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  1. whydontu

    Shop Shop Lights - Excessive Edition

    Lord, aim all 8 of them through a fresnel lens and you could probably use them to weld aluminum.
  2. whydontu

    Looking for ideas to combine 2 probe inputs to one on Tormach

    Try throwing a 50k ~ 100k resistor between collector and base. This should trigger the transistor whenever the probe is disconnected, but probably not be enough bias to offset the probe output when the probe output is triggered and goes to ground.
  3. whydontu

    Looking for ideas to combine 2 probe inputs to one on Tormach

    Fairly simple solution. The probe output is <Hi> until it’s triggered. Feed the probe output to the base of a medium power NPN transistor, TIP31 or similar. As long as the out put is Hi, the transistor is conducting. Run the tool setter in series with the transistor collector, emitter to ground...
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    Looking for ideas to combine 2 probe inputs to one on Tormach

    Active sensor has three wires? If so, simple mod to add a relay to output the appropriate signal to be the same as your existing NC tool setter, then wire the relay output and tool setter in series. What’s the part number of the active sensor? What is your supply voltage? Get me that and I can...
  5. whydontu

    JCDammeyer's 42 projects

    Ten minutes of digging in the fastener buckets. M6x60 socket head cap screw, M6 wing nut, and replaced the movable jaw tightening fastener with a hex head cap screw.
  6. whydontu

    Introduction for Dave Hylands from Peachland, BC

    Welcome from Vancouver!
  7. whydontu

    New to all this

    Welcome from Vancouver! Just finished my most recent mod to my Dahlgren Series 300 engraver, now running a hybrid Estlcam CNC controller & software with a slightly hacked pneumatic spindle actuator. Also have an original New Hermes manual engraver, a 3018 cnc, and a Squink pick&place SMT...
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    eBay & U.S. IRS Update

    Off on a tangent - I understand that when I sell something on eBay, I should be claiming that as income. However, what about reality - I bought a Busy Bee CT129 mill in 2010 for $1500, over the next 15 years I spent thousands of dollars on tooling, then sold it on Marketplace for $1000...
  9. whydontu

    New member from Summerville

    Welcome from Vancouver! Steveston to be precise.
  10. whydontu

    Bench Shear $25 North Saanich BC

    Not a pipe cutter, but a steal at $25 https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1131293251960794/?
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