Recent content by maynardr6

This isn't really related to the build besides checking to see if I could use the metric tap with an imperial drill bit (it seems I can), but I've only been a "machinist" for a few days, and I made a thing fit on another thing...*milestone*

I've had both of these for over a year and still working great. Amazon.com: TrustFire Protected TR 18650 Lithium 2400mAh Battery 2-Pack Gray: Electronics Amazon.com: TrustFire TR-001 Multi-Purpose Lithium Battery Charger: Electronics

So, I got my freakin laser! I just threw it on the Tektronix at 90ma. I pointed it at the desk. What an unbelievably small dot, zomg. Wait...is that?...The desk is smoking! Pretty exciting stuff. I also got almost all my stuff in, even the taps from China. I got 2 because I'm an idiot an...

The first thing I have ever made on a lathe. It wasn't my intention to make a knob. I was just playing with the different tools, and it ended up being a knob. This is going to go a little slow for a while. I wasn't originally planning on spending a thousand dollars :eek: on this. I still...

This was an idea I was toying with. Have a rear aixiz housing made kind of like a wormgear, but you know, threaded to fit the module. Then I could wrap the tubing around in the grooves, maybe even solder them in too. I found some 2mm O.D. x 30cm copper tubing for a few dollars. This would...

So this whole thing started when my brother found a XYRON Personal Cutting System behind a dumpster at his apt. After staring at it for a year, I ripped out the circuit board and put in my own stuff to make it CNC. Then I thought, "I'll put a laser in it!". Then I thought, "it should be water...

I'm working on a solution for that. I just wanted to know if it will focus as close as 1/4" or so. I'm going to have the laser at the top of a small tube that I will have kept at a slightly positive pressure by some kind of air pump. I'm still scavenging and scheming. I've come up with some...

I just got a lathe today!! I'm officially dedicated to doing this thing.

That's sweet. Keepin me motivated. How close can the laser be to the material being burned?

This being my first post, let me say I've been lurking here a long time, and the safety goggles are already in the mail. So the deal is I hacked this Xyron Personal Cutting System to be CNC and I want to put a powerful laser on it, and I would like advice on how you think it should be done. I...