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02-12-2015 #1
Hello members, I am pleased to have found this forum as I do believe I'll be needing someone's help eventually. I'm attempting to get a hobby shop together so I can craft parts for my motorcycles, and other items that I believe I could re-engineer, repair or replace. I have little experience with lathes or mills but I have a passion to learn, and reading this forum I believe should boost my knowledge. My background has been electronics but have always built stuff in a DIY sense, now it's time to satisfy the more physical side of engineering and would consider looking at adding a small s/h CNC mill to the tools list, programing, and seeing the result of my imagination is the aim. I'm not expecting to achieve a result straight away, maybe within a year or two, much reading to do first. Be great to be able to give something back eventually too.
All the best, Jan.
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02-12-2015 #2
Hi Jan,
Welcome to the forum, there's plenty of information on the forum so should keep you busy for a while! If you've any questions then don't be afraid to ask no matter how "dumb" you think they are.
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03-12-2015 #3
Thanks Neil, and good luck with your CNC build.
Jan.
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03-12-2015 #4
greetings Jan, what a friendly hello message!
Fill us in a bit more about the types of "motorcycle parts" you intend to be making? Not a motorcyclist myself (although tucked away in my lock-up I do have an old honda c70 project). You thinking one off parts? aluminium?, steel? or production? Whats inspired you?Last edited by kingcreaky; 03-12-2015 at 08:48 AM.
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03-12-2015 #5
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03-12-2015 #6
Hello Kc, I own, or I am custodian of a few 70's bikes, one of which is a 1975 Suzuki RE5, this has a number of items that I wish to try to update or replicate without destroying it's odd looks. There are several items that would need to be milled out of aluminium or cast then machined but I think the easiest would be from solid, and if successful could interest fellow RE5 owners. Your C70 is still worth a bob or two, there are folk who would pay good money for it, for sure. I have some items that I hand carved out of steel that could benefit from a bit of lathe/mill work. I have recently built my man cave, just popping in the power cables, plastering, flooring yet to come. Like many on this forum we would like to make the dream a reality. I have a lathe, a Warco WM 250V-F that will live in the cave along with a mill yet to be sourced, this is where the forum will be helpful, so look forward to reading as much as possible before splashing out, any recommendations?
Best, Jan.
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03-12-2015 #7
Stay with it Neil, the list can only get shorter.
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