Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Thinking of retrofitting

On Tuesday 27 April 2004 10:42 am, Andy Wander wrote:

> >...the more electronics you know, the cheaper you can do it.
> >If you're an electrical idiot like me, you end up paying more for other
>
> people to assemble
>
> >things for you :-)
>
> You could replace Electronics and Electrical with the proper words for any
> other field of endeavor that you choose, and you would find the statement
> to be true.
>
> That's an important point that we should keep in mind when trying to do
> things as a hobby-if we can spend the time to learn all about it, we can
> save a lot of money.
> If we need to rely on others to do the work.research, whatever, it can be
> very expensive.
>
> I guess there are 2 kinds of hobbyists-the ones who just want to USE THE
> MACHINE, and others who want to learn enough about it to actually BUILD THE
> MACHINE(or modify, etc).
>
> I THOUGHT I was in the 1st group; now I'm realizing I'm really in the
> 2nd...:)

Heh.

My interest in this stuff got started with me encountering a whole *box* of
stepper motors that I'd salvaged out of various scrap, printers and disk
drives and such, and wondering what they might be good for... :-)