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  1. 10-20-2014, 07:55 PM #1
    sawmilleng
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    Eesa,

    You got plenty stuff to do! I'm a wannabe fitter/turner--over here they call it a machinist. I became an engineer instead--I think they call it a "chartered engineer" in the UK...not sure about your part of the globe.

    I've always wanted to play with CNC and finally am getting it in sight. Just picked up an old electric eye burner from a fab shop--I'm friends with the boss and stopped by a few weeks ago just as it was preparing to go into the scrap dumpster. I'm hoping to get it running with steppers or servos.

    You might find some of the slider rods out of the photocopiers and printers look very nice for axis slides for CNC but don't be surprised if you find them harder than the hinges of H*ll. Great if you don't have to rework the ends much. They might be softened by judicious heating and slow cooling.

    I think your idea of a toolchanger from an air conditioning compressor is a great idea. You have an agile mind for sure!! And not scared to work...walking 10 blocks each way to chase scrap, well, I have to imagine you are one wiry dude with all that excercise...

    I'll be watching for updates to your thread!



    Jon.

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    'Electric eye burner'. I'm guessing that's a 'profile cutter', the sort where you draw out what you want on a sheet of white plastic and there's a photodiode 'eye' that follows the line and traces its profile, while the oxy cutter, or plasma cutter, does the same movements on the other side of the machine.

    If yah think I'm inventive... google image 'nut and bolt pipe' I invented that in '93. It got copied within a year or two. Now its all over the world. Exact same size and weird thread that I used. Made and sold about 400 of them and still have some parts and the larger prototypes I made to see if the idea worked.
    You probably have some in a shop in every city in the world now.
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