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Just an update to pass on that it seems they updated the policy. As of this morning instead of the upgrade offer I used, which expired yesterday, they're offering the upgrade for existing users for 40% off. Yeah, they say you need a valid serial number from any version to upgrade but that's...

I suppose that says it all. I'm looking for reactions, positive or negative, things to look for or look out for - whatever. About this time last year I started thinking it was time to upgrade from ver 5 to 7 and then saw that 8 was going to be released Real Soon Now, so I decided to wait...

Very smooth runner! Is that your design or from somebody's plans?

True, but if it's held once a year, then being there a month before with nothing going on doesn't make much sense. In light of the pictures and all. Something must have been going on the week before last, which the OP's first post referred to. Their website, Events - Florida Flywheelers...

Thanks! Is this a monthly thing? I thought once a year when I saw the thread in the "Yesterday's Forum Activity" email.

How do I get notified this show is going to happen? I'm in Melbourne, on the east coast a bit north, but I probably would have driven down to it. I've been to their website but just don't think to go look for stuff like when the show is.

Likewise. I just need to find X0.000 because Y0.000 is the immovable jaw of my vise. Depending one what I'm doing, I can set Z0.000 with the "drill press head" on the mill one time for all the operations. There's precision, like setting to under .001", then there's to <.005". Then there's...

Does whatever CNC controller program you have allow you to command one line at a time instead of just reading files? I'm still using Mach 3 and for stuff like flattening a surface, I can just put the piece in the vise on the mill, put the cutter off one edge and tell it "G01 first spot to last...

Likewise, I have three lathes; two Sherlines, CNC and manual, and a Little Machine Shop/SIEG SC-4 8-1/2 x 20 also manual. I've only used the CNC lathe for threading, but it's got to be better at turning tapers than I am.

I'll be the outlier and say that I have only CNC mills - yes, more than one. I have a larger envelope Grizzly G0704 (I think it's the same machine as the Optimum BF-20) and a smaller envelope Sherline, with extended X/Y axes. My first milling machine was the Sherline CNC picked up surplus...

It's not clogged like that. It's just heavy with chips cemented along the walls. It's usable for now.

I noticed that the hose would lose chunks of that swarf when I dropped the hose, so I tried repeatedly dropping it. I never tried a more disciplined way of doing it like you describe. Maybe that's why it never seemed to be really successful. That said, Iike the car wash idea. The hose is...

Bingo! Thanks, Pete. Never thought of that. I looked at hose brushes on Home Depot's webpage and they're like $27 for a kit to get started. An experiment for a buck or two sounds like a good idea. It is a corrugated flexible hose and I've vacuumed up enough of the blue paper shop towels to...

I was going to call this a newbie question, but I'm not really a newbie. Somehow I missed learning anything about this shop vacuum related question. How do I clean out the hose on the vacuum? I have a 2" Ridgid vacuum with the pretty common 2" flexible hoses. I use both water and oil on my...

Welcome, Skip. The CFL part of my identifier is Central Florida - I'm near the east coast 30-ish miles south of the KSC. A little city called Eau Gallie. I've built one guitar kit and only worked on one broken guitar, so I'd never call myself a luthier. Never touched or worked on a banjo...

and I'm doing pretty much the same as kf2qd is except under win 7. The Ethernet Smooth Stepper with three different machines running under Mach 3. Those are my Grizzly G0704, Sherline mill and Sherline lathe. Each machine has its own parallel port, which is called out in the Mach 3 setup so I...

Seems like plenty of margin - 90 degrees. Do you have a way to test them before you build everything up? Bob

Nice to meet you Shane. I started out 20 years ago with a Sherline 4400 lathe and a 5400 mill was the first mill I ever touched. When Yahoo Groups was still a thing, there were some amazing guys there, including some watchmakers. Now that Yahoo groups is gone and groups.io took over, it seems...

The biggest fuel issue for generators like yours is getting fuel for prolonged periods of running it. The lines at the gas stations start before the storms. I have a natural gas-fueled Generac that's over 15 years old. A couple of hurricanes ago, Irma in 2017, our power went out in the early...

I ran into a page today while looking for something else (as always), a "professional" site called All 3DP.com The article is the editors' rankings of the top 10 Free CAD software for '23. https://all3dp.com/1/best-free-cad-software-2d-3d-cad-programs-design/ It's useful to me - talks about...