Milling Fails

My shenanigans wouldn’t be complete without milling failures.  As I began filming and running the code for the first part, the superglue happened to fail and the part come loose.

Quickly, I stopped the mill and assessed the situation.  Since my last milling attempt, I placed a center screw to hold the aluminum plate and milled out a relief pocket to remove finished parts.

I figured it was a mishap and decided to try again.  I placed new Frogtape and superglue, applied pressure, and hit “cycle start.”

 ...and another failure.

About this time, I was becoming frustrated and had collected a lot of footage of these subsequent mishaps.  I am going to throw them into this week’s video.   

My thoughts now are: cleanliness of mating surfaces, and pressure applied for glue to dry.  However, I’m not sure if either of these will change what’s happened two times so far.  Going forward, I will just mount my vise and clamp the parts normally.  This will also be in the video.