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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Heavy large scale gantry mill/router/3d carving 5 axis build

« on: March 08, 2010, 09:57:20 PM »

Looks like it's coming along nicely. Lots of pictures to look at this time around! Thanks for the update.

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

« on: March 08, 2010, 09:48:09 PM »

You know your gonna have to give us a demo of how it sounds when your done. Looks nice.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Gertrude Gets Some!

« on: March 05, 2010, 03:55:08 PM »

That's one way of looking at it I guess.    The cutters might be cheap, but all the wax I've seen, is pretty pricey. How much did you contaminate Chris? Any way to get it separated? Maybe heat it up really hot and let the heavy stuff settle? Small screen?

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 1987 Bridgeport Production Center Interact 412 to Mach3 Conversion

« on: March 05, 2010, 03:50:06 PM »

I see a major problem. The Captain Morgan cup is EMPTY! You'll be making chips before ya know it. Is there going to be a transformer for each axis?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Freeing the motor to avoid overheating

« on: February 26, 2010, 04:54:02 PM »

If the motors were free, they would loose position. This may or may not be of importance in your situation, however it's generally not desirable for most. As Rich stated, motor heating is not a problem if everything is set up correctly. Most of the time more heat is generated from cutting a 3d code, rather than just sitting idle with a auto current reduction drive.

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

« on: February 26, 2010, 04:38:24 PM »

That's pretty slick. Thanks for sharing.

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

« on: February 24, 2010, 09:32:11 PM »

Looking really nice. I like it.

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Share Your GCode / Re: Roadrunner.dxf?

« on: February 17, 2010, 02:32:17 PM »

Here's a couple files. TOONS.dxf has both Wile E. and a RR.   They are made up of mostly arcs.
RR.dxf is the original mach version of the RR converted using DXF to Gcode. You can find that here.... http://www.cnczone.com/modules/Downloads/userfile.php?id=22
You will have to clean out the rapid lines of the dxf produced, but it's still a great tool. Depending on your desired results, it might be a better idea to make a new RR file, as the one that comes with Mach is made of double lines, and all segmented. Not really the greatest quality code, but it's better than nothing.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: 'No Moon' Series

« on: February 16, 2010, 03:51:33 PM »

Yeah, I figured the original was random, but didn't know if you were trying to maintain accuracy.

To do the full Death Star would cost much more wealth than I can imagine, and the space needed at this scale would be insane.

Didn't realize it was that big! However, I'm just going on faint memory from the movie. So what are you going to do with it?

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: 'No Moon' Series

« on: February 16, 2010, 02:00:38 PM »

Looks interesting! Thanks for sharing. Did you have any pics of the details to model by, or did you use random greebles? Is the end product going to be a death star, or are you going to leave it flat?