Bottle Opener
ME318 Practice
Winter 2012-2013
The bottle opener project was to help ME318 students get acquainted with using the CNC mills. I thought it'd be cool to try something different, and wanted to make a bottle opener that could latch onto the bottle caps and store them into a tube for bragging rights.
The final design used a ceramic magnet and binding post to get the "catch" and "drop" functionality. I used a HAAS VF-1 3 axis CNC to do all the milling work. The first prototype was 6061 aluminum to test the g-code output from GibbsCAM, and the final cut was out of stainless steel and had to be cut quite a bit slower! Really made me appreciate the machinability of "soft" aluminum.
The final design used a ceramic magnet and binding post to get the "catch" and "drop" functionality. I used a HAAS VF-1 3 axis CNC to do all the milling work. The first prototype was 6061 aluminum to test the g-code output from GibbsCAM, and the final cut was out of stainless steel and had to be cut quite a bit slower! Really made me appreciate the machinability of "soft" aluminum.