Re: Any exciting on topic Christmas presents?

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, "Tim Goldstein" <timg@k...> wrote:

> Considering the effort that is going into discussing the definition

of a

> marketing HP rating, I figure that everyone must have some spare

time on

> their hands???
>
> Anyone get anything for Christmas that is related to the pursuits

of this

> list?

A late Christmas present from my wife finally showed up in the mail
the other day. She bought me the three volumes of Guy Lautard's
Machinist Bedside Readers. Definitely one of the better, if not best,
Christmas presents I've gotten since I got married. Lot's of good
stuff in these books, not about CNC, but machining in general.

To keep this slightly on topic for the group, in the second book
there are details on building a spring loaded scribe that can be
chucked into a mill. The guy that provided the details used it when
milling intricate shapes as a trial run for the tool path. Visually
confirming the tool path on the real machine sounds like something
that might be handy occasionally in the CNC world.

Dan Eaton