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10-18-2015, 08:56 PM
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Balsa Suppliers in Canada
Does anyone know of any balsa suppliers in Canada?
I mean other than the LHS. I have a laser cutter I have built recently and will be cutting kits for myself and club members. But sourcing balsa in large enough quantities is becoming difficult and expensive. I saw Hobby Woods Online listed here but their website doesn't seem to be active and I haven't seen any posts for a long time. Would prefer a Canadian source. Andy |
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10-18-2015, 09:15 PM
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Re: Balsa Suppliers in Canada
Have you contacted Don's Balsa in Grimsby?
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10-18-2015, 09:50 PM
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Re: Balsa Suppliers in Canada
I'll bet he can give you the best price especially for bulk orders. He cuts nice balsa!
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10-19-2015, 11:43 AM
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Re: Balsa Suppliers in Canada
Bill.
Called Don today. What a great guy. Super friendly and I sure he'll have everything I'll need moving forward. And by the way, it's his birthday today. Happy Birthday Don! Andy |
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10-19-2015, 01:12 PM
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Re: Balsa Suppliers in Canada
Hello Andrew, I'm curious what kits will you be cutting? How are you going to program your cutter? Autocad DXF/DWG? I have been toying with the idea of buiding a small .40 sized nitro plane from scratch, drawing it up in Autocad and then cutting by hand, but I have doubts about my abilities to do this totally from scratch.
Are you copying plans, or designing your own? Post a build thread when you get going on one! |
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10-19-2015, 01:56 PM
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Re: Balsa Suppliers in Canada
Hey Paul.
I am doing a combination of existing plans and my own. I scan the plans or a 3 view into Turbocad. I then trace the plans or use the 3 view to create my own design. I then save to dxf and import that into Cambam. I use Cambam to arrange the parts into a cutfile and generate g-code. I feed the g-code through mach3 which drives the cutter. It's not that difficult to do your own from scratch. Go for it! Andy |
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10-19-2015, 02:42 PM
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Re: Balsa Suppliers in Canada
Happy Birthday Don, he must be close to 100 now! Who said balsa dust was bad for you??
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10-19-2015, 03:58 PM
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Re: Balsa Suppliers in Canada
The biggest problem I have is that I work on Autocad every day, and bought a copy of Turbocad for use at home. It seems like a pretty powerful cad program, but there is just enough different from Autocad that it frustrates the crap out of me, so I working my way through the tutorial package that came with it. As soon as I can find some extra time, I'll get serious about it.
Are you drawing in 3d, or all plan view? |
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