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Now that the CNC is up and running its time for a few upgrades… the first being a spindle instead of a wood router. The addition of a spindle will allow for more torque and consistent cutting speeds, the torque…
Arriving home to a leaking water pipe one day and after further investigation there was potential for more… thankfully I spotted this early and there was minimal damage. In fact, this leaky fitting was directly over the washing machine and…
I had the need to bend some acrylic for the CNC to try and help keep the linear bearings and rails a little cleaner, probably not necessary but an easy add on. I simply needed a piece of plexiglass bent…
Since my golfing buddies and I play a skins game throughout the year, it seemed fitting to make a trophy to celebrate the yearly point winner. The first thing that came to mind was the Fed-Ex Cup that the pro’s…
For the last 15 years while employed at Papa Johns we put on a golf scramble and I took the responsibility to make trophies for the players, this year I made some nice acrylic trophies. I had some stock laying…
This was another quick and easy repair on a Samsung TV with faulty capacitors on the power supply board. Here are a couple of symptoms to help identify failed capacitors: The repair process is fairly straight forward, unplug the TV,…
This was one of those annoyingly poorly designed manufacturer repairs for a product that should last for years, but sadly didn’t. The gist of the problem is that the BagBoy cart comes with a lever actuated hand break, terrific! However,…
This is the beginning of my dust collector upgrade project. The Harbor Freight dust collector has been modified and upgraded numerous times across the web and I think I could also benefit from some of the upgrades. The idea is…
After setting up my CNC and running some tests and jobs I was quickly realizing that I was having problems with my Z axis losing steps. I was working on a carving and noticing the cuts were not consistent, my…