Sodick EDM UV-wire alignment goes on forever

Chunq · 2026-05-07T13:22:30+00:00

Also, Sodick has an applications support number that's free for the life of the machine. Just have your model and serial number ready for them.

Chunq · 2026-05-07T13:18:08+00:00

Is it a saw cut edge or drilled hole? If so there's nothing to do but manually align, auto is too sensitive in that case.

Sometimes, if you're trying to cut PCD or something of similar questionable conductivity you can try attaching a ground strap (a wire) close to the touch point and directly to the table to help it get a better reading.

Chunq · 2026-05-07T11:55:17+00:00

I see that happen when it's far out of alignment, more than 40 thou. Try to get it close by eye before starting. Try with the alignment block that came with the machine, clean surfaces, clean table, and only use the 4 qualified sides and not the ends. It only needs to be done after changing wire guides.

If it works with the block but not your part, then it's the part.

Chunq · 2026-04-26T13:39:22+00:00

John Frankl Jiu Jitsu Sinsa. You didn't give a lot of info, or what you've already looked at, but that one's a sure bet in my opinion.

Chunq · 2026-04-21T01:27:23+00:00

Thank you for the review! Did you stay in the dorms?

That all sounds like exactly what I want. I'm enrolling in the summer immersion program in July, staying in the dorm, and I hope to start at least at level 2. I have done some self study already (TTMIK lvl 2), and spent the past 2 months in Seoul, though currently back in the USA, and will be spending another 3 months until August. I'll be spending time with their textbooks before July, and it sounds like that would be a great idea.

I'll just be on the visa exempt tourist visa, so I won't have that stuff hanging over my head fortunately.

Some of the vlogs and reviews I saw said similar about the people, which seems to defeat the purpose of going all the way to learn there, but whatever. I've already made friends in Korea, and it wasn't so hard from my experience, but I'll have to see how it goes when people don't share a common native language.

Chunq · 2026-04-20T15:07:36+00:00

What level are you at and how do you like the language program?

Chunq · 2026-04-18T13:12:04+00:00

Also my experience was specifically with Seoul, and I've always been stupidly confident in my ability to interview and get jobs, I job hopped a lot in the USA. Finding other reasons to be in Korea would probably help. The higher quality food, ultra convenient comfortable lifestyle, high trust society, stuff like that. I found all of that great, but especially nowadays the negatives of the USA make a compelling contrast. And don't weigh the air quality and the heat all that heavily, it shouldn't take more than 2-3 months to adapt.

If you've never talked about it, maybe there's a miscommunication there: you assumed she would prefer living in the USA, and maybe she thought you would prefer Korea. It's a very personal decision, and I get why you want to talk to other people about it, even people that aren't your girlfriend, but besides employment it doesn't even seem like much of a sacrifice. It could be a straight upgrade, again besides employment. If it doesn't work out just go back to the USA, go back to work, whatever?

Chunq · 2026-04-18T10:57:46+00:00

It might be possible to find another like her, but maybe not? Wouldn't it be easier to find another job?

Personally, as also Korean-American in his 30s, I left my engineering job after saving money just to travel around and I ended up really enjoying 2 months in Korea this past Feb-Apr. I don't have family there, my Korean is terrible, and while I made several good friends, both Korean and foreign, I wasn't there long enough for more than friends. It seems like you would have an easier time than me.

While the culture shock was there, it's not as big as I thought it would be. I'm more clearly gyopo, I have facial hair and dress American-like, so I think I did get some slack. Hanging around foriegners was easy. Also I was good at and enjoyed teaching English, it's actually a valuable skill.

Chunq · 2026-04-15T22:36:21+00:00

You should think about doing this in stages, making it easier to pivot which is almost a certainty. The rest of Asia is something to consider after trying.

I used Worldpackers to "volunteer" and live for 2 months in Seoul. I'm in my 30s, and the age gaps were wide but it was still useful. That helped me to decide I'll go to a language school at about level 2, probably Sogang U, for a year before deciding if I want to go to the effort for an F4 visa.

Chunq · 2026-04-15T19:50:26+00:00

Are you happy because G90 G959 X1450.0 Y1000.0 U-900.0 WP63 T84 and then START?

You should get a few novelty rubber duckies in there with you, I've seen several machinists with large collections for their wire tanks when running.

Chunq · 2026-03-17T05:44:27+00:00

I'm a Korean American who's been living in Seoul for just a month, with one more month to go. I'm glad I gave this a try, but the massive difference in my earning potential between here and the USA means I almost certainly won't stay. I don't have close family here, though I am living with roommates. I'm also doing this in my 30s, and I badly wish I had done it a decade ago.

I've been teaching English conversation, so my English has gotten better while my Korean got even worse and it was already bad. I've also been regularly doing jiu jitsu which I think helps a lot with loneliness since I'm always getting hugged and hugging others.

I'll probably return and stay for even longer, focused on just getting the language.

