"Alfalfa" (alfalfa-romeo)
11/18/2015 at 10:32 • Filed to: None
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"Alfalfa" (alfalfa-romeo)
11/18/2015 at 10:32 • Filed to: None | 5
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I took off the last sheet of aluminum to find this. A mostly-finished bamboo weave. No pedestrian pallets for us, no sir.
MLGCarGuy
> Alfalfa
11/18/2015 at 10:34 |
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I never thought pallets could be so elegant.
Pallet-lopnik.
Speed
> Alfalfa
11/18/2015 at 10:39 |
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Damn! Ikea could sell these as room separators or something. Maybe I’ll buy a stack and hock them off as “yoga platforms”.
Rainbow
> Alfalfa
11/18/2015 at 10:39 |
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Please tell me you’re making a coffee table and/or counter tops right now.
desertdog5051
> Alfalfa
11/18/2015 at 10:40 |
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Maybe to keep moisture and water from coming in through the bottom?
dogisbadob
> Alfalfa
11/18/2015 at 10:42 |
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Awesome pallet, and a flat surface too.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Alfalfa
11/18/2015 at 10:48 |
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Pallets with metal on them here just show up with low-density fiberboard. Feh.
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Alfalfa
> Rainbow
11/18/2015 at 10:51 |
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Not now, but possibly later...
shop-teacher
> Alfalfa
11/18/2015 at 11:48 |
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That is a pretty sweet pallet! Gotta make that into something.
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Alfalfa
> shop-teacher
11/18/2015 at 18:01 |
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If I can find a way to get it home before someone else steals it, I’m planning to make a coffee table and matching end tables.
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Alfalfa
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/18/2015 at 18:03 |
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Most of ours don’t even have a board, to be honest. This one was from a different supplier than usual because our usual supplier had none.
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Alfalfa
> desertdog5051
11/18/2015 at 18:06 |
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Perhaps. It’s not from our usual supplier, my boss has been here for a decade and never seen this before.
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shop-teacher
> Alfalfa
11/18/2015 at 18:53 |
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Cool!
Spoon II
> Alfalfa
11/18/2015 at 19:28 |
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Where are you finding these pimp’n pallets? I’ve never seen them before
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Alfalfa
> Spoon II
11/18/2015 at 21:46 |
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I couldn’t tell you. This is from a supplier we don’t typically use, and itself may even be an oddity among their pallets.
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Spoon II
> Alfalfa
11/18/2015 at 21:49 |
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Haha, cool! Maybe it’d just the beginning of the bamboo pallet revolution
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> Alfalfa
11/18/2015 at 23:56 |
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Sheet aluminum you say? Do tell. It seems like it could be fun stuff to play with.
Also, nice pallet. I've never seen anything quite like that. Most around here are the cheapest crappiest pine, or are something more solid, but painted blue and are part of a pallet service (aka no taking them).
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Alfalfa
> BaconSandwich is tasty.
11/19/2015 at 00:21 |
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We build ATM surrounds, not terribly interesting.
It’s the first pallet of its kind I’ve seen, same as my coworkers. Most of ours don’t even have a surface, just the cross beams that aren’t even close to square.
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BaconSandwich is tasty.
> Alfalfa
11/19/2015 at 08:09 |
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Still not bad. I bet you guys have a decent sized shear and brake?
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Alfalfa
> BaconSandwich is tasty.
11/19/2015 at 08:36 |
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We have a big brake (about ten feet long) and a smaller one. Most of the cutting happens on one of 3 CNC routers, but we do also have a ginormous beam saw.
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BaconSandwich is tasty.
> Alfalfa
11/19/2015 at 09:29 |
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That’s pretty cool. I don’t have much experience with CNC machines, but when cutting something like sheet metal, do you have to cut pretty far into some sort of sacrificial board underneath the metal in order for things to cut properly?
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Alfalfa
> BaconSandwich is tasty.
11/19/2015 at 10:03 |
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That depends on your definition of “pretty far”. There is a sheet of particle board underneath that gets replaced every month or so, and we cut into it as much as 3 thousandths of an inch. You don’t typically need to cut too deep for the metal, but other materials we cut will have a paper coating to protect the uncut surface. Those generally get cut a little deeper to cut through the bottom paper rather than just pushing it down.
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BaconSandwich is tasty.
> Alfalfa
11/19/2015 at 13:12 |
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I guess from my woodworking skills, 3 thousands of an inch isn’t far at all. :P In order to get the sheets to stay put, do you have to clamp them down much, or does the CNC not exert a lot of lateral force on the pieces being cut?
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Alfalfa
> BaconSandwich is tasty.
11/19/2015 at 13:19 |
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There’s actually a vacuum that holds it on the table. The board is porous enough that the suction can grab things through it. Kind of like an air hockey table in reverse. Then we tape the edges to the table to create a better seal.
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BaconSandwich is tasty.
> Alfalfa
11/19/2015 at 20:22 |
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Makes sense. Pretty neat.