I wouldn't call that shade tree mechanics: I'd call it Yankee ingenuity! N. Christopher Perry
> On Sep 19, 2015, at 8:35 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Saturday 19 September 2015 05:15:53 Gregg Eshelman wrote: >> >> Matus1976 is building a motorcycle and needed to do some precision >> plasma cutting. >> >> Watch the video for his solution. >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJnrjIgVxzU > Chuckle, handheld because it wobbles. Shade tree at its best. > > The closest I had come to that is several years ago now, when I had a > furniture project going for the next door neighbors, makeing a series of > benches to be wrapped around their huge dining room table, so with backs > & some without, but all with hinged seats so the box would double as toy > storage or whatever. The mortis and tenon operations I was determined > to do on my toy mill. > > So I sawed and milled a 1" thick, by 3" wide, and 16" long alu bar out of > that monster block I had bought. Drilled a square 4 bolt pattern in one > end for 5/16" bolts to bolt it to the front face of the head of my toy, > which I had to drill & tap. Then I made a formfitting 2 piece clamp to > hold a $30 Chicago die grinder's nose casting after I had filed it > fairly smooth. And did a step and repeat tapped hole pattern in the > rest of the bar so I could mount the die grinder such that it hung far > enough out over the front of the table with the general idea of letting > the end of the stick getting the tenon cut on it, hang down in front of > the steel kitchen base cabinet the toy mill sits on. > > Then I made a couple holder jigs out of white ash that mounted to the > table, one to carry the horizontally running sticks while the grinder > was digging the mortis's, and to hold the vertical stick vertical while > the grinder was cutting the tenon on the end of it. Had to fine tune > the gcode a bit to get the right glue fits, but it carved 178 of those > joints in the next 2 weeks as I assembled the box carcass's. I still > have the jigs and the grinder, and I could get setup to do it again in a > couple hours. > > Similar shade tree engineering... ;-) > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
