Progress! Our PracticallyCNC router is making progress!
These are brand new Y-axis gantry drive plates, with 2 new 800 ounce-inch stepper motors. We still need to complete the jackshaft bearing block, and test the assembly out, but this is a big step forward.
More photos soon!
Time-lapse photography is fun! Here’s another one of some solid maple furniture parts cutting on the milling machine. These are for Tomoko Yokoyama, another Graduate Industrial Design student at Pratt Institute.
Here’s the full-size version of that powder coating fixture we built for a large project with Studio1Thousand. 1,800 of these little brass tubes get coated with a Tiger Coatings series 44 flat black matte powder, while the ends remain bare for soldering. Coating this many tubes is time consuming no matter how you do it, but the alternative to this fixture is to manually wrap each end of each tube with the appropriate width of high-temp masking tape…that is a soul-crushing job that I would wish on no one.
