Search:

My shop bot and computer both date back about 20 years. I think the computer has finally died for good. I have a few old laptops in the shop, and would like to use one to run the shopbot. I...

Do any places sell sign blanks like this?

34209

I have an ancient PRT 5x10 shopbot I bought used 13 years ago. I'm guessing it was five years old or so when I bought it. It has been very reliable over the years as I have used it to cut boat kits...

I'm going to look at cutting a boat kit, and the two possible file types they can supply are either a jpeg or a tiff. I'm pretty sure I'll end up doing a bitmap trace in Aspire of the shapes to be...

My response is almost two months after your original question, so you've probably found the answer by now. Anyways, I asked the the West System rep at the boat show one year this very same question...

OK, I'll send them out tomorrow. Can you do carbide vbits too?

Hi John, are you still looking for dull endmills to sharpen? I have a pile of them.

Where do you get the 1/8 down spiral bits? I should order a few of them. And I figured out how to re-locate the starting point on each shape, then make an array of each part to fill the plywood.
...

I'm in the process of quoting a job involving cutting small parts from a 4x8 sheet of 1/4 baltic birch. The parts are all about 3"x3", but they are not symmetrical and they are not rectangles. I can...

Thanks everyone. Looks like I have some homework to do.

Is there any way to convert nautical charts into 3d models of the bottom depth contours of a body of water?

Hi Joe, I tried to post these pics last week directly from my phone, but I kept getting a message saying they were too large. Now I'm trying to upload them from Picasa. Let's see if they work...
...

I'm making a new set of teak sign boards for a large yacht. The owner decided to change the name of the boat. The lettering and border are raised from the rest of the sign. The tops of the letters...

Just a follow up. I masked the sign with the new roll of Gerber. Right after I put it on the adhesion was not much better than the old roll I had been using, but I left the sign in by the woodstove...

The new roll of Gerber Ultra arrived today so I tried a few test pieces on the sign blank. It stuck marginally ok when I first stuck it on, but after rubbing it in hard and waiting a few hours the...

I tried something else this morning on the sign blank I'm using for experiments. I have some MasterClear for clear coating over Modern Masters metallic paints. I thought maybe if I sealed the paint...

Good idea Fred. The Gerber Ultra mask is almost two years old, and they said the adhesive can go stale. They guarantee it for a year. A new roll will be here tomorrow so I'll give that a try.

I let the new sign blank cure overnight by the woodstove and tried a test piece of masking. It still comes right off. Last night I buffed it down and sprayed on another coat of paint to get a...

The letters are about 4" high so it's not like there is little room between them. It's the very end of a roll of Gerber I've had for three or four years. Is there a shelf life on that stuff? I...

I put the second coat of finish paint on the new sgin blank last night, and today a small piece of test mask peels off it just as easily as the first one. Therefore I can eliminate the wd40...

Yep, I already made another sign blank. Hand painting all those letters with no mask is the very last resort. I'd be better off carving it, then laying on the mask and trying to trim with an exacto...

It's a 6"x60" sign with a flowing script font. Most of the letters are connected. I primed the extira and painted it with two coats of Ben Moore Aura, my usual paint I've used on hundreds of signs in...

It's a 6"x60" sign with a flowing script font. Most of the letters are connected. I primed the extira and painted it with two coats of aura, my usual paint. I masked the whole thing using the 15"...

I've had the machine for almost eight years now. I mainly do carved signs with some occasional custom machining and a boat kit now and then. I'd prefer to trade it for a 4x8 or 5x8 with a spindle,...

I have an old 5'x10' PRT that dates back to 2003 (that's a guess, I bought it used). Although I occasionally use the 5' width capacity when I cut 5'x5' baltic birch, I've never had a case where I...