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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: My cnc machine

« on: November 28, 2008, 08:26:58 AM »

Hi Christer,

You have certainly built a machine to be proud of. Please post pics of items that you have made with it.

Regards,

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: New CNC Machine

« on: November 28, 2008, 08:20:56 AM »

Wonderful setup Rick - how do you manage to have such a tidy workshop ?.


Tweakie.

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Tangent Corner / Re: Happy Thanksgiving!

« on: November 28, 2008, 08:07:49 AM »

Thats one smart turkey you have got there Dave.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody.


Tweakie

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Some things I've made and did.

« on: November 28, 2008, 07:32:01 AM »

Hi Everybody,

Ed's thread seems to have gone to the dogs !.

This little fella has put and end to my CNC work for the time being. He will grow and stop chewing everything, including me, I hope. This photo was taken at one of the few moments when he is tired and i get a break.

Tweakie.


A bumper sticker seen recently :-

"The more people I meet, The more I love my dog".

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Some things I've made and did.

« on: November 25, 2008, 05:51:36 AM »

Nice stuff Ed - I like Dracula the best.

Tweakie.

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Tangent Corner / I don't believe it.

« on: November 11, 2008, 03:04:48 AM »

Yesterday I went to collect some CNC stuff which I had bought on ebay. On the way home I stopped at McDonalds for refreshments and my wife was very quick to spot the 'peel off strip' competition on the coffee cups. No sooner had she peeled off the strip when she was jumping up and down saying "I have won a mobile home", "I have won a mobile home". I pointed out to her that she couldn't have won an RV because the first prize was only a Big Mac but she insisted that she had won a mobile home. When I finally got to see her coffee cup it said "win a bagel".


Tweakie.

 

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Tangent Corner / Re: Serious Puzzler

« on: November 09, 2008, 09:37:06 AM »

After some more serious thought, an idea comes to mind - If the OD of your piece parts are accurate then a jig /gauge (which is essentially a block with an accurately bored hole or collet) into which your part could be inserted to maintain it's roundness whilst it is measured with the tri-leg micrometer may possibly allow the ID to be measured correctly ?.

Tweakie.


(no trick - the coins are real)

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Tangent Corner / Re: Serious Puzzler

« on: November 09, 2008, 05:34:27 AM »

I believe the mathematical solution for finding the distance between any three equi-spaced points on the circumference of an ellipse is extremely complex and would therefore be difficult to demonstrate to anybody.

Having said that someone is bound to prove me wrong and solve your problem.

In consolation, when I was employed in engineering I remember that diameter and roundness tests were two entirely different things and the plug gauge was the master reference for hole sizes. The attached picture shows two seven sided coins, neither of which is round however measuring the diameter of either with a standard micrometer will show it to be the same diameter at any point of measurement.


Tweakie.

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Tangent Corner / Re: What the.........?

« on: November 09, 2008, 05:00:15 AM »

I think that Brett's original picture dates back to Roman times.


Tweakie.

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

« on: November 09, 2008, 03:14:30 AM »

Another great one Kent.


Tweakie.


(I wish I was that skinny).