Part 5: First DIY CNC Project – Drilling and Tapping Aluminum Extrusion
In order to get the most strength out of my DIY CNC Router base I need to join the Bosch-Hexroth aluminum framing pieces by tapping them and then bolting them into the perpendicular pieces. The bolts will clamp the two pieces of extrusion together forming a strong mechanical bond. The only trick to this is […]
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Inventor of Super Glue Passes Away
Harry Coover, Jr, the inventor of Super Glue passed away on March 26,2011 at the age of 94 years old. Coover had 460 patents and introduced over 320 new products for Kodak. If you have hobbies of your own that require you to build, assemble or attach things to each other you’ve probably used superglue […]
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Selling my Thyratron Driver, EG&G / Perkin Elmer TM-29
I’m selling my EG&G / Perkin Elmer TM-29 Thyratron driver to help fund another project. If you’re interested in buy this TM-29 Thryatron Driver please check it out my EG&G TM-29 Thyratron Driver on eBay. I am selling of this item to fund another project that I’m currently working on. I’ve already sold one TM-29 driver […]
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Part 4: First DIY CNC Project – Assembling the Frame
The corner braces and gussets have come in for the Bosch-Rexroth aluminum extrusion after waiting a bit. It turns out some bolts I ordered were back-ordered and holding up my whole order. So now that I have some of the pieces I need I can start with the basic assembly. Of course this will all […]
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OMG I Broke My Nexus One – Oooo parts already here!
Well, I went and did it. I broke my HTC Google Nexus One’s digitizer by accident and now I have to replace the digitizer. I’m not quite sure how it happened. Perhaps in my pocket with a flashlight, or one of the few times I dropped it working on a friends car but the digitizer […]
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