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3D Printing With MakerBot Thing-O-Matic
Well, here we go…
With all our recent talk about 3D printing we figured it’s time to get into some show and tell.
We have a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic 3D printer. It’s more for tinkering than true prototyping, but it’s quite a neat little toy.
As machinists we may scoff at any metalworking machine made of wood, bit since plastic is kind of loosy goosey we suppose it works. Don’t think tolerances like you’re used to.
Think intricate 3d shapes that can be printed with a click of a mouse. While laser sintering is still far away from home use, plastics melting and deposition is not.
This is the first entry in a long future of articles on 3D printing. We may get technical at times, but will always try to keep the posts on topic to hobby use.
Siege C3 Mini Lathe With DRCD DRO
We met up with the nice folks at Sieg and browsed through their nice 2013 brochure.
It’s been a while since we’ve played with our Harbor Freight 7×12 mini lathe. We’ve seen the mounted DRO before on websites but this was the first time we saw it in person. It really has a nice feel and more importantly doesn’t take up space on the already travel-limited mini lathe.
The cool thing is they also offer it for the C3 and SC2. The difference between the two is the SC2 model has a brushless motor and is hence labeled “green”. And no more high low gear changes and plastic broken gears a la the X2 mini mill.
Stay tuned!