On Wednesday 21 January 2009, Ed Nisley wrote:
>Here's a writeup of my Cabin Fever Expo adventures, with
>Brian's incriminating picture. There's a link to my
>handouts and I'll get more of my code up as examples of
>what (not) to do.
>
>http://softsolder.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/cabin-fever-trip-report/
And as usual, your prose keeps my belly jiggling, thanks Ed.
I have been considering doing something similar for a counterweight on my
micro-mill as that head is probably the far side of 20 pounds even after the
electronics were moved into a box with the PMDX-106 that controls the spindle
speed. Funny part of it is though, my WV engineered counterweighting spring
lashup works so well and all that, that what I may wind up doing is just
replacing the bar that holds the overhead pulley to the post with a heavier
one, cut to length. With my new z axis, I can run the bathroom scales up to
155 pounds! Between that and a drill doctor to keep the bits sharp, it works
for up to 1/2" holes in alu with flute cleaning backouts only after the first
inch or so. 1/2" stuff obviously pilot drilled with a 3/16", but...
I just made a new air manifold to replace the busted pot metal one on my
smaller air compressor with it (cracked and leaking from day one 10 years
ago, recently got worse), drilling nearly 4" through the block lengthwise at
one point with a 3/8" bit. I used a dead center in it to align the 1/4" and
1/8" taps going into the side of that main passage which helped me get fairly
clean threads in that gummy alu. No leaks.
>Cabin Fever's demographics are grim; in a decade most of the
>exhibitors will be gone. EMC may be a way to get more young
>folks into the craft, but we definitely gotta buff up our
>image...
I wonder how much of that is the economy? And how much of it is the age of
the current exhibitors, many of whom might be falling over in the next
decade, and I'm certainly in that category myself at 74 & sugary.
You looked like you were having a ball, but there was obviously room for more
tables in that room.
I would have come but the weather moved in & got cold as you know, which
leaves me and my sugary feet very cold even in $15 socks. I would have
brought my mill too, just to show that puny problems and bad designs CAN
mostly be fixed, just use the tool to carve its own heavier replacement
parts. It would have been fun to demo that I could carve finger rings out of
HDPE with the same cpu that was printing them a fresh copy of the handout at
the same time. Or burn some handout dvd's from a 100 spindle of blanks.
Winderz users, eat your hearts out...
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Accordion, n.:
A bagpipe with pleats.
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