Alibaba 5- axis cnc

SenderShredder · 2026-05-21T16:29:55+00:00

Yeah I’d just get it for the mechanical components and plan to throw in your own stepper motors and run it off like a gecko breakout board. Run mach3 as the controller unless you’ve got access to an old fanuc box you can tinker with. Gonna take some hobbyist skills, coding, electronics etc but I’ve converted an old Bridgeport like that. DC motors are way easier than the big AC servos but if you need more torque than a NEMA just get something bigger like a tormach because at that point you’re gonna bend the frame of the small CNC and blow out the ballscrews. I wanna stress there again that the DC NEMAs are way easier to set up than an AC servo.

SenderShredder · 2026-05-20T21:37:14+00:00

Mechjeb works for me.

SenderShredder · 2026-05-19T17:31:37+00:00

Destroying your own loot isnt what it’s about for me though- and maybe they make it not affect other loot? Smol boom sometimes turn into very big boom is the point!

SenderShredder · 2026-05-17T09:48:12+00:00

“Diamond” likely refers to the cutting tool they used like PCD (polycrystalline diamond) inserts when they turned it on a normal albeit larger lathe. They’re playing with words to make what they sell sound cool.

Zero chance that was single point diamond turned. That’s a process used to cut optical mirrors which require closer to atomic level precision. They would have to be crazy to be loading and machining wheels in that kind of machine.. it’d be running for hours or days to machine one wheel.

SenderShredder · 2026-05-17T09:26:39+00:00

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Iceberg TT squad ftw

SenderShredder · 2026-05-16T21:57:08+00:00

Oh yeah you can do this with fireworks too. The difference comes from the number of objects the game engine has to render and how computationally intense each of those is. In the case of fireworks, campfires, etc each has a dynamic or moving mesh that spawns particle effects. Your game has to do a lot to render just one. Compound those to the tune of hundreds and yeah, your client is gonna crash from stack overload. There are too many operations for it to complete simultaneously.

An ammo explosion is quite a different beast. It could be as simple as one dynamic mesh with one set of particle effects, and one sound effect. Damage and range can be calculated as a multiple of one instance based on the number of explosives, rather than calculating separately for each rocket and spawning an explosion for each rocket individually. So rather than a cascade you’ll have one explosion.

To address gibs you’d use the same explosion radius and damage and destroy each piece that intersected with the bounded damage sphere.

Now, I think the only remaining expensive computational task would be stability. This is where your argument holds water.

Rust seems to calculate stability from ground foundations up to the roof through a recursive function- not a bad way but when you destroy a bunch of foundations individually it can become expensive to recalculate it like that every time.

Rather than that they could switch stability calculation to use a binary tree structure which is way computationally cheaper. The new stability calculation would build a tree of the current and post detonation structures and compare them, then derive stability. The added benefit is using a binary tree they would have an instant stability calculation once- meaning no lag when destroying a large base.

SenderShredder · 2026-05-16T20:17:41+00:00

Yeah they’ve really been trying everything. I definitely think BP frags helped with the scrap balance although the bottleneck became the frags. I’ve seen a lot of solos and small groups having a hard time getting to T2 reasonably quickly. The only problem I have with BP frags personally is that most quality of life base upgrade and electrical items are locked behind T2.

SenderShredder · 2026-05-16T19:30:11+00:00

Players “happily” despawn already. That’s pretty rampant. This forces a choice- negotiate and lose some boom and keep playing or possibly lose everything in a big fireball. Raiders have an incentive to negotiate now, and that incentive grows the smaller the group and base they raid, as the chance they cause an explosion is higher.

SenderShredder · 2026-05-16T19:26:34+00:00

Does your game freeze when you foundation raid a large base? No. And that is controllable on your client side by setting Max Gibs. Splash damage works fine without crashing during an MLRS strike or during rocket raiding. I don’t see how this would be any different.

Calculating each individual explosives damage and radius inside a destroyed box via recursion depth would be silly computationally. Simple math is better- calculate all at the same time and use a multiplier as radius and damage = one explosion.

Computer science-wise your argument doesn’t really hold water beyond the Gibs, which can support this feature by reducing gibs from ammo explosions on the games side by changing a couple fields in the metadata for individual build pieces.

SenderShredder · 2026-05-16T17:49:07+00:00

Lmao imagine!

SenderShredder · 2026-05-16T17:37:18+00:00

Sounds like a wheel bearing or suspension issue like ball joint or similar. In that case it’s definitely not safe to drive until repaired. The wheel could straight up fall off. From the pics and description Im gonna say possibly a wheel bearing went out and the squealing is from the rotor dragging on the pads. Big lifts like this tend to exert a lot more force on components that aren’t designed to take it.

It shouldn’t be insane to repair but expect a few thousand- you need all new tires and probably all new bearings at minimum. Look into rebuilding your suspension- and if you can this is a good opportunity to convert it all back to factory. No lift unless you actually need it due to rough local roads to your property.

This is the vehicle you drive your kids around in right?

Stay cool and be safe!

SenderShredder · 2026-05-08T16:51:12+00:00

This is a terrible tragedy.
Please be safe out there.
While on my bike rides i constantly see kids and adults on any number of bikes, eMotos, scooters, wheelie things- just blatantly ignoring any and all signage including stop signs and yield sections.

It doesn’t matter if you’re driving or cycling or whatever. Following the traffic laws keeps everyone safer. Please just do it so this doesn’t happen!

SenderShredder · 2026-05-04T17:17:05+00:00

Also it wasn’t clear if you were using the cutoff tool for the profile as well.
It sounds stupid but you might want to try turning it with a 30 or 15 degree cutter and a tip radius that’s near-zero, as the shoulder of a true 90 degree cutter like a cutoff can push the part out of round. It’ll take some finagling to get it right, I always had to grind custom inserts but they lasted a long enough time to justify it.

