Digitale Uitlezing (DRO) op de draaibank en de freesmachine
Met dank aan Alex hebben we nu Digitale Linealen op zowel de draaibank als de grote freesmachine.
Revamp of the metal lathe
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…
Engraving with the big CNC macine
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…
Plasma cutters and the CNC Gantry mill
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!
Stiff Ball Valves
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…