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Why do you need to rapid at 1000 ipm? Bragging rights?

This thread is so epic... I tried digging through it to see if there was an answer in it but didn't find anything.

I'm in process of doing a Spindle Bearing + treadmill motor + timing belt drive +...

I Like it much... I too find all the faux buttons and colors every where to be a bit cheap and hokey... please further develop this...

My ex Father inlaw was a Job Corp counseler. Typically Job Corps students are troubled teens, often criminal teens, many are there because it was the alternative to jail. Construction trades,...

Ok it's 3 days past the 16th... so ummm.... Who won? :D

ummmm.... Who won?

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One of these days you're gonna have to build a few machines to assit you in building more machines...

You know a simple fence clamped to your drill press table will do the alignment thing brilliantly too.... Add a couple of stop blocks to your fence and you can get perfect spacing every time too...

Can you not get a chinese person to verbaly translate the manual for you? to get you going?

Never have I seen such good advice from anyone else on this forum...

Mariss you just became my friggin' hero.

For 1), I could not afford a commercial router, so I built one, two, then the...

Work a deal with the 80/20 Garage Sale guys to offer an easy way to buy the 3 needed extrusions. ;)

How about actually cutting some of these designs out on a router and figuring up cost of materials and time to arrive at your price you have to sell them at. You'll never make a penny from them...

Mach3 and Gecko setup is actually an open loop system. there is no encoder feedback to Mach 3. The loop is only closed at the Gecko... the drive turns the motor and recives feed back from the encoder...

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There's a good one in the ShopNotes Issue #88 as well.

Frank, the easiest way would be to cast them in a two part slicone mold using the casting material of your choice.

At the low cost that you can buy this type of knob, they are CHEAP and there are...

Your X and Y are reversed. You want to look at the cutter's movement in relation to the table.

I love Sprecher... I've been wearing one of their t-Shirts for about 6 years now... Sadly it's turning into my "Golden Boy" (Seinfeld reference) and is gonna hold up much longer. :D

It's an...

Ken Fisher used regular old Hammond chassis in his amps... 1/8" is really thick The hammond stuff I think uses .053" thick. My favorite chassis guage in aluminum is .08" thick... strong enough for...

Again. Much faster on the tablesaw. Ken Fisher built his cabinets with a table saw and a router (or router table).

Not a thing on that cabinet is really suitable for CNC to save any time or...

It doesn't really matter a whole lot when your leadscrews are imperial and your parts are metric. We make metric parts in the states on imperial machines all the time... A 1/2 Dia screw with a 10...

Back the F*** up... HAILINHAAS was attacking this thread "WHICH WAS DISCUSSING GENE HAAS' LEGAL PROCEEDINGS". Which in this reader's mind was directly correlating Gene Haas with Haas Automation.
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Why not just use their service?

You know... I agree. The default Mach screens and the ones that people have created for it. All are cheezy as they can be with their gradient buttons and wood backgrounds.

It would be nice for...

Evidently they are doing something wrong too. Quit defending a morally compromised sh*t head. Enron was a great company too until they practiced to deceive.

According to the FAQ on the Patentplaques.com site they don't need you to supply any artwork. They get the information from the Patent office.

http://www.patentplaques.com/store/faq.asp

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ummm... remake the part in Alibre??? Perhaps? Not a hard part to make... You made it once...

If you do anything... Use supported rails of some kind. You'll regret using unsupported rails as soon as you make your first cut. Joe's or Lionclaw's Machines are really good and about as good as you...

That's Easy to do took me les than 5 min in Adobe Illustrator to trace by hand, Rhino would have been even easier for me to do it accurately... use this as an excercise in using Rhino. I'd post the...