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JCDammeyer's 42 projects

Meanwhile, the email from Seawings Express this morning took me to the airport. Grabbed the paperwork and walked to customs inside the airport. Rubber stamp, no money needed, back to Seawings to pay the $20Cdn shipping.

Total cost savings about $30US as Little Machine Shop used snail mail to ship to Blaine Washington for $12.73US.
The one on the left is 6mm and now permanently holds the 90 degree chamfering carbide cutter. In the middle the JT holder and a 3/8" drill chuck. All I had in Tormach was the 1/4" chuck which is too small for 7mmm and 8mm drill bits which I need for the robot arm etc.
The one on the right is the original Tormach holder without the Tool Changer slot and the bevel on the end. I really was at the front of the line when I first invested in Tormach tooling.

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jcdammeyer said:
Meanwhile, the email from Seawings Express this morning took me to the airport. Grabbed the paperwork and walked to customs inside the airport. Rubber stamp, no money needed, back to Seawings to pay the $20Cdn shipping.

Total cost savings about $30US as Little Machine Shop used snail mail to ship to Blaine Washington for $12.73US.
The one on the left is 6mm and now permanently holds the 90 degree chamfering carbide cutter. In the middle the JT holder and a 3/8" drill chuck. All I had in Tormach was the 1/4" chuck which is too small for 7mmm and 8mm drill bits which I need for the robot arm etc.
The one on the right is the original Tormach holder without the Tool Changer slot and the bevel on the end. I really was at the front of the line when I first invested in Tormach tooling.

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I really like them. And I'll like them even more when I get my power drawbar project (#42) finished. Mind you now that I have the tool setter on the table it's not such a big deal for repeatable insertions of different tool holders. But that movement over to the tool setter and then waiting for it to measure the tool is also tedious. Nice to have the common tools all measured and just use that length.
 
Printed off the 3 main base parts and then the 4 levelling feet. Tomorrow morning I'll start the big wing assembly. Still need to order a few electronic parts. The PC board is coming from Poland via snail mail so that will be a few weeks. Same with the stuff from AliExpress.
 

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Added another project to the list.
I've ordered his PC board. Got the Fusion360 files for the design and a friend will change them to STEP files for me.
Ordered the strain gauges and spirit level from AliExpress.
I think I'm crazy...
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There! Done. Waiting for PC boards, parts and need to source a 10mm OD aluminum tube 150mm long.

Initial indications are that it's quite expensive. It's used to stiffen the wing assembly. Might be cheaper to buy some aluminum rod, turn it down to 10mm and just drill an 8mm hole in one end. Only needs to be about 30mm deep.

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On the LinuxCNC group Andy Pugh posted a youtube video on using a probe to determine the shape of a part. He included the G-Code. I was certain that I'd posted a link to that but maybe not.

Anyway. I didn't break my probe this time. I converted hsi G-code to imperial units. It managed to do 3 sides and then hung up in the bottom RH corner. A screwdriver placed in the way at the right point and on it went the rest of the way around.

After that it continued the rest of the way around. The resulting file inserted into Alibre (Fusion360 can do this too) and then a bit of cleanup and bingo the part is moved so the X=Y=0 origin is on the bottom left hand corner.

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Here's the rendered part.

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The CSV file (as a .txt) with X,Y test points is attached in case someone wants to play with their favourite CAD program.
 

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