#garfield Logs

Jun 01 2019

12:08 AM rue_mohr: ok I'm awake
12:23 AM rue_shop1: ok, I cut some extra vents into that mould
12:23 AM rue_shop1: mold
12:23 AM rue_shop1: mowld
12:23 AM rue_shop1: hmm
05:16 PM Tom_L: rue_mohr, thanks
06:37 PM rue_mohr: :)
06:37 PM rue_mohr: wow what a day
06:38 PM rue_mohr: me and ma went garage saling, found a bandsaw thats a match for the one I been trying to fix
06:38 PM rue_mohr: got a grinder, and some huge taps
06:38 PM rue_mohr: took a load to the landfill and picked up some bits of wood n stuff
06:38 PM rue_mohr: hit up a thriftstore and found some goodies
06:39 PM Tom_L: what you gonna do with HUGE taps?
06:39 PM rue_mohr: I think their pipe taps, so I'll see
06:43 PM Tom_L: worked on lbuntu to see if it was a candidate for linuxcnc on my D525
06:43 PM Tom_L: took all night to build the kernel for preempt for it
06:48 PM Tom_L: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/cnc/configs/tom-01Jun2019-53.png
06:48 PM Tom_L: not the best results
06:57 PM Tom_L: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/cnc/configs/tom-01Jun2019-RTAI.png
06:57 PM Tom_L: compared to the RTAI on wheezy
06:58 PM Tom_L: i've got a handfull of smaller pipe taps
06:58 PM Tom_L: used em once or twice maybe
06:58 PM Tom_L: i've had em for years, not even sure where they came from
07:06 PM rue_mohr: k
07:07 PM Tom_L: so
07:07 PM Tom_L: are we gonna melt some metal today?
07:08 PM rue_mohr: supertired
07:08 PM rue_mohr: at the moment
07:08 PM Tom_L: i could take a nap
07:08 PM Tom_L: trying to decide whether to be productive or not
07:09 PM rue_mohr: my eyes keep snapping thut
07:09 PM rue_mohr: I have a power converter I want to make too
07:13 PM Tom_L: good then. i call nap time
09:10 PM rue_mohr: 8-Z
09:10 PM rue_mohr: blink* blink*
09:11 PM Tom_shop: made a wood holder for all my threadmills
09:11 PM Tom_shop: tested the 'pocket' routine on the cad cam
09:12 PM Tom_shop: i seldom if ever used it
09:12 PM Tom_shop: define the pocket, click and done
09:12 PM rue_mohr: ok
09:14 PM Tom_shop: just something to do
09:42 PM Tom_L: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/cnc/thread_mills/Threadmill_holder1.jpg
09:42 PM Tom_L: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/cnc/thread_mills/Threadmill_holder2.jpg
09:44 PM rue_mohr: heh cases and all
09:44 PM Tom_L: well i need those for the labels so i readily know what size they will cut
09:45 PM rue_mohr: :)
09:45 PM rue_mohr: keep the wood from rusting them too
09:45 PM Tom_L: i'm not sure how carbide rusts
09:46 PM Tom_L: happens alot quicker on regular steel i know
09:46 PM rue_mohr: I'm used to HSS
09:46 PM rue_mohr: nice chunk of wood too
09:47 PM rue_mohr: ma and I were at the landfill looking in the wood pile
09:47 PM Tom_L: i use some but before i had this mill i didn't have a good way to lubricate the cutters
09:47 PM rue_mohr: this time is was all junk, a peice of pine would be been special
09:47 PM Tom_L: just some leftover scrap i had
09:47 PM Tom_L: heh
09:48 PM rue_mohr: I'v picked up some nice peices of hardwood before, cherry, oak, some exotic stuffs..
09:48 PM Tom_L: that was leftover from a toybox i made a great niece
09:48 PM Tom_L: those are harder to come by
09:48 PM Tom_L: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/temp/toybox.jpg
09:49 PM Tom_L: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/temp/toybox1.jpg
09:49 PM Tom_L: _had_ to model it first :)
09:53 PM rue_mohr: I remember that one
09:54 PM rue_mohr: heh, got a 5MP camera at the thriftstore, its a pretty crumby 5mp
09:55 PM rue_mohr: my normal is 9mp, but I usually have it dialed down to 3 or 5
10:02 PM rue_shop1: ok, I need to work out which way is up
10:46 PM Tom_L: lemme know when you do