Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] CCED International Junkyard War

I used to like that but the things seemed to get a bit too easy, like a
battering ram... The British teams were crap on there, I was ashamed of
them. My favourite was watching a bunch of chemistry teachers beat some
retired army men at building a cannon. They made this awful cannon , the
army, that used a cylinder for a shell that they'd machined really carefully
to fit the bore almost exactly. When the cannon fire, it simply jammed where
the pipe wasn't exactly straight... bahhh.... idiots. I didnt catch the one
where they built a glider but it looked funny.

Perhaps everyone who enters should put forward £5 and then the winner gets
the lot?

John

> Come on Peter, you should know that "Pommies" is spelt "PoHMies" :)
> [Prisoners of Her Majesty]
>
> The plan sounds good... there needs to be a performance/task goal (cutting

a

> profile, a 3D curve, engraving, whatever) for the machine to complete, and

a

> time limit to achieve this goal...
> Maybe there should be a specified junk pile... make a CNC (whatever) from

a

> printer, a scanner and a cash register???
>
> Bryan
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> CCED International Junkyard War
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> Hi,
>
> Just wondering if there are any others on the list watching the great
> Junkyard War on TV. Had some real great fun watching the Yankees (The
> Long Brothers) used a UK Mini engine to humiliate (hammered) the
> Pommies? (The Megalomaniacs) from UK in the cross Atlantic junkyard
> war. That was real great, clean, creative fun!!!
>
> Wonder if we can have something similar. How about a web-based CCED
> junkyard war where list members compete to build the best/most
> creative/most innovative/most precise/most repeatible CNC machine
> from junks? Perhaps with a fully licensed STLworks for the winner,
> and a VectorCAD for the runner up with compliments from you know who.
> Perhaps we can have the list mom and mom-in-training as the judge.
> That should release lots of creative juices from the enterprising
> list members and encourage wider participation.
>
> Peter
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