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Post by Derek the Admin on Oct 5, 2017 19:00:48 GMT
ISO excited... I like it.
Share what ya make.
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Post by wozzan on Oct 11, 2017 12:36:45 GMT
Hi my name is Warren and got my CK running after much away time over the summer. It was burning me up not being able to work on it. I am originally from South Africa and have been living in the States for over 20 years. I am a machinist by trade and wound up doing web development for myself when I got to the States. I used to run CNC machines in SA. I missed the machining and started working for a company a few years ago using normal machines. I was looking at making some parts manually and it dawned on me that I could machine them on a CNC router. I started researching and found the M3 and inquired about a larger machine. Derek let me know about the pre-order discount so I went for it. Really happy with it and excited to keep moving forward with it.
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Post by aforww on Oct 11, 2017 12:41:00 GMT
Awesome to have ya Wozzan. Always good to get folks with machining backgrounds. I might be picking your brain later on the web design thing . I need to get a website going after I abandoned my old one lol.
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Post by wozzan on Oct 11, 2017 22:42:20 GMT
Anytime, and I appreciate all the info you have shared
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Post by Derek the Admin on Oct 12, 2017 18:39:12 GMT
Yup, good to have ya here and glad you are getting going. I'll echo what Aforww said about it being nice to have old machinist types around.
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Post by oliverc on Oct 12, 2017 19:34:28 GMT
Hi everybody, My name is Oliver (Olivier in french) and I leave in Belgium (french part of the country). I just bought a M3 last week and impatiently waiting for it, but I'm afraid that the customs officer would like to keep it for him as it's a nice router I'm an electronics engineer by trade and like to learn things by myself, it's so rewarding when you reach your goal. Bought the M3 with mainly PCB milling in mind, I'll use it also for others applications (one thing at a time)
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Post by aforww on Oct 13, 2017 7:28:09 GMT
Hi everybody, My name is Oliver (Olivier in french) and I leave in Belgium (french part of the country). I just bought a M3 last week and impatiently waiting for it, but I'm afraid that the customs officer would like to keep it for him as it's a nice router I'm an electronics engineer by trade and like to learn things by myself, it's so rewarding when you reach your goal. Bought the M3 with mainly PCB milling in mind, I'll use it also for others applications (one thing at a time) Welcome. Be sure to let us know once you get her built.
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Post by Derek the Admin on Oct 13, 2017 22:00:39 GMT
Hey. It's great to have you here. You've already made some great contributions that we surely appreciate. See ya around!
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Post by mrkandangi on Oct 14, 2017 22:00:11 GMT
Hello everyone,
Not sure how to start this so I will just dive right in. My background is in product design and additive manufacturing for the last 26 years. My breadth of design experience is probably best described in list form: 1.X-ray tube design for Varian 2. Dental instruments and application syringe/tip design 3. Design of sports eyewear, consisting of ski goggles (probably the most popular model in the last 10 years) and sunglasses for Smith Sports Optics. I worked with an Industrial Designer who would present me with his concepts in the form of bondo sculpted frames. I would take these and reverse engineer them into CAD systems via a Microscribe digitizing system to create surface models for manufacturing. Essentially DFMing for molding while capturing the ID's design intent. 4. Commercial airline flight deck training simulators- our crew would spend 10-12 hours in full flight simulators (the same ones that piots train in. I crashed an Airbus A320 once. What a crazy experience) gathering all info required to reverse engineer them through taking measurements and photos on video. Our crew would then take this informtion back to our studio and design and build a static trainer for airline maintance crews. Final QA consisted of bringing a pilot in and testing for proper reach of each and every control and 5. Designing fountain drink dispensers for Pepsi/Lipton. Developed one of the first flavor injected and multi-flavored soda dispensing valves along with iced tea dispensers that you see at your local convenience store. 6. SLA tech- operated SLA machines for very earl on. I think the first 3D Systems 250SLA I operated on a full time basis had a serial number of 20-something. (I am dating myself here) 7. Reverse engineering- operated laser digitizing systems (LDI) to generate point cloud data that I would then create very complex surface models. 8. Lead designer for multiple contract design engineering companies. 9. Medical device design-Currently designing Class III long-term medical implants. Devices include heart pumps and nuerostimulators. In the past, working for Tyco Healthcare designing Class I and II devices.' 10. CAD software- Solidworks full time since 95+ version, IDEAS, Pro/e, Rhino, Imageware, AutoCAD and I am sure I forgot to mention a few.
