Kids Wobbler Engine

[Tin Falcon]

Corian is very similar to Lucite , plexiglass perplex.....
either carbide or HSS works fine keep it cool suck up the dust .
to polish wet sand 180,320.400 600 then auto compound and plastic polish.
tin

 

[ShopShoe]

This is interesting as one of my grandsons is just finishing an introductory CAD/CAM class at his school. The school has replaced the traditional wood shop with this new approach and has a 3-D printer. It would be interesting, although too late for him, if a project could be developed that would allow parts of an air-powered engine to be fabricated in plastic and made at the school. There would have to be some simplification involved as the students only have one semester to walk in cold and be exposed to both CAD and the shop work.

I am wondering if this approach to Industrial Tech will become more popular as it involves more current technology and also seems to remove the issues with letting kids loose with sharp tools and spinning machines.

I've got three more grandsons that will go to this school.

--ShopShoe