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[Bob La Londe]

I seem to recall seeing a picture of that big motor hanging by a bracket not much more substantial than the original grossly inadequate bracket....

[Bob La Londe]

In CB I just imported the STP of the spindle body (head stock), selected all the surfaces, and moved them to a hidden layer. Actual workable geometry...

[Bob La Londe]

I have to ask... are those actual geometry files, or just sheet views? There is a huge difference....

[Bob La Londe]

I used to break a lot of endmills. Sorry, never ran any as small as .002. I do routinely use 1/32, 0.026", and occasionally 1/64. Most of the...

[Bob La Londe]

I use FS Wizard on my phone, but I get the registered version free with my paid desktop installation of HSM Adviser. I've recommended Eldar Gerfanov's...

[Bob La Londe]

There are some tricks I might try in ViaCad with 2d and 3d operating mode, but I don't have time to play with it right now. I'm busy doing a mid job feed...

[Bob La Londe]

The data is there. Its just a some tedious work to break it down and and convert it to a flat 2D DXF file.

CB would not open the entire file....

[Bob La Londe]

Is this the part you want? Pretty easy to isolate in ViaCad using the .stp file. Now to see if I can get all the line/edges.

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[Bob La Londe]

I imagine what he wants is a 2D print to work from like machinists have done for a over hundred years. DXF works very well for that....

[Bob La Londe]

Converting to 2D DXF would be a lot of work. If the STL is valid you might be able to open it in CamBam and do an "edge detect" operation to...

[Bob La Londe]

[QUOTE=RB211;n1901463]I've always manually machined by "feel", never paid attention to the numbers, as a result, I am finding my manual machining...

[Bob La Londe]

Looking at options i went back to ALRO for a look see again. Their 1-3 piece price on almost everything is outrageous. By outrageous I mean even local...

[Bob La Londe]

None of these are etched in stone...

90 day Harbor Freight. Bring your item and receipt to the local store. Exchange ore refund. (This...

[Bob La Londe]

I guess I should add that I can see for coarse pitches the time difference might not be as pronounced....

[Bob La Londe]

MEH!!!!!!!...

[Bob La Londe]

You thread mill on the Tormach? I started to, but I have to thread a lot of holes. Finished out a mold yesterday with 22 10-32 threaded holes using...

[Bob La Londe]

For many years the only thing I knew of as a "chop saw" was somewhat as you describe with the most common variety being fixed (moveable fence)...

[Bob La Londe]

https://tennsmith.com/

They cost though....

[Bob La Londe]

Why would match pistols have short cylinders? Less head space and quicker to engage the rifling in the barrel?...

[Bob La Londe]

They already changed their Startups and Small businesses to just startups and limited even those by a modest gross sales level. (Which is often not a...