metal "cover" for concrete columns. How's the machining industry in California? I've heard it's pretty good. I always thought, maybe when the kids are older and moved out I could finish my last 10 years of work along the coast somewhere...

[FND]

Machining in the Cal. Bay Area is mostly small computer components or
Medical parts. The job market was best mid to late 90’s when everything was
booming. The shop I worked for would hire just about anyone, once the owner
went to Togo’s (sandwich shop) and hired the guy making his sandwich J problem
was I was the swing shift lead and would train them only to have them get offered
more money at another shop and the process would start again. Much has changed
the jobs are still there but you really have to be experienced now as the work has
slowed down enough that the old days of just walking into any machine shop and
getting a job is no longer available. Also as you know MATH ability is also a key factor

Algebra, Geometry and Trigonometry (triangles) is key but good computer skills will
get the math done also J

 

The most interesting material I have machined is Teflon, once need to machine some
long parts (36 inches) and found the material would grow 1/8 due to the rising temp of
the Day, Machine & Cutting Fluid from the start of shift to end, had to keep parts in
a temp controlled tub of water held at 68 deg and could only machine a few features at
a time otherwise holding even + or - .005 (a mile really) was impossible.

 

Sorry to have derailed your thread but I do like talking about this. Sorry again

[Crazy Climber]

Machining in the Cal. Bay Area is mostly small computer components or

Medical parts. The job market was best mid to late 90’s when everything was

booming. The shop I worked for would hire just about anyone, once the owner

went to Togo’s (sandwich shop) and hired the guy making his sandwich J problem

was I was the swing shift lead and would train them only to have them get offered

more money at another shop and the process would start again. Much has changed

the jobs are still there but you really have to be experienced now as the work has

slowed down enough that the old days of just walking into any machine shop and

getting a job is no longer available. Also as you know MATH ability is also a key factor

Algebra, Geometry and Trigonometry (triangles) is key but good computer skills will

get the math done also J

 

The most interesting material I have machined is Teflon, once need to machine some

long parts (36 inches) and found the material would grow 1/8 due to the rising temp of

the Day, Machine & Cutting Fluid from the start of shift to end, had to keep parts in

a temp controlled tub of water held at 68 deg and could only machine a few features at

a time otherwise holding even + or - .005 (a mile really) was impossible.

 

Sorry to have derailed your thread but I do like talking about this. Sorry again

It's no problem. i doubt I'll be making anymore of these so the topic is pretty much dead anyways

Interesting trick with the Teflon, sounds like one of those things that drives you nuts, but is a little fun at the same time I've never had to cut anything in those conditions.Aluminum stays pretty solid, arched material is a pain but we can flatten them. I do experience a similar problem with the MDF (sacrificial boards) on my router as they swell periodically on and off all summer long due to moisture. Certain parts of my table with have depths that fluctuate (+/-) .010 which became a huge problem since you could have differences of .020 throughout a 20 feet sheet of composite. We made a floating foot style pressure foot with threaded 4 inch pipe that restricts the head from dropping too low that seems to work (but looks barbaric, lol) unless the material itself has depth fluctuations, which is actually pretty common with some of the cheaper composites. I am almost positive this thing has needed bearings for a while also which is compromising my depths depending on the direction, but my boss is one of those "if it aint broke don't fix it" types. If it gets worse my co worker has mentioned taking a hammer to them gets the bosses attention, lol

[FND]

Plexi-glass is a good surface to work on, a little more expensive then MDF but more stable and will last longer, you can also machine
1/4 dowel pin holes that you can insert and remove for material stops.