• Scam Alert. Members are reminded to NOT send money to buy anything. Don't buy things remote and have it shipped - go get it yourself, pay in person, and take your equipment with you. Scammers have burned people on this forum. Urgency, secrecy, excuses, selling for friend, newish members, FUD, are RED FLAGS. A video conference call is not adequate assurance. Face to face interactions are required. Please report suspicions to the forum admins. Stay Safe - anyone can get scammed.
  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

Search results

  1. Cryoine

    Shop Is your shop messy or spotless?

    both my lab and my shop are organized chaos, I know where everything is in this chaos and should it be cleaned I wont be able to find anything lol
  2. Cryoine

    RPi4 as a CNC controller.

    oh this seems like something that i can dive into, ill check it out but my brother floated the idea of just using a chrome book
  3. Cryoine

    busy bee 12 /37 lathe

    not sure if this will help you in the right direction https://www.busybeetools.com/content/product_manuals/CT041.pdf
  4. Cryoine

    POS is Alive! It's Alive!

    the ESP32 based controllers are a dream to work with but any 32bit controller will work wonders, with the feature sets they pack into them these days also 3D printers work best when coupled to a furnace lol. The 3D printer makes the molds and the furnace makes the metal all gooey for those...
  5. Cryoine

    RPi4 as a CNC controller.

    from what I can tell they should be similar in performance, its just that its more manual to setup. You will have to get the real time kernel installed then install Linux cnc on it where as with the pi4 you just get the image that already has everything setup. my current CNC machine used for...
  6. Cryoine

    RPi4 as a CNC controller.

    I'll be here as well since I too am looking into this, I have a PI3 and looking into setting up a EtherCAT system for my new machine(that i will be building) running linuxCNC
  7. Cryoine

    SM belt changes

    https://canadianhobbymetalworkers.com/threads/admirable-nelson-standard-modern-utilathe-10-ld.5780/ from the post that i have about it i think the top pulley needs to be reversed, you had it correct before then reverse the motor pulley, though in the grand sheme of things i don't think it...
  8. Cryoine

    Compressor

    that's what this is though
  9. Cryoine

    Compressor

    @Susquatch yup, the oil burning nozzle that I have uses compressed air at about 40-60 psig, originally i wanted to use a blower but big enough blowers are far more expensive here since i live on an island, compressors are far more abundant essentially this
  10. Cryoine

    Compressor

    well truth be told if it works the only part I would probably keep is the pump, if I do end up keeping the tank(assuming its sound) then yes its actually going to live in a small room for itself.
Back
Top