Recent content by TheClyde

Welcome from Winnipeg

nice. welcome!

yeah, so anyways, I talked to the metrology department, and I told myself I was using a less precise indicator than the runout. Then I talked to the comptroller and convinced myself to buy a better indicator. Off to the purchasing dpartment where I told myself to aquire a 0.0005" indicator...

Welcome from Winnipeg

Made my first chips. A couple passes on a small aluminum rod. Sweet fun and such a shny finish Then I did an actual job... turning down the mount for one of my indicators that did not fit in my holder. Success. Yay. My turned down section is as smooth as the factory section so I am happy...

yeah. I will probably use my mitre saw when I cut mine. I have that option, tring to get the bandsaw back together (bought it used, blew a tire the second time I used it. replaced the tire but have not gotten the blade set up again yet), or manually with a hacksaw.

I was way worried about cutting my scales down when I watched the first video... they took an hour with a dremel cutting away a gap to score the glass then pack everything with foam before they tried to break the glass. This turned out to be the worst case. The best case was bubba who held the...

Hardware wise: I did upgrade my z-axis for some more clearance & get the more powerful spindle, install stop sensors and hook up a shop vac and endoscope camera. I think I almost got over the curve of using Freecad. Controlled it with UGS running on a chromebook. Cut my endstop holders, but...

I think my next project is going to be finding a place to get stock material at a reasonable price. I am sure there has to be a metal sales shop in this city.

I am a mechanically inept software engineer type person who is trying to get dirty hands doing 'real' work. Played around with a CNC3018 a few years back but found I got pulled too much into the software/cad side of things and not actual work. So I decided to try and generate some manual...