hi folks, looks like the spindle needs to be tightened a little bit but it's working! i brought in some tooling, enough to make cuts and learn. anyone interested in using it can easily learn the basics of lathe operations and how to grind lathe bits online before operating. this lathe is also capable of cutting threads - just swap out gears as indicated on the inside cover of the gearbox and use an appropriate 60-degree bit. the lathe and all the tooling I brought in are a donation to the space but once there's a place for the tooling I'll grab the toolbox back.

does anyone want to get together and get the really really nice CNC machine working? we have a CNC machine with about a 500x500mm work area which is made to microscopic precision. we could literally machine microfluidics with it. the controller it came with is really old, and runs Windows 95, and doesn't allow us to load gcode or anything comparable, and afaik can't be reformed. the good news is - we have a Mesa Electronics 5i23 board which is supported by LinuxCNC and would make a great replacement controller! so if anyone wants to get this CNC machine going, let me know and we can discuss steps toward that. -jake On Sat, 5 Sep 2015, Marc Juul wrote: On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:27 PM, <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss

Yes I will be there too on tuesday. The other CNC mill is on permanent loan, and we can do whatever we want to it, however I recommend against putting too much effort into it because it is such an extremely cheap thing that you might be wasting your time. its bed has a number of threaded holes (6-32 thread) so clamps/holders can just be things with holes in them, and a better assortment of various length 6/32 screws, or pieces of 6-32 threaded rod, washers, and nuts or wingnuts. If you have energy to improve CNC machines it will go much further with the nice one (which is located in the center of the room, on the border between CCL and sudoroom) or perhaps even on the giant robot, which is actually a CNC machine itself in the sense that you can give it a job in XYZ coordinates (g-code through a converter) and it can weild whatever tools you mount on its hand. -jake On Sat, 5 Sep 2015, Morgan Allen wrote: Into it! I'll be around for Tuesday hack night, hopefully using the other > CNC mill, we should talk then. And in fact, in > related discussion, I'd wanted to make a plan for better clamps/holders > the other CNC. If I remember right, that was on > long term loan, can we make improvements to it? > > On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: > does anyone want to get together and get the really really nice CNC > machine working? > > we have a CNC machine with about a 500x500mm work area which is > made to microscopic precision. we could > literally machine microfluidics with it. > > the controller it came with is really old, and runs Windows 95, and > doesn't allow us to load gcode or > anything comparable, and afaik can't be reformed. > > the good news is - we have a Mesa Electronics 5i23 board which is > supported by LinuxCNC and would make a > great replacement controller! > > so if anyone wants to get this CNC machine going, let me know and > we can discuss steps toward that. > > -jake > > On Sat, 5 Sep 2015, Marc Juul wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:27 PM, <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote: > hi folks, > > looks like the spindle needs to be tightened a little > bit but it's working! i brought in > some tooling, > enough to make cuts and learn. anyone interested in > using it can easily learn the basics > of lathe operations > and how to grind lathe bits online before operating. > this lathe is also capable of cutting > threads - just > swap out gears as indicated on the inside cover of the > gearbox and use an appropriate > 60-degree bit. the > lathe and all the tooling I brought in are a donation > to the space but once there's a place > for the tooling > I'll grab the toolbox back. > > > Awesome! I was playing with it the other day. This is a great > addition to sudo and the perfect > size lathe for our current > space! > > > -- > marc/juul > > > > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > > > > -- > http://ithoughtyouweretherobot.com > Metal and Wire > > http://nolonelyguineapigs.com/ > Wandering and Rambling > > http://morglog.org > Old and Neglected. > -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > Version: OpenPGP.js v.1.20121007 > Comment: http://openpgpjs.org > > xsBNBFG3btUBB/9+/WJNOSIuc/praKPaPOweqXV5s7PGRD+HAnNWF/19YAY3 > AFtfeoelhhY4sMJoobTaJzcZojznZ1kl/7UuuYCnbJO3Z9kaSMVrVxEZMSLe > YmW8Hc4ZsTnl9f05DQFy8ABpAvMLmXJQXh63BbfzjFqNbSWQfLhrubSM2Elq > xmN6EsmRyAuEeYlSnal+Di2MlViohpCbbagE2D6AZTUECIamTib6+DuLG4XO > b4GGKHR9TXu2qS1VH6hqcvdEz2MDE5OqZzAnBgcF2dvcOdTk9gAOoR1T+qKj > IJtg2X0ETbxcPqEXQoXE8VrxN0MLT5JQKTg26+csU4P2w0rEWsUsJombABEB > AAHNJU1vcmdhbiBBbGxlbiA8bW9yZ2FucmFsbGVuQGdtYWlsLmNvbT7CwFwE > EAECABAFAlG3btwJEG9pFLKaVEfeAAD7hwf+K8LN/kfgi8GTRLiTcuM+hSbm > uAeiBY+VaJIQFLzoFlt8A0hBlLNPFNNmUDxdPrMErdHgZ7HtJW/6RANuBTti > 5hr3EBguH1GQyK7BbUqJGvaEX4UNRej3uyX3ufXDsIB/3NsKaTyyu+SO0+Hv > Cn2DwmlfSXcPhoarx6Turizn/WwgtTN3tqrMWxxiCKWydLH5xYuz+23BLMdc > oF/zkbF+7ddFhmyfiFh4Ej9//tsfwPj2cACU3uLTrcwCo7IxUtkrqMF/fhlm > LEqjhzDDjq9v7GNWb/5xB2xgTaucJ7/ljuS8nPlZqwCI8NlTgSqC8nyVLyjS > yVtOzkItcS0UqyW1Mg== > =V/Ia > -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > >

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:27 PM, <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote: Awesome! I was playing with it the other day. This is a great addition to sudo and the perfect size lathe for our current space! -- marc/juul _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss

statistically this kind of thing will eventually cause an accident. -jake On Wed, 23 Sep 2015, Cere Misc wrote: I just wanted to offer a word of caution to anyone using that lathe (esp > if they are short). The positioning of the power switch is extremely > dangerous! It's very likely to accidentally get your arm caught in that > lathe while > attempting to reach over the top of the spinning chuck to power it off! > It's in fact so precarious hazardous that I will probably not use it until > we manage to get the power switch repositioned. > .02+beware! > -Cere > > On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:27 PM, <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote: > hi folks, > > looks like the spindle needs to be tightened a little bit but > it's working! i brought in some tooling, enough to make cuts and learn. > anyone interested in using it can easily learn the basics of lathe > operations and how to grind lathe bits online before > operating. this lathe is also capable of cutting threads - just swap out > gears as indicated on the inside cover of the gearbox and use an appropriate > 60-degree bit. the lathe and all the tooling I brought in > are a donation to the space but once there's a place for the tooling I'll > grab the toolbox back. > > > Awesome! I was playing with it the other day. This is a great addition to > sudo and the perfect size lathe for our current space! > > > -- > marc/juul > > > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > > >

Hmmmm yeah I didn't see a box of ethernet cables when I was looking through mesh stuff last night. I wasn't looking for PoE adapters though, so who knows about those. Luckily for us, neither of those are super critical - I have a handful of adapters here and any new gear we buy that will require PoE will come with their own adapters. It *might* be a problem with the remaining stash of picostations though... Neither of those boxes would net someone any money, though, so I'm skeptical that someone stole them for profit. Especially considering that a variety of the other gear on that rack would be worth a lot more money. All that being said, perhaps we should re-evaluate our gear and do a better job securing anything that is expensive/hard to replace... I don't have any answers to that problem though, short of some really fancy server cage or something.... On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote: _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/discuss