On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:45:34 -0500, you wrote: >On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 06:35:36 AM charles green did opine: > >> get a CD that >> you dont want to listen to anymore, and cnc it out of that. and then >> paint it black. > >Now that might be (the old cd) a usable idea. I probably bin a 50 pack a >year of those, old data & distro's going obsolete mostly. And that should >be cheap enough even if I use a fresh cdr to serve as a test developing >tool. I don't recall ever seeing a cd get hot enough to warp either. I >can fine tune it 5 thou here, and 5 thou there to optimize the design very >easily.
Gene - the encoder wheel I use is 3mm Tufnol sheet, painted black. Cheap, flat and easy to machine. I fitted an aluminium hub with a keyway to engage the key on spindle shaft. It's simply sandwiched up against the pulleys with a collar. Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
