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  1. jcdammeyer

    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    You folks are awful. Here I'm trying to reduce the number of projects and along comes this thread on shapers which was #3 on the list after foundry and lathe. https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_Metal_Shaper/L3D_AwAAQBAJ And tonight I pulled out my book and started looking through it...
  2. jcdammeyer

    coquitlam BC newbie

    Same here.
  3. jcdammeyer

    JCDammeyer's 42 projects

    Whew! Finally. Turns out 1mm is a nice size for a 1/4W resistor lead which just happens to be around 0.44mm which matches the commercial header thin pin. I was just going to use two of those to plug into the socket and then use a 40 pin WW socket lowered down to grab the top pins. Trouble is...
  4. jcdammeyer

    JCDammeyer's 42 projects

    I'm on the forth print now. Holes have been enlarged to 1mm and the width also enlarged to allow more latitude in slicing. The last one with 0.8mm holes was still to tight for the wire but once I used a small PCB drill to clean it out it was fine. Then I broke the PCB drill in the second...
  5. jcdammeyer

    Casting supplies for sale in Victoria.

    My friend Jens is selling some of his stuff. #16 silicon carbide crucible, never used, comes with lifting tongues (home made) $200 7 - ZA12 ingots, bought from foundry supply house, nominal 10 lb each, $20 for each ingot or $125 for the lot. Note: the small ingot is 10 lbs, the larger...
  6. jcdammeyer

    JCDammeyer's 42 projects

    So there's nothing COTS that let's me easily extend the socket pins from the original board to the new one. I used a machined high quality socket for the base ELS with the idea that maybe some time in the future I could insert these special rows of machined pins into the socket and into the...
  7. jcdammeyer

    EZ-CAM

    I'm still using V25. Works best with AlibreCAM. The problem is once I save with say V27 or V28 it's no longer readable by V25 and they refuse to add a Save As Version feature. So I have V28 so I can read your AlibreATOM files.
  8. jcdammeyer

    EZ-CAM

    This is what it looks like in MecSoft. Not as nice as Alibre with funny movement ICONs.
  9. jcdammeyer

    EZ-CAM

    Totally agree. Here's V28 which surprisingly still works with the AlibreCAM setup information. However when I tried a different part I got a crash message that there was some sort of unresolved issue. BTW. You can download and play with it. The trial version I think even lets you save the...
  10. jcdammeyer

    EZ-CAM

    Looks to be a similar process to MecSoft AlibreCAM (VisualCAM) other than it doesn't have the same look and feel as AlibreCAD. More like they were given the file format of AlibreCAD and imported that so they could identify the information of the part.
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