The X and Y slides on our metal lathe have been a bit wobbly as of recent. So Alex took it apart: Â And it was found that the various gibs their surfaces where not quite as flat as they should be. So we used the Abene metal mill as a grinder: Â We stole the…
Small sign made of hardwood — using a simple 2 euro ‘V shaped’ cutter from the bargin bin at the Gamma. The machine used for this is our large portal CNC machine. The font was simply a windows font; and I cheated a bit by first routing the outline of that font, inner and outer…
We recently got a small Plasma cutter from the lidl at the MakerspaceLeiden. Now we already have a rather nice (and large) CNC Gantry milling machine: at the MakerspaceLeiden. So we combined the two: and took a first baby step – – cutting out a circle. Success!
We’re improving our dust-control. This sees us connecting the various machines up to a central dust and chip separator and vac-shop. But we needed some sort of valves; so we do not waste precious flow capacity on machines that are not in use. Unfortunately the PVC ball valves we got where very stiff (especially when…
Lots of progress in the welding area (since our last post — https://makerspaceleiden.nl/index.php/2018/07/21/vuurhoek/) ! We now have a working ventilation system; power; air, TIG, MIG and electric-arc welding all back & working.