Projects > Machined Meat Mallet

This project introduced me to the beauty of machining and flying chips, but also gave me a fundamental understanding of designing for machinability. I machined this two part assembly on a manual mill and lathe. All final product dimensions were within +/- 0.005" of the given drawing dimensions.

I used the machining skills from this project to fabricate a steering column for the Baja car. I also used them when working at my internship with Honeywell Aerospace to modify client's designs so that they could be manufactured by our machinists.