"Hacking" and "Modding"

[Robin Hewitt]

I hacked and modded a CAMM-3 mill. It was quite beautiful but IMHO let down by it's crappy motor, crappy collets and crappy firmware.
-br
I changed all 3 and I would call the new firmware a hack and the new parts a mod
-br
Then I added flood coolant which I would call bling

[EddyCurrent]

And I thought it was Dave that got magicniner going with this thread

http://www.mycncuk.com/forums/new-me...html#post55575

[Lee Roberts]

Hack to me is, taking a bunch of "stuff" and hacking it to work with, along side and each other when neither where originally designed to do so, engineering or reverse engineering I believe it's called.

0nce the engineering is done, you then design the bespoke parts and ultimately the new final product.

But hey!, what do I know!, I build cnc machines out of wood!

.Me

[Clive S]

But hey!, what do I know!, I build cnc machines out of wood!

So you have built more than one out of wood ..Clive

[Lee Roberts]

Two, that's "2" a week for the last 10 (ten) thousand (1000) years.

So yes just a few :) lol xx

.Me