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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Applique patterns

« on: April 11, 2011, 05:42:05 AM »

Great idea. Did you spring load the marker of just rely on the give in the tip ?

Perhaps a Logo next ? 

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Here's my DIY pendant

« on: April 11, 2011, 05:34:44 AM »

Very nice indeed.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: April 11, 2011, 05:29:25 AM »

I know that a Permanent Marker would have been just fine but it is these little things that earn me Brownie Points. 

Tweakie.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Impact engraving plugin

« on: April 11, 2011, 02:16:46 AM »

ntlaser,

Looking at your Micken Mouse, the double image is not linear and this suggests to me that there could be a delay between the Mach digital trigger pulse being sent and the laser actually firing. Maybe that reducing your feedrate to something around 4 to 5 thousand mm/minute may produce different results.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Diy Laser cutter MK1

« on: April 10, 2011, 11:19:09 AM »

Yep, plenty of castor fumes and how about the tethered car racing ?
We could start another thread on this. I think Eddie Keil died a while back but Keil Kraft were located in Wickford, not far away from where I live now. Most of my buddies buy the artf planes and as you say, few build their own from scratch now.

Getting back to lasers, have you seen the Z axis table mechanisms that Bart has used for his machines ? http://www.buildlog.net simple yet effective.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cambam / gMax

« on: April 10, 2011, 07:46:48 AM »

Rich,

What CAD do you use to get your .dxf to import to LC  ?

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: April 10, 2011, 07:21:47 AM »

One more of these, just to bore those that I haven't already bored to death. 

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Diy Laser cutter MK1

« on: April 10, 2011, 07:13:33 AM »

I fly the hard hat stuff (pylon racers) for a few months of the summer but I just love to watch the free-flight at Old Warden, Bedfordshire. If you ever share any of your free-flight designs I would be very interested to build.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cambam / gMax

« on: April 10, 2011, 07:05:08 AM »

How about drawing with anything you already have (Corel X5 sounds good if you are looking for something new) then converting the drawing to .dxf format using Inkscape  http://inkscape.org/   

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Diy Laser cutter MK1

« on: April 10, 2011, 05:18:19 AM »

Hey, that's great.

I can see some really nice planes on the horizon. 

Tweakie.