Todays Project - What did you do today?

[awemawson]

It was CURTAINS for the Beaver Partsmaster CNC Mill today


Ok no, I didn't lay it to rest


At one end of the cabinet is an opening with a pvc curtain, through which originally a robotic arm would poke its high tech fist and put work in a hydraulic vice. When using flood coolant the curtain is supposed to contain it, but in practice it ends up on the floor.

When I looked at the original, instead of being made from overlapping individual pvc strips, someone had cut it from a full sheet, leaving the top inch or so uncut. With no overlap of course the curtain doesn't always seal, and anyway it was yellowed and sticky with age.

eBay kindly provided me with a roll of 100 mm x 20 m proper curtain pvc and it got fitted today with a 17mm overlap on each fall - hopefully now the floor will stay dry.

I can see why the previous fellow cut it from one sheet - major pain getting them all trapped between the holding bars and at the right spacing.