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Interesting. I've certainly gotten better with practice, but I can't shake the feeling that rattle cans are primitive. I do have a paint tent that I set up on the driveway for bigger jobs. It draws even more attention, but reduces the chance of getting overspray on a passing Yakuza's black AMG...

I have a little Jan-Air compressor and picked up an Iwata G5 which is more of a small paint gun than air brush, but would love to see/learn more of your painting process. Spray paint has mostly worked for me when restoring old tools, but the control is poor and I have such limited space outside...

It looks great! I recently picked up a Nakanishi Evolution (all the cool kids were getting them) and various attachments including an LS-100 "Luster" attachment that does reciprocating sanding/filing. Although expensive, It seems like something that would be useful with your model building.

Saw some of your laps, you were really moving!

Yeah I've done plenty of that before, it's a very handy solution. Good for repeating patterns and basic profiles, but really limited for complex surfaces. With the 3D printed solution (or a CNC) I could literally make custom pockets for each tool. With hand tools it will need to be something...

Holy ****! That shadow defect was a good bit of detective work. Those SLA printers are so tempting...

I have a permanent magnetic style grinding chuck and the ability to disable the magnetic field is key. Getting a workpiece safely mounted and positioned would be impossible if you couldn't turn the thing off. Short of building some sort of giant Gauss rifle the utility of repurposing this thing...

A little closer, it isn't the most interesting looking thing. Just a flat metal plate. If you look closely, you can see the way they skew the magnetic field domains to reduce cogging as the motor section moves across it.

So the next project (out of a million) that I've been mulling over is based on a piece of surplus equipment that I picked up out of curiosity. What you are looking at is part of a linear servo motor. A linear servo is basically like if you deconstructed and flattened a normal motor, this...

We all know you are going to outclass me with your woody box :LOL: I can't wait to see your take. Maybe we can start the Haimer Box Challenge here on GJ.

The Panasonic sensor switches I use throughout the house have little built in adjustable shields on both sides of the sensor that you can adjust with your fingernail that allow you to carefully tune the activation zone. The ones in the stairwells are 3-way interlocked and light sensitive, so...

The print completed without drama, and despite the filament spool being threadbare, Cura's weight estimate was correct and it lasted through the night. It gave me the opportunity to try out the new Noga CR-1100 ceramic bladed plastic deburring tool. It does what it's supposed to do, it cuts...

I've always been a Mac guy, and although I used VersaCAD and AutoCAD, I really disliked the way they worked. I'm embarrassed to say I spent years using MacDraw on my Macintosh II, and squeezed a lot more out of it than it was intended for. I used Vectorworks, but despite it working in a familiar...

Just Fusion 360 and the built in textures and local rendering. It was a really foreign experience to learn Fusion, I was brought up on classic 2D stuff that worked very differently. It still can be off putting, but it really gets out of my way most of the time and lets me make what I want to...

I am registered, and unfortunately they only offer those files for their tooling, not on the 3D Taster units.

Every time I decide on a big print I feel compelled to go through and update everything. Octoprint, Cura and of course compile the latest version of Marlin firmware for the printer. This round was less tedious than usual, fewer technical difficulties, but that Bambu Carbon might be tempting if...

You concatenate a zip archive with a valid image file using cat (Windows users can achieve the same thing, but don't ask me how): cat image.jpg archive.zip >> combined.jpg Since the image header gives the length of an image file, most interpreters will just ignore the archive, and the unzip...

I made a basic 3D model for the Haimer if you want it. It is concatenated with the image below, you should be able to download the image and run unzip on it to extract the STEP file. Let me know if it doesn't work for you.

I said I would detail the validation of the two Haimer 3D taster units I recently picked up, and I just finished so here is how I approached it. The first thing I needed to do is make sure I had a good reference spindle. I detailed rebuilding the spindle for my Proxxon mini-mill, but to be...

I saw a few YouTube videos about painting printed parts in carbon paint, polishing them and then electroplating. The results looked very impressive. Having done my first anodizing a few months back, I still have to do some nickel plating on some brass drawer pulls. I've been putting it off...