Re: First machine/plans recommendation?

Thanks Harvey, I don't have any machining tools at the moment so
that design is beyond my means. Once I get a learning machine built
though, I plan to use it to build parts for the "real" machine.
There are some very good insights in your description which should
help me though both stages.

Not that I can't work metal. In the Navy I was a marine engineer.
Our fitting/machinist courses totalled about 9 months using
hacksaws, files, a drill press and a blueing plate and 6 months
using a lathe. I think I got 2 hours on a milling machine total! No
mills on the ships so we learned filing *real* good. Built a
sterling heat engine, 80% by hand.

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> Bits and pieces are documented on www.netcom.com/~madyn go to
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> The whole thing is built, and is running off a laptop. Considering
> that the only thing I did not build was the laptop, the stepper
> motors, and the linear and ball bearings (and leadscrews), I

suppose

> it would be home brew enough. Machine has roughly a 7 inch cubical
> envelope, 4 axis (x, y z, and r). Mods are still in process,

though.

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