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Ah, so the QC collet goes into the QC collet holder at the same depth every time?

My only experience with CNC so far has been with a home made 3 axis wood mill. Bosch 1617 evs. And yeah, I had...

I'm going to buy a G0704 soon and convert it to CNC, but one thing I don't have enough experience to know is:

Should I go with Quick change collets and holder or just normal collets?

Does my...

Hasn't gotten wet... to my knowledge.

I did buy this at government auction. Looks like it spent it's life in the sign shop at an airforce base. Probably getting abused by underpaid airmen.
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The LCD itself appears to be made by Hyundai

HG32612F-GWJO-03

Haven't heard back from any of these parts wholesalers on price or minimum order for one.

I bought a Legend 32 at government auction about a month ago. Been slowly reading up on it and fixing little stuff here and there.

One issue I have is that when I power the machine on, the...

Yeah, I figured it had to be something like that. When I hit quote, there were some sketchy looking links in his post.


On the topic tho...

I guess my other question would be, does anyone...

what?

I'm looking at an older Microkinetics express mill for sale. Metal working mill.


What I'm used to using for controller software is EMC2, tho. So I've been trying to figure out if the...

I figured I'd try casting the bearing plates with just a pilot hole and use that to cut the relief for the bearing on a drill press with a forstner bit. That way I get a properly positioned and...

Thanks for the replies, fellows.

I'd seen buildyouridea, but had totally forgotten about backyardmetalcasting. Gracias!


As far as post casting machining goes, I hope to minimize machining...

Namely, what sort of alloy would be best for my purposes?

Right now, I'm using a decent home-built gantry style MDF cnc machine. Second generation, and I took pains to make it stable, rigid, and...

Thanks, I probably should have thought of that. I've used plain old Johnson's paste wax to keep my tablesaw and bandsaw surfaces slick and corrosion free. Don't know what I didn't think of using...

Thanks carveone. I think this is probably the third time or so you've helped me out on a problem...

No one in town carried boeshield products, so I went ahead and ordered online from boeshield. ...

I've tried several wet lubes, but none are satisfactory. This is a woodworking cnc and they constantly attract dust.

I've tried some dry teflon spray, and it does a pretty decent job for lube,...

Serial number 101408

I'm guessing late 1960s.

Just got it off govliquidation. Came with a 3 jaw chuck :D but no toolpost.

Some surface rust, but not too bad. I've never owned or operated...

MDF table with a 3/4 mdf spoil board.

I used some goo gone to clean up the residue from the last one.

Yeah, I think I'm letting it dry enough. It's matte and only very slightly tacky when I...

Thanks, I'll try that.

It might have failed because I tried to put the ssecond workpiece where the first one was. I put a new layer of contact cement directly on top of the old one and figured it...

Ok, what I'm doing is mounting hardwood blanks to my table for cutting out gun grips.

My first test piece I used contact cement to secure it to the table. I was cutting MDF since it was just a...

Hahaha...

Nice beard. Lovely bride.

Hah, prior to getting into CNC, I built a real basic pantograph for wood working...

I made all my stylii from melted lead in a friend of mine's old Lee melting pot.

The molds were just...

So is that 20W-30W estimate the potential power from the engine or real power from the alternator or generator?

Very doable.

www.backyardmetalcasting.com This guy is AWESOME.
www.buildyouridea.com Same, but he mostly does castings in support of his CNC work.

How suitable would a solar stirling design be for pumping water out of well into a reservoir?

I'm not looking for high pressure or a great amount of volume. Even 1 or 2 gpm would be fine.
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Interesting.

What material are you going to use to store the heat energy?

Oh, I also had another idea:

I wonder if it would be worthwhile to have two engines working on the same alternator or generator head?

For example, build a super duper alternator. Build a wind...

Thanks. My plan is similar, tho I'm skipping some steps and going a slightly different route.

CNC (nearly done). It's a moving gantry style for hardwood cutting to ramp up my main money making...

I realize this is grave digging... but any progress?

I'd love to start building my knowledge and skill-base in this area so I can eventually try to build a usable Stirling engine genset.

Yep, that was it. I loosened up the gantry and moved everything around until I got the leadscrew pretty well centered between the bearings.

It was then just a little high. So I used some...

This is a home-made machine. So that probably explains the overall root cause...

Anyways, my problem is that as the Y-axis turns, my y/z axis assembly pitches up and down a little bit. I use the...

You could move the y transmission up and back. Have the y-axis transmission screw attached to the back of the "box" rather than to the bottom like it is on mine.

You'll have to extend or attach...