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andyjpb's avatar

Thanks for the 110-page tome. I really got a lot out of it and eventually decided to give it a try. After waiting for ages, a really cheap MDX-15 came up on eBay and it worked well enough. So I learnt some FreeCad and knocked out this for a friend's birthday: http://www.ashurst.eu.org/download/tmp/gal-charlie-chocs/index.html

Other than cutting one side of a chess piece STL I downloaded from somewhere to test the machine, that's the first thing I ever did with CAD/CAM and your guide was instrumental in making it accessible.

Thanks!

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Steve Worcester's avatar

Watched servo and stepper motors added to Southbend Lathes & Bridgeport Knee Mills. Built a RepRep that made crude parts & put controls on a 14x14x5” tabletop router, Donated both to a museum’s hacker basement in SLC.

Know a 126+ y/o Milwaukee factory that had 130 employees manually milling valves & cylinders, had a night shift as well. They are now about 12 employees and everything is CNC.

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