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I haven't heard any mention of rules against discussing Chinese parts, but I expect someone from Openbuilds will be chiming in to mention that...
I've got a 1.5kW water-cooled spindle on mine, which I absolutely love (although I'd recommend caution to anyone considering an 80mm spindle on an...
It may not be pretty, but it certainly looks effective. I may have to try something similar once I finish cleaning & reassembling the mill. Those...
This (two owners back) is what I'm working on. Unfortunately it seems to have suffered some abuse in the interim... and I suspect some of the gunk...
I've never had any experience with ferrules (embarrassingly enough I didn't even know they existed until a few months back, so file my comments...
I've got a slightly-bent Y-axis screw (caused by one side of the gantry crashing after Mach3 bent it crooked), and mine rattles a bit at the ends...
Before you go ripping your X/Z apart to get at the anti-backlash nut, you should be able to get some idea of how tight it is (or at least whether...
I'm not precisely sure what it is that's coming out wrong about the P (or at least what you're focusing on in the two more ambiguous photos... the...
I haven't gotten this far with mine yet (I'm still hung up on some frustrating and/or puzzling tramming issues), but one approach I'd seen to this...
I'm not entirely sure it'll fit in the space I have, or how/where I could mount it (I couldn't tell quite what you'd done from the pictures,...
I'm sort of in the process of tramming mine right now (I've got a two-piece top/bottom mount arrangement on my 80mm spindle, which makes things a...
I haven't had to take any of mine back apart yet (possibly the only piece of the machine that's true for), but I believe the idea is to push the...
Annnnd.... having identified the name of the underlying technology, suddenly the prices come crashing down. It looks like unbranded vortex tubes...
Two words: Vortex Tube -Bats ( Just like Arthur Dent, You have: No tea. )
True enough... but if it's as simple as a nozzle on a high pressure line, you'd think it would've been discovered long ago by dozens or hundreds...
Interesting... I can't find much (any) information on how it actually works, though. Given the pricetag, I have to imagine there's more inside...
Hrm... maybe I'll try pairing some headphones to the VFD. Not entirely inapropos - I spent a while waving a between-stations AM radio around the...
I generally end up doing the same - although having a spindle without a fan blowing crap everywhere means that now I can usually get away with...
So, I've been using/building/tearing apart/fixing/breaking/rewiring/generally mucking around computers in one capacity or another for a good few...
Yep! I've got a whole room in my basement dedicated to collecting dust, and now that the Lead's running in there, I can collect it faster than...
