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Over the years I’ve designed a whole range of different comparators for various purposes and with various external constraints. I just finished my hopefully final one, blending every version from the one before it and having learned lessons on what works and what doesn’t. It seems like a simple thing, and it is, but even […]
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So, we have these pieces that need a certain texture placed on them. Well, less a texture and more a 3D scanned surface of some sort of machine block or something. I’m not entirely sure of the application. All I know is that it requires a very fine surface to be milled so that it […]
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Back in 2018 I designed a type of comparator (and setting master) for compressor valve grooves. Just finished another batch of 10 of them, it went well. Nowadays we wrap the master in paper along with oil in order to prevent rusting. Sending them to the southern states made them rust a fair amount. Just […]
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A few years back we made a gauge for measuring large bores in hydraulic cylinders. Seems the company that bought it from us needed the software for it again. I had to dig through my old source code and see if I had a recent version, turns out I did. On this project I did […]
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Just finished a new die/punch housing for use on an old press. Works well and allows you to index at different distances. The initial drawing was kind of wrong when I drew it but I just shifted it a bit to work given the machine.
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A collection of odds and ends
