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  1. Re: FREE: Green/Red/Black 3P push button rocker switches

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    If you let me know how many you want I've got a nice selection of bubble envelopes so I should be able to lay them flat and get them through the post as a large letter,...
  2. Thread: Ecocast plate

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    Re: Ecocast plate

    There inst an issue with a supplier sending a bit of material that marked up providing they inform you first so you can say 'yea or nay' to accepting it. Tooling plate is after all exactly that 'for...
  3. Re: How to wire the enable pin on a stepper drive?

    Yes I had a feeling it was PCPPS.

    just take Ena(+) on drive to Ena pin on BOB and Ena (-) on drive to Gnd on BOB. You'll then have to set the Enable output in mach and tell it which pin number.
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    Re: Dust shoe bristles

    I made 2 attachments for my DIY shoe, one with bristles and one with plastic.

    I figured the clear plastic would be nice so that I could watch the tool cutting. The trouble is, if you cut loads of...
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    Re: Dust shoe bristles

    a hinge is a good idea. I based my design on this http://www.kentcnc.net/nc/products/94-standard-dust-shoe.aspx
    using magnets.
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    Re: Machine Feet for my lathe

    Jim, Tom in the US did a two part video on this, check out the videos below, you should end up walking away knowing exactly what to do:

    Leveling and Setup of the Metalworking lathe

    Part 1:...
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    Re: Machine Feet for my lathe

    Hi Jim,
    I have the Amadeal 290V-FF, which is a similar weight to yours. The cabinets are substantial but the tray is only .8mm steel. I am currently modifying the tray to put a drain slope in it...
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    Re: Machine Feet for my lathe

    On my machines I used feet with stems that fitted through the clearance holes (mind you, that was 12mm on the milling machine anyway) and used nuts and washers each side to adjust and lock. That way,...
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    Re: Machine Feet for my lathe

    What about a steel dolly underneath with a foot at each corner;

    like this only DIY version and not castors ; http://www.axminster.co.uk/heavy-duty-machine-base

    I generally find machines are too...
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    Re: How do I take this off?

    If the diameter of the rollers was slightly larger than the step into the shed is high, it would roll right in onto some smaller rollers.
    The pallet truck should lie on it's side and worm it's way...
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    Re: How do I take this off?

    I would take two people down with some rollers ie scaffold tube about 3 or 4 etc and an assortment of crow bars and roll it along check what the weight is on warco's site. Ask the owner how he got...
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    Re: VMC Tooling Advice Needed!

    It's a Trappaning Head used to cut holes in thin material, small hole is drilled in material same size as the bottom spigot and machine set to slow speed.
    Mike
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    Re: VMC Tooling Advice Needed!

    To unlock a tool, I would hold the spanner in place on the chuck nose and give it a tap with a rubber mallet. The inertia of the drive system means that most of the shock goes into undoing the...
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    Re: Steel vs Aluminium

    Don't get confused between strength and stiffness. Totally different things.

    Strength is how much load something can take before it starts to stretch (yield point) and then before it breaks (UTS,...
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    Sticky: Revised G-Code Quick-Reference / Cheat Sheet

    I've revised my G-code Quick Reference with the addition of a list of Unary Operations.

    My printing recommendation is to print it on a single A3 sheet, double-sided, with 2 pages per side. Then...
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    Re: Epoxy pouring advice

    Nope it sticks to duct tape. Well mine did at least.

    And you would want to remove it. After you take the tape off you can be left with some seriously sharp edges. Just get a sanding disk on a...
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    BUILD LOG: Re: Ready Steady Eddy

    Once I got the rails fitted to the gantry and the two lower bearing blocks added it was easy to see how to square everything up.
    The gantry is bolted to the carriages at each end, the bolts were...
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    BUILD LOG: Re: Ready Steady Eddy

    The rails on the gantry are 800mm long, they have 15 bolt holes. When I drilled the holes in the gantry to mount the bottom rail I made every other one 6.5mm, the others were 3.2mm tapping size. The...
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    Re: How I almost set fire to my garage...

    That's OK - you only have to remove the black part nearest the tool. The other one can stay. If you undo the nut on the tool end, which is a normal right hand thread, then you should be able to see...
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    BUILD LOG: Re: Sturdy and Fast all Steel CNC , my first build

    I'm no expert (I seem to weld every 4 years or so) but what I did was cut the pieces to length, dry assemble the uprights and the main frame outer pieces then put either one tack or a couple of tacks...
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    BUILD LOG: Re: Ready Steady Eddy

    Reactive Resins Syntac EPAFD epoxy with Synamin 201-c slow hardener.

    This was the starting point using shims to level up the linear rail support beams.

    114501145111456

    A test piece was made...
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    BUILD LOG: Re: Sturdy and Fast all Steel CNC , my first build

    I know that I have posted these before but this is the way I have done it. The epoxy is the Wests system Very slow cure. ..Clive
  23. BUILD LOG: Re: Sturdy and Fast all Steel CNC , my first build

    Well, the laser cut parts came. So, i finished soldering the parts to the frame. That includes the ball screw mounts. What i did was mount the ballscrews to the supports/in the middle so there is...
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    Re: How I almost set fire to my garage...

    Yes get the faces of the clamp reduced a bit. As you say about 2mm would probably do the job but check it again after its done.
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    BUILD LOG: Re: Ready Steady Eddy

    One problem with not creating a proper specification is that you don't know when the job is finished, however I'm sure I've dicked about with this panel far too long so I'm saying this is the 'as...
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