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A couple years ago, a railroad fan magazine asked us to build a 6 ft tall "face" of a steam locomotive for their trade show display. This year they asked us to build another one - a six plus foot...

A 2007 vintage 20" iMac - 2.8 ghz core 2 duo with 4GB memory.

There's been no issue with not having the filters - the MDF bleeder board on our vac table acts as the filter. It's a really simple design that has worked really well. We originally built the boxes...

We've been running our Shopbot on a iMac with Parallels for several years without any problems. Not difficult at all to set up. Parallels 6 with XP and the latest version of control software work...

Sorry about the delay responding. The Fein heads just sit on top of the box. The round parts on top of the box mimic the way the head normally sits on the vac body.

Here were the Fein boxes that we made. This was in our Shopbot assembly photo post from a couple years ago. Alison Stoddart

This is probably our most unique Shopbot project so far. A magazine asked us to build them a 6 ft tall model of a particular steam locomotive - the Pere Marquette Railroad #1225. The #1225 is...

I'm going to stay away from the Mac vs. PC "religious" debate.

But I can answer the question about whether it will work. We run our Shopbot with SB3 running on XP via Parallels on an iMac. So...

Scott: Has anyone tried this with a Mac computer yet? Our Shopbot is controlled by a iMac running XP on Parallels.

We also had a problem with the Z Zero routine with Version 3.5.15. The bit would come down and touch the plate once, but then when it went to touch the plate a second time, it would stop part way...

Mike: If you still have any unclaimed prototype circuit boards, we'd be interested. Thanks.

We've been running an Alpha and SB3 on an iMac with Leopard (OSX) using Windows XP and Parallels. It works great! We posted some pictures of it on the "Assembly" part of the forum.

Ron:

There are a lot of other posts on the forum about dust collection from people who have longer term experience with their set-up. You should check them out. Our installation is still...

Carving Artists: We designed the plenum based on looking at other posts on the forum and thinking about how we wanted to use the machine. It was super easy to design and implement in Partworks. I...

Bill: Feel free to use the pictures and information any way you feel would be of value.

The posts and pictures on the forum were very helpful for our Shopbot assembly. For what it is worth, here are some pictures of how our Shopbot went together. Hopefully, they'll be of some help to...