I’ve posted about making aluminum isogrid cylinders before, but I recently finished a variation with no skin and open webs. The real trick with this was that we wanted to machine the inside of the cylinder. That was accomplished using an T-slot cutter as an undercutting bit and some scripts to modif…

[image] petermccloud: Looking into adding an isopropyl alcohol mister for a longer term solution. That’s the blue loc-line at the bottom of this photo: [image] Bits keep breaking [image] (but I don’t use it for mist, just for air)

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djdelorie May 7, 2026, 2:35pm 2

That’s the blue loc-line at the bottom of this photo:

(but I don’t use it for mist, just for air)

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