True Splice = Full Splice?

Biloxi Boy said:

Predator advertises "True Splice" construction. Is this the same as a "Full Splice"?
Is it possible to make an eight point full splice or are they all recuts?

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The road lines I’ve seen are full splice with 4 short splice points in between. If you look closely at the tips of the low points you’ll see a radius. Usually a sign that they are cnc. With that being said that particular design isn’t hard to do traditionally.


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no point

Biloxi Boy said:

Radius as in "a line segment extending from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference or bounding surface"?

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There are ways to get points with NC but I don't know of any production company using them. The smallest practical tools back when I kept up with such things were 0.030. That means that the ends of the cuts will have to have a 0.015 radius or to put it simpler, they will end in a 0.030 half circle, they can't come to a point without some NC magic that isn't usually used in production.


To cut a flat inlay and drop it in a pocket a NC inlay which is what short points are, can't come to a point. While a point doesn't absolutely guarantee it wasn't NC work, a rounded end almost guarantees it was. We could talk about pantegraphs now but I won't! Can never say never in the machine world, only most likely!

Hu