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October 2011 - November 2011 (Migrated to WordPress) Holiday Trivets: A CNC Gift Idea A Nice Mention of G-Wizard From Dan Kautz Over On The Hobbyist's Machine Shop Blog Added a Micro-Machining Chapter to Our Feeds and Speeds Cookbook Building a Low-Cost Micro-Milling Machine 10 Tips for Minimizing Breakage of Micro-Mills and Other Tiny Cutters Announcing our 2011 Holiday Sale! Happy Holidays from CNC Cookbook and Try Our Cranberries if You Like The New Release "Bat Signal" is on for G-Wizard Calculator Ever wonder why CNC is so much more sensitive to cutting speed than manual machining? Modogrip: Indie Film Maker Tools from MM Pictures and Precision Machinery and Tooling Nautilus Art Car Irising Door Another Nautilus Art Door With Iris G-Wizard Editor Version 0.410 Uploaded: Now With Custom Canned Cycles Magnetic Sheet Metal Bending Brakes Climb vs Conventional Milling Chapter in the Feeds and Speeds Cookbook Check Out Our New Twist Drill Chapter in the Feeds and Speeds Cookbook A Shopmade CNC Z-Axis Indicator Taming an Unruly Spindle Power Curve With G-Wizard G-Wizard Calculator 1.600 Is Available for Download Hossmachine's 5-Axis Mini-Mill We've Put You On Our Map! Give Us Your Take on Multi-Axis Machining (aka Who's Doin' the Fancy Stuff???) Organize Your Tool Holders in Old Filing Cabinets CNC Skull Candy for Halloween Kinetic Gear Sculptures for the Desk CNCCookbook Gets a Guest Posting on CNCMentor The Ultimate Jewelry for a Machinist? Check Out the Gear Ring We've Gathered Our Surveys on a Page Used CNC Machine Prices Skyrocket Despite Economy G-Wizard Editor is getting Markers on the Backplot and a lot of other cool features! A Tale of Two Crankshafts: 4th Axis Machining Videos CNC for Knife Makers One More for CNC Knife Makers: 3 Color Anodizing + Vinyl Cutting Drag Knife Good News: Flash Player 11 is Out. Please Upgrade! CNCCookbook will be getting a Kindle Fire Have Your Tried Additive Machining? The Ideal Harmonic Transformer
July 2011 - September 2011 (Migrated to WordPress) We Are Devoted to Fanatically Loyal Customers G-Wizard Now Has V-Bit Feeds and Speeds for Engraving Notebooks: Add Your Own Reference Information to G-Wizard Dropbox: Awesome File Sharing Tool for Multiple PC's Manual Lathe Survey The Spirit of America: Innovation and the Little Guy Making Things Kevin Potter: The Last Stake Maker Why It's the Little Guy that Creates the Jobs Two and a Half Men: Manufacturing at Straightline Components Send a 9/11 Tribute to Mars 1.545: A Quick Usability Release for G-Wizard Calculator Ride Your Next Case of Beer Home On a Beer Scooter Aftercooling a Compressor to Cut Down on Moisture Back to School Special on G-Wizard Ends Wednesday! Using Your Mill CAM for Lathe Work? Steampunk Dueling Pistols? What if your had CAM for your Lathe and didn't even know it? G-Wizard Editor Version 0.320 Just Released Back to School Special on G-Wizard! Windows Has Long Filenames But Your CNC Control Has DOS Filenames A Stack Trace for Fanuc Macro Subprograms when G-Code Programming Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On! RPM, Chipload, and Tool Deflection: A Surprising Relationship G-Wizard Editor Version 2.00 is Available for Download It's Been a Productive Week at CNCCookbook for G-Wizard Editor Had a Tough Week? Relax, It's Saturday Alibre Acquired by 3D Systems: Is the Maker Movement Going Mainstream and Big Bucks? Tormach Personal CNC Lathe Castings Latest Chapter in the G-Code Tutorial: Basic G-Code Program Structure A Robot Manipulator So Good, It's Creepy Swapping Axes for Right Angle Heads, Horizontal Mills, and Such CNCCookbook Receives Better Business Bureau Accreditation HSM Toolpaths Chapter Added to Feeds and Speeds Cookbook Remember Stuxnet? Technology Being Imported to the US is Being Laced With Hidden Hacker Tools Which Software Product Should We Build Next? Part Zero, Touch Offs, and Zeroing Cool Little Rocket Plane Model Made With BobCAD Welcome Mac Users! Minimizing Chatter, Finding Stable Milling Speeds, and More
April 2011 - Jun 2011 (Migrated to WordPress) Adding Infinite Loop Detection and Macro Stepping to G-Wizard CNC Editor We Joined the BlogTopList to Get Some Link Love Wondering How a Manual Machinist Can Learn to Use CNC Quickly? Awesome Motorcycle Brake Rotors by Braketech, Feeds and Speeds by G-Wizard Added Coordinate System and G-Code Dialect / Post Processor Articles to CNCCookbook's Online G-Code Learning Course Introducing CNCCookbook's Online G-Code Learning Course Father's Day Gift: Bob's Swamp Tea Recipe Take Our G-Code Skills Survey Bonjour, Hola, Guten Tag, Konnichiwa, Ni Hao: Yup, We Got a Translator Widget G-Wizard v1.52 Adds Power Tools for Machinists: Constant Engagement Toolpaths, Plunge Roughing, Through Spindle Coolant, and Programmable Coolant Nozzle Support I Want a Barbot! Revisions: G-Code Transformations with the G-Wizard G-Code Editor RAMTIC: Fast Super-Precision Manufacturing on Cheap Machines How to Choose a Stepover Give Yourself a STOP-Doing List CNC Software: Digital Tooling for CNC New Installments for the Milling Feeds and Speeds Cookbook Performance