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Hey Jon!
What department is Barry in, do you mean Barry in makeup?
I've only been on the show for fifteen years... still only know half the crew by their first names.

We're currently doing a large addition to the Destiny, a spacecraft that we built last year for the new series Stargate Universe.
Virtually every interior surface (the exterior is all C/G) was cut,...

John, the USB hubs that I use on both of mt Shopbots came with a fairly long cable already attached to them, this gets plugged into the back of the computer.
The USB/serial cable that came with the...

Need a new cooling fan for our SEV 3hp spindle.
Anybody have a source, or is this something that might be easily found locally?

Looking for user opinions for Spaceclaim Lt and LTX.
Supposed to be very good, very affordable program for those used to working in 2D.

Okay, problem solved.
One of the pinion lock screws had backed out and wasn't visible because of the grease on the pinion.
When I did a shake test on the X drive everything seemed tight, that is...

Ralph, thanks again for the reply but now I'm really stumped...
We milled a series of .25" holes with a .125" bit on the X axis on a piece of scrap at 48", 60", 80" etc. apart.
The distance...

Ralph, what exactly is the formula for determining unit values?
Over a 24" span, I was off by about 1/16"

Thanks Ralph, interesting about the gears needing to seat themselves.
I've got the 'bot doing repeat "air cutting" the full length of the table.
I'll keep that up for a few hours and see what...

Just installed a new set of rail gears on the x-drive on one of our PRT Alphas.
These were direct replacments for the previous gears.
Also updated to Shopbot 3.514, and updated the control box...

Thanks Scott, wasn't allowing me to upload the firmware either, spent some time on the phone with Frank at SB.
I ended up getting lucky after plugging into several different USB ports, rebooting...

Right in the middle of building a huge spaceship...
Noticed very rough cuts on our smaller PRT Alpha on long arcs, tried new bits, new collet, speeds, resolution, re-drawing the file etc. all to no...

Well, everythings' back to normal - go figure.
BTW, the second part of my question was only rhetorical ;-)

Dana, thanks for your reply.
This is the strange thing...
this was just a repetition of the file (100 pieces)
that I had been cutting all day long without any toolpath modification.
As I had...

First time I've ever encountered this...
Wanted to cut a piece of wood .4" thick in three passes with a .25" cutter so I adjusted the stepdown within the tool dialogue box to .15".
The Shopbot...

Just ruined a nice piece of teak with my Shopbot Alpha.
Even worse was the fact that it was for my own boat!
Getting runtime error 8021 "Internal error retrieving device control block for the...

I use a powered USB hub.
I also use a PC with dual monitor support, I bought a cheap LCD sreen that is in a window between the computer room and the router room.
This, along with a wireless...

Ha HA Haaaa...Got a good laugh at that picture of my boss, R.D.A., aka MacGyver!
But seriously, thanks for posting this Brady!
I'm going to try putting one of these systems together on one of my...

Thanks for the feedback guys!
Very much appreciated.

Just launched last night,www.boyddesign.ca
still a few bugs layoutwise to work out.
Designed on Coffee Cup, Visual Site Designer.
Cheap and very easy to use!

We do this all day long, half of our art department run Macs, the others PCs.
I run PCs to read the files they send me either via email or on a jump drive, and to run my Shopbots.
I have found...

Running our new Alpha 60 x 120, tried using the FG for the first time on this machine to resume a job we paused last night.
After setting the "go to" number and telling the program to run from that...

Jeff, just curious as to what kind of distance you can be with the keyboard from the PC and still get reliable response?

Thanks for the replies guys, but Frank, having used the wireless setup for the last two years I will never go back.
The way my current setup works is that I run dual monitors, one of which is an...

Expecting delivery of my second Shopbot any day now!!!
Problem is that both machines will be operating in the same room.
With my original machine I have been using a Microsoft wireless keyboard...