Wooden Toy Car - CNC Router Project - Share Your Holiday

Our local TV station presents “Share Your Holiday” during the month of December. In conjunction with the Salvation Army at 5 locations across our area, they accept donations (toys, non-perishable food, or monetary) to aid our neighbors who have less.
This year we took a weekend to create some Wooden Toy Cars - from the extra bits around the shop. I hope the kids enjoy playing with the cars as much as we enjoyed making them!
Happy Holidays!
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[@meelaapjoshi8298]

I am really inspired by ur Vid. I have srarted learning from basic. Thank u very much for sharing.

[@Marie579]

YOU are soooo where I want to be with your tooling and setup. Well done mate ! Seriously impressed

[@OakLines]

Thank you very much for the kind words. ;-]

[@meelaapjoshi8298]

This is wonderful. Thank you very much for sharing

[@OakLines]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@josearias8488]

Desde Colombia 😍👍😲

[@YooProjects]

So beautiful dear man ❤️

[@OakLines]

Thank you for the kind words !

[@ahmadarif5534]

What materials the spacer for tire?

[@rubenkhudagulian3109]

I love this video

[@OakLines]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@icmpeko]

You have burn marks on everything, buddy - maybe increase your feed rate and/or RPMs. I do love these toys ;-)

[@OakLines]

Glad you liked the cars! ;-} Regarding tool heat - yes - these were essentially slotting operations with full engagement of the tool in hardwoods - so it can generate significant heat. To reduce heat - you want to increase the chip load - and that is done by increasing the feed rate or reducing the spindle RPM. Of course you have to balance the chip load with the mechanical strength of the bit - and we're already on the edge with this diameter of tool in the hardwood. The main issue here was a dull tool. It was already past it's useful life and it shows - especially during z translations around tabs in the part design as the X & Y dwell. Nothing a little sanding can't fix. ;-] Good eyes!

[@renxo985]

Hello Dale! I really enjoyed the video well done! I am curious to know what program are you using to create ur 2/3D images?

[@OakLines]

Hello Renxo! The opening scene was sketching the basic idea into OneNote. That sketch was used as a reference to design the parts in VCarve Pro.

[@viktorbivol]

Hello, Dale. Can you tell me what cnc machine are you using? Thank you.

[@OakLines]

The machine is a Probotix Asteroid.

[@samadabdul1242]

Hi Dale, Would you be able to share the design?

[@LincolnWoodworks]

Would you be willing to share or sell your vcarve file?

[@alipala5290]

Hi Dale, this is awesome. I am also making DIY wooden toys. I wonder, what is the tool at 1:07, makes the edges rounded?

[@OakLines]

Hi Ali, Thank you for the kind words my friend. The tool at 1:07 is a router with a round over bit. The round over bit has a pilot bearing that allows it to follow the contour of the part and the profile of the cutter rounds over the edge. You can see a better view of the entire router again at 2:00 rounding over the edge of the car body.

[@alipala5290]

@@OakLines Got it! Make sense! Thanks a lot.

[@naurissondars2383]

Hi Dale! can you drop me cnc file for this butifle car!

[@rogdotcom1]

I don't think Dale is into sharing the vcarve file guys, that's too bad too

[@reloadNshoot]

On another note it's not rocket science to draw a little car file up and run some tool paths. One can simply draw it on a piece of paper and do a bitmap trace of the car and proceed

[@rogdotcom1]

@@reloadNshoot wow, well ya, and rebuilding an engine isn't rocket science either, for a mechanic ! What a smarta$$ comment, way da show your colours 🙄