I’ve been using my CNC router pretty steadily since I first made it about 2 1/2 years ago and while it’s been quite useful and productive, the old DIY version has a few ‘idiosyncrasies’ that I wanted to address. The more severe of these issues were: With the main Y … Continue reading
Category Archives: Workshop
Happy New Year!
New Year’s Day? Pshaw! It’s just another day at the ‘office’! Here’s my current ‘activity’ as I’m simultaneously debugging code on 4 different processors, 3 of which have radios that are communicating with each other and one is our home server containing our webserver and MySQL database (where all the … Continue reading
New additions to the CNC Router
Air Jets After doing the Pottery Logo project, I realized that I need to have air jets to both cool the router bit and clear away chips. With plastic especially, but even with wood, the chips, if not cleared, will collect in the channels and create friction, and, eventually, burn … Continue reading
New addition to Workshop Tools
I’ve had my 8″ Grizzly Jointer for about 11 years and I love it. At 8″ wide and 75″ long, it does a good job of flattening practically any board I’ve thrown at it. However, the one thing I don’t enjoy is sharpening and re-aligning the long blades in the … Continue reading
New Tool! Wide Belt Drum Sander
I’ve gotten a ‘new’ tool (new for me, it is ‘previously owned’), a wide belt drum sander! This sander is a Performax 16-32 Plus Drum sander. It has a sanding drum that is 16 inches wide but, because one end is open, you can run a piece that it wider … Continue reading