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I can't add much to the dyeing thread, but thanks to Heinrik for the post about the hot sand technique! I am out of town visiting my wife's family for the holiday...I know next to nothing about...

Scott-

I had a similar situation v-carving a detail on some corbels that varied slightly in height. I just setup a file before my cutting file that ran a modified zzero routine on each cutting...

Tim-

You could create a 1/16 r circle, put it where you want it and trim the circle and your vectors where they intersect.

You could also add another node on either side of your single node...

David, Ted-

Thanks much for the examples...those make sense now that I have had a chance to mess with it for a bit.

There is a link to previous versions under the Control SW page on the SB site.

I just downgraded to 3.5.20 as I was running into more issues with my latest job. You will need to downgrade the...

Hi David. That would not work for me as I needed to test more than one condition to trigger a single event. Testing the vars in "isolation" would not get me what I needed in this case.

I was...

Hi Ted-

Thanks for looking at it. I will package up the files and send them as soon as I can.

Would you mind providing a sample of a multi-condition test? I tried various combinations and...

Thanks guys...glad it is not just my machine. It is going to be hot here again today, so I am hoping that putting a pause statement in the file will not have the same effect. I'll make sure to move...

Hi Gary-

Thanks for the response. I will mess with it some more...I wish the programing language in SB was a bit more robust...maybe since they are open sourcing the language this area will get...

So I had a long v-carve run today of 50 identical shapes in ply, and my spindle was starting to get a bit hot. I hit "s" to pause things about half way through for a bit to let it cool down.
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Hi David-

I wasn't planning on using a DC as the vac source, I was just thinking it might be good to put a small cyclone in front of a vacuum if I was going to have a system that might allow a...

David-

This sounds similar to a table design I have been designing on and off for a while...

It would be a zoned table that would actually pull vacuum through t-tracks. Instead of the...

I will second John on the bx-24. I did a bunch of work with them for a large-scale electronic art piece at Burning Man a few years ago. They are super easy to use and you will be up and running with...

Hi Michael-

I would have the board switch a dedicated contactor/relay for any high-amp loads. The SB already has a contactor for controlling the router...not sure why you would need to add...

Hi Jim-

I posted a link to a relay board you can use under suppliers/vendors(http://www.winford.com/products/rly104.php).

You would still need a 110v relay for the drill, but this will get...

Howdy-

I was going to post this under the discussion about home-brewing a drill head, but I figured it should go here.

I found a nice little relay board for the shopbot: ...

Does anyone know if adding this mod will still allow you to control the spindle with the keypad? I added a remote yaskawa keypad that has a knob to control the spindle speed and it has worked out...

For those who are interested...Klingspor makes sanding flap sheets for this sort of thing. They are 9x4 sheets with slits on the edges and a hole in the center. They are basically a giant version of...

Interesting change on the Z. Looks like SB is getting away from the dual V rails there. I assume this is going to carry over to the larger PRS machines? a solid rail there will certainly be easier to...

The folks at SB noodled over it a while and Ted finally figured it out...the dip switch needed to be set to 500, with a multiplier of 4.

The unit value they came up with does not make sense to...

Howdy all-

I finally got around to finishing the belt-box reducer for a custom indexing fixture I am building. I am running an alpha 7.2:1 through 2 4:1 belt reduction drives. I am having an...

Hi Steve-

Just use the random function in your part file.
Oh, wait...there is no random function documented in the programing manual.
Ah! Paco found an obscure reference to one documented...

I use air at times to help blow out packed kerfs. One thing I have thought about exploring was to set up some sort of adjustable interval timer with a solenond to "puff" the air on and off at a...

I am curious what other future features might be there...I was told they were just replacing the 3rd party serial to usb converter with a custom component.

-Howie

I am not near my control box, so someone please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought there were two identical contractors wired in series as a redundant safety feature. Couldn't you just bypass...