Recipe: Cheating on the 2 Flute Rule for Aluminum and Going to More Flutes Elsewhere Time for a Crazy Idea: Making an Inverted Spindle Lathe Out of a Mill The Alpha (dog) of Flashlights by Jason Hui, Feeds and Speeds by G-Wizard A Mechanical Iris Breaking Cutters With Tool Deflection: An Anecdote Spudgun Madness What's Your Digital Tooling Budget? How Do You Mill A Piece Taller Than Your Z-Travels? Introducing the Milling Feeds and Speeds Cookbook Feeds and Speeds "Sweet Spots" Updated the Breakout Board Page Back Tanned and Rested! Close to Canned Lathe Cycles for G-Wizard G-Code Editor (G71 Sneak Peek) Homebrew 40W CNC Laser Engravers If You Think You Might Want G-Wizard, Register Before Saturday and Lock in the Spring Deal Measuring and Controlling Clamping Force in a Vise Tragic Lathe Accident Kills Yale Student Turning Down the Heat in a Cut We've Got Less Than a Week Left to Run on Our Spring G-Wizard Deal Carbon Fiber Wingtips for a Fighter Plane, Part 2 The Emeco 1006: Made in America with Quality and Style Making G-Wizard Better for Beginners and Small Machines
December 2010 - March 2011 (Migrated to WordPress) Tormach Tool Changer Getting Closer What Price Machine Rigidity? We Have 2 New CAM Programs at CNCCookbook! Carbide vs HSS and Chatter for Small Mills Carbon Fiber Wingtips for a Jet Fighter Carbon Fiber: UFO Quality Material Henderson "Piggy" Motorcycle is the Coolest! G-Wizard Spring Deals are Coming Speaking of Art Suitable for Billionaire Playboys: Welcome Back Widgitmaster! A Photo Album for Machinists and Billionaire Playboys Great Video Series from Hoss on Tramming a Small Mill MeshCAM: Great Ease of Use in a 3D CAM Package Exploring Ramping and Interpolated Holes with G-Wizard's New Mini-Calcs Thanks for the Survey Responses! We Have the RSS Feed You're Looking For! Old Machines May Not Die, But They Need Some Creative Fixing Up We're Trying to Listen to You More! Interpolate or Twist Drill, Part Deaux -- Making Holes, Not Pockets G-Wizard's New Thermal Expansion Calculator Release 0.122 of G-Wizard Editor (Beta) is Available Progress on the Mill Enclosure 45 or 90 Degree Face Mill? Toolholding in Collets: How to Avoid Tool Pullout Introducing CNCCookbook's Machinist's Search There's Something About Knobs and Buttons Engineer, Heal Thyself! Too Much Stickout Can Ruin Your Day (And Your Cutter & Job!): Use G-Wizard to Check It Knowledge-Based Machining Comes to G-Wizard! CNC'd Art From Old CD's and DVD's Custom Tool Data for a Sandvik R390 90 Degree Face Mill New WordPress Theme and Migration Plan Nice G-Wizard Mention from NYCCNC 10 Questions You Could Answer If You Had a Cut Knowledge Base Got My Enclosure Page Up... Got a Good Start on a Pig Trough... The Short List for Online Marketers at Small Businesses Amazing Projects with CamBam Idea Notebooks America: Built By the Little Guys, Not the Big Ones And Now, the Secret RSS Link for CNCCookbook The Results are in on the CAM Package Survey Which CAM Package Do You Use? G-Wizard High Speed Machining Feeds and Speeds Machining an AR-15 Lower Receiver with G-Wizard G-Wizard G-Code Editor Gets a Little Touch of 3D Graphics CNC Embroidery
August 2010 - November 2010 (Migrated to WordPress) The Future of Robots in Manufacturing Peak at the Upcoming G-Wizard Cut Knowledge Base G-Wizard Picked Up in Tormach Face Milling Video Last Day for Special Beta Pricing on G-Wizard! Cutting Edge CNC Knee Mill From the 70's Throttle Body Injection: Feeds and Speeds Courtesy of G-Wizard Part 2 of Tool Data Management with Tool Presetting, TDM Software, Chatter Management, and More Nothing New Under the Sun: Starrett Caliper Pressure Device A Caliper Pressure Device New Home Page and Screen Shots for G-Wizard G-Code Editor Tool Length Offsets and Tool Data Management: A New CNC Cookbook Recipe G-Wizard Now Has Support for Carbide and Form Taps Candy Red Powder Coating G-Wizard Store is now Open for Business Last Week of G-Code Calculator Beta Testing G-Wizard G-Code Editor is Open for Beta Testers! Special Purpose Robots Heated Outdoor Furniture CAM Tip: Align Lead-ins and Lead-outs With Part Corners G-Wizard G-Code Editor Goes to Alpha Test Tic Tac Toe Super Soaker Prototype Exoskeleton: Beats a Forklift! G-Wizard Parts! What's the Optimal Monitor Configuration? Getting the Best Performance from ER Collet Chucks Rob Wilson's "Big Dog" Bicycle Built for Four Larsplatoon's Electromagnetic Coil Gun A Quick Course in Feeds and Speeds, Part 2 (Demonstration) A Quick Course in Feeds and Speeds, Part 1 (Theory) Rock Lobster? More Like Robot Lobsters QCTP Boring Bar Holders G-Wizard Custom Tool Crib Video G-Wizard Calculator Video Tour Clever Binder Part Storage Deep Pockets Homebrew 250 Watt CNC Laser I am Ironman! Have You Seen the Maker Movement, MakerBots, and RepRap? G-Wizard Has a Shot at the iPhone and iPad G-Wizard Gains Plastics, Composite PC Board, and Wood Materials Climb Milling a Must for Thin-Walled Parts Deciding on Best Depth and Width of Cut When Milling Cutting Chatter When Precision Boring The Web is All About Sharing Of Pallets and Parts Ballnose Surface Finishes Interpolating Holes vs Twist Drills I'm Back, Though Not 100%... Drawbots Ferrari V4 Motorcycle
