What's everyone up to right now?

[Fireball]

Same here.  So, as for places...theres no reason that it has to be set up laterally or permanently............

I've got a 1600ft2 shop and I'm jelly, is all I'm saying.  I cut my teeth on cnc back in the day and I still don't have a machine.

I used to work at a place in the mid-'90s as a consultant. They sold scanners for use in testing antennas. I designed and had some of the equipment built. I know what it takes, but didn't really see a reason for building one for myself, then. I should have done it then, from spare parts.     My work space is so tight that I have to walk through most of it sideways, and have to open the roll-up garage door to get to the front. I also have a 12" lunch box planer, a 10" drum sander and a bench top drill press in a vertical stack to save space.

Honestly, if I do end up doing CNC carving, I'm buying the machine already built.

[The Grand Nudger]

Me too, I just like knowing that I could make one, if I wanted to. I used to do missiles and avionics. Man I wish I had a real chunk of that change now.

[ignoramus]

Watching that vid and the others was better than therapy!

[Rev. Rye]

The awkward moment you look at your kudos and find that the banner thread was deleted:

[Fireball]

Kudos? I got not fucking candy bars! Where's MY stash!?

[ignoramus]

Here's some more spindle therapy pr0n. It doesn't get much better than carving an engine block on a 5 axis.

[Little lunch]

Thanks Iggy.
I feel like I have some real firepower now in the fight against insomnia. :-)

[Fireball]

Here's some more spindle therapy pr0n. It doesn't get much better than carving an engine block on a 5 axis.

That's some gorgeous work, right there! One thing that I will say is that a lot of mechanical guys like to see the mill marks in the final products. I used to design mechanical tools, and they got 300 grit finishing to remove those mill marks, and also got a .030 radius on all outside edges. It doesn't cost any more than a chamfer, and they were silky smooth in the hand during use. That radius was important, because if a wire had the insulation nicked, the whole harness got replaced. Many tens of thousands of dollars down the drain. That's one example of a tool. I also designed mechanical ground support equipment, which was a lot easier, in some ways. It took me less time to design a structure than it did for some analyst to make sure that it was earthquake stable. Kind of a joke, because I designed one structure that was of a large size, and when I designed another that was smaller, but using the same size components, the project still got billed for 80 hours of analysis, despite the fact that it was 1/4 the volume, thus way stiffer. But, what can you do?

[Rev. Rye]

Well, I picked up the good movies I had put a hold on at the library last week. Oogieloves is still in limbo for whatever reason, and I added another Deep Hurting Project film to the list: Larry the Cable Guy in Witless Protection. Hopefully, I'll have two films to subject myself to this week.

[ignoramus]

Microsoft is closing all retail stores worldwide (83) except 4.
Sad for employees but truthfully, who knew they even had retail stores?

I thought their new EDGE browser was by far the most popular browser used to download Linux!

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/26/microsof...in%2Dstore.