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A month or so ago, I posted an RFQ for some bar clamps that I needed pretty quickly (7 days I think). I needed a quantity of 4.

Joe Sampson from Tuson Enterprises won the bidding. The parts were...

The job has been awarded. I've been asked to share the winning numbers. The quote I went with was for less than $30 a piece for the first 4. This encluded polishing which was a plus. And actually...

Thanks to all that sent quotes. Bidding is closed. I will contact the winner shortly.

Thanks to everyone that has quoted so far. Bidding for this job will end tonight at 7pm. I will contact the winner shortly after.

There has been a question about the material thickness. I allowed extra minus tolerance for the use of 1/2" material. All surfaces must be machined.

Dualkit, the file format is .igs which was output with MasterCAM. However, it is compressed to a .zip file. You will need an program to extract the .igs (winzip or winrar are popular).

Matl. 6061 aluminum perferred. Other aluminum alloys will be considered.
Critical dimensions - 49mm(1.93") bar size. Needs to be +.005/-.000.
Thickness of .500 +.01/-.02 so that 1/2" thick...

Would you believe me if I said 'yes'?(wedge)

I think it's been a while since I"ve been logged in. ;) To those that actually remember me - what's up. My guess would be that 1 person remembers me.

Mike, 'project' may not be in the menu but it is a command. Just type project into the command line area then it should promt you through the rest.

Mike,
I have never had much luck with fonts in Rhino. Some work, and some don't. If you zoom in real small on the lines created, are they smooth and all connected? The problem I have seen is that...

Mike you've got mail.

timlkallam, almost everything that I have read online (reviews) of emachineshop says that the prices are usually high compared to standard shops. If all the reviews I"ve read are wrong, then I...

Mike, didn't recieve anything.

:idea: haha you silly man

Mainly because part of the money I will get for selling the items on this forum (here is a link, by the way I lowered the price today;) )is going to pay for this. So I'd like to keep the money here....

Would the tooling costs alone for casting be pretty high? I downloaded emachineshop again and rechecked the price (couldn't remember what the quote was the first time), and it's not that bad. Very...

Sorry to bring this back up, but after a year I"m going to go ahead and go forward with this.

As soon as I get some stuff sold (here in the classifieds - 3 axis servo/ gecko setup) I will be...

I've finally got my company convinced that they need to change CAM systems. They've made initial contact with, um..., i'm not sure who. But they will be scheduling a demo soon.

Anything that I...

Kind of an old post but thought I may be able to help. I program an 8055 at work (all manually at the machine).

First, this is how I set up my Z axis corridinate. Activate G53 (machine...

Are you looking for someone to do this on site? Where are you located? I really don't feel like moving too far. ;)

Well, it seems the lady that contacted me was just a 'recruiter' that works for the company. She set up an interview with one of the managers. The position is a Regional Service Engineer (hehe...

This sounds great! I have no idea what position they have in mind for me. The called me on my cell while I was at work. I just made arrangments to speak to them on Monday.

I'll definately be...

Anyone ever heard of Makino ? Got a call from them the yesterday about a job. I'm sure it would mean that I would have to relocate. Just want to get others opinions on the company before I talk to...

Alot of questions here, so I"ll do my best.




M06 is the code for a tool change. It tells the controller/machine to change tools. I'm guessing, but I would say that the P1 would be the tool...

I guess I should say try to answer any questions. :D

I'm not even close to Chicago, but I'd be more than happy to answer any questions you have.

That would be done with the surface - project toolpath.

That's actually the problem I've seen most when people are having problems. Easy thing to watch for, as long as you know to watch for it.

I think your main problem is that the profile curves are not closed. Meaning they actually have a start and an end point that are not the same. To see this, select one of the curves, and type the...