(I am sure there are more than a few things that I am forgetting)
CNC has always interested me and is one of those forms of manufacturing that I have always wanted to learn. I am also excited to get my 14 year old son involved. He has mastered our Printbot 3D printer and this will be a god time for us both to learn the intricacies of CNC.
3 days until the M3 arrives at my doorstep!
Thats me! Mark
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Post by aforww on Oct 15, 2017 1:37:08 GMT
Hello everyone, Not sure how to start this so I will just dive right in. My background is in product design and additive manufacturing for the last 26 years. My breadth of design experience is probably best described in list form: 1.X-ray tube design for Varian 2. Dental instruments and application syringe/tip design 3. Design of sports eyewear, consisting of ski goggles (probably the most popular model in the last 10 years) and sunglasses for Smith Sports Optics. I worked with an Industrial Designer who would present me with his concepts in the form of bondo sculpted frames. I would take these and reverse engineer them into CAD systems via a Microscribe digitizing system to create surface models for manufacturing. Essentially DFMing for molding while capturing the ID's design intent. 4. Commercial airline flight deck training simulators- our crew would spend 10-12 hours in full flight simulators (the same ones that piots train in. I crashed an Airbus A320 once. What a crazy experience) gathering all info required to reverse engineer them through taking measurements and photos on video. Our crew would then take this informtion back to our studio and design and build a static trainer for airline maintance crews. Final QA consisted of bringing a pilot in and testing for proper reach of each and every control and 5. Designing fountain drink dispensers for Pepsi/Lipton. Developed one of the first flavor injected and multi-flavored soda dispensing valves along with iced tea dispensers that you see at your local convenience store. 6. SLA tech- operated SLA machines for very earl on. I think the first 3D Systems 250SLA I operated on a full time basis had a serial number of 20-something. (I am dating myself here) 7. Reverse engineering- operated laser digitizing systems (LDI) to generate point cloud data that I would then create very complex surface models. 8. Lead designer for multiple contract design engineering companies. 9. Medical device design-Currently designing Class III long-term medical implants. Devices include heart pumps and nuerostimulators. In the past, working for Tyco Healthcare designing Class I and II devices.' 10. CAD software- Solidworks full time since 95+ version, IDEAS, Pro/e, Rhino, Imageware, AutoCAD and I am sure I forgot to mention a few. (I am sure there are more than a few things that I am forgetting) CNC has always interested me and is one of those forms of manufacturing that I have always wanted to learn. I am also excited to get my 14 year old son involved. He has mastered our Printbot 3D printer and this will be a god time for us both to learn the intricacies of CNC. 3 days until the M3 arrives at my doorstep! Thats me! Mark Welcome! We are definitely going to talk. Lol. I'm a medic and I've got a few designs I'm working on to improve some of our equipment. Not nearly as involved as your projects lol
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Post by barra on Oct 16, 2017 11:39:11 GMT
Hi All, My name is Josh, I’m a Paramedic from Canberra, Australia. I’ve been reading this forum for a while now, haven’t been able to get a CNC router yet but hopefully I’ll order one in the new year. In the mean time I’ll keep reading and learning all I can. Thanks for all your input thus far!!
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Post by aforww on Oct 16, 2017 12:02:31 GMT
Hi All, My name is Josh, I’m a Paramedic from Canberra, Australia. I’ve been reading this forum for a while now, haven’t been able to get a CNC router yet but hopefully I’ll order one in the new year. In the mean time I’ll keep reading and learning all I can. Thanks for all your input thus far!! Welcome. Glad you're stopping by even if it's just to learn. Knowledge is valuable. I'm a medic as well! Got my certification this past May as part of my job.
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Post by Derek the Admin on Oct 16, 2017 13:32:19 GMT
Hey barra. Happy to have ya here. Feel free to ask any questions you have.
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Post by kevin on Oct 16, 2017 23:53:11 GMT
Hi Barra, welcome to the forum.
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Post by breslinmr on Oct 23, 2017 5:52:22 GMT
I was just thinking all the comments and likes and messages I’ve never formally introduced myself lol So here goes don’t worry this is going to be short and sweet just like my speech when I got married 👍
My name is Martin I’m from Ireland 🇮🇪 and emigrated to Canada 🇨🇦 4 years ago with my wife and son We are living in Calgary I was working full time until feb off this year until I got sick and ended up in hospital for a few weeks with a fairly rare neurological disorder called (CIDP) and I thank you Derek and this forum for saving my sanity on more than one occasion lol 👏👍 Anyway that’s enough lol thanks again
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