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one thing I found when ordering from china, is that if you send them to a stateside location, you can have them extremely quickly. I used to work for a company that had a office in Paducah,KY. I was using it to send parts to that I couldn't have sent to Canada, and then having that office...

So I was boring out a 3in diameter hole in 2in aluminum. Somewhere close to 3inches, I started hearing motor noises, so I shutdown the mill. When I touched the motor it was hot.. Left it to cool down for the night and when I came out the next day started looking at what the problem was. The...

STC in Saskatchewan had there auction today and I was online listening to it. Lux-cut 11x36 lathe sold for 2500. and as pointed out, you would need to use a rigger in order to remove it from the building. There was some tooling, but not much. I had done some research on this lathe and no way was...

I can see my CNC router being put to use on making one or two of these. Now just to load up Vectric Aspire and convert those PDF's to dxf format and fire up Mach3

Thanks. I want my 24 hours back now.. been watching alot of videos for some reason.

hopefully I don't get banned.. http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/showthread.php?t=24118 http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/showthread.php?t=25091 two threads both by the same person. one got too long, so he created a new one. v10 is the latest software version from spring 2016

my choice right now is to wait for the UNO I ordered or use one of the 16mhz pro's or possibly the 20mhz 32bit TAU I have kicking around.. for now I'll try a pro and see what it can do. My mill already has a X axis stepper attached and I have 3 DM542 drivers. You can never have too much fun in...

I figured that was going to happen, but that's ok. While looking about this site, I found another site which I checked out last nite. Someone there from Australia had created a arduino program for controlling a indexer. one of the least used as in not at all functions is to control a linear...

New member, just found this forum. I'm not a great machinist, since I am very new to this. I currently have a bandsaw and a KC20-VS milling machine from King to work with metal. Wood on the other hand, I have a full shop including a 4x8 CNC router I put together with parts from...