June 2010 - July 2010 (Migrated to WordPress) Announcing the CNCCookbook User's Club An iPad Mach3 Pendant The Fascinating World of Dry (and Near Dry) Machining Boring Big Holes With Small Boring Heads Increasing the Rigidity of a Small Lathe Anything Worth Doing is Worth Overdoing: Making a Boeing 737 in the Garage How Can I Increase My Tool Life? Slick Tormach Toolchanger Video BC: Before CNC at NACA/NASA Free Local Advertising for Your Business on Google Pre-CNC Machine Tool Automation Handy Table Clamps from Pipe Thoughts on Tool Rigidity and Deflection ShopVac Parts Catcher for a CNC Lathe Worried About Viruses on Your Computers? Wonderful Amateur Machinist's Board Shiny Cubes Kenneth Maxon's Crazy Cool 'Bots Check out the G-Wizard G-code Editor CNCCookbook T-Shirts Laser Fishmouthing (or Tube Scallops, if you prefer) Mill Fine Tramming Adjustment How Well Must I Align My DRO? Fishmouth Templates for Welders Using CAD CNC Fishmouths for Welders Learning G-Code
Is Carbide Always Faster? Limit/Home Switch Noise Mach3 Users: Make all of your Accelerations the Same on your Axes! 50 IPM Passes on the Tapping Arm Gang Tool a Turret Way to Get Social, Okuma and Sandvik! The Swing-Away Tailstock What Are the Best Toolholders? Rolling Into a Cut I almost forgot: Shop Air! Next Project: Tapping Arm Great Small Business Book: The Referral Engine Shopmade Jet Engines Yaskawa Has the Mojo Small Business Musings Blogs for Business Matters Optical Home/Limit Switches for the IH Mill Machinist's Hammers Diamond Knife Sharpener Bodysnatcher's 5C Collet Indexer Making a Lathe Compound from Scratch Clever Thread Cutting Gadget "Pro" vs "Hobby" Servos Why Do I Have to Know a Range of SFM's and Chiploads? Kluber's Magic Spindle Bearing Grease More Shaper Tricks on a CNC Mill: Cutting Splines A Chuck Hauler... Another Use for a Dual Indicator Rig (aka Traminator) A Couple of Very Cool 4th Axis Videos Finally, a New G-Wizard Release Kurt Vises for Sheet Metal Bending (aka Way Covers) Cutting Oiling Grooves When You Don't Have a Second Mill 4th Axis Disk Brake Machine Tuning as Preventative Maintenance Sandvik Metal Cutting Course Interpolated Holes Not Round! Dave DeCaussin is Still At It Shopmade CNC Press Brake The Little Things Can Sure Slow You Down Mill a Strip of Parts in a Vise How Much Torque on a Kurt Vise? CNC Cookbook is Gradually Coming Back to Life Neat Little CNC Toolroom Lathe: Harrison Alpha Did a Little Work on the Bandsaw Miter Gage Project Nice German BF20 CNC Conversion The World Before DRO's Rigging: Moving the Mountain to Mohammed New Project: A Miter Gage for the 20" Rockwell Delta Bandsaw Tapping Tidbits: Limit for Form Taps + Peck Tapping + Thread Mill When Risk is High Die "Traminator" and Spindle Squeegee Better Vise Mounting Clamps First Chips from Rockwell Delta Bandsaw Quick, What Hole Size for a Reamer? Fastest Way to Center a 4-Jaw, By David Lemereis Brian Rupnow Shows How to Turn Tapers With a Boring Head in Your Tailstock Feeds and Speeds for Micro-Machining with G-Wizard Homann ModIO Pendant Kit for the IH CNC Mill G-Wizard Gets a Tool Crib Flycutters Can Give Better Finish than Face Mills, But Why? How Much Feed is Too Little Feed? Try a Corncob Rougher to Stop Chatter Making Cool Fasteners Armadillo Way Covers Cutting Steel on a Sieg X2 Finished Making the Vise Jaws of "Doom" Making Some New Way Covers for My IH CNC Mill Hoss Uses Slot Pins for Big Jobs Programming a Higbee Thread Cool Plasma Table Work from Algeria Parkerizing in a Small Shop Rigid Tapping Example for G-Wizard from CNCZone Stallion Trunnions for 4th Axis Work A Fair Bit of G-Wizard New Functionality and a Sneak Peak at the G-Wizard G-Code Editor Congratulations to Tormach on the New PCNC 770 Collet Rack Eye Candy Started a New 4th Axis Page A Vacuum Table from ZealCNC Sweet Lil 4th Axis Austin Barnett's Killer Car Badges Some Neat Little Setups for a Steam Engine Project Speeds and Feeds for HSS Reamers Tooling Plate on a Tormach Nice Tooling Drawer Mini-Mill Comparison + 5-Axis CNC Tool & Cutter Grinder Micro-Miniature Tormach Tooling System A Drillpress Table Lift The Ultimate Gang Lathe? Gorgeous NEMA23 Stepper Motor Back Covers Hoss Machine Has a Nice Rack Scraping Video Shopmade Motor Couplers Vise Pallets The 17 Cent Flood Coolant Enclosure Swing Threading Toolholder and other Threading Aids for Manual Lathes Jared's Cube: Baffling and Beautiful Spectacular Tormach Flood Enclosure Some Vibratory Polishing Tests... Amazing Shopmade Plasma Table A Gantry Mill From Two Column Mills? Separating Chips from Coolant in a Shopmade Enclosure Blast Cabinet Tweaks The Devilmaster Redux: Gorgeous CNC Router The Master Jaw System: Turn Your 3-Jaw Chuck Into a 5C Collet Chuck Make It Easier Changing Pulleys for Machine Speed With a Bicycle Chain G-Wizard Calls Those Speeds and Feeds Pretty Close! Geof's Excellent Collet Chuck Alternative Going to Try Some Vibratory Polishing Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone! Additions to Toolpost Grinder Idea Notebook What does a first-time Mill user need? Must We Have a Burr When