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Something nice is that the Black Hills show and the Estevan show are two weeks apart. Locals could make both shows with a breather in between, and folks touring the US could hit the Black Hills show, wander around, then head north to Estevan. Think I'll mention this to Terri, she retires in...

From your smiley I know you're not grousing, but it is a good question. Others have offered the same reasons I could for the dates, nothing to add to that specific topic. I'd say it likely doesn't matter for most folks if distant shows conflict on the calendar. The only way it's a toss up is...

Some days you dance through a job with great elegance, other days you just slog forward on will power and brute force. Either way, you kept dancing and pulled it off, so it's a win for the home team!

Sorry, but the "name plate" is a sellers name plate, at least the Jet name plate had the Made In China legend in very small letters. That sucker is one of the generic 9X20 Chinese lathes. I know, it's a 918 in this case. But 920 is sort of the generic term for these machines, the Jet branded...

I've also been cursed or so lucky to be curious about almost everything in the universe. Over the last few years I've put 5 outbuildings into pretty good shape along with main house improvements. Got to love all that free time in retirement eh? Learned how to jack a 25 X 35 foot structure to...

Your resin can make a huge difference. I had a lot of failed prints with the Anycubic standard resin. Parts that should mate up did not, squares were trapezoids. Only one partially failed print so far with Elegoo standard grey resin and the one thing I've printed with a square pin and socket...

Hi Timo, OH BOY! Gear cutting! Books, no make that Tomes, have been written on gear forms, cutter creation, it's a lovely can or worms. But - like screw cutting, if you just ignore all the drama it falls into place well enough to get perfectly usable results without undue stress. Perfectly...

Hi Mike, Actually keep flooding the oil onto those knurling cutters. You are doing both a cutting and a forming process simultaneously when you "cut" a knurl. And shavings from the cutting part of the process either get floated away or end up mashed into the surface giving a poor result. I...

Hi Timo, The gear with the offset teeth reminds me of "wolfs tooth" gears used in some high end large watches for winding :-) Don't tell people you screwed up, tell them you are experimenting with a buttressed form enhanced strength power transmission device. Funny thing is you will actually...

Hi Mike, Pretty much all the different ways for cooling, lubing, clearing the cutting area do the same things from a high level. Remove the chips from the work area, improve surface finish, prolong tool life, and improve as machined accuracy of parts by providing thermal stability. In a lot...

There's a lot to be said for having a beater. Even if it only gets used in reasonably nice weather, the insurance is cheap, any taxes are cheap, and older stuff tends to be reasonably simple to maintain. Our old full size pickup is mud fence ugly, but it's four wheel drive and can tow around...

Tossing a rubber chicken into the mix ALWAYS makes sense, even with no context :-) I guess you could make one with silver fiber fill and use it for an RF gasket of sorts for those who do need context... Cheers, Stan

Thanks for the files! I'll have to give it a go and see how it works out. Cheers, Stan

Hi Folks, For anyone so inclined, the Windows 64 bit version of Photon Workshop installed fine on Linux Mint 20.3 with Wine. I haven't tested it on any of the Windows 10 boxes. Once the slicer is sorted out, there is an excellent small test print that uses very little resin and will give you...

Greetings, There was a gent named Art Eckstein who did a nice DRO design using the encoders from these way back when a DRO was just a dream for most hobby folks. It used drafting board cable (still have that spool too) and some preprocessing to display on a PC. Input was via the parallel...

That is one very nice later style F3! We almost never see Aciera gear in the US, and when it appears it is either badly abused or insanely expensive. Or both. I admit being just a tad envious :-) I know Aciera mills cost about the same as a house when they were new, but the only North...

Greetings, Turning a bar held in a collet or chuck at one end only will verify the lathe ways and the spindle center of rotation are parallel / coaxial / level different terms get used. It will not confirm the spindle run out. A perfectly aligned lathe, with the work mounted offset 10 thou...

What I'm doing today: Trying to resurrect an old Wanhao duplicator I3 plus. Why? Heck if I know, I have an Ender3V2 that will always be a better printer. Guess it just bothers me to toss something that almost works, or maybe polishing things not meant to be polished is a sign I'm channeling...

Greetings, I have to say that most modern 4K flat screens work quite nicely with computers. Text isn't quite as sharp as on my 4K 32 inch and 29 inch true monitors, but it's perfectly legible on my 42 and 52 inch flat screens, which have computers / android TV sorts of devices hooked up. A big...

Where or where are my manners today? Congratulations on your new machines. I hope you get a lot of pleasure from them. Cheers, Stan