CNC-Workshop - Thanks

It's nearly a week after the close of the First Anual CNC-Workshop
and things here at my shop are still not back to normal - Real soon
now, however -

We even got a front page color spread in the local newspaper - Must
have been a slow news-day to write about a gathering of 175 "CNC-
Nerds" -

I want to thank all of the folks who attended and all of the
commercial vendors who came to display their products and answer
questions - It was a real effort, particularly due to the
unseasonably high temperatures -

Also a great big thanks to those who donated products and software
for the raffle, held to help to defray expenses - I never realized
how expensive tents, tables and chairs could be on a temporary basis -

As has been mentioned, the EMC group worked like dogs to get the
MAZAK running but didn't quite complete the project - Ray Henry will
have to get a bigger whip - Seriously though, these guys are
knowledgable and dedicated and deserve a lot of credit - Ray tells me
that some of the EMC crew are planning to return in a couple of
months to complete the project - I'll keep you posted -

Everyone seemed to have a good time and there will definitely be
another CNC-Workshop next year, probably about the second week of
May, I'll post the dates as soon as a decision has been made -

In the next couple of weeks the web page for the CNC-Workshop will be
updated with lots of information, photos, etc., about the "doings" -
Right now I have to catch up on several projects for CNC customers
that were put on hold during the Workshop -

One suggestion that was made was the idea of holding a smaller, more
specialized CNC-Workshop at other times during the year whose purpose
would be to do a "Group Retrofit" of a particular machine - The
benchtop mill that we retrofitted during the Workshop was a Grizzly
G1006 - If 10 to 15 people were interested in such a project, we
would make a group purchase of mills, ball screws, etc., and could
retrofit all of the machines during a week-long "CNC-Workshop-G1006" -
Other Workshops could be held for other machines or even to build a
batch of CNC Controllers as a group effort -

If anyone has an interest in such a project, send me an E-Mail to
Info@... -

Again, my thanks to everyone for an enjoyable, educational, (and
tiring) week of intense CNC "stuff" -

Roland Friestad