Re: #3D Fractal vice.
#3D
Thanks John, that is so cool, definitely putting one or maybe two on my
list.
Ralph
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Ralph Hulslander
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#1880
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#3D Fractal vice.
#3D
Loaded into the Files section photos of my 3D printed Fractal vice.
From the original designer the acid test seems the vice gripping an adjustable wrench.
See last photo of me lifting the vice off the
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John Lindo
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#1879
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Added Folder /Fractal Vice.
#file-notice
John Lindo <bechetboat@...> added folder */Fractal Vice.*
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Group Notification <noreply@...>
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#1878
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Re: #LATHES OT
#LATHES
Sorry to read of your troubles, but as we say, tomar los días "poco poco".
Roughly translates to "Take the days of life in small amounts".
As we get older we begin to slowly realize "the cemetery is
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John Lindo
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#1877
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Re: #LATHES OT
#LATHES
Hi John,
Emotionally not so well due to some family issues but nothing prevents me from pulling out the camera to take some shots.
It’s a Mark VI, not a V.
And yes the serial number
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John Dammeyer
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#1876
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Re: #LATHES OT
#LATHES
Hi John.
Nice to hear from you, hope you are keeping well and busy.
Selmer Mk 5 which I am guessing you have from the age, please keep well
secure as these saxes are priceless.
As a tip photograph
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John Lindo
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#1875
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Re: #LATHES OT
#LATHES
I love the workshop, twice the space, and played a contra bass in a jazz
band many years ago in Santa Barbara.
It needed to be supported by a jack screw off the floor and played sitting
down, as it
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John Lindo
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#1874
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Re: #LATHES OT
#LATHES
ya need one of these
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/heyUob4HT-Q
animal
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mike allen
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#1873
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Re: #LATHES OT
#LATHES
There's only 2 semi substantial things that I have taken apart in my
days . A automatic transmission in Hi school & a real Cuckoo clock from
Germany when I was @ 10-11 . I still have most of the clock
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mike allen
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#1872
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Re: #LATHES OT
#LATHES
I rebuilt a silver plated alto sax while in high school for a girl. She played clarinet in our Dixieland band which was called Seven plus a Garter. You can guess who wore the garter.
I played and
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John Dammeyer
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#1871
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Re: #LATHES OT
#LATHES
??? When my kid first brought his sax home he was afraid that I was
gonna take it apart to see how it works he slept with it under his bed
for a while . The Sax & clarinet family have so many neat
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mike allen
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#1870
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Re: #LATHES OT
#LATHES
Buffalo John
All correct, maybe next time. LOL
The lesson my wife learnt is to take a photo of anything she disassembles before she starts.
This cat house/climber has 4 levels, assembles with studded
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John Lindo
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#1869
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Re: #LATHES OT
#LATHES
And you should add a spool holder for the rope so you can pay out the rope
without getting extra twists in the rope or getting tangles.
And then, make an automatic glue dispenser with a roller to
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BuffaloJohn
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#1868
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Re: #LATHES OT
#LATHES
Thanks Mike for your quote.
After the fact, and job done, thinking I was only half smart, Duh.
What I should have done using the 8 mm dia "jute" was to instal into the RELS system a pitch of 8 mm in
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John Lindo
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#1867
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Re: #LATHES OT
#LATHES
??? ??? Good work , that's part of the work smarter not harder plan .
animal
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mike allen
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#1866
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#LATHES OT
#LATHES
Hope of interest. Possibly off topic.
I had to refurbish the cat house and restring the scratching posts, (tubes) as we have 5 cats
and these cat house support posts save on the ripping up of the
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John Lindo
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#1865
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Re: #3D STL conversion
#3D
It looks like it should work, but I wasn't very impressed with the "hollowing out" process as it didn't leave a constant wall thickness.
Good luck with it anyway, be good to see the finished item
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Julian
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#1864
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#Tachometersencoders
#Tachometers_Encoders
Added new # relating to posts referencing Tachometers and Encoders,
Thanks
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John
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John Lindo
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#1863
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Re: #3D STL conversion
#3D
Julian
That will do me nicely.
A good lesson, I think I am getting there, I will try something similar like
a cube with less of those triangles to compute.
Many thanks
John
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John Lindo
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#1862
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Re: #3D STL conversion
#3D
I managed to get the STL into a step and it was only 550MB, so I started
looking at the design and there were holes all over the place, which means
the mesh didn't.
The link to the vase at
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BuffaloJohn
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#1861
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