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I think/hope you're joking at least a bit here. I thought you said "lapel buttons", not "nuclear reactor". Maybe I read that wrong though. You would have to limit the sizes of the signs that you...

Well I think I would agree! Pretty trippy in any case!:)

Thought everybody might get a kick out of this. I have found that it works in French, and Spanish as well, which I still couldn't translate for you, but understan if read the same (does that make...

Joe...you speak French? Or did you use a Babelfish? Its kind of funny, I took French in high school, and then forgot most of it, but if I read it like I do English, without actually trying to read...

Stiffness doesn't always require mass. Some of the best race car chassis in the world use a birdcage style space frame. Some of them are even built out of 3/4" 1/16" wall square tubing, but because...

what is the size of the gantry? You could easily shave 1/3 to 1/2 the weight just by using .125 tubing. More strength? Go with 1" .125. The amount of triangulations you have illustrated is...

Many people do charge way too much on shipping, but much of the time, the honest people just break even after their time is computed, if they even break even (I have taken a bath, when I thought my...

I don't know about the physics or math relating to it, but my mother always told me that if you want something badly enough, and never give up, you will get it. I have built a few machines. One of...

I have been tossing the though of some kind of cover for the ways, and haven't thought of too much. Any ideas for really low cost stuff? Bout my only ideas are trying to find some kind of bellows...

Here are those photos. The first one is the whole thing. Notice the scrap aluminum base. This is a nice cast piece, that came from my friends dismanteling. At one point I had 16 of these, but had...

Yes that is why I made the Z to mount the stepper there. I am very good at seeing small differences in size or movement (or at least I was in the machine and fab shop), and I can't see much flex. A...

any questions or replies? :violin:

The x axis rails are mounted in a vertical fashion to the side of the aluminum casting that I used for the table. The y is a 90 deg mounting, with one rail on its side, and one on the flat on top of...

I put together a little table about a year ago using scrap aluminum, and 24" full extension slides. I modified the slides so that their are only two pieces (keeps the part with all the little ball...

use a new blade though...and long strokes. Don't forget too, that the backstroke is just to return the saw to the beginning, and not for cutting...saves energy that way

But does it really need to be an echo can?

Yeah...no joke. Thanks for the condolences, and if it does ever happen to anybody else, I wish you good luck, and my PM door is always open.

All right Matt...that was messed up dude! My wife did have an affair last summer, and here I thought I could help you out and all. BTW, we figured things out, patched things up, beat the snot out...

Its pretty awsome how much these machines help to build eachother, isn't it? How did you cut the hex shaped holes? Very small bit?

Don't know if you where joking or not, but parrafin is still regular old wax in this goofy U.S.
Cheers,
Jens

Try WD-40 for aluminum, ATF for steel, and bacon fat for cast iron. Once you cannot easily turn the tap, back it out...I mean any little hang up when you can tell it isn't cutting freely. Use the...

I think he was meaning that he just can't resist. Love your site BTW, have been checking it out and enjoying it for the last 1.5 years.

Thought it would be neat to put faces to user names. Here I am...looking particularly angry for some reason. Wife is Antoinette BTW. Wanted to put kids on, but don't have program anymore to...

Sounds like way too much spindle speed is being used if excessive shaft whip is present. I am not a machinist, but all of the lathe work that I have done has not given me this problem until higher...

Hot rods, Billiards, and remodeling our house.

You really only need one block to retain parralelism. If you use a predetermined, controlled distance spacer to hold up your rods (3/4" MDF to raise them 3/4" above the bottlm of the machine, two...

Generally a NEMA 17 has a 1.7" spacing hole to hole, 23 2.3", etc.

Rekd (Matt) is in S.D. I believe. IM him

gorgeous work on the CAD, or is that the machine?

A year and a half ago I built my first machine...total POS, but it ran. Wasn't mine, partnerships disolved, machine was never used. Then I built two, (well actually one full, and two "half dones")...