A Tea between friends :-) How was Your Day

[Titus]

Hi MTVDNA,

Welcome! Where in the Netherlands are you from ? Cool to hear you are liking it so far. I see you are also on the UMforums Those brown spots look terrifying indeed. But yeah, should be fine.

[MTVDNA]

Yeah that's me on the UM forums indeed. I come from a small village near Maastricht.

[Titus]

I was guessing Delft, due to your studies Would have been nice to work together some times

[Izzy]

[quote="LePaul"]Well I adopted a kitten,
She's lovely, what are you calling her?

And one can never have too many cats!
I volunteer at Cats Protection here in the UK usually with the cats that had had a rough time or poor start, humanising them and gently getting their trust,

[LePaul]

I asked my Facebook friends for suggestions....many are, no surprise, variations of Star Wars characters ("Stormy" short for Stormtrooper, etc)

Two favorites are Molly and Emma. But open to more ideas!

[Izzy]

If you are a fan of Terry Pratchett and the Discworld books, We called our latest 'Esme' short for 'Esmeralda Weatherwax' one of the witches, but there is also a 'Tiff' 'Tiffany'
I still have 5 cats, Wombat, Tiggy, Coco, Thea, and Esme, all rescue cats, over the last 30 years we have also had
Rosie, Chloe, Bonnie, Danny, Willow, Cassy, Stanley ( a very old boy that's was only given a few months to live, due to his various medications he had been in care for several years, we gave 5 very happy months), Leon (lost a front leg to cancer, and became a tripod for 7 years).
OK I like Cats, I'm a mad cat person

[ivan.akapulko]

If you are a fan of Terry Pratchett and the Discworld books, We called our latest 'Esme' short for 'Esmeralda Weatherwax' one of the witches, but there is also a 'Tiff' 'Tiffany'
I still have 5 cats, Wombat, Tiggy, Coco, Thea, and Esme, all rescue cats, over the last 30 years we have also had
Rosie, Chloe, Bonnie, Danny, Willow, Cassy, Stanley ( a very old boy that's was only given a few months to live, due to his various medications he had been in care for several years, we gave 5 very happy months), Leon (lost a front leg to cancer, and became a tripod for 7 years).
OK I like Cats, I'm a mad cat person

Whoa!!! Its genius!! But why not from Games Wokshop's universe? They have Impi, and uncle Nurgl )))))))

[jonnybischof]

Been very busy designing my own take on a CNC portal mill. I didn't want to buy a ready-made one because I have simply never seen a good one - within the price range I could afford. Zurich FabLab has a mill which "should" be pretty good. Steel construction, looks solid. Never got a single good result out of it.

So I made my own using mostly Misumi hardware. 3500 EUR worth of Misumi hardware to be exact (before VAT). So no - it's not a cheap build at all (I paid another 650 CHF just for screws and nuts in all colors and genders!).
Will open up a thread, maybe someone can spot out an error or something I should have done better.. (Haven't ordered everything yet!)

[drayson]

Damn, jonny, you have too much time (and money )

Keep us updated!

[jonnybischof]

If I had too much time, I'd already be done

http://3dprintingforum.us/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=348

[Blizz]

If I had too much time, I'd already be done

http://3dprintingforum.us/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=348

And you have your first thread-subscriber

[Amedee]

I sourced mine from alufraese.de / cncwerk.de.
To keep the costs acceptable it is with CPC Europe rails and TBI Motion screws. Not Misumi quality but still very good.

Compared to what I used in the FabLab, it is much more accurate and it cuts just like in butter (with the same tools!)

[reibuehl]

I recently bought a Shapeoko 3 from Let Elektronik in Denmark. Most of it is assembled but I still wait for some limit switches to arrive and then I need to print some mounting brackets for them.

[LePaul]

I'd be curious how you like the Shapeoko

X-Carve was supposed to be a big deal but from what I read on YouTube reviews and elsewhere, it was a real disappointment for many

That's a tough market, trying to match what a full size CNC machine can do at a fraction of the cost but the same demands on accuracy

[nilrog]

From what I have read the mills at OpenBuilds are better than the Shapeoko and X-Carve. But I have not yet any first hand experience with any of them.