[QUELAB CNC] CNC Digest, Vol 6, Issue 3
John Anthes
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Mon May 9 20:38:29 PDT 2016
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> 1. Re: CNC Parts (John Benedetto)
> 2. Re: Blue Machine (Ray Finch)
> 3. Shapeoko Status (Geoff Nicholson)
> 4. Re: Shapeoko Status (John Benedetto)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 15:26:29 +0000
> From: John Benedetto <jbenedet at unm.edu>
> To: Quelab CNC SIG <cnc at quelab.net>
> Subject: Re: [QUELAB CNC] CNC Parts
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> Things get lost BECAUSE you don?t use ?this comms channel?, but choose to meet in person instead. If at all possible, please use this CNC mailing list for updates concerning the CNC machines. If you do meet, can someone please post notes from said meetups to the list so we may all be on the same page concerning the Quelab?s CNC machines? It would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Related ? I asked this to the members? list without response: Does anyone know what happened to the Blue CNC machine? I last saw it on top of the wooden shelf unit between the metal & woodworking areas in the shop, but that was before Gonner?s Great Purge. I hope it was not disposed of! I think it is actually a better machine than the Shapeoko, once we get it up & running. If it is not wanted, I would be happy to negotiate with Darren or whomever on purchase.
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> JT
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> From: CNC [mailto:cnc-bounces at quelab.net] On Behalf Of John Anthes
> Sent: Saturday, May 7, 2016 1:45 PM
> To: 'Geoff Nicholson' <Demonsthenes at meme-complex.com>; 'Quelab CNC SIG' <cnc at quelab.net>
> Cc: 'Eric Lee' <erlee at stanfordalumni.org>
> Subject: Re: [QUELAB CNC] CNC Parts
>
> Geoff, Hi ?
> Good question.
> This comms channel is unreliable, slow, and frustrating. My smartphone provides messages all day long. I think I saw the initial question from JT a couple of days ago? But I was holding off thinking others would-should chime in first?
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> Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 10:39:25 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Ray Finch <rfinch at swcp.com>
> To: Quelab CNC SIG <cnc at quelab.net>
> Subject: Re: [QUELAB CNC] Blue Machine
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> The blue machine is a good machine and it is better than the Shapeoko.
> It is about 20 years old but it is much more study than the newer machines
> as it was originally a professional unit. It was up and running at one
> time but never got any use. I was the one that received it as a donation
> and did the initial repair and maintenance on it to get it working
> mechanically. If we need to getting it going again, I did work out the
> wiring details on it. I don't think I have those written down anymore but
> I could certain work it out again.
>
> *If* it was disposed of, then we need a process where *several* people to
> evaluate things like this so that things don't just "disappear" just
> because someone could figure out how to get something up and running or
> they think it's old or something.
>
> *If* someone took it home, they need to bring it back!
>
> -- Ray
>
>
>> On Mon, 9 May 2016, John Benedetto wrote:
>>
>>
>> Things get lost BECAUSE you don?t use ?this comms channel?, but choose to meet in person
>> instead. If at all possible, please use this CNC mailing list for updates concerning
>> the CNC machines. If you do meet, can someone please post notes from said meetups to
>> the list so we may all be on the same page concerning the Quelab?s CNC machines? It
>> would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Related ? I asked this to the members? list without response: Does anyone know what
>> happened to the Blue CNC machine? I last saw it on top of the wooden shelf unit
>> between the metal & woodworking areas in the shop, but that was before Gonner?s Great
>> Purge. I hope it was not disposed of! I think it is actually a better machine than
>> the Shapeoko, once we get it up & running. If it is not wanted, I would be happy to
>> negotiate with Darren or whomever on purchase.
>>
>> JT
>>
>>
>>
>> From: CNC [mailto:cnc-bounces at quelab.net] On Behalf Of John Anthes
>> Sent: Saturday, May 7, 2016 1:45 PM
>> To: 'Geoff Nicholson' <Demonsthenes at meme-complex.com>; 'Quelab CNC SIG'
>> <cnc at quelab.net>
>> Cc: 'Eric Lee' <erlee at stanfordalumni.org>
>> Subject: Re: [QUELAB CNC] CNC Parts
>>
>>
>>
>> Geoff, Hi ?