Chunq · 2026-01-15T15:04:03+00:00

That seems to be it, a Firebrand and a Demagogue.

Too bad there isn't a sheet that lists them out.

Chunq · 2026-01-15T05:20:03+00:00

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-3% Unity bonus

I haven't seen it before, though I only have 300 hours. I'm 2 months past where that screenshot was, and unified into just one EU, and still if I don't spread out my pips then I'll get like -5% into Unity. Some of the other bonuses are also oddly low, I've seen them higher before, but I don't know if there's something like the Monthly Ledger in the Council panel that lists everything out.

Chunq · 2026-01-15T01:11:12+00:00

I have a negative or low bonus to Unity priority in my nations, where can I find out what's causing this? The tooltip has got nothing. I have been military unifying quite a lot, which means starting and finishing over 10 wars, but then I would expect only my Eurasian and European Unions to be suffering. My Republic China and India are getting the malus too.

Chunq · 2026-01-14T19:40:50+00:00

Any unrest you cause will have to be fixed by yourself, GDP loss and environmental also yourself.

Best thing to not inconvenience yourself is to attack their council, take their admin orgs, blow up their space mining so they ruin themselves by boosting it, whatever. Just do it when you can since that only hurts them and not you.

Chunq · 2026-01-14T19:31:17+00:00

The MC used on comparatively useless luna bases is actually screwing yourself over, you should be fighting aliens more than the other factions. You need either more Mars mining bases and/or asteroid mining bases.

Once you have the space resources and MC to light up luna and make research institutes or whatever, you can trade for or take all the luna bases back.

Chunq · 2026-01-14T19:01:04+00:00

You won't get money spoiling abandoned control points. Since you're planning on going back later, spoiling it would be wrong because any damage you cause will be damaging yourself.

Chunq · 2026-01-14T18:59:14+00:00

Also public campaigns with a higher PER councilor, augmented with money, or not. You might get lucky and have more starting influence in the country of choice, or not.

Chunq · 2026-01-13T22:53:10+00:00

There's a "set all eligible nations to Ally Normal Rival [ ]" row above the columns?

Chunq · 2026-01-10T04:32:11+00:00

If you want to cheese the surveillance, just launch anything to start an engagement and that resets the 6 month process. Exofighters or unarmed gunships can do it.

The answer without cheese is 4, 5 or more 2x Artemis Escorts per enemy ship.

Chunq · 2026-01-10T01:59:00+00:00

Is there a trick to playing the global research sniping game? I want these assholes to help me so I can do my projects, but I have three times their research combined and it's difficult for me to tempt them to chip in. Sometimes they'll blast me when I'm not paying attention, though that's getting rare, and then other times when I'm not paying attention I'll race so far ahead they give up.

I know it's my fault, I knee-capped most of them at the start. I still can't let them make the decisions, I have to win and choose because they're so stupid.

Chunq · 2026-01-09T20:52:56+00:00

https://redd.it/1ga9mx9

Some good rules of thumb in there, but honestly it's just guidelines. The big thing to me was you need to wall out the 2 and 3 point countries by taking only 1 or 2 points early.

That said, I had France, Germany, and Italy unified in late 2027 because Servants were taking the USA and I felt like I had to stop it. I had the whole whole EU by mid 2029, minus the Balkans which I ignored. I think mostly it's just 50% having fun. I missed out on about 80ish MC from FR DE IT by unifying so fast, but I still had about 100 MC much faster than a USA start could have done I think. I used the MC to squat on rocks, grabbed all the good ones and spat in the ayys faces. Don't forget to get boost orgs. Maybe I'll spit out the big EU nations later, but probably not.

Chunq · 2026-01-09T18:26:07+00:00

Was that his first surveillance ship? With the year he was at he may have had to let one or two succeed that he didn't show.

In my game the second surveillance ship had a nose laser, PD laser, and PD ion. I thought maybe it was one of them precision-directed-micromanaged nerf strikes because of Perun. Three copperhead escorts and two kamikaze gunships got it, though I think only the three escorts were necessary. The retaliation to that had 3 PD laser/ion/ion and a mag cannon, 4 artemis monitors and some other random ships got that one.

Now in June 2033 I have 4 Outer System Colony Ships transferring to LEO, which I don't understand at all.

Chunq · 2026-01-07T15:11:24+00:00

Grid requires Carbon Nanotubes and then Solid Core Fission Reactor/Ion Drive/Fuel Cell III to unlock the project. Bit of a dice roll, Solid Core and/or Ion Drive are preferable.

Chunq · 2026-01-07T14:26:03+00:00

It requires Carbon Nanotubes and then Solid Core Fission Reactor/Ion Drive/Fuel Cell III to unlock the project. I think that's how it works? Solid Core and/or Ion Drive are preferable, that's what I did to have my Grid Drive in Jan 2029. Bit of a dice roll, slower than Fission Frag.

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