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  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Calgary Area Meetup is set for Saturday July 12th at 10am. The signup thread is 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!

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  1. Arbutus

    Which Linux? Be Kind…

    As an ancient U*X user, developer and contributor, I have forgotten far more than I know now. On a recent upgrade from Linux Mint to UBUNTU 20.04, (a four release upgrade) many of the dependent libraries were unresolved. Now this can be a nightmare especially when there are third party apps that...
  2. Arbutus

    Which Linux? Be Kind…

    And it is FREEEEEEEEEEEE !
  3. Arbutus

    Which Linux? Be Kind…

    If you like reading..... https://distrowatch.com/ is the main resource for Linux updates. Top left corner allows searching for a specific distro where you can read a brief description of what is included. Your I5 system will not have any issues running any mainstream version. Things to look...
  4. Arbutus

    Which Linux? Be Kind…

    My go-to for the last 15 years is the UBUNTU distro. I have it currently running on oDroid XU4, rPi (A and B), Dell Poweredge 810 (4xXeon 2.8GHz, 128Gb, 60Tb, 4xGigabit, etc), so it is very scaleable and versatile. There are simple management tools and there are several pretty desktop UIs if...
  5. Arbutus

    Tips/Techniques Printed worm drive rotary table

    In this job, I used a glass reinforced nylon, but it is quite rough and abrasive. The pure Nylon10 seemed to work much better for the worm wheel. There's also Kevlar reinforced ABS in my stash so that is another filament to play with. The Nylon-GF is $75 CAD for 1kg - so three times the cost...
  6. Arbutus

    Tips/Techniques Printed worm drive rotary table

    I do both. There are some very good gear generator add-ins for Fusion which can generate tooth profiles correctly, or sometimes I will design from scratch - for example creating a cycloidal drive epitrochoid tooth profile. McMaster-Carr, KHK Metric, SPI and many other retailers have good...
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    Tips/Techniques Printed worm drive rotary table

    Could be. In previous tests one of the concerns I had was oil creeping between laminations over time. Exposure to oil and stress is not a good environment for most 3DP parts. That doesnt seem to happen with vaseline. I'll try other greases on the next round of tests. The Nylon10 and PA-GF i'm...
  8. Arbutus

    Tips/Techniques Printed worm drive rotary table

    And after another long run, there is some noticeable wear and the gearing now spins more freely. The input shaft backlash is now about 2 degrees, whereas before it was friction locked. The output shaft backlash (back driven free play) is extremely small and probably better than my mill's RT...
  9. Arbutus

    Tips/Techniques Printed worm drive rotary table

    M3 embedded inserts from the back side. They are 5.4mm OD and melt perfectly into a 5.2mm hole.
  10. Arbutus

    Tips/Techniques Printed worm drive rotary table

    The job was to build a modular rotary mount as part of a synchronized camera positioning system. This stage is a horizontal base mount for large (2Kg +) cameras costing more than my car, so it has to be sturdy and do the job reliably. Previous iterations were made from CNC milled 6061with...
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