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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 bench by the wrench. Works OK, and strong enough for wood working applications and even a light milling job. A very well designed project and full marks to Prusa Printables for the STL downloads. I used PLA impregnated filament, Attached is a pdf with links to explain the original uses of this steel tool and how one was repaired. Through my life in engineering, I have never used such a work holding tool. Hope of interest -- John

Final photos of the Carousel small parts holder. Add extra from the original downloaded STL files, 2 x wall mounting French cleats, lids for each size trays and label holders for each tray. Cheers -- John

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 drapes and furniture. If these 10 posts were hand wound with the new 8 mm dia jute, it would be very time consuming and difficult to apply the correct tension when winding on to the tubes, So I started by removing the old "jute" or string leaving a plain cardboard tube. Then I just managed to get the posts between centre's on the mini lathe picking up off the attachment nuts. I mean only JUST "phew" due to the length. By power rotating the lathe spindle, then initially applied some wood glue all the way along the tube. It looked like a spring or spiral effect. The start of the new jute strand was stapled, then I turned on the late, very slow RPM, and wound on the new jute, the end of the strand after winding on the full length was stapled. Time to complete the rewinds of jute for 10 posts, 2 hours. Now if my wife can remember how the cat house all goes back together LOL I should be OK. I asked her to take a photo before disassembly, she did not. GR!!!!!!!!!!! Unbelievable but each post required 12 mm of jute, expensive repair, but it saves money on replacing the furniture and drapes. Photo 1 Jute to be stripped off. Photo 2 Tube between centres. Photo 3 New jute wound on between centre's. Photo 4 One tube done Photo 5 Stack of 10 posts done. Again, OT but put the lathe to some good use and could be of interest to other group cat owners. Thanks -- John

Can anybody help. I have downloaded a STL file for slicing. Such a nice shape and style. I need to convert to a STEP file so I can draft in a hole. I have tried Free cad and Solid edge, I get so far then ??? and importantly a step by step guide of how it?s done. From the converted to STEP file I can use Mastercam, do what I need and convert back to a STL file. see attachment. Thanks from a "pulling my hair out" member -- John

hey folks have any of ya made a tachometer using a Arduino ? I tried some I found online but most of them seem to have something wrong with the code I'm not smart enough in the Arduino world to decipher the code . What are you folks using ? I don't want to buy just a tachometer from China . I need to get one working in the Arduino platform for part of a project I've got going . thanks animal

Added to the FILES section a 3D printed box that holds my milling machine circular 150 mm dia table. The handwheel is bolted through the centre hole for ease of loading and lifting the table out of the box. from the photos you can zoon in and should see the methods of attaching the various parts together using the old technique of tenon and jig saw male female approach. As my 3d printer has a max print of 190 mm x 190 mm, the box measures in the extremes 270 mm x 220 mm. -- John

Hi all, sorted the reason having issues with sketch and TablesV5.h because I copied the imperial feed as well from xls into Table 5.01. Now the Keypad buttons will not work so reverted back to RELS 2.0 ino and the keypad works. Is there different Mega 2650 connection with Version 5.0 ino ? Has anyone got the schematic as seemed to misplaced mine