Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] What is everyone doing, building, wanting to learn?

In a message dated 05-Jan-01 21:47:36 Central Standard Time,
timg@... writes:

> What is going on with the rest of you? If you are trying to learn this
> stuff, start asking some questions so we can have some discussion on topics
> other than the esoteric. If you are a pro already please jump in and share
> your knowledge. Tell the group what you are building, what you want to
> build, what you have made that was a failure. Come on, there has to be more
> happening out in our collective workshops than BSing about digitizers most
> of us will never build and writing G-code parsers most of us will never
> write. Don't mean to disparage these topics, but they are not high on my
> list of exciting discussion topics. Let's hear about cutting some metal and
>

Bill:

I am not a "professional" machinist, but a "home chip-maker". I have been
cobbling "CNC" lathes for an application-specific purpose (making pipe-organ
drawknobs - "stop handles") for 16 years, now, and have finished-up two new
identical ones (first time two of ANYTHING at one time!), one of which goes
to a customer in OH.

You can see what I am talking about in FILES; scan down the list until you
get to "Home Brew CNC..." Click on that folder, then see the four photos.

One is of an OLD machine ('84) controlled with a CBM "PET". Anybody want a
PET? Make me an offer!

I do my own circuit-cobbling when what I need isn't available "off the shelf,
with a warranty". Like the interface from the PC's LPT-1 to the
stepper-driver inputs, etc.

Did I answer your question for THIS old troll?

Regards to all! Jan Rowland, Societally-Dysfunctional Troll



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