>>
>> Good question.
>>
>> This comms channel is unreliable, slow, and frustrating. My smartphone provides
>> messages all day long. I think I saw the initial question from JT a couple of days
>> ago? But I was holding off thinking others would-should chime in first?
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 11:42:58 -0600
> From: Geoff Nicholson <Demonsthenes at meme-complex.com>
> To: Quelab CNC SIG <cnc at quelab.net>
> Subject: [QUELAB CNC] Shapeoko Status
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> 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 ?
>>
>> Good question.
>>
>>
>>
>> Last time I was there Eric, Morgan and I reviewed the status.
>>
>> Some of the replacement Bosche router parts seemed to have a wobble?
>>
>> A cutter that wobbles in the chuck is bad news.
>>
>>
>>
>> I left thinking we had found a way forward?
>>
>> So the hardware seems capable of going forward?
>>
>>
>>
>> I am unclear on an agreed upon location of the CNC?
>>
>>
>>
>> I have listened to three members about alternative software: Morgan,
>> Adric, and another whose name I have not learned to remember yet.
>>
>>
>>
>> It seemed to me that the ?Person in Charge? is Morgan?
>>
>> But Morgan, at the time, seemed to be distracted by a number of
>> conflicting topics: UNM classes, upcoming travel, and 3-D printer projects?
>>
>>
>>
>> So, what is the status?
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> Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 18:08:39 +0000
> From: John Benedetto <jbenedet at unm.edu>
> To: Quelab CNC SIG <cnc at quelab.net>
> Subject: Re: [QUELAB CNC] Shapeoko Status
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> The Shapeoko ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H X-Carve has been moved into MASTS, and is on the table Gonner built for the Shop PC. It is right inside the shop near the light switches.
>
> As far as I know, Morgan accomplished the initial task he volunteered to do, and retrofitted the Shapeoko into an X-Carve machine, with the improved Z-axis as well as installation of the Bosch Colt router mount.
>
> HOWEVER, as we are all prone to feature creep, he then intended to build a dedicated interface box for the thing, out of the little white touch screen PC thing that he & Bandit brought into the space lo many many months ago. AFAIK the X-Carve itself is complete. To use it, all you would need is a machine with the Arduino IDE installed, and your favorite software, either the G-Code sender, or Easel, or the web-based MakerCam, or what have you, to send files to it. Oh, and cutters, we definitely need end mills and what have you.
>
> Does anyone have a problem with relocating the CNCs (once they are all found & at Quelab again) to the office in the Annex? Even if only temporarily? Just to have a dedicated private space for us to get the bugs worked out and get them damn things going?
>
> JT
>
> From: CNC [mailto:cnc-bounces at quelab.net] On Behalf Of Geoff Nicholson
> Sent: Monday, May 9, 2016 11:43 AM
> To: Quelab CNC SIG <cnc at quelab.net>
> Subject: [QUELAB CNC] Shapeoko Status
>
> 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<http://quelab.net>
>
> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 1:44 PM, John Anthes <jpanthes at comcast.net<mailto:jpanthes at comcast.net>> wrote:
> Geoff, Hi ?
> Good question.
>
> Last time I was there Eric, Morgan and I reviewed the status.
> Some of the replacement Bosche router parts seemed to have a wobble?
> A cutter that wobbles in the chuck is bad news.
>
> I left thinking we had found a way forward?
> So the hardware seems capable of going forward?
>
> I am unclear on an agreed upon location of the CNC?
>
> I have listened to three members about alternative software: Morgan, Adric, and another whose name I have not learned to remember yet.
>
> It seemed to me that the ?Person in Charge? is Morgan?
> But Morgan, at the time, seemed to be distracted by a number of conflicting topics: UNM classes, upcoming travel, and 3-D printer projects?
>
> So, what is the status?
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