Of course Jo-Anne and I will be there both days.
Type: Posts; User: jamesgilliam
Of course Jo-Anne and I will be there both days.
Ron, I moved my PRT almost three years ago fairly easily. I used trailer jacks with wheels on all four legs. I moved the Y and Z cars to center, loostend the stepper motors on the Y car so they...
Brad, I agree with Wayne. My guy at Laird in Austin goes out of his way to assist me with some things. If anyone can make it happen, they can. James
Mine is also on the end of the machine on the opposite side from the control computer, but on the closest end to my office door into the shop. Since I don't stay at the machine all the time it was...
I will second Raymond's choice of Porter paint. I have used it on all my HDU signs and never had a failure.
Terry, Search for Laird Plastics, they have a location in Boston which looks to be the closest to you.
David, Sign board, signfoam, precision board and Corafoam are all HDU material. I would probably go with 1 1/2" thick and back it with something like Dibond or Poly Metal depending o the size of...
I would have to second Raymond's choice of HDU. I tell my customers that I will come back within three years from the install date and do touch up painting on the sign if something fails in the...
Terry, I would have to agree with Donn also. I have a prt without the 4G board and it does look like you are loosing steps. What are your move speeds? Even with the board upgraded you could be...
My last big sign job the plant manager ordered three signs 4' x 8', then the president came in and asked if they would get a discount. I ask him if they sold their customer one piece of steel or...
Henrik, There is alot of truth in what you said.
Pam, When I first looked at a ShopBot eight years ago I felt I could get by with the 48" model. After all it was just going to be for fun use. The first one I saw was the PRT-48, there were no...
Ken, I hope your wife does not read the forum.
Like Kenneth and Lou I will use the slow time to learn new ways of doing the same thing. My business is slow, but I have not been out beating the bushes looking for any either, but I have been doing...
Chris, Back when I was looking at buying a Shopbot one of the machines I went to look at was enclosed in plexiglass. It was not a buddy, it was a PRT48. I think if you were to allow for the...
Ken, You forgot to mention that Ray walked home in it too, uphill both ways.
Tim, Another thing you can do to avoid the swing during a high wind is place another eyebolt on the side closest to the post, another eyebolt into the post and a qiick link in between. I did this on...
Roger, I moved it to .1" above and put the x,y and z axis in the exact location of when the file was stopped to avoid the problem mentioned earlier, a grove cut into the finished plaque. I had reset...
Sean and Roger, I have had to do the same thing as you are going through. I was over 693k lines into a 705k line file when the router went out. When I stopped I wrote down the line of the file...
Lynn, Even though I don't have a Buddy I would be willing to help in any way I can. James
Lou and Dave, Well I may have to take the plunge and see if I can get my speed up and time down. Dave, what version are you running?
James
Carl, I would have replied sooner but the wife went in the hospital, nothing too serious, but I just got home. Don't worry about the ranting. Right now the machine sits idle most of the time as I am...
Carl, I did this for a fundraiser for a school at an area church. My normal rate would put it about $1500, a tough sell indeed.
Either Poly-metal or Di-Bond should do the trick.
Jack, Yes 16.5 hours and I let the machine run overnight. I am just glad the router waited until the next morning to act up.
Richard the subject of what it costs to run the machine has many...