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Greetings Its not that long ago when the 'daily' arrived in my inbox at some 20.45 or so (from memory - - - it was somewhat before 21.00 EST). Now it shows up at 06.30 (still EST). I would prefer it fit something like 05.30. Is anyone else finding the new time less than wonderful? TIA

Greetings Some time, maybe a couple months ago, one of us talked about how he was through about 1/2 of the assembly manual for his DIY built 3D printer. Can't remember the person nor the name of the printer 'manual'. Can someone help me remember the 3D printer style and/or the person? TIA

Greetings I've cut outside (not fun but not terrible) and inside (not fun and almost a pita) NPT fittings. The DIN fittings are quite non-standard here in North America. Besides the fact that for a DIN38 I need to be able to cut 11 tpi (NOT 11.5 tpi like on some NPT) and that its a 55...

Greetings Will start by wondering if a section on CAD and CAD/CAM and and and might be useful as a separate from Software & Programming (maybe under it but its own separate entity). I learnt my drafting a LONG time ago - - - not 80 years but long before calculators! Learned decent sketching...

Greetings Having quite an odyssey getting a Creality 3D Ender-3 printer. Creality is offering a 10 pack of black/white 1kg rolls for some circa $15usd each. For those that have experience with filament - - - would this be a good purchase or run away from it? TIA

Greetings option 1 - - buy somewhat locally and pay 2.5 for cheap and 6 to 15 for name brand stuff option 2 - - buy alie and pay 1 to 1.5 problem being - - - - how does one separate the decent from the too bloody cheap on alie . This is not my 'native language' and there are always too...

Greetings Not to be contentious - - - but - - - - anyone out there ever tried to DIY some? (yes - - - I mean spiral bevel and not bevel nor miter !!) Thinking with a slotter or decent sized shaper one could possibly with some added tools/connections. What say you? (Dunno if I stuck this...

Greetings In process of wanting to buy tooling. There are a LOT of options (like a stupid amount in fact). What am I doing? Fabricate anything and everything from some small stuff to large stuff (well beyond table top equipment capable stuff). I've used brazed on carbide tooling, insert stuff...

Greetings Looking at getting myself one of these gizmos. One problem is that this is a Linux house - - - - haven't run M$ stuff in years! Second I was thinking of trying to get something a bit bigger than the 250 x 250 x 200 envelope. Seems that the bigger models get really expensive in...

Greetings There have been comments in some other threads regarding engineering tools run on linux (suppose *nix might be even better). Starting a thread for discussing pros and cons of any and all such type tools. (See - - - for me my computer is a tool - - - - not its own universe!!! - - -...

Greetings Have been looking for a smaller lathe but do want something decent. Found a Milltronics ML20 at a fairly reasonable price. Price that is actually less than most Chinese import new 13 x 40. Problems that I have with the imports - - - poor speed selection and range (usually they stop...

Greetings Quite new here!! Have only read a small amount of the threads available but am noting that there is a very large experience band through the group. Considering a smallish CNC lathe - - - - price is the same as a new 13 x 40 Chinese lathe (I'm thinking the used machine I'm considering...