Drilling? Another Shop for the Hall of Fame Expanding Studs for Fixturing Glacern Machine Tool: Great Tools for Less, Crash Course in Milling Videos New Chip Thinning Cookbook Auto-Mill: Use Mach 3 as a Power Feed Tapping With Ye Olde Butterfly Impact Wrench CNCCookbook Gets a New Bandsaw Chip Thinning: Cutting Steel at 35 IPM With HSS on Bechtop Mill Finished a New Coolant Mister Last Weekend Mitutoyo 190: Swiss Army Knife of Calipers? Glenn Wegman's Indicator Holder How Accurate is Your Co-Axial Indicator? CubeStudio's Ridiculously Cool 4th Axis/Lathe How Many Plates, Er CNC Machines, Can You Keep Running at the Same Time? Single-Edged Razor Blade Line Pivot Nice Rigidity Bump Up for Small Sieg Mills The Case for Parabolic Drills and Some New G-Wizard Functionality More Clamping Tricks No Trick, Here's a Treat: Bandsaw Vise Trick New High Speed Spindle Ideas Coolant Collar Idea Notebook Sturz Milling and Other High Tech Milling Tricks Star Trek in the Machine Shop: Tricorder or Phaser? Servo Drive Reviews and a Big Drive for Your Spindle Chuck-In-A-Vise and Other Wisdom of the Widgitmaster Milling Quite a Compound Angle Organize Your Lathe Tooling: New Idea Notebook Widget Squares a Block (And Builds a Cool CNC Router) Check Out Glacern Clever Shopmade Bore Measuring Tools Offset Relative to the Machine, Not the Part I've Been Busy! A Poor Man's QCTP Dovetails First There Was "Mini-Me". Now, Say Hello to "Mini-Haas". Guldberg's KX-3 Enclosure and Slant Bed Lathe Projects More Notes on Indexable Tooling R8 Tooling Rack Completed Turner's Cube Tooling Rack Underway. Soon, I'll Have a "Manual-Automatic" Toolchanger! APET is to APKT as CCGT is to CCMT: Sharp Milling Inserts for Aluminum Crazy Trochoidal Toolpath Lets Router Cut Steel at 120 IPM Idea Notebooks: A New Page Type for CNCCookbook Squaring Your Mill Column Even More Fun Stuff: Ballscrew Mapping With a DRO Cutter Engagement: What It Is And Why It Matters Engraver's Vise is Slick Indi-Calipers or Dial-Test-Calipers for Measuring Bores Videos Page: 2 New Videos Making DRO Bracket Personalizing my Mach3 Screenset for the Mill R8 Toolholder Repeatability and Automatic Toolchangers Hypocycloid Reducers Axis Faulting? Try Some Way Oil... A Video of My IH CNC Mill Surfacing Some 6061 With a 5/8" Helimill A Vise Tramming Aid for your Milling Machine Mikini: Another Little CNC Mill Sieg's "Mini-Tormach" CNC Mill: The KX-3 Nifty Chip and Splashguard I Just Ordered CNCZone Thread on Engraving Fonts Ray Livingston's Preloaded Ballnuts Conventional Milling for Accuracy, Climb Milling for Surface Finish Adventures in Vibratory Deburring Thoughts on Preloading Ballnuts Hossmachine's Amazing Sieg X2 Vertical Machining Center Tumbler Media and Nice Experience with Granger's First CNC'd Parts + Watch Out for those Out-Of-Spec Endmills! Carld's Really Slick Carriage Stop for the Lathe Finally, the Mill is Back Up and Running! Handy Power Tapping Tip: Use a Little Impact Wrench Auxilliary Router as a High Speed Spindle You Gotta Love Solid Modelling Sorry for the Slow Updates on CNC Mill Progress: First Chips Were Cut Zoho: A Machined Android Figure Calibrating My Axis Steps per Inch and Checking the Backlash on the Mill How Do You Keep the Cylinders In Line Without the Con Rods Interfering? Newsflash: All Three Axes Are Running on my CNC Mill! It Lives! (Got my X and Y axes running on the mill this morning) The Many Uses of an Indexable Spotting Drill Lots of Fabrication, Wiring, Testing, and Diagnosing Went on This Weekend. Result? 3 Servos a-Spinning! Axis Modules Are Done Pending 2 Cables Planning Two More Axis Modules Why CNC for a Home Shop? Major Milestone: Spinning a Servo! (When Debugging, Whatever Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong) The Eternal Servo vs Stepper Jihad Continues Flycutting German Style With a Boring Head Clamping German Style With a Tooling Plate German Steam Engine: Wunderbar! Wiring the Mill Enclosure Continues, and Powder Coat is On Order Tormach vs IH Base Castings Shim or No Shim for Twist on Lathes and Mills Stabilizing a Round Column Mill Drill Getting Parts Indicated in the Lathe Chuck Automatic Tool Change for a Small Sieg Mill Using a Compressed Air Kwik Change Progress: Wiring Diagram, Board Mounting, et al Hossmachine Sharpens Endmills With a 4th Axis on a Benchtop Mill Getting Geared Up to Wire the Box Robot Makes a Turner's Cube A 2-Jaw 3-Jaw Chuck: Road to an Eccentric Chuck? An Eccentric Turning Fixture for the 3-Jaw Very Nice Spindle Spider for a Lathe Everyone Should Have an Air Shear! Got Most of the Cutouts in the NEMA Enclosure Some Progress on the Axis Modules Soldered the Cables on the Servo Motors Air Muscles: A Cool Robotics Power Source Drill versus Endmills The "Beijing Deckel": Musings on a Simple Shopmade Tool and Cutter Grinder What CNC Can Do For You: Steam Engine and Bonelle Tool and Cutter Grinder Evan's Tubing Bender A Slotter for the Lathe from Canada Ordered a 1000 Watt DC Power Supply to Run the Servos Today Make Your Own Transfer Screws More Mill Progress: Column is on, New Timing Pulleys Ordered Upcoming Sieg CNC Lathe World's Best Snap Ring Pliers?
