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  1. PaulL

    Weiss VM32 CNC Conversion

    The main challenge was standing the carriage up solidly: Fortunately I had a 2-3-4 angle plate nice and square, and a second 2-3-4ish block I'd just finished squaring. Between the two we were able to sandwich the carriage between them and anchor it. We just had one poor moment in which the...
  2. PaulL

    Standard Modern 11" Utilathe Dro?

    I'm an idjit. One pivot, treat it like a sine bar. I'm going to try to build this tomorrow.
  3. PaulL

    Standard Modern 11" Utilathe Dro?

    Yes, I played with some of these and the precision is just too low to align for an morse taper, for example. I've been thinking of trying something with differential readings at either end of the slide with some built-in trig, at the cost of more encoder bulk.
  4. PaulL

    Standard Modern 11" Utilathe Dro?

    I have the CX701 by Busybee. I currently have two out of four (five? Bear with me...) axes done: my carriage (Z) and cross-slide (X). I have an encoder on the spindle that drives my electronic gearing. I want to pull that signal back to the DRO as well so I can use it to set the spindle...
  5. PaulL

    Tool Powered compound attachment

    Not only do I get to work my Italian, I get to extrapolate about how to use some wireless protocol to manage the spindle speed from my lathe controller. That's a nifty wee project.
  6. PaulL

    Finally Here

    Welcome from the wet coast! Another Victorian here.
  7. PaulL

    Label maker - do you have a recommendation?

    Heat gun in the field, hot air soldering rig at my bench.
  8. PaulL

    Label maker - do you have a recommendation?

    I have the un-upgraded one. Is the "upgrade" worthwhile?
  9. PaulL

    Label maker - do you have a recommendation?

    A buddy has one of these: https://www.bradycanada.ca/label-printers/portable/m210-handheld-label-maker-pid-152260 For some reason he doesn't often let it out of his sight.
  10. PaulL

    Label maker - do you have a recommendation?

    You buy it on a spool, like tape, but after printing you get to pop it open and heat shrink it onto wires. All fancy-like.
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