Magnetic Acrylic Rubik's Cube

Step 4 Set up the drill press

I don't have a shop at the moment, so I had to settle on a cheap drill press on the dining room table. I used a needlessly high-precision CNC-milled clamping square from Woodpeckers, makers of fine, high-tolerance machining guides:

http://www.woodpeck.com/groupclampingsquare.html

They have a feast of uber precision stuff:
http://www.woodpeck.com/

I held the clamp guides in place with some small Irwin Quick-Clamps, and later, for some more stability, with standard metal C clamps.

To align things, I eyeballed it: I'd get it about right, clamp it down, then press the non-spinning bit into the acrylic to make a tiny dent, then turned the cube 90 degrees and pressed again. When I got this to make a perfect tiny X in the acrylic, I knew it was pretty good. The cubes aren't accurate enough to be bothered with anything more precise than that.

Comments

[Vertigo666]

is this possible to do with hand held power tools?

[Mr2CubeGuitaristPestvic]

i might try a soldering gun to melt the holes think that would work?

[Vertigo666]

Oh no way, I tried to do that to a bottle cap, it turned out horribly. It looked like white gooey crap. And that was just trying to fine the edges. The holes look not unlike bullet holes, just it's not goan to be very good. I only asked b/c I don't own a nice fancy drill press (or even a crap one for that matter)

[Mr2CubeGuitaristPestvic]

ok thanks for the tip i wont then :-P