Vertical Stop for Milling Faceplates for Eccentric Turning An Automatic Bar Feeder for a 4x6 Bandsaw A Tribute to John Bogstandard Liquid Tite Conduit Cruel Teaser Sketch State of the IH CNC Mill Project: One Shot Works for X-Y and X and Y are "On the Bracket"l German Epoxy Granite Milling Machine A CNC Punch Press Widgitmaster Mini-Routers Are For Superheroes Too! Gorgeous German Four Stroke Model Engine Rigid Tapping Spindle Speed Accuracy Mounting Ballscrews On Small Lathes Sears Labor Day Sale Yields CNC Cabinet For the Mill Drill Press Page Updates: Table Lift, Table Indexer, and Sensitive Drill Presses Meanwhile, Considerable Progress on the Mill CNC Conversion Today Check Valves, Gate Valves, Regulators and Other Useful Model Steam Fittings Building a New Y-Ballnut Mount Very Cool Model Boiler 4-Jaw Dial In Setup New Cookbook Article: Turning Eccentrics on the Lathe Prototrak 1630 CNC Toolroom Lathe 5C Lathe Hijinks: Closers and Boring Bar Holders Got a Couple Hours Shop Time in Today to Keep Going on My CNC Mill Conversion Finished Epoxy Granite Filling Around the Column Bolt Pipe on My IH Mill Started Some Pages for Bobs No.1 Steam Engine Still More Epoxy Granite Pouring, But No Pix Some Steam Engine 3D Modeling Preparing for the Column Pour on My CNC Mill Conversion Indicating a 5C collet setup true Bob's No. 1 Has a Con Rod Interference Problem Gang Tool Your Mill as a Vertical Lathe Use a Corner Rounding End Mill as a Form Tool A Handy Rounding Over Fixture Souping Up a Drill Press Great Spindle Indexing Feedback: Thanks! Vector Drive Magic and Indexing the Spindle of a Lathe or Mill Royal "CNC" Live Center Bandsaw Drip Oiler Forster Swiv-o-ling Vise Hockey Puck Leveling Feet on the Mill One Good Machine Can Make Another The Age of CNC as a Commodity Bought a Set of Servos and Gecko Drives from HomeShopCNC Use a 1-2-3 Block as a Small Parts Rack A Neat RCMT Profiling Tool for the Lathe Give Your Parting Blade a Tune-Up, Plus Turning With a Parting Blade How Toolchangers Work A Thimble Steam Engine Finished My Button V-Block! Machine Age Design Spinner for Collet Chuck Key Model Engineering in the Jet Age Robodrill Capabilities Pro Ball Turning Skillz A DRO for the Lathe's Compound Good Stuff from Hilmar: Stuart Triple Expansion Project More Storage Ideas Setting Up a Boring Head Collet Chuck Progress Mounting a Collet Chuck on the Lathemaster 9x30 More HSM Carbide Sightings Machining Hockey Pucks is Fun! A Trio of Lathe Productivity Aids Team Build: Elmer Verburg's Reversible Open Column Steam Engine Carbide, Blue Chips, and Taking Out the Heat VMC Cast Iron Frame Sieg KX1 Mini-CNC Mill In a Box Built a Tailstock Camlock for My Lathemaster 9x30 Lathe Rust Prevention in the Shop Some Nice Upgrades to the HF Tool Grinder Wiggly Flywheels from Circles More Widgitmaster Tips: Use Your Height Gage on Mill Setups Epoxy Granite Update JCHannum's Chuck Key Speeder Frank Mari Regrinds A Spindle Taper While It's On The Machine! A Tale of Three Collet Chucks and their Runout Time For Another Widgitmaster Installment: Big Router Tricks How Big is Your Boring Bar? More Positive Rake Goodness: CCGT Boring Bars Press Tooling: Punches, Bending Brakes, et al A Simple Rounding Fixture for the Grinders HSS vs High Positive Rake Turning Tooling High Positive Rake Turning Tooling: CCGT Thoughts on Positive Rake with Indexable Tooling Epoxy Granite Mud Pie Test Was Successful Ongoing Experiment Filling Machine Castings With Epoxy Granite Calibrated Tailstock Killer Tilting Angle Table One Shot Oiling System Grooves Complete; Epoxy Granite Fill Beginning Bijur Mist Coolant System Build a Rack for your Air Tools Big News from Gecko: G540 Started Collecting Information on Press Brake Attachments Started the One Shot Oiling Mods IH Z-Axis Modification Completed Hardinge CHNC Lathe Restoration Fly Cutter Geometry More Widgitmastering Got A New Toy: Coaxial Indicator An Elegant Widget is On The Way Add a Little Positive Rake to Your Parting Tool and a Chip Catcher to Your Chop Saw Wedge vs Piston Quick Change Toolposts for the Lathe IH Mill Y-Axis Lapping Completed: Before and Afters Conversion of My IH Mill to CNC Has Begun! Restoring the Usefulness of My Mini-Bandsaw With a New Table First Time With a Drill Doctor On the Business of Deburring Cool Little Pratt & Whitney Instrument Maker's Lathe Work Stop Ideas for the Lathe Some Marv Klotz Inventions GRexs Fit in the Tiniest Places The Disc Sander is Done! More Disc Sander Progress Mic Stands and Universal Vise from 800Watt Tramming the Mill More Quickly With Your Quill DRO Hardinge Ballscrew Coverst SPI Gage Block Set QCTP Lathe Tooling What's Your New Tool "Check-In" Procedure? GOLmatic Mill