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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cambam / gMax
« on: April 13, 2011, 09:52:56 PM »
If you work with smaller parts, you can scan them with a flatbed scanner and get very good results. Scanners, unlike a camera, are free from parallax, and will give great accuracies. Normally I will scan with 1200 or more dpi, then import the picture and scale to 8.5 x 11.7 in my cad, and the dimensions are spot on. Other parts that are unscannable, I do what Rich does. Works great.

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Completely unforgivable. Those are 7 minutes of your life you will NEVER get back, Bob.

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*****VIDEOS***** / Re: Vector Laser Engraving.
« on: April 05, 2011, 01:39:51 PM »
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If it hadn't been for your Wile.E Coyote drawing I couldn't have done this
Lol. Yeah, it would have ended up being some other image, in which case irreversible damage to the space-time continuum would have surly occurred.

I think (I've been told not to) that the most suitable use for me personally would be for metal etching. Anodized aluminum to be exact. Is this something that would be achievable with relative ease?

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*****VIDEOS***** / Re: Vector Laser Engraving.
« on: April 05, 2011, 11:26:52 AM »
Dunno how I missed this one. Pretty cool, Tweakie. One of these days I gotta get me one of those.

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There is a tube underneath connecting the two sides. You could use a hose or whatever, I just welded a tube at a slight angle to join the two.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: speech - waves?
« on: April 04, 2011, 01:08:23 AM »
http://www.machsupport.com/docs/Mach3Turn_1.84.pdf

Chapter 5.6.7 "configure other logic items"

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General Mach Discussion / Re: speech - waves?
« on: April 04, 2011, 01:02:25 AM »
If fun consist of a few bottles of cheap wine, loud music, and good times....then no.

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Fabricated the chip pans and coolant return and welded all that together. Coolant tank delivery shouldn't be far off. Finally got it painted before it rusted into a heap of oxide dust, too. I used an industrial epoxy, so when it finally cures, it should be hard as rock. All that took about 20-30 hours. Next I have to rewire everything completely. Enclosure is purchased, I just have to lay everything out on the back panel and start mounting components. Part of the weekend also consisted of replacing components on a speed control board for the spindle. I fried it by hooking up the input power in reverse. Just as a "heads up" to whom it may concern....the white stripe on a 'wall-wart' power supply cord, does NOT always indicate it's the ground. Live and learn. I still wanna smack somebody over that one.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Gantry Slack
« on: March 31, 2011, 06:57:23 PM »
If all your getting is 1/32 flex, I would say that is absolutely great. I would figure that 90%+ of wood frame machines don't even come close to that. I know that yours certainly looks better than 90% that I've seen. Good job, Nicolas.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.
« on: March 29, 2011, 05:19:16 PM »
Well, I mean........if you wanna put the cheap grade gas in your Bugatti, I certainly wouldn't want to stand in your way.  :-* Super kitty wouldn't stand for it, for sure. Tell him what you just told me, and look him in the eyes when you do it. Don't send him a text message, don't send him an email, don't tell him over the phone. Look him in the eyes. I want you to witness the emotion he portrays to the fullest extent possible.