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The stuff they cobbled together and poured in the war still seems to be fine, lots of gun emplacements and storage huts still around

The stuff Adolf poured into all his dastardly engineering seems to almost indestructible...

Only in Britain could we get soluble concrete...

I think the Grenfell disaster may have saved us from a repeat performance with everything going up now being made of brick again instead of those panel things

We all know about this from the UK news so I thought I would see if our (your) combined knowledge could save the day for crumbling Britain

I noticed that the concrete allows water ingress which can make the bars rusty and cause issues

So does this not mean you can drill a hole and pump a hardening agent right into the porous structure and give it a new lease of life?

(They've only had 50 years to figure it out )

Edited By Ady1 on 02/09/2023 14:27:31

Great move. You will think you're bonkers at first but if you're doing a lot of stuff...

Once you chop it up you will have saved yourself an absolute fortune in materials

I use the blue spot stainless discs, find the cheapest source and buy 100 of them

For critical straight cuts put the plate into a big vice and move the disc along the top of the vice jaws

Well done you

If you've got a 200+ amp stick welder then all sorts of other options become available

Edited By Ady1 on 02/09/2023 14:06:55

I only use old Windows stuff, and ONLY the Pro versions

Win7 64bit and 8.1 64 bit run most stuff fine and the "update" process can be disabled

Never used an antivirus either, in 20+ years

You can download the software anywhere, the bit you must get a hold of is the key

Nowadays I would just get an old laptop with it preloaded from the bay etc

Edited By Ady1 on 02/09/2023 11:22:54

I had a squirrel with Alibre Atom and it's a bit fiddly but you can use the basic drawing function for a viewing angle, the notes bit for numbering and lines, then save as a PDF

Then use a PDF editor to put in the key list

Might help

These will get you started if you're waiting for bits

I got Alibre when I had covid at xmas for something to do.

Best thing ever once you suss them out... and unlike the real world all your parts fit perfectly every time!

A perfect job for flux cored wire welding. short tack welds. Vary your amps as you change task

Edited By Ady1 on 28/08/2023 13:11:05

I got a vevor brushless 750w one and first impressions are very good

Push of a button gives you reverse

I tested it on my Drummond M through the countershaft for half a day which takes a bit of grunt

There's one being used at the end of this thread

Edited By Ady1 on 28/08/2023 10:19:31

Was Anthracite not "the good stuff" for model steam

Not a prob. We all thrash stuff out from different angles in here which makes this place so interesting

The build in itself is an impressive feat, and then there's all that extra technical amazingness

(edit: I was really hoping someone had created an easy multi axis software solution for hobbyists)

Edited By Ady1 on 27/08/2023 19:49:08

I've had another squirrel and it's amazing work on multiple levels but there's no information on what he did for the CAM work and the G-code

It's a 6-axis job which really is next level stuff but I have no clue how he actually made it move about, unless it was maybe perhaps a python routine

All the stl files and freecad files appear to be build files for the project, 3D printing etc

So it looks like it could be a robot that can do fabby stuff, but it will only ever be doing one fabby thing unless you have serious programming skills

Edited By Ady1 on 27/08/2023 18:24:46

We can pretty much all of us bodgers put widgets and wires together to do stuff with varying levels of competency and experience but once you get beyond the 3-axis zone you suddenly find your paths for a control solution rapidly narrow into very few choices

4 -axis CAM and the control systems to use them are thin on the ground for a hobbyist

Suddenly the choices go down and the $$'s start going rapidly upwards

Edited By Ady1 on 27/08/2023 13:13:10

The big achievement is with the software doing multi-axis control, I think mach 4 does more than 3 axes as standard but there doesn't seem to be a lot of choice around for a hobbyist atm

(crossed post)

I would be far more interested in his software approach because it's yielding pretty impressive results

Edited By Ady1 on 27/08/2023 12:54:13

It's 4 or 5 axis but has the same issues

The big achievement is with the software doing multi-axis control, I think mach 4 does more than 3 axes as standard but there doesn't seem to be a lot of choice around for a hobbyist atm

Edited By Ady1 on 27/08/2023 12:50:12

As with the previous thread on the pico the big breakthrough will come with a DRO system independent of the motion system, which means self-compensation for mechanical error (just like with us)

My hobby router with nema17s will easily do 0.1mm again and again and again... until it gets wear and tear

The stage after self compensation is giving it the ability to "see" the object with a 3D scanner

The newer motor is fine

Your main challenge will be sorting out the lathe, use a slack belt to start with until you get some familiarity

Edited By Ady1 on 26/08/2023 22:43:08

Must be to do with the MS set up system using trusted proprietary software so no permissions required

combinations and permutations

Edited By Ady1 on 26/08/2023 00:33:55