I was invited to participate in a CNC mailing list. Every month they get on Zoom on a Saturday morning and talk about all the stuff they've been up to.
The average age is prolly 65? And it's mostly "I 3d printed something last week" and "how are your solar panels doing." They get to me last and nobody has any patience so this week i went "I got a lot done but I doubt anybody cares? Here look I can turn it on."
But I recognize that's selling me short, because nobody knows what I'm doing, nobody understands what I'm doing, and nobody sees what I'm doing.
So here's 1 month of progress, in among talking to the mayor's office, touring commercial real estate and extricating ourselves from a bipolar student hell-bent on blowing us up (again).
It's a comedy underlined with realizations like "The Marian would be half the length, thrice as technical, and five times more 'rednecks in space' with him around." That version would probably also include a chapter where you scrounge for copper to make a distillery that isn't shit. Keep those updates coming, please.
I have very little idea of what I'm looking at, but it looks extremely complex and I'm keen to see a video of the completed item whirring away in a workroom.
What's gonna rule is I've got two microscopes to go with this thing. I bought a centering scope when I bought the wheel hobs. Ostensibly you chuck that thing up in a tool holder and it lines up with the spindle and shows you bloody exactly where zero is. Looks like a bombsight through the eyepiece. But more importantly, the FrankenKern came with this: Yeah, machinist's borescope, with fiberoptic illuminator and ancient shitty CCD camera. That's a dime through an iPhone. The thread on the back of it is some crazy number that nobody uses; it's been the holdup on getting that little puzzle working because it's gonna be FUNNNNNNNNN when it's all set up. 4k video cameras that strap on a microscope are like $200 ea so yer damn skippy any views of "machining" will be fuckin' front row.
