On Saturday, February 04, 2012 07:15:23 PM charles green did opine: > acryllic (plexi glass) is fairly rigid.
And locally unavailable in suitable thickness, although it should hold the threads for the 4-40 hold down screws pretty decently. > some epoxies are too. there > are some hard waxes. crystalline sugar? amber. plaster. concrete. > glass. ceramics. very very cold chewing gum. I don't think my shop is cold enough for chewing gum. Not well heated but still... So tonight I will write a routine to carve a new pallet, on both sides as I obviously need to maintain x axis alignment better than I did on the HDPE version, so I'll first machine a 50 thou high ridge on the bottom of a piece of Micarta to align it with a T slot, then do the pocket on the top & drill & tap the hold down boltholes. That should keep me out of the bars for tonight I'd think. ;) One could say I am learning just where my present inaccuracies are. ;-) Then, maybe I can actually make usable boards. Cheers Charles, 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) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control. -- Pink Floyd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
