Here's a good rundown of super glue workholding. On Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 1:15 PM John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave, > The question was more about how to hold something like this to make it > from scratch and there have been some great suggestions. Your method to > repair would also work. At the moment, when I do use the tripod I can > loosen the clamp screw, and push/pull on the rack to change the position. > The crank just turns a pinion on a rack so it's easy. Which is probably > why it hasn't been repaired in all these years. > > John > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dave engvall [mailto:dengv...@charter.net] > > Sent: October-13-21 7:52 AM > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Replacing a handle. > > > > Being lazy and cheap I would clamp the piece broken handle side up to a > > plate using a pin thru the hole as a second reference for holding, If > > necessary use a screw thru the hole depending on� size. Now that you > > have it affixed, probe profile and convert to dwg/cad. Machine off the > > casting on the broken side about half way to the knob. > > > > bolt down piece of Al and mil a rough +.01� to +.02 replacement; pin and > > epoxy to handle, finish mill to final dimensions. > > Done in two. > > > > Did I miss something obvious? > > > > Dave > > > > On 10/13/21 7:22 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Wednesday 13 October 2021 05:50:52 Dr. Andreas O. Lindner wrote: > > > > > >> Opens OK in Freecad 0.19 on my MAC. > > > I don't have any mac's, I don't want to test my fire insurance. I am > the > > > long since retired CE at a tv station, a chair I held for 18+ years at > > > the end of the last century. They bought a couple mac G5's with some > gfx > > > production software several years after I retired, paid about 30 grand > > > for all of it and both of them went up in flames that needed a fire > > > extinguisher to put out within 6 months, post mortem found a frozen fan > > > in each one. Std, BBLB, bronze bushing $0.95 fans. Needless to say, mac > > > told us to call somebody that cares, and mac's were removed from our > > > approved purchase list. The station built a new control room complex > for > > > the digital conversion and now broadcasts 8 channels thru 2 > transmitters > > > using 2 linux driven (centos) video file servers built in house. > Records > > > 4 channels from a satellite, and plays 4 channels to air each. The > owner > > > died about 4 years back, his daughter sold it to Grey for an obscene > > > amount, and the first thing they wanted was for linux to disappear, > they > > > were a windows operation. 3+ years later, those servers are still there > > > and still working, and have never aired a BSOD, so the cash cow never > > > goes dry, something the windows machines used by the weather channel > did > > > several times daily. MBA's do seem to understand reliability, so I've > > > not heard of any make linux disappear memos recently. > > > > > > But they have also lost their linux guy to the fbi at about a 3x raise > a > > > year back. I think there's a potentially costly lesson someplace in > > > that. ;-) He built those servers from scratch. > > > > > > ........ > > > > > > FreeCAD_0.19-23578-Linux-Conda_glibc2.12-x86_64.AppImage, here on > stretch > > > with 32gigs of dram, goes into a cancelable busy loop loading it, and I > > > let it chew on it for several minutes. No debug output to the terminal > > > so I've no clue what its upchucking over. > > > > > >> Dr. Andreas O. Lindner > > >> > > >> Lindner TAC > > > [...] > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
