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Re: Cheap Power Feed Unit
I was lucky to find this motor with a reduction gearbox. The slowest rev is 19 rpm. and the fastest is faster than by hand. The end of the lead screw is like a flat bladed screwdriver. So i just cut a slot in the coupling. On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 9:17?AM key2theattic via <key2theattic=[email protected]> wrote:
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Re: Cheap Power Feed Unit
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHi Mr. Key: I did this
for my Unimat DB. Only I used the flexible shaft and a 8mm
socket. That way I could drive the cross feed too. Also if you add a second shaft to the motor you can have two speeds, in both directions! Carl. On 12/29/2024 3:26 PM, key2theattic via
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Cheap Power Feed Unit
I just got done cobbling together a cheap power feed unit for my Unimat 3. I used nothing more than an Erector Set motor and 2 of the pulleys that come with most sets. The 1 to 1 pulley ratio actually seems like a nice speed. Can easily make multiple pullies to add options for different speeds. You can use a Unimat belt, too. Haven't tried it under resistance while making a cut yet, but it should do well with light cuts. The video looks like the feed is a bit herky-jerky, but that is just the video - it actually feeds very steadily. Any thoughts?
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Re: Unimat 3 Mill/Drill Attachment Question
They didn't get everything. And stuff they had a few years ago is gone here lately..I was trying to archive a bunch of the metalworking stuff myself, but three hard drive crashes in the past decade or less has lost quite a bit of what I had. It was also not well indexed in the first place, and worse now. bronchosaurus.com was a website for a guy who was stretching a mini-lathe to get 24" between centers back before the 16" versions were available.? Was in the wayback machine some years ago. Said they had indexed it, but didn't show me anything.? Bill in OKC? William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.) Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.? SEMPER GUMBY! Physics doesn't care about your schedule. The only reason I know anything is because I've done it wrong enough times to START to know better. Expect in one hand, expectorate in the other. See which one gets full first.
On Sunday, December 29, 2024 at 12:06:49 PM CST, Jkle379184 via groups.io <jkle379184@...> wrote:
Try using the WayBack machine to find old stuff that was once on the internet.? ?Jeff
On Sunday, December 29, 2024 at 10:41:12 AM EST, Bill in OKC too via groups.io <wmrmeyers@...> wrote:
Amen, Brother! Though I do wish some of the info that was once stored on the internet was better archived.? Bill in OKC? William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.) Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.? SEMPER GUMBY! Physics doesn't care about your schedule. The only reason I know anything is because I've done it wrong enough times to START to know better. Expect in one hand, expectorate in the other. See which one gets full first.
On Sunday, December 29, 2024 at 12:49:34 AM CST, Peter Brooks via groups.io <peter@...> wrote:
Interesting how terminology has changed over the years, the early ¡®scraping¡¯ of sites has become ¡®mining¡¯¡
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Anyone can access ¡®Messages¡¯ on the Unimat groups.io website without being logged in, so it would be relatively simple to re-publish any posts made here to another site. Files, Photos etc. are not freely accessible, which is a good thing.
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IMHO the recent fad for AI is 99% marketing BS, but it seems to have given the industry a whole new impetus to ¡®collect¡¯ information.
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I find it amusing that ¡®AI¡¯ will also absorb all the absolute idiocy of internet content, and end up not being all that smart after all¡
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On a serious note, I do worry that the world is increasingly obsessed with the vacuous contents of IT tech, and not the real stuff?that actually physically exists in the world. There, AI, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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The more time we spend looking at our little lathes the better I think.
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Re: Unimat 3 Mill/Drill Attachment Question
Amen, Brother! Though I do wish some of the info that was once stored on the internet was better archived.? Bill in OKC? William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.) Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.? SEMPER GUMBY! Physics doesn't care about your schedule. The only reason I know anything is because I've done it wrong enough times to START to know better. Expect in one hand, expectorate in the other. See which one gets full first.
On Sunday, December 29, 2024 at 12:49:34 AM CST, Peter Brooks via groups.io <peter@...> wrote:
Interesting how terminology has changed over the years, the early ¡®scraping¡¯ of sites has become ¡®mining¡¯¡
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Anyone can access ¡®Messages¡¯ on the Unimat groups.io website without being logged in, so it would be relatively simple to re-publish any posts made here to another site. Files, Photos etc. are not freely accessible, which is a good thing.
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IMHO the recent fad for AI is 99% marketing BS, but it seems to have given the industry a whole new impetus to ¡®collect¡¯ information.
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I find it amusing that ¡®AI¡¯ will also absorb all the absolute idiocy of internet content, and end up not being all that smart after all¡
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On a serious note, I do worry that the world is increasingly obsessed with the vacuous contents of IT tech, and not the real stuff?that actually physically exists in the world. There, AI, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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The more time we spend looking at our little lathes the better I think.
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Re: Unimat 3 Mill/Drill Attachment Question
Phill,
Can you direct me a email provider that would be more secure?
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Re: Unimat 3 Mill/Drill Attachment Question
Thanks, Phill
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Re: Unimat 3 Mill/Drill Attachment Question
Phill,
Yes that is it!
It appears I am not alone.
Thanks
Dick
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Re: Unimat 3 Mill/Drill Attachment Question
Only thing I know of that Yahoo is doing now is email, "News", and advertisements. Haven't seen anything on the group that looks like it's from an AI. Of course I don't look at their "News" or advertisements.? Bill in OKC? William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.) Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.? SEMPER GUMBY! Physics doesn't care about your schedule. The only reason I know anything is because I've done it wrong enough times to START to know better. Expect in one hand, expectorate in the other. See which one gets full first.
On Saturday, December 28, 2024 at 08:00:30 PM CST, OldToolmaker via groups.io <old_toolmaker@...> wrote:
John, take a good look at Yahoo.
Evert post by Yahoo has a recap of what I am doing as well as what others are doing. That is rather spooky and I think unnecessary. I feel rather uncomfortable that that Yahoo is paraphrasing what I post on the Unimat group. Happens every time. That is where I believe AI is involved.
Perhaps I don¡¯t understand what is causing this?
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Bill in OKC too
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