Comments for MachinistBlog.com http://www.machinistblog.com Plans, projects and how-to's for home machinists Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Comment on Inexpensive Plasma Cutters by Clark Heintz http://www.machinistblog.com/id-like-to-buy-a-plasma-cutter/comment-page-1/#comment-37588 Clark Heintz Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:24:11 +0000 http://www.machinistblog.com/?p=4113#comment-37588 Longevity is a great brand. Eastwood is too, and you can get the Tig Welder combo unit for a low price. Incidentally our shop bench tests anything that leaves from our shop before it is packaged and shipped, a good way for any shop to do business to ensure their customers get a properly functioning machine. Longevity is a great brand. Eastwood is too, and you can get the Tig Welder combo unit for a low price. Incidentally our shop bench tests anything that leaves from our shop before it is packaged and shipped, a good way for any shop to do business to ensure their customers get a properly functioning machine.

]]> Comment on CNC Fusion Z-axis Modification by wam http://www.machinistblog.com/cnc-fusion-z-axis-modification/comment-page-1/#comment-37581 wam Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:05:58 +0000 http://www.machinistblog.com/?p=4466#comment-37581 I came up with this: 1- move the dang electrical box so it's flush on the gib side of the column- this ain't easy since it has two ground screws in the column - I'm using a piece of wood, sloting it so that a wire can be brought out to the slot in the moved enclosure, then screwing the box on to the wood... it'll help absorb some shock too... 2 - Go to the auto parts strore and get some hex screws 6mm x 20 - 1mm pitch 3 - lathe the end down to match the gib slot - use a soft jaw and mod it like this: http://home.comcast.net/~ajawam5/DSCN2259.JPG 4 - replace the socket heads with the hex screws - use a bit of 242 locktite (just a bit) after cleaning out the crap in the hole http://home.comcast.net/~ajawam5/x2gibscrew1.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~ajawam5/x2gibscrew2.jpg Viola - adjustable gib on the Z More pic's - check out the GETO (Government Engineering and Technology) temp bellows for the screw (a bike innertube) http://home.comcast.net/~ajawam5/DSCN2280.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~ajawam5/DSCN2286.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~ajawam5/DSCN2288.JPG How I routed the chassis ground: http://home.comcast.net/~ajawam5/DSCN2292.JPG I'm currently using a arduino and a stepper from Anaheim (built in drive) to use it for now, eventually I'm doing this: http://home.comcast.net/~ajawam5/zhandgear.jpg I want a manual mill - I want to use a trig book and slide rule ( already have a small CNC)... I swear the Chinese mills are built so we can't build weapons to take over China...the manual z rack sucks This will go where the stepper is...the bevel is to move quick, the single worm slides over (threaded rod not shown yet) to fine feed/lock the Z ball screw.. I came up with this:
1- move the dang electrical box so it’s flush on the gib side of the column- this ain’t easy since it has two ground screws in the column – I’m using a piece of wood, sloting it so that a wire can be brought out to the slot in the moved enclosure, then screwing the box on to the wood… it’ll help absorb some shock too…

2 – Go to the auto parts strore and get some hex screws 6mm x 20 – 1mm pitch

3 – lathe the end down to match the gib slot – use a soft jaw and mod it like this:
http://home.comcast.net/~ajawam5/DSCN2259.JPG

4 – replace the socket heads with the hex screws – use a bit of 242 locktite (just a bit) after cleaning out the crap in the hole

http://home.comcast.net/~ajawam5/x2gibscrew1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~ajawam5/x2gibscrew2.jpg

Viola – adjustable gib on the Z

More pic’s – check out the GETO (Government Engineering and Technology) temp bellows for the screw (a bike innertube)
http://home.comcast.net/~ajawam5/DSCN2280.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~ajawam5/DSCN2286.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~ajawam5/DSCN2288.JPG

How I routed the chassis ground:
http://home.comcast.net/~ajawam5/DSCN2292.JPG

I’m currently using a arduino and a stepper from Anaheim (built in drive) to use it for now, eventually I’m doing this:
http://home.comcast.net/~ajawam5/zhandgear.jpg

I want a manual mill – I want to use a trig book and slide rule ( already have a small CNC)… I swear the Chinese mills are built so we can’t build weapons to take over China…the manual z rack sucks
This will go where the stepper is…the bevel is to move quick, the single worm slides over (threaded rod not shown yet) to fine feed/lock the Z ball screw..

