wooden toy car Unimog with box (CNC)

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Inspired from the nice Zenzi-Werken Unimog I've used the files at 2017 to create dxf for use with 18mm beech wood, beech wood wheel axle and Lego tires. The goal was to create a robust wooden toy for a very little boy with no sharp edges and as less as possible breakable parts but with softer tires. The only additional parts were the 4 tires (Lego type, found at ebay) and 4 plastic washers between wheel and chassis. I'd used candle wax for lubricating the axles - that was enough to let the car running... The container box is separately made from beech plywood (think 6.8mm), glued as complete closed box with carved symbols and a little stone inside to clatter when playing with... To produce G-Code I've used EstlCam. Some work is neccessary to reproduce the car from the dxf... The milling deep you can see only at EstlCam files or gcode - I had to use my brain to make it's working - but nothing is perfect (the inner driver cabin wasn't optimized, the wooden inner wheels were milled without support). If you try to use gcode pls check your zero points and material... After 1 year usage ... it's already ok and in use. I only had to reglue the tires and now I've glued the axles with the wheels and the wheel rim with the tires (formerly only press fit) - that's in cause of heavily usage .-) I suggest to redesign the weel rim for better fitting and holding the tires - at the best as two glue'd parts like a real rim to fit at the shape of the tires.