The initial batch of the bottle opener has been completed and mailed out. After numerous revisions, only 12 pieces of blanks were left for the final revision. Therefore, out of 100 blanks only 12 acceptable bottle openers were produced.

There first couple revisions had too shallow of a mouth opening that caused the bottle opener to peel the edges ofthe bottle cap. Subsequent revisions were made to lengthen as well as deepen the mouth opening to give better mechanical leverage. Electrochemical etching was inconsistent and was replaced with direct laser marking.

The shallow mouth opening has too steep of an angle and tends to peal the cap back. The mouth opening was elongated to give better leverage to lift the cap.

During the initial prodcution machining, the machining speed and feed parameters used during prototyping was slowly increased. Gradually, the machine time per bottle opener was reduced from18 minutes to 15 minutes. The vibratory deburing took another 4 hours and tumble burnishing takes around 2 hours. The logo engraving process takes another 5 minutes.

The mouth lip was modified for better clearance and the center cavity was removed to help speed up the machining process and the logo were modified to reflect the coarser resolution of electrochemical etching. The height was also reduce to better fit the raw stock height.

An electrochemical etcher was used to explore using etching the Tux-Lab logo on to the Stainless Steel bottle opener.

Tumbling with the ceramic media on the left will deburr and slightly round the sharp edges. Burnishing with the porcelain media on the right will brighten the surface dulled by the deburring process.

Before the g-code can be written, the transition points for the machining tool path needs to be determined. In g-code, the tool path is represented by a series of linear and circular moves. Each transition point, ie where straight line meets a curve or where curves of different radius meets, needs to be specified in terms of its X-axis and Y-axis coordinate.