A ghastly bodge

[Nick HulmeParticipant @nickhulme30114]

Robin,

It's not hard, you have a working solution that costs pennies, use it and feel suitably smug about saving time and money.

At the same time embrace the fact that you are proficient with tiny and delicate tooling and don't be afraid to mill small threads if at some point that is a good solution to a problem. 😀

– Nick

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

To me the pic. shows a letter 'S' in a sunken hole, I see no thread/ explain?

[Nick HulmeParticipant @nickhulme30114]

Posted by Clive Hartland on 08/10/2017 22:37:05:

To me the pic. shows a letter 'S' in a sunken hole, I see no thread/ explain?

Ballpoint for scale?

Tells you the size of endmill used?

Implies Robin is adept at CNC work with extremely fine (sub 1mm) cutters

Conclusion – thread milling is no harder, in fact since you machine the hole first and are only cutting the thread, and that that can be done in several steps reducing cutter load thread milling can present lower risk to tooling than machining the pocket.

 

– Nick

Edited By Nick Hulme on 08/10/2017 22:55:35

[RobinParticipant @robin]

Thanks. I like being called 'adept', quite made my day

Sadly I am only a geek, I can do wonderful things but I lack purpose and staying power.

I bought the Roland because when they were new I was in my nest building/reproductive phase and had no spare cash for toys.

I hacked it, taking control of all the buttons, motors and stuff by rewriting the operating system to work with RobinCAD.

I added a suds pump and changed the screws for zero backlash up to 200lbf loading.

I cut some test pieces, half fitted a quieter motor, then moved on to the next insanity.

My life in a nutshell

[Nick HulmeParticipant @nickhulme30114]

Posted by Robin on 09/10/2017 10:05:15:

I cut some test pieces, half fitted a quieter motor, then moved on to the next insanity.

My life in a nutshell

No shame in that, it's a known behaviour trait.

Not that many creator/innovators are completer/finishers.

I keep telling myself that

😀

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