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I'm looking to buy my first tormach PCNC 1100 for hobby use and this looks like exactly what i've been after. I have tons of linux experience so that isn't an issue, but i'm not sure how I get the...

Hello everyone, i wasn't sure where to post this i hope this is the correct place. Long story short i have a cisco router that needs to be mounted in a rack, cisco is unable to locate the brackets...

Thank you all for the advice. I think for now i will keep a look out for any deals on the kurt D675 series, however i dont want to spend more than $400 shipped sense a vise is more of a luxury item...

I was wondering if anyone could give me an opinion on what something like this vise would be worth....

Thanks for the help. From what i gather i'm probably best off trying to find a used american made kurt vice then?

I have a rather large benchtop mill that really needs an enclosure but right now I'm stuck trying to figure out how to design the bottom part of the enclosure, and I think that my lack of experience...

Hello everyone, i have a 2hp benchtop mill and i'm tired of just clamping everything down to the table. I am looking for a 6" vise or smaller but have no idea who is a good manufacturer, and what i...

I anxiously await your review of the scanner, and thanks a lot for pointing out the david-laserscanner, at least there is information available for it.

I recently stumbled upon the intricad triangle 3d scanner, website here: http://www.intricad.com/ while looking into the nextengine 3d scanner. I am just a hobbyist with a 3 axis mill and dropping...

Thanks Shepard. Do you know if there is a way to have it go to somewhere besides machine 0, because i normally have Z zero set to the material top and use an offset.

Hello everyone, i am just learning mastercam X2 running a 3 axis mill controlled with mach3. I have searched the forums for some time trying to figure out how to set a parameter to allow for a manual...

Thats exactly what i setup today with help from everyone in the original thread, works great for $10 in materials! The camera definitely intrigues me though, i'll try to get that working next.

You guys are great, i hooked it up to the Auxhome input per your suggestion and the lite works as it should now. Thank you again!

Thanks everyone for the help. I ran an extra wire to the ground on the BOB with an alligator clip as you suggested and that seems to have done the trick. However, i am running it off the Auxlim input...

Hi everyone, i am in the process of trying to build one of these, my BOB is a sound logic PC-2-Route Model M2 rev. 1.7 my problem is there are no 5v lines on this board that i can use from what i can...

Thank you so much everyone for the help. tikka308, can i ask which height gauge you have? Searching mcmaster and ebay for height gauge returns very expensive units which look totally different than...

Hi everyone, i know this is incredibly stupid but i have a small 3 axis cnc benchtop mill which uses R8 collets. How am i supposed to properly set the bit height in the collet so that it is accurate...

Thanks a lot rickyt.

Just regular pockets with any of the cutting methods included with mastercamx, ie zigzag, spiral, constant overlap spiral etc. with just one of the generic 3axis vmc mills mastercam comes with.
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I'm pretty new to mastecam and unsuprisingly I've run into a problem making some pockets. It seems that no matter what I do, change end mill size, change path type, change overlap percentage etc it...

thanks for the reply dertsap. I am fairly confident i know how to make the cad drawings, i just wasnt sure what tooling, feedrate, depth of cut, etc. would be needed for such small work. I have no...

Hello everyone, i am new to cnc and i purchased a small 3 axis cnc mill. I only know what little i have learned from reading this forum, the mach2 manual, and google. My question is i would like to...

not to hijack this thread but i am also looking for a mentor or just someone to ask a few questions every once in a while in the area as well. I have a small 3 axis cnc machine i purchased and have...

Thanks for the additional tips guys. Regarding the vibrating method, what kind of material would i put into the vibrator and what kind of vibrator would be needed?
Would something like this work:...

I just got done sandblasting for about 30 mins with 80 glass bead and it looks much better. I will have to try the red devil lye on my gas pedal. Thanks for all the help everyone!
*edit* just wanted...

Thanks for the reply's. I went to harbor freight today and they had a whole sandblasting enclosure with gun on sale for $80 so i picked it up and am going to give it a shot on some scrap aluminum i...

Thank you all for the help i really appreciate it. I think i will run to harbor freight later and pickup a small sandblaster and give it a shot on a sample piece of metal later today. Also, the...

Thanks for the reply harvard. Considering i dont have access to sandplasting equipment i suppose i could comprimise with a finish like this:...

Hello everyone, i have been searching the forum and google for information on how to polish aluminum and thus far all i have found is ways to polish it to a mirror finish. The information i am...

Thank you for the replies i really appreciate it! I should have included pictures of about what i am trying to do. Here is a picture of the cups i was referring...