[Emc-users] Making minor progress on the laser setup

2018-10-04 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; This afternoon I unpacked some brass tubing, the same size as what the 38 special laser was made from, and stumbled over a short piece of 3/8 SS tubing a neighbor had given me after he had redone the fuel lines in a local race car. So I made a pipe nipple with .5mm threads out of

Re: [Emc-users] Making minor progress on the laser setup

2018-10-05 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 03:01, Gene Heskett wrote: > By then it was dinner time+ so I quit for the night. I'll thread the > second tube tomorrow, and mark it for length for cutting after I turn it > around in the lathe. Then figure out a design for a slip ring insert > and brush carrier so I can p

Re: [Emc-users] Making minor progress on the laser setup

2018-10-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 October 2018 06:51:59 andy pugh wrote: > On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 03:01, Gene Heskett wrote: > > By then it was dinner time+ so I quit for the night. I'll thread the > > second tube tomorrow, and mark it for length for cutting after I > > turn it around in the lathe. Then figure out a

Re: [Emc-users] Making minor progress on the laser setup

2018-10-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 October 2018 21:59:50 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > This afternoon I unpacked some brass tubing, the same size as what the > 38 special laser was made from, and stumbled over a short piece of 3/8 > SS tubing a neighbor had given me after he had redone the fuel lines > in