[QUELAB CNC] Shapeoko Status

[Geoff Nicholson]

As a part of the agreement which we made with Inventables when they gave us
this machine, we have to make it available to the general public at least
once a month.  Since it's been offline for about as long as we've owned it,
this is non-optimal. As a budding CNC user, who's been waiting months for
the machine to be fixed, I was just curious if it had been or not.

Whether or not we have a place to store it (I'm not sure where it went, if
it is no longer in in Room One) it needs to be found, status documented,
and then the CNC list made aware of it's disposition.  I understand
college, but as far as I'm aware, Morgan has been busy rebuilding the 3D
printer since it caught fire in early March.

And if no one has made meaningful progress on the Shapeoko since the palm
router was installed (and it is still oflline), do we have all the parts to
retrofit the shapeoko to the last known-good configuration so it can be
used?  Now that the woodshop class is not using the shop quite as much, we
can find a place (which doesn't have to be permanent) to set it up and
finish repairing and/or retrofitting it.

Because it's been lying around and may have been considered an abandoned
project in room one, who knows where it's gone.  If no one on the list can
positively identify it's current location, when it is found, please post to
the list.

-- geoff
-- quelab.net

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 1:44 PM, John Anthes <jpanthes at comcast.net> wrote:

> Geoff, Hi –
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> Good question.
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> Last time I was there Eric, Morgan and I reviewed the status.
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> Some of the replacement Bosche router parts seemed to have a wobble?
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> A cutter that wobbles in the chuck is bad news.
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> I left thinking we had found a way forward?
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> So the hardware seems capable of going forward?
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> I am unclear on an agreed upon location of the CNC?
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> I have listened to three members about alternative software: Morgan,
> Adric, and another whose name I have not learned to remember yet.
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> It seemed to me that the “Person in Charge” is Morgan?
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> But Morgan, at the time, seemed to be distracted by a number of
> conflicting topics: UNM classes, upcoming travel, and 3-D printer projects?
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> So, what is the status?
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