]]> Comment on We were down for about 16 hours because of Dreamhost by Rob http://www.machinistblog.com/we-were-down-for-about-16-hours-thanks-to-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-37372 Rob Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:03:13 +0000 http://www.machinistblog.com/?p=6523#comment-37372 I've never heard of WPEngine. I took a look and did some research and it appears they're worth some serious consideration. One problem though is that I actually run two web sites (MachinistBlog.com & MachinistVideos.com) and I'm working on a third (RochesterMakerSpace). Dreamhost lets me host an unlimited number of web sites under one $9 account. Although each additional web site requires paying for some additional VPS resources. It looks like I would have to get a separate $49/month account for each web site if I switch to WPEngine. They also claim their lowest cost account supports up to 50,000 page views per month and MachinistBlog exceeds that. I’ve never heard of WPEngine. I took a look and did some research and it appears they’re worth some serious consideration. One problem though is that I actually run two web sites (MachinistBlog.com & MachinistVideos.com) and I’m working on a third (RochesterMakerSpace).

Dreamhost lets me host an unlimited number of web sites under one $9 account. Although each additional web site requires paying for some additional VPS resources. It looks like I would have to get a separate $49/month account for each web site if I switch to WPEngine. They also claim their lowest cost account supports up to 50,000 page views per month and MachinistBlog exceeds that.

]]> Comment on We were down for about 16 hours because of Dreamhost by PJ http://www.machinistblog.com/we-were-down-for-about-16-hours-thanks-to-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-37367 PJ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:22:34 +0000 http://www.machinistblog.com/?p=6523#comment-37367 You might look at some managed WordPress hosting; I don't know much about the rest of the landscape, but a friend of mine runs http://wpengine.com/ , which has a $49/mo plan which is about what you seem to be paying now. You might look at some managed WordPress hosting; I don’t know much about the rest of the landscape, but a friend of mine runs http://wpengine.com/ , which has a $49/mo plan which is about what you seem to be paying now.

]]> Comment on We were down for about 16 hours because of Dreamhost by Rob http://www.machinistblog.com/we-were-down-for-about-16-hours-thanks-to-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-37364 Rob Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:59:13 +0000 http://www.machinistblog.com/?p=6523#comment-37364 Dreamhost has been criticized in the past for oversubscribing their "shared" servers. But they seem to have stopped doing that. They're also one of the biggest web hosts and their prices and services are very competitive. I think we've experienced more reliability problems than we should but until yesterday they've been pretty minor and Dreamhost's support has always been very prompt and helpful. I could honestly recommend them and I was thinking about posting a small ad for them that might have considerably offset the cost of running this web site (and MachinistVideos.com). But, Dreamhost recently experienced another problem I didn't mention. They got hacked last week and as a result all their customers had to change their FTP passwords. IMHO, that's less forgivable than a 16-hour outage affecting hundreds of web sites. So I don't think they can be trusted anymore. Which is why I'll be looking harder for an alternative or backup host. Dreamhost has been criticized in the past for oversubscribing their “shared” servers. But they seem to have stopped doing that. They’re also one of the biggest web hosts and their prices and services are very competitive. I think we’ve experienced more reliability problems than we should but until yesterday they’ve been pretty minor and Dreamhost’s support has always been very prompt and helpful. I could honestly recommend them and I was thinking about posting a small ad for them that might have considerably offset the cost of running this web site (and MachinistVideos.com).

But, Dreamhost recently experienced another problem I didn’t mention. They got hacked last week and as a result all their customers had to change their FTP passwords. IMHO, that’s less forgivable than a 16-hour outage affecting hundreds of web sites. So I don’t think they can be trusted anymore. Which is why I’ll be looking harder for an alternative or backup host.

]]> Comment on We were down for about 16 hours because of Dreamhost by rleete http://www.machinistblog.com/we-were-down-for-about-16-hours-thanks-to-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-37361 rleete Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:03:35 +0000 http://www.machinistblog.com/?p=6523#comment-37361 That seems to be SOP. Offer low cost hosting, but make it so unreliable as to be a huge hassle. Of course, there are higher priced "upgrades" to solve all the problems. That seems to be SOP. Offer low cost hosting, but make it so unreliable as to be a huge hassle. Of course, there are higher priced “upgrades” to solve all the problems.

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