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    Boombastic Open House: Manufacturing trade event Dallas Fort Worth May 2nd & 3rd

    I thought he was scam prison preacher of machines. I would go, have to trim my toenails that day. Prior commitment. And Dallas…
  2. M

    WooHooo The Eagle has landed!!!!

    Dang
  3. M

    FS: MACH 1 quick change r8 collet full setup

    No power draw bar on these. It is a neat set up where you do not touch draw bar.
  4. M

    Options for transporting steel around fab shop without a Crane

    I guess without a bridge a combo lift (aka crab) is the next best thing. I like the combo lift- a lot. Be extra aware they are very fragile about banding straps around the wheels. The hydraulic lines somehow get torn up by those things more often than they should.
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    Summit Smartcut Help

    Try hitting estop once you get machine on. It might reset the estop chain.
  6. M

    Manual machine to cnc handle feedback

    Links?
  7. M

    Heavy duty lathe

    375 for 35 minutes. Parts will be golden brown delicious.
  8. M

    Lathe too heavy - redesign suggestions?

    40 lbs per square is not even wind load rating on walls in many places.
  9. M

    Can you print in LEAD?

    You can cast lead in silicon rubber molds. You can make silicon rubber molds off a plastic 3d print. You can do all the above in your kitchen (with good vent a hood and respirator for the lead part). All cheaper than a metal 3d print. Ffd could work, it would be easier faster cheaper...
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    Lathe too heavy - redesign suggestions?

    I am wondering to real cost of new control, new servos, new drives, new spindle motor and drive- and bar feeder. The machine has tiny feet under it, the plate on floor distributes weight like snowshoes. Pounds per square foot is what you normally try and reduce.
  11. M

    Lathe too heavy - redesign suggestions?

    Agree make a secondary floor. Removing more than half the weight ain’t hapenning by removing sheet metal exterior.
  12. M

    What’s your experience with desktop Cnc machines

    I dug a little into three of the large desktop/bench top size machine builders. Between bing/google translate on both ends I got the impression that they were smaller companies that didn’t have export experience- and didn’t want to hire export/importer to deal with it it. It is not so much not...
  13. M

    What’s your experience with desktop Cnc machines

    what do you mean by emulated control vs original? A fair number of "lesser" machines are running a real time cpu now. Even a ardiniou is a real time controller.
  14. M

    Calculating Cutting Power

    Area makes weird math. According to this a 1 inch wide file would take 290000 pounds of Umph to cut along a 1 inch thick pierce of steel?
  15. M

    Brand new machine tips?

    Drive it like you stole it.
  16. M

    Creation software

    Viacad pro or rhino.
  17. M

    Joe Biden calls for tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel

    1 percent is normal, went up to 2 percent of imported steel after Russia invaded Ukraine. So, yes- laundered steel.
  18. M

    OT: Hydraulic position / stroke control / end of stroke valves

    Only way I have seen accurate hydraulics is proportional valves with encoder feed back. They wouldn’t limit pressure- being as long as piston is moving max pressure will never happen. Extremely accurate once tuned. Also pricey. I have been playing with helm steering pump attached to a...
  19. M

    Cheap Fiber Lasers - technology durability

    Eagle 35 kw is on my wish list. Eagle is the opposite end of cheap. Trumph cost more, still not an Eagle.
  20. M

    Best way for obtaining new work

    Finding a good hydraulic shop is hard. If you do good work at that all the non machine shop fabricators you do work for will have odd ball parts needed made. If you do work like most hydraulic shops then sending you the base plates with tapped holes is not happening.

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