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Righty tighty :)
Righty loosey :(

Don't let this happen to you.
Use a torque wrench.

It is could have a superpower, it would be to summon a cat to pet, no matter where I am.

Have a bad feeling everything related to climate science and earth observation. As well as anything related to health and medication, and renewable energy, will get axed. Republicans have so far deemed all that "woke" and "DEI" whatever that means.

It really puts it into scale when you get to hold it. This model had tiles and everything on it, so looks and feels amazing. The guy that made it is also making the OLM and Launch tower.

I #3Dprinted a 1:100 scale #Starship and Superheavy on my X1C. It finally feels like having 3D printing as a hobby, vs having a 3D printer as a hobby, like it did with the Ender3.

Light speed!
I had an E3 before this one as well. Fun machines to tinker with, but felt I never stopped printing mods, instead of printing other things 😄

「なんだジロジロ見やがって」
#絵フブキ

Got myself a @bambulabglobal.bsky.social X1-C as a Christmas gift. I can see why people like these so much. They are dang fast! #3Dprinting

#Tungaloy is so goated with their tool demonstrations. Always showing feeds and speeds, and pushing tools to the limit. Their tooling is also some of my favourite. Their BXA20HS inserts are insane in hardened steel.

They used to be "pretty cheap" maybe not anymore :s

Get yourself a UniversalRobotic cobot with a force sensor! You could program it to do all the sanding.

Company buys 280KG capacity Yaskawa robot for certain big parts that weigh 100kg(210kg with grippers). I use it for a year, make 100+ big parts and other stuff. They then land a job for 16000 hours of work. The parts weigh 2kg. They now complain the robot is too big 🤷

Turns out CNC means something completely different outside of the machinist trade 😳

You've got this Calli 🫡

Went to look at a #NakamuraTome JX200 yesterday🥰 I might get a new addition to the little corner of the shop soon if we can procure a JX250 with a 4meter barfeed soon. #CNC #Machining

Since #Fanuc doesn't do sequential engraving. Improvise, adapt, overcome.
Not to write the math for the letters... #CNC #Machining
Macro tested in NCplot

If parts aren't too heavy, maybe look into a cobot system. They are incredibly flexible.

We paid around €120k for it. Quality costs. It has an automatic tool changer, so I have three different gripper heads for it too.

New baby for my baby 🥰
#CNC #Robotics

Saying that. Gibbs is pretty eh. It's hard to recommend, but it's also the ugly baby I love the most. I'd go NX, Master, or Esprit.

Fusion can be alright. Every CAM software has its up and downsides. Most of the downside is that it's way too expensive. I'm still an advocate for mixing CAM with Conversational and raw ISO. Sometimes CAM cycles are slower. And milliseconds matter when you do 1000+ parts.

Made a line in fanuc, and just a quick macro to repeat it. But usually use Gibbs for more complicated stuff.

Biboo cute

Aluminium jigg with 3D printed TPU inserts turned down to size. Threaded over to provide dampening, and to allow for diameter variation for thin walled parts. Mounted to the chuck, so you don't have to insert/remove each part. #CNC #Machining

If you've got a 4th axis, you could easily do this as well. Or even do it on a flat surface! If you space them out more, you'll get flat tops, instead of sharp ones. Could make a super neat coaster.

I'd knurl it, but it's Ti5, so getting a nice knurl going requires too much power and rigidity. So just ended up milling it instead. Took about 20min~ but it looks really nice, and it's super grippy.

Used a 90° ISCAR multimaster. Then had a 45° C+Z move along the diameter in both directions to create the diamonds. The only hard thing about it is figuring out the C axis spacing. This was 0.25 radial depth, with a 0.244 spacing. Made it with the lower turret on a DMG NTX2000gen2

Milled serration in Grade5 titanium #Machining #CNC