Ceylan, Dayna and Charlie are working on this.
Manufacturing Steps:
-Drill bolt hole
-Turn step
-Drill holes for thermocouples - hole was 0.125" diameter, 2.5" deep. Drill bit broke off in second hold (drilling into steel is hard)
-Turn rest of tip
Aluminum Prototype
To debug the CNC process an aluminum prototype was turned. We set up a profile on the laptop for the ProtoTrak Lathe.