Ultimate High End Workstations and Cabinets Lasers + Video: Multimedia Machine Tool Experience! A Bit More Disc Sander Progress Kurt Vise Tricks Fridge Magnet Way Scrapers Mill Tooling Plate More Flycutter Hijinx The Lucky Setup A Bigger Greener Tool Grinder Small Bridgeport VMC's Disc Sander Progress ATale of Two Flycutters I Need to Make a Micrometer Stand Handy eBay Parting-Off Tool More Belt Grinder Notes LTD Stirling Runs on a Cup of Coffee Shopmade Air-Powered 5C Collet Chuck for a Haas TL1 Cutting a 45 Degree Angle on a Plate Super EZ Clamps Workshop Storage Ideas Useful and Commonly Used Tools 4-Jaw Lathe Chuck Cheater Key 12" Disc Sander Started Hillbilly Hot Tank Nice 7x14 Lathe Haas TL-1 Gang Tooling Wonderful Video on Making a Triode Tube From Scratch: Think Glass for Stirlings More Than You Wanted to Know About Harmonic Drives Didja Know About the Reference Info Here? Ever Wonder How VMC's Work and What's Inside One? Stirling Model Engine Page CNC Drag Engraving with a Spring-Loaded Graver Peering Under the (Mazak Way) Covers... Solar-Powered Stirling Generators Formula One Racing Car Parts First Project of the New Year: A Quick and Easy Welding Table The Spinning Tool Caddy of Doom Disc Sanders Mill Enclosures Not Machine Tool Oriented, But I Want One! (Pegboard Wall Wort Organizer) Slow Times at the CNC Cookbook! Great Idea for a Vibratory Polisher Mach 3 Controller Limitations Lathe Touch Off w/ Edgefinder CNC'ing the "Hula Hula" Steam Engine Tubing Bender and "Unbender" Making Square Holes With Round Pegs Schaublin Rear Cutoff Tool Another Gantry Crane An Insanely Nice Southbend Lathe Restoration Museum Quality Rivett Lathe Super Titanium Penlight Obsessed With Precision? (Moore Angle Plate) Shopmade Follow Rest and Box Cutters Sine Jaws for the Kurt Vise Headstock Adjustment Bolt Nifty Soft Jaw Tricks Awesome V-Twin Desktop Engine Posted Some New Workshop Pix QCTP Indicator Holders Someone is Finally Putting Linear Rails on an Asian Mill Need More Lathe Precision? Add Some Indicators to the Axes Door Hinge Thingey Stunning Paintball Pistol Things People Like To Make Hardware Failure Super Precision Machine Accuracy Checking: Ballbars and Circle Diamond Tests How About a Really Nice Monarch 10EE? On The Matter of Cheap vs Expensive Angular Contact Bearings for Ballscrews and Spindles Computer Upgrade Time Nifty Shop Photos: Truing a Lathe Chuck, Steady Rest, 4th Axis Gear Cutting A Fellow GRex Rack Mounter! Network Connectivity to the Shop Debugging the Lathe Electronics Dropping Out Parts in CNC Proper Installation of Precision Dowel Pins Unusual Edge Finding Accessories: Toolmaker's Chairs A Few New Goodies Arrive on My Doorstep Interesting Lathe Modification: Headstock Tramming Screws Lathe Progress Continues Cutting T-Sltos in Cast Iron for Machine Tables Lifting Heavy Fixtures and Tooling Handy Digital Bevel and Angle Gage When the Wrong Bearings May Work for a Spindle or Ballscrew or, How You Can Make a Mill From a Drillpress Diagnosing and Curing Noise Problems in CNC Machinery Quit Drilling With Your Tailstock in the Lathe Handy Pre-Ground Parting Off Tools from eBay Making a Timing Pulley Ballscrew AC Bearing Blocks EZClamps Model Turbines Clever Lathe Slotting Attachment Just Try Making a Wankel Engine Without CNC! Tubing Straightener Ordered Some Metal Today! Real Machinists Can Fix Machines Universal Indicator Clamp 4-Axis Mill Beats Lathe on Round Bars?!?? Widgitmaster Gives an Excuse for Another Purchase An Epoxy-Granite to Stiffen an Existing RF45 Mill An Epoxy-Granite Milling Machine Design Sketch More of the Fidgiting Widgitmaster's Machine Work Wisdom Widgitmaster Marks his Cross Slide Travel Widgitmaster Machines All Surfaces Flat and Square First! Widgitmaster Uses the Mill DRO as an Accurate CMM to Measure Features Widgitmaster Builds Setups for Rigidity Rotating Ballnut Vector Drives vs Ordinary VFDs Belleville Washers and Retention Studs: How the Other Half Does Drawbars Dust Guard for the Widgitmaster Mini-Router Cool Shopbuit Rotary Air Indexer Face Gear Rotary Tables Tramming Tricks Great Ballscrew Bearing Block Diagram Nice Indicator Sweeper Staking Ball Detents Cecil Walker's Spectacular 1/2 Scale Ma Deuce Dually Pickup Hauls 2 Lathes New Mini-Router Project: EZ Clamps Fitting CNC into a Smaller Case Tracking Down a Parallel Printer Ribbon Cable Manual Digitizing for Reverse Engineering First CNC Chips Cut Etching Glass with CNC The Widgitmaster's Travelling CNC Medicine Show: Up and Running The Widgitmaster's Travelling CNC Medicine Show Drill Press Cam Lock Clamp LED Ring Light for the Mill A Tale of 4 Taps, Some Polyboard, and the Mystery Steel! Cafe Lahti? Building a Manufacturing Business