Shopbot Generosity blows me away! Again!!

[scottp55]

Well, Somebody is following the Button thread.
I mentioned the next step for buttons and inlays was to get away from carpet tape and go Vac hold down and someone offered to make me one for free! I politely declined saying an all aluminum one worried me as half the time I work on the fly and after 12 hours I can and do run into ANYTHING:)
So imagine my surprise when Mom brought in the mail and there was a little Package and THIS was inside along with some AllStar gasket !!
He said he was just paying back for all the help he got when he was starting up(especially Bill P and Brady).
Out of the clear blue sky and the goodness of his heart.
Wish the rest of the World was more like the Forum!! Be a much nicer place:)
Darn! Now I've got to help a Newbie out when I learn more:eek:
It will be perfect for feeding 8/4 waste rips through for proto buttons, and has already given me ideas for future jigs!!
Oh, glad he forgot to drill holes for vac at base of center support and gave me pics of placement, makes me feel better about the batch of buttons I made and forgot the buttonholes:)

[barrowj]

Scott,

That was very generous and awesome of that somebody :) . Locally I always try to help people but am just now getting comfortable with the forum. I am still playing around with my shopbot ('04 PRT Alpha) and trying to get it running like it should. I know this happens with used items but it will get there. I just started checking out Youtube and found alot of good stuff there.. Happy for your good fortune, that is a really nice fixture. Someday I will have to looking into a vacuum system.

[shilala]

It's a whole lot better when we're in this thing together.
Beautiful gesture.

[Brady Watson]

Well done. It's nice to see generosity between Shopbotters. Keep it up people!

-B

[scottp55]

Yep, Very nice indeed, but the funny thing is we're hashing out version 3.0 right now and I haven't even hooked this one up due to thunderstorms:)

[POPS 64]

Scott , very nice gesture by that person looks like a nice piece that should come in awful handy . And there's nothing better than seeing people help each other out . I know I appreciate the help I get from you , whenever I can't figure something out, your right there with a answer or your figuring it out .A lot of very good and helpful people on this forum. Thanks Jeff :D

[johnh]

Man, that's stand-up. Great job on it too. Hats-off to the secret santa.

[myxpykalix]

Scott, let me see if i understand your jig. You take your material for your button, you put it on the jig which holds it up off the surface slightly so you can cut the perimeter of the button out correct?
It's held by vacumn while you design the face of the button
how is it held once you drill your thread holes?

[scottp55]

Jack, That's why we're on Version 3:) He was originally thinking onionskin for buttonholes, but I'm either going to plug the center hole and draw vac through holes in pocket into the vac channel in the aluminum or make a new piece of Corian with a slightly larger solid centerpiece so I can drill holes complete and clean. He also gave me the .crv today and like I mentioned we're already tossing ideas around to make it better. Not much surface area so I may have to mod my cutout pass, but he already made some Hickory? 3D buttons with an 1/8"BN so we know it works. Just need to play with it and then make a full size one for 4 and 6" wide 1/4" stock. :)

[myxpykalix]

Scott what i would do is
redo the corian to look like this
1) eliminate the center hole
2) create a channel for the vacumn around the diameter leaving the center open to be able to make the thread holes.
My dxf viewer creator needed updating so i can't post a pic

[scottp55]

Thanks Jack, just spent an hour in VCP redimensioning and playing with it and the idea of concentric circles for different Diameters with gasketed "donuts" to fill the diameters not used(Boy do I have a lot of questions for the AllStar Adhesive guy when he speaks next week at the Portland Shopbot Camp:) .
Thinking we may want 2 jigs side by side. 1 to do cutout/edge profile and the other with layered pockets for different diameters(with dense gasket) and the buttonhole area with a Much more compressible gasket. Then it would just be a Vac assist.
Mind is in "Boggle Mode". More caffeine is needed:)