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Even "old" CNC machines can have a large footprint. The one I programmed Wednesday nights and vacations, trying to make money for food and rent while studying my final year at Uni., was over 9 metres wide and about 20 metres long.
Fortunately, it didn't need very complex "bedding" as it was a flame cutter and the "cutting forces" were mainly those from the dynamics of the gantry carrying the cutting head.
As you noted in another post -- following "best practices" only gets you average results. And if you do what you've always done, you get what you've...
It was one of the first places where I built some big iron with that tool; notably a 300-tonne plough to make a submarine trench.
After the trench was finished, the plough was sold for the princely sum of $1.00 .
RFID zappers are easy to build. The ability to track individuals based on the signature of combination of tags that they...
I'm still embarrbutted that I programmed half of the tow-bar 300mm too short. A cow-orker spotted the shortcoming and made the other "half" a bit longer. Not that there was any good reason why the shorter bar wouldn't have done the same job, given the long tow-line by which it was attached to the surface vessel. -- "Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia ASCII ribbon campaign "Laws do not persuade just because X against HTML mail they threaten." and postings Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4BC - 65AD.
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