from the Ground Up Custom Aluminum Extrusions How Many Machines Per Employee? Keys to Machine Productivity Bearing Preload to Reduce Backlash Royal Taper Attachment The Lathe Parting Off Tool Can Be Fixed on a CNC Machine More Gang Tool Tricks Tailstock Sensitive Feed Attachment Cutting Small Gears Being Slightly Less Egyptian: Machinery Dollies Neat Fly Cutter Tip for Milling in Lathe CNC Rifle Stock New Concepts in Milling Handbook Widgitmaster Finds His Limits Sieg Factory Tour Scissor Knurlers Key for Tramming a Vise on the Milling Machine Mega Santec My CNC Lathe Enclosure Project is Out of Control! Rol-A-Lift Buy More Than You Need On Little Things 4-Wheel Disc Brakes for CNC Countersinking Flat Head Cap Screws CNC Lathe Progress Label Your Wiring! Concrete CNC Machines?!?? Rotary Table Accessories and Tips Fish Tape Cable Guides Fancy Brass Steam Engine Semi-Enclosures Need an Electromagnet? Jib-style CNC Plasma Cutter Kudos and Hero Worship for the Fidgiting Widgitmaster Widgit Engineering for a CNC Router Widgitmaster's Plexiglass Cutting Secret Widgitmaster's Mondo Vise Jaws Widgitmaster Machines A Big Chuck O' Aluminum Widgitmaster's Homemade "Really Big" Fly Cutter Widgitmaster Production Line Technique Widgitmaster on Accurate Boring Widgitmaster Internal Grooving Tool Widgitmaster's Sneaky Way to Check Your Feeds and Speeds Widgitmaster's Methods of Centering On Holes and Other Features in the Mill Thanks for all the Help, Widgitmaster! Nicely Made! 3 Double Vises: No Waiting! Managing the Chips in Your Flood Coolant System... Mysterious Vibration in My Lathe, Better Finishes, and Fenner Belts... Portable CNC Plasma Table Rhino Cage Editing... And Now For The Really Fancy Stuff! Home Shop CNC Parts Starting Up a CNC Business Don't Underestimate the Pipe and MDF Router Crowd When a Toolpost Grinder is Just a Grinder Aluminum Composite Materials: Interesting New Panel Material Increasing Height Gage Accuracy Hones are the Way to Go Rather than Toolpost Grinders for Tenths Work Forget Seeing My Etchings, Would You Like To See My Laps? World's Best Way to Set Up a 4-Jaw Lathe Chuck Accurate Lathe Work On a 3-Jaw Chuck Computer Wheel Balancer?!?? Making Fan Covers with an Industrial Hobbies CNC Mill Machinery Rigger's Delight: Lift Platform Trailers Accurate Z-Axis Adjustment on the Mill (aka I love it when a gadget actually works!) Turner's Cube Dimensions New Blog Index Tip: Holding a Big Plate in the Kurt Vise Slick Lathe Carriage Stop Spindle Bearing Lubrication CNC Lathe Progress Tapered Drawbar Spacer Take Time Out to Experiment Are 2 Mills Better Than 1? 30 Taper ER 32 Collet Chuck I Blew Up My Power Feed Shop Air System Fabricated the X-Axis Home/Limit Switches for the CNC Lathe Conversion...
Final Push for CNC Lathe Drill Press Speeder Gravity Operated Center Punch Another Home Shop Hall of Famer! Even Faster R8 Toolchanges? I'm a Paid-Up Alibre User... Got Started Organizing CNC Mill Conversion Pages The Powered Drawbar is Done!!! How Did I Live Without It??? #30 Taper Belt Driven Mill Head Sketch Alibre Notebook New #30 Taper Mill Spindle Came Today! A Centering Scope from a Webcam How Much Torque on the Drawbar? Some New Books of Interest CNC Cookies Turner's Cubes as Christmas Tree Ornaments Antikythera Zodiac Sketches NMTB 30 Spindle for the IH Mill! R8 Quick Change Tooling Systems Outstanding CNC Site Handmade Hacksaw Think CNC Mill! Design & Manufacturing Techniques Some Antikythera "Antics" The Antikythera Mechanism CNC Soccer Ball? More EFI Manifolds... Still Trying Out CAD/CAM Software Mill Centering Device Industrial Hobbies is Closing its Doors Hardinge DV-59 for CNC Conversion? Clever Idea: Gear Indexing Jig A Paintball Minigun?!?? Light At The End Of The GRex Tunnel Polygon Turning??? Ford 351 Cleveland Electronic Fuel Injection Playing With Blocks (2-4-6 Blocks, That Is) A High Tech Pen A Clever Way to Make Small Pulleys and Grooves A Backyard Monorail!?!! The Tech Shop: A Health Club for Machinery Geeks Build a Powered Drawbar A Bigger Lathe Aluminum Extrusion CNC Enclosure A Good All-Round Steam Engine Hurco VM-1 Upgrade Machining Thin Parts on the Lathe CNC'ing a Hardinge Lathe? CNC'ing a 9x20 Lathe Worm-Driven Ball Turning Attachment South Bend Drill Press Restoration I Want CNC Without The CNC CNC Master Checklist Damascus Steel Where Does All This Stuff Come From? Delay On Make Timer Relay for E-Stop Circuit Fixture for Machining Intake Manifolds Another Brilliant John Stevenson Idea: Tailstock DRO Power Drawbars Ring Rolling On A Mill CNC'd Clausing 13" x 24" Lathe (Air-driven shop made collet closer) High Speed Spindle Page First G-Code The Great Breakout Board I/O Mystery: Where's the Cheap USB Alternatives? Worm Gears 5-Axis Machines at Home! Machinist Utility Software ME Pro and High Speed Spindles Up Your Organization Bar Pullers Tandem High Speed Spindle Engine Turning Turned File Handles
