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Possibly I was mixing you up with a user whom i felt had made inappropriate comments in the past?

Take care,

djn

I would ask that you curb the Syil bashing asap. Just stay away from the Syil section of the forums if you don't appreciate the efforts that Syil makes to bring us customers the product. Your...

I hear what your saying. I just thought it would be fun to make a custom wrench that I use all the time. Like I always have a 12mm in my hand 8 hours of the day. Never applying much force on the...

Any chance of finding a humble priced CNC waterjet? Could be fairly basic, no fancy features needed. Brand new, not used.

thx.

Anyone machined up a set of open end wrenches before as a project ? Details/pics if so? Was thinking of making a decent sized set for a winter project.

cheers,

jer

You are one hell of a guy. I really look forward to reading your future posts, especially if they are anything like the one below. Keep up the good work.

Could one of the mod's please do me a...

I have seen what's said to be the 'production' machine and I can't wait to get my hands on one of them! It truly looks to be the mill of all mills... :) I've been sworn to secrecy but I hope they get...

Looks like Smithy dropped another model from their CNC lineup . Possibly moving towards the release of something new? Down to two models only now.

hmm..

djn

Which part are you referring to here?

This part here that MSRP is 144$?
http://www.ghhobby.com/proddetail.php?prod=2649

djn

Definitely not considering doing this myself, the R/C aftermarket industry is already way flooded with new small guys popping up monthly. I was more curious at how the parts were created and what...

It's gone from their website, I guess they dropped this model? I'm guessing it was somewhat unpopular considering the 1240 cost difference was nil for people willing to spend in this dollar range.
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No worries on the added question Fuzzy, It was great to see the explanation to your question.

Wow, look what my little thread turned in to. Thanks to most all who replied.


Here is a...

Hey Falconman,

How are things going with the mill now?

Hey, I'm curious, do you know if Novakon gets their mill's from Smithy or do they get them directly from the manufacturer in China?
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I'm wondering what types of machines/setups manufactures would be using to make the small aluminum parts such as the ones used for R/C cars. As you see in the link below, the part is very small yet...

I would say probably 64bit hardware. 64bit os's are still generally seen in business and not so much on home desktops. The home user who orders a high end Dell precision workstation might end up...

Anyone locally willing to spend some time helping a fellow hobbyist, entry-level machinist with some basic CNC practices, or just general project work, shop talk, this , that etc.. :)

I have a...

Trying to get an idea from people who may have owned or operated or even experienced a Smithy 622 as to what it's performance could be compared to in relation to other available mills on the market....

I think a dedicated b1tch forum for UK Syil customers would be a mighty popular place.

Not speaking for ALL UK customers, or even any for that matter. :o

djn

I decline to comment. . . .

I know in the case of my X4+, Syil Canada went over the machine and fine tuned everything before shipping it to me. From what I've been told, this can be a very...

Yes they will have an online store, opening in the next 2 weeks . You can contact me for the URL if you wish.

djn

A new dealer will be carrying the Weiss line of products here in Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada very soon, It's 10 minutes outside Edmonton.

Contact me if you are interested.

djn

I am quite saddened by the thread authors last post. I wish not to be involved with this conversation aside from saying I am the proud owner of a X4+ that has been nothing short of outstanding.

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One thing is for certain, someone is pretty comfortable with using the copy/paste function. Enough said.

Honestly, I would love to but have been asked not to. You could request syil to post some pictures and see what happens?

djn

I was looking at the Haas toolroom mills for a home shop. It's more of a farm shop. I was originally looking at the tormach's but im thinking the haas TM-1/2/3 machines would suit me better.

Now,...

Which aspect of the IT industy do you work in? I'm a internetworking consultant here in Edmonton working for a large firm.

Do you own any mills currently?

djn

I've had a 4 for a month. Not available in your area?

djn

Are you saying you want to stick with a manual mill for now and do machining work manually only for time being? Converting to CNC later down the road possibly?

Just trying to clear up what you...

I managed to get a number of pictures showing the X7 in production and let me be the first one to say get excited, very excited..

:)

djn

Im finding out bobcad ISNT the only cad/cam software company out there with the brutal sales tactics. Two other extremely popular packages have called me 15 time between the 2 of them today. WTF?
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