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Hi Folks, I knew a gent, now gone, who imported tooling. He told me that he could buy stuff made from the same looking castings from the same factory at differing price points. The 50 cents per pound stuff was the bottom of the barrel, poor casting quality, roughly machined, ungraded...

I think the most likely option will be to hope this size becomes standard and then purchase a two part steel frame to allow flat film to be used. Then hope the tensioning screw holes align with the existing film frame retaining screws or that enough meat is on the frame to add holes. Probably...

WooHoo! Please let us know your feelings on the mono 4K when you've made a few prints. Cheers, Stan

Perhaps lead shot mixed with epoxy would avoid shrinkage or loosening in use issues. It might be easier to use larger shot so each hole gets only one or two balls to avoid imbalance. A mix of birdshot and epoxy would probably also work well enough, although I think lead birdshot may not be...

Hi Folks, It appears that a legal version of Elmers Engines is available at: https://www.myheap.com/metalworking/resources-downloads.html I seem to recall that the family choose to make it available for free, but might be thinking of the Engine Boys books. In any event, it's good to have...

Hi Folks; HEADS UP! The M3 uses framed FEP film, you can't replace it with FEP sheets from Amazon in spite of the claims by sellers. I got sloppy and left off the screws that secure the resin vat to the printer. As a result, the vat lifted along with the build plate, resulting in a hundred+...

Greetings, A fume extractor setup would certainly be a good thing. I'm trying to figure out a way to do something similar, but also for fume / smoke removal from my laser. I hate to just do the window fan blowing out deal as that wastes a large amount of conditioned air. In our humid hot...

At one point Volkwagen did ads with the Beetle floating in a lake. National Lampoon copied the ad with the legend "If Ted Kennedy had been driving our car, he would be president today." I believe some folks were rather offended. but I loved it. For those with no idea of the event, have a peek...

Hi Folks, Don offered a probable explanation of the 64GB stick issue and asked a question about slicer file sizes. My smallest sliced file is around 1.7 MB. It is the Ameralabs calibration town print at 0.05mm resolution. The file size increases to around 8 MB in a 0.020 resolution. My...

One may remove the bait :) The USB3.0 32GB stick worked fine. Print failed, but only in one section and that looks like I may need to increase exposure time just a wee bit for this resin and add more support to the failed section. The important thing is that it did not hang, halt, or fail to...

Greetings, The larger print worked fine using the 32GB USB2.0 stick. I'm printing another larger print using a 32GB USB3 stick to make sure it's a size and not interface problem. There's around 3 hours to go on this print. We were having storms the day the printer went to sleep, perhaps it...

Hi Lee, You're most welcome. Rummaged around and found an old 32GB USB2 thumbdrive. Formatted it FAT and successfully printed the model that failed when saved on a 64GB stick. It was reported on several forums that the M3 did not work with USB sticks > 32GB. While a single print is hardly a...

I think it's the M3 plus that has wireless, the M3 uses just the USB stick. No internet activity required to use the printer here, although I did download the latest slicer from Anycubic before using the printer. Cheers, Stan

Hi Lee, quick answer: I have one. It works well. Prints are better than on my Ender 3 V2 with mods. The print time itself may be less than the print time of your FDM printer if your FDM is printing at it's finest settings with a lower print speed to avoid the surface issues that often appear...

Oh Timo... There you again, letting reality interfere with a good story :-) I had the same thought, you got there first! Cheers, Stan

Greetings, Hobby knife blades make excellent very thin part off or grooving tools. Before getting a rear tool post and AR Warner cut off tool set up this is what I used for parting brass bushings made for clock repair. Grind to a more useful shape, knock off the cutting edge so you don't...

To answer your specific question, odds are a 322 or 32.52 insert has enough radius to give a good finish. One heads up is that a 32.52 is just a wee bit thicker than a 322, so interchanging them can lead to thinking your tool tip height is good while it is in fact slightly high. If you mount a...

If you do want to put a square hole in something fairly thick there are a few tricks that help if you don't have a broach or a press that is large enough to press the broach through. 1) Drill slightly oversize. No reason to have perfect contact in the middle third of the flats. 2) Rough out...

Hi Harvey, It would be great, but I'm now quite a few hours away, on the tip of the middle peninsula of Virginia. I believe our new member Plasmaman is still in MD however. Take care, Stan

Welcome to the fun! I grew up just outside of Ellicott City, Maryland, was in high school when the original Columbia mall opened :-) Things sure do change. Take care, Stan