{"id":1023,"date":"2013-04-22T22:04:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T05:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new-gro.dyn.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2014-07-22T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T23:14:01","slug":"engraving-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"Engraving Plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Ian came over again this weekend with a weird project \u2013 he wanted to make some protective plastic covers for photographic filters, which is easy enough, but he wanted to try engraving them.<\/p>\n<p>I had never done engraving with the mill, but Ian had mentioned it before, and I had been meaning to try it, so I already had purchased some engraving bits. All in all I thought the engraving came out ok. Main lesson learned is I need to make some specialty mounting fixtures for working with thin stock.<\/p>\n<p>Normally I used double sided tape, but Ian wanted to preserve surface finish on the soft plastics so we ended up making a jig from wood to hold the parts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1024\" title=\"Engraving Plastic on the Mill\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Ian_engraving_4p21p2013_P1.jpg\" alt=\"I really need to make a real engraving fixture\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This post is mostly a reminder to make such a jig in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Ian came over again this weekend with a weird project \u2013 he wanted to make some protective plastic covers for photographic filters, which is easy enough, but he wanted to try engraving them. I had never done engraving with the mill, but Ian had mentioned it before, and I had been meaning to try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}