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

« on: May 14, 2009, 04:50:40 AM »

It's a nice looking one, it's my wifes birthstone and she loves it and needless to say she has a few pieces to prove it 

It would be nice someday to actually make her some jewelry rather than buy it-

Dave

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

« on: May 13, 2009, 05:52:35 PM »

Nice, can't wait to see it finished-

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Jog Flyout MPG Mode Descriptions

« on: May 13, 2009, 05:41:09 PM »

Like the colours, very Vista

Hood

Yeah, really, that camera has seen better days Russ - 

Dave

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

« on: May 13, 2009, 05:38:58 PM »

Beautiful work, Chris, is that an Amethyst?

So now the next step for you is to send this out to a shop that will cast this for you? How does that operation work? What material have you chosen for this creation? How long does something like that take to be processed for you?

Needless to say I've always been interested in jewelry making but never dove in - 

Thanks for sharing,
Dave

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: XBox360 Controller Plugin Update Available

« on: May 13, 2009, 05:33:14 PM »

Sure is and unfortunately it won't work, thanks so much for the info, Rich- 

Thanks,
Dave

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: XBox360 Controller Plugin Update Available

« on: May 13, 2009, 02:41:00 PM »

I actually built a "gamepad" into a console (not entirely finished but functioning) and I like the idea of the X Box and the plug-in rather than the KeyGrabber setup.

Can one of you tell me what the distance is center to center of the analog sticks is?

Also, for any of you who have taken one of these apart, are the analog sticks on their own circuit board like other gamepads?

Thanks for the help-
Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: My first attempts at laser engraving.

« on: May 13, 2009, 10:54:25 AM »

It's like the sun 

Dave

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Tangent Corner / Re: im stumped....

« on: May 12, 2009, 06:37:11 PM »

And here I thought this was a "post pictures of ourselves" thread 

Dave

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

« on: May 12, 2009, 11:06:48 AM »

im guessing i tighten those till wiggle goes away?

Chris, yes, you loosen the hex nuts just a little and then tighten up the slotted set screws which should be tightening up against a "gib" that then presses onto the dovetail. Tighten up  each screw slowly along the full travel ( I like to go one at a time to see where each screw is tightening up) and then once you have it in a good setup, the hexnuts get tightened up as well and that should lock the setscrews in place.

Unfortunately sometimes it's a trial and error game as the set screws sometimes tighten up against the gib and mess up your final setup so you have to back off and try again.

You may want to actually pull it off first to make sure there's no swarf or dirt in there to damage the ways.

Hope that helps-
Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: My first attempts at laser engraving.

« on: May 11, 2009, 10:53:46 AM »

cuz i have to ask my missus for pocket money for side projects....


an my missus is MEAN......

That explains the milling in the middle of the night 

Dave