Are flip-ops okay? (question for CNC users)

Joe Dusel · Post by **Joe Dusel** » Tue, Jul 10 2007, 6:52PM

I'm designing some RTA cabinets that I'm planning to have milled on a Thermwood router and I'm wondering if it's a big deal to have flip operations on some of the parts. Does this create problems with accuracy? Does it eat up a lot of time per part?

Thanks.

Joe

Nick M Singer · Post by **Nick M Singer** » Tue, Jul 10 2007, 10:28PM

Joe the short answer is no. If you have your fence set up properly and have a system to process your flip op parts it does not take a lot of time. obviously there is a lot more part handling but no more than if you were to do it on a CNC work centre and a hell of a lot less than if you were to do it by hand.

Rob Frenette · Post by **Rob Frenette** » Wed, Jul 11 2007, 2:42AM

Hi Joe

We try to avoid flips when possible. We do a lot of RTA cabinets and have some tricks to avoid flips

If you give me some details where you are running into flips maybe we can help. As Nick mentioned its not a big deal to do them but imagine if you had a fairly large job with a couple hundred flip ops, I can think of more productive things to do.