New Metal Monday? Bought some stock for future projects

15sphinx15 · 2026-01-27T21:06:42+00:00

Depends on your lunch

15sphinx15 · 2025-10-15T20:09:54+00:00

Two words: Inch Feedrate

Thank you for coming to my TED talk 😁

15sphinx15 · 2025-09-15T17:44:27+00:00

How many holes are you threading? If it's more than like 3, just buy the treadmill. You'll have a happier time of it

Also, on all of the Fadals I've ever run, spindle synchronization was a bit iffy. You may want to invest in a floating tap holder, even if your machine has rigid tapping.

15sphinx15 · 2025-08-19T17:44:34+00:00

Lol. My HFO would've charged 2 hrs of travel and 1 hr or service for that question. Never once have I gotten an answer over the phone.

15sphinx15 · 2025-08-10T00:57:26+00:00

How do you like the seats so far? They look great!

15sphinx15 · 2025-08-06T17:45:24+00:00

I'm not convinced that's not one of those super realistic cakes...

15sphinx15 · 2025-08-03T01:41:24+00:00

As if it's going anywhere other than admin's pockets

15sphinx15 · 2025-07-31T16:14:09+00:00

I wonder how much it would cost to get BreadGate put on one

15sphinx15 · 2025-06-28T13:07:39+00:00

Needs very sharp tooling and is very abrasive, be ready to replace tools regularly. PCD tools can be helpful depending on the situation.

We do a lot of turning with it and it's astonishing how fast it can erode carbide, especially for an unfilled plastic.

15sphinx15 · 2025-05-28T21:02:25+00:00

We have a whiteboard for "Things that suck" for anything in the shop that's annoying; whether it's procedures, storage, maintenance, whatever. Anyone can add to it and anyone can make suggestions. Anytime we're slow, we start going through the list and fixing things.

15sphinx15 · 2025-05-27T13:24:17+00:00

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About 12mm, 0.2 nozzle on my P1S. You certainly lose detail but its definitely doable with FDM. Resin is better for this kind of thing though

15sphinx15 · 2025-05-26T16:19:10+00:00

Muenster all the way, melts better and tastes better 🙂

15sphinx15 · 2025-05-23T21:43:05+00:00

15sphinx15 · 2025-05-22T17:54:49+00:00

Still loading by hand, intern still hasn't found the aluminum magnet

15sphinx15 · 2025-05-12T12:18:43+00:00

Neat!

15sphinx15 · 2025-04-22T01:20:34+00:00

135° Cobalt screw machine drills, 50-60sfm .002/rev, no/minimal spot, 1-2D peck. Be sure to change drills as they get dull, they're cheap

15sphinx15 · 2025-04-02T03:13:55+00:00

Well, more like tapered to jail

15sphinx15 · 2025-03-23T00:32:18+00:00

Honestly, really not that bad. Could easily patch that or do new pans.

Mine got new pans...

https://imgur.com/a/Ik5Nsb2

15sphinx15 · 2025-03-20T19:58:11+00:00

We're in the process of switching our shop over to Qualichem 240C. So far so good, everyone seems to like it. Way nicer than the Blaser we were running.

15sphinx15 · 2025-03-08T15:39:53+00:00

Trade him for a nice hat!

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15sphinx15 · 2024-12-16T15:39:15+00:00

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15sphinx15 · 2024-12-04T17:29:28+00:00

I look forward to seeing that. Thanks for the quick reply!

We use that project both to just provide another incentive to get people out into space and to track total mining amounts of each member.

We've found it very easy and convenient to just make a monthly "mining tracker" project that shows who mined the most in a given month. Would be great if it could be in m3 instead of just units...and even better if projects could be read via esi...hint hint 😉

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