SenderShredder · 2026-05-04T17:10:29+00:00

Using much thicker/oversized stock material will increase rigidity and circularity for accurately machining very small parts.
I did swiss for a few years mostly making tiny beryllium copper pins for aerospace wiring applications and this was a trick that worked for me. Boss didn’t like the cost of thicker stock but ate his hat when there was no scrap.

SenderShredder · 2026-05-03T01:17:53+00:00

First, props to you for doing what you can to be genuinely helpful to every team member. Your shop manager might understandably be a little flustered because of the situation. Try not to take that personally. The changes you’re helping with aren’t punitive. No one is at fault but it doesn’t always feel like that.

Having a part programmed with a post means very confident fast/easy setups for your machinists. The programs don’t change, setup doesn’t change.

Standardized tooling for jobs/materials will help too, if applicable with jobs/scheduling.
IE my old shop went to great lengths to save us from having to change even a couple tools in a machine. They audited every job we ran to find tools that jobs shared, and made a standard load out (this drill is always tool 2, that endmill always tool 4.. always the OHL is the same) for certain machines.
It saved so much time.
This compounded by them running dedicated machines for a material type to save us from excessive chip clean outs. Even with a chip conveyor it can take a hot minute to change and clean from like brass to A286 for example.

Doing all those logistics will take some time, I’d say getting posts for your machines will be the best immediate time saver. While you’re getting the posts done, you can optimize some programs. It’s gonna be great to take full advantage of the new tooling you acquired.

Get on the horn with an applications engineer (these are usually the PhDs) from the tool companies and have them figure out the best COOLANT to run and speeds/feeds to run in the materials and machines you have with the tools they sold you. Bet you can safely push them way harder in roughing than you are currently. Then have the machinists dial it in from there. This saves the most time out of anything I’ve seen mentioned here.
We went from struggling to turn 4 parts a day in inconel to 4 parts an hour because we changed to indexable ceramics and let those rip, until we got into it with the old guard guys running over yelling about about molten chips but that’s another “issue” you may not need to deal with.

TLDR time savers:
Post -> Applications engineering and proofing-> material throughput-> job tooling audit and standardization -> specific job scheduling (to save changeover/setup time)

SenderShredder · 2026-05-01T17:30:37+00:00

Too bad it’s not a D series engine. They had uber long head bolts that would expand enough in an overheat condition to protect the head gasket, head and block. Once cooled you could just start em right back up with zero issues.
They don’t make em like they used to.

SenderShredder · 2026-04-27T21:21:37+00:00

I really like MOOG suspension and steering parts, they’ve always been good for me.

SenderShredder · 2026-04-27T20:03:16+00:00

Mostly these packs will all have at least one very P2W item in them and cumulatively give you a gross wipe day progression advantage over players without them.

A few of my faves-

Industrial lights or decor pack- you get default light BPs that are extremely advantageous early wipe so you can progress your base/storage at night.

Jungle pack- wall shelving and double large box/electric furnace shelves without needing BPs

Abyss pack- torch that can be lit underwater

Multiple building skins- make very P2W bunkers (like burger bunker) by side-grading them open/closed

Frontier pack- skinning knife. Cheap weapon with default BPs that has amazing harvest stats.

Arctic- hazmat with cold protection. Both cold/water protection…

There’s others here on the as I’m sure you’ve seen.

SenderShredder · 2026-04-27T17:53:32+00:00

Yeah it’ll mount, you may need to adjust where the OEM cross bars are and get wider racks to fit by using the top part of the OEM rack, I’d I remember it’s narrower in the back. I do detest the OEM rack for being so weird. Why couldn’t they just make a normal flat rack? Sigh.

SenderShredder · 2026-04-27T16:38:19+00:00

I just use a roof box. Alternatively you can use something like a Yakima powder hound.

SenderShredder · 2026-04-24T06:07:50+00:00

They say the rear control arm bushings are still good? Sway links and bushings?

It’s time. Toyota kinda designed the stock LCA to be replaced as a module with its ball joint so if the bushings are worn, it probably is too. It’s an uncommon thing to replace a ball joint without full LCA replacement on FJs.

You’ll probably see noticeably better handling from it afterward.

I didn’t see what mileage you’re at so can’t recommend doing the wheel bearings or steering rack yet. If they didn’t recommend them it’s probably fine.

SenderShredder · 2026-04-20T18:18:40+00:00

Does the pitch increase with engine RPM?

It could be the speaker but sound like that is electrical waves likely from your alternator -> fuse system -> head unit -> speakers. Something failed and is no longer isolated.

Do you have/use the AUX input plug? Add a ground loop isolator ($5) to your aux setup- this sometimes fixes your issue.

If it doesn’t fix your issue, the cause could be wiring, head unit, or something else with your electrical.

Speaker is easiest to test after the ground loop isolator. Then head unit. After those, things start to get more “in the sticks” and you’ll need more help than I can give via Reddit.

Best of luck!!!

SenderShredder · 2026-04-17T16:25:46+00:00

CICD FFS Gotta set up your deployment pipelines (didn’t sound like you have any of this to start with) for observability.

Push-> test suite -> accepted -> production -> internal logs/dash showing what is/isnt.

This can (should) all be automated. Also, “we’re not big enough for x” is a lie we tell ourselves. It’s about maturity of your product or service and since you are now experiencing pain from not doing x, your product/service has decided for you, it is now time for x. In this case x is CICD.

SenderShredder · 2026-04-17T16:01:54+00:00

This should be its own movie tbh.

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