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If you ask my wife she would tell you that I kind of do do it for a living. The vacuum press is made by Columbus Tech in Austria (columbus-tech.com). It has a rubber membrane that can stretch to about 36" for bent laminations and form work. It runs on a Becker pump and has a pretty big air tank. It's mobile and as you can see in the video the top flips up so it doesn't eat up real estate when not in use. I didn't want to deal with bags and I felt the flip top tables widely available over here seemed kind of flimsy, especially for the price. This one was not cheap (about $10k + freight, etc.) but it is of super high quality and will likely hold it's value.?
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开云体育Beautiful shop.? Thanks for sharing! ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kerryj_smith ? Well, I got the shop as clean as it is going to get for the next several months so I thought I shoot a tour for a client. Here's a link to the video for those who are interested. |
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Nice shop tour Kerry. Sure looks like you do it for a living.
Tell me more about your veneer press. Never heard of that one, and I like Austrian gear. Jason Holtz J. Holtz Furniture 3307 Snelling Ave. South Minneapolis, MN 55406 612.432.2765 -- Jason J. Holtz Furniture 3307 Snelling Ave. South Minneapolis, MN 55406 |
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Re: 3D printer usage for wood shop
Thanks! Bill Bélanger? On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 20:00 Shinta Wakahisa via <vnh84=[email protected]> wrote:
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开云体育Scanning a part versus designing?? I have a ton of first gen Bessey K-body clamps. Some had the black plastic support clips on the end and others didn’t drilled holes for clips maybe 30 clamps only to find that Bessey no longer sells them.? I was even able to reach the US importer and a guy when and looked at their old stock of parts to see if they had any. ? Perfect 3D print item.? I’d done some CAD design and I even designed replacement drawer detents for an old Husky tool chest but I am hopelessly slow. |
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开云体育I don’t use a ton of plywood.? The most I’ve used was to build 18 ft of lowers for my saw station.? I do have lots of variety and partial sheets which I mostly use to make jigs and quick things around the home.? I have pretty much shifted to only buying BB in half sheet format.? For hardwood veneer ply I saw my own 1/8” veneers and vacuum press to BB ply.? In the old shop I had about 12” of space between the cantilever rack and the wall and I had a lower shelf that could fit ?4 by 8 sheets on the long side, and a shelf about that could handle 2 ft by 8 ft laying on the long side.? The pain of that was I had to have like 9 ft open along the wall to get anything out. ? The appeal of the casters was to have full sheets on one and shorts on the other.? I saw another where they had it fixed on a pivot at one end.? I’ve always stored vertically but always on the long side to try to minimize warp.? Maybe I’ll try a vertical rack next to the dust collector.? How much space width wise before you would add a divider? ? ? ? ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 10:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FOG] Storage of sheet goods ? Joe, ? after I sold the cart like you posted I did what Jason has done and used drywall carts to move and store plywood for projects then put the leftovers on the cantilever rack.? ? Like Imran said the cart you posted can be hard to move when loaded parts because it is so big it requires too much space as you need to be able to access it from all sides and I remember having several sheets of plywood on it and having a difficult time because the it wanted roll when trying to get sheets from the inside. ? ? Using that cart really was an exercise in frustration. ? Joe not in NO ? ?
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开云体育Mark, i remember what was posted to be on the expensive side, from my point of view. i could be remembering the item incorrectly though. imran On Oct 28, 2020, at 6:01 PM, Mark Kessler <mkessler10@...> wrote:
?Imran, I printed this on a Markforged the material is nylon with chopped carbon fiber, i will check cost tomorrow but I don’t think it was $20. <image.jpg> Regards, Mark |
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Mark, is that a 4" hose? Can you print me one? Bill Bélanger On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 3:01 PM Mark Kessler <mkessler10@...> wrote:
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开云体育Here is my former plywood rack. I used both sides for whole sheets and the center for smaller scraps. It took a lot of floor space and was annoying to get to something not on top of the pile. I gave it away on Craigslist. I am a hobbyist, so I pretty much only buy what I need for a project, so most of my storage is scraps which fit under my CNC router. ? ? ? From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> on behalf of "imranindiana via groups.io" <imranindiana@...> ? joe, ? Joe not in NO brings a good point about access to both sides and refreshes memories. so i can add a few things: ? I can say that it was never something that i was pleased with. the purpose of casters for me was never to move it to a machine, rather necessary for me to get it out of the way. nothing i stored on it was too heavy - don’t recall storing full sheets. ? after having it, i believe, for shorts, best is to find a wasted space and stick it in there. i have a 4’x4’ stair landing ~3’ above floor accessible from one side and i may convert that into a matrix of cubbies for shorts. otherwise bins for vertical storage. ? for ply cutoffs the cart is just a vertical storage with a leaning wall. can be easily duplicated in a fixed location. ? just my $0.02. ? imran
?Joe, ? after I sold the cart like you posted I did what Jason has done and used drywall carts to move and store plywood for projects then put the leftovers on the cantilever rack.? ? Like Imran said the cart you posted can be hard to move when loaded parts because it is so big it requires too much space as you need to be able to access it from all sides and I remember having several sheets of plywood on it and having a difficult time because the it wanted roll when trying to get sheets from the inside. ? ? Using that cart really was an exercise in frustration. ? Joe not in NO ? ?
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开云体育Imran, I printed this on a Markforged the material is nylon with chopped carbon fiber, i will check cost tomorrow but I don’t think it was $20.Regards, Mark |
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I think the dust port adapter was printed in nylon. Nylon is about twice the price compared to PLA, which I used. Strength wise I don't think the adapter needed to be printed in nylon.
The diamond pattern was needed in order to both loose weight and to be sturdy. By using 30 degree angles I could minimize the overhang at the top of each diamond. 3D printers print layer by layer, so it's hard to print in mid air. Overhang up to approx 45 degree is ok. I learned this lesson while trying to print the below model. The round holes makes the overhang completely unsupported and the print didn't go very well. |
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