Eliminating Backlash Gecko Drive Mounting Bracket for CNC Lathe Tapping Arms Nice Rail Design for Plasma and Router Tables Big Doings for the Site Cool 5-axis Milling Head Finished the DC Power Supply for my CNC Lathe project this weekend! Options for entry level CNC Precision Linear Rail Support With Moglice for Gantry Machines What's this then? (5-Axis Tool & Cutter Grinder Sketch) Tool Height Touchsetting/Presetting Moglice and Sliding Bearings It's alive! Finally got the PC for my CNC lathe project assembled Machine Table Covers Bridgeport CNC Conversion with Single Shot Oiling Ever hear of a "Maximator"? <Hint: Think Waterjets> Thomas Powell has done some fantastic work on his IH Mill A Smithy mill-lathe converted for linear slides CNC Dictionary Inexpensive DRO for the Mill Converting a Bridgeport Power Feed for the Industrial Hobbies Mill I Want to Build a Pan and Box Brake Centering Scope Ongoing CNC Lathe Conversion Odds & Ends Tool & Cutter Grinders High Speed Machining at Home Servos on the Cheap! Leveling Screws for Squaring Mill Columns A Row O' Fixtures A big box arrived in the mail--eBay again A Quick Checkup on the Health of a Milling Machine Spring-Loaded Parallels Separator Extremely Small CNC Machines CNC Lathe Conversion Status Odds & Ends Z-Axis for a Router Yuasa R8 Quick Change System A New Asian CNC Mini-Lathe (and Traveling Chip Gaurd) JerryFlyGuy's Flat Rail Installation for a Gantry Machine Precision Fly Cutter Motor Electronics Safety Switch Roh'lix? Making Connecting Rods for a Model Engine Pot Chucks for 5C Collet Systems I Want a Centering Scope! "Printing" 3D Objects in Steel Cross Drilling Jig
Make a Dodecahedron on Your Lathe and Turner's Cubes Digitizing a Quarter PC Chassis for CNC Lathe Conversion Phase II Rotary Table Tips Holy Spinning Tombstones, Batman! (Shopmade 4th axis tombstone) Miscellaneous Milling Activity SPI Table Stops Big Brass Knobs for My Mill Designing an Optical Limit Switch Augment Google with Clusty Tramming Jack A Chip Compactor for the Shop Dovetail Cutter for Making QCTP Holders Asian CNC Mini-Lathe Heat Treating Oven Interesting Shop Made Tools: Tubing Bender, Graver Sharpener, Ball Turner Finished the Mill Stand! Micro-Machining Apply Your Own Ceramic Coatings to Headers Garage CNC Business Machinist's Mate: A Handy Software Utility Mill Vise Caddy Shop Made CNC Hydraulic Tubing Bender Mirror Fixtures for Small Production Runs Mill Tramming Bar Awesome Shop Made 5C Collet Chuck Servo for Lathe Spindle Cooling Box for Air Hardening Steel More CNC Lathe Progress: Control Panel Cabling The GRex is in the House! Lathe Coolant and Spindle Control Wiring Make Your Own Flex Couplers Fabricating the PC Enclosure for the CNC Lathe Electrolytic Weld Cleaning QCTP Holder Rack Notes on Tapping Heads What Is A Left-Handed Veeblefetzer? Flood Coolant Musings and Tips Thing of Beauty: Tree 325 Milling Machine High Speed Machining With An Air Spindle Laser Measurement and Metrology Rail Mounting Precision for CNC Plasma and Router Tables Build a Fighter Jet With Your CNC Router The Ultimate Yo Yo Acoustic Chatter Recognition Adjustable Welding Table Machinery Lifting and Moving Dollies Veritas Optical Center Punch Cross Slide Drive for CNC Lathe Conversion & Circle Machine Boring Bar An Air Operated Shaper Attachment for the Lathe Converting a Rotary Table to a 4th Axis for CNC eBay Linear Slides ESAB Plasma Cutter Put a Welding Shop on a Car Lift Broken Boring Bar Lost Wax Casting Steam Engine Parts
Lathe cross slide motor mount sketches Splash guard enclosure for the IH mill sketches Z-axis stepper mount Lathe control panel controls mounted Converting large manual lathe tools to fit small lathe QCTP's Lathe chuck backplate in Rhino Using kilns for heat treatingAjax CNC rectifier boards Aluminum gantry cranes Automatically referencing a lathe tool via an electric circuit back to the chuck Setting lathe tool heights for manual lathes Rhino, OneCNC, and CNC'd NEMA 23 motor mounts Polishing aluminum, LaserTrac laser crosshairs, and Shopmade 5-axis CNC Check way accuracy and leadscrew parallelism 3D scanner from a laser level: ScanZ Shear Hog Mill VFD Robotic penguins IGUS chain for cable management CAD/CAM program research ModBus and IPac to gain additional I/O for the Campbell breakout board Lathe motor mount sketches Ballscrew alternatives PMDX breakout boards Discussion of MPG's for CNC including how to make an MPG from an encoder. |
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