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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Small milling setup wanted, carving wax...
Cc: mdd@hpuerca.atl.hp.com,raylc@teleport.com
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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 22:44:11 GMT
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In article <3bfc2t$2ad@hpuerci.atl.hp.com>,
Mark Doble <mdd@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> wrote:
>Ray L Elsey (raylc@teleport.com) wrote:
>: I've explored a number of different options to create models on the mac
>: and do some wax carving.  I need to find out about any small milling
>: operations and anyone having such a beast...  I can create dxf file
>: easily and want to bring them into the real world...
>
>: Any help would be greatly appreciated....
>
>: Ray
>
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>
>Hi Ray,
>
>	I was looking in the back of an issue of Popular
>Mechanics and saw an ad for a milling machine that can be hooked up to a
>PC to mill parts.  The set-up was $595 and inlcluded some CAE/CAM
>software.  Looked very interesting, if it does what it says it can would
>be worth the money.  I'll try to find the the exact issue of Popular
>Mechanics....
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If it is a "Cyance Kit" from US Cyberlab, don't waste your money! It is
VERY shoddily made and the registration and movement are lousy, the acme
screw thread rod is very poorly mated to the motors, and poor judgement was
used in the design, as it suffers horribly from friction. We are STILL
working at getting ours to work to spec for PC boards, and the CAD/CAM
software is just that Dancad 3.0 shareware! The motors are good, but they
didn't make them. Everything else they made was shoddy and impossible to
mount tightly. We are having to have big parts made at a cost of many more
bucks $US to get it going, and actually the task is requiring that
virtually everything US Cyberlab Built was unsuitable to the task. Our
machinist is a former Lockheed expert before his accident. He told us all
this in graphic detail.  Even the guide rod was not hardened steel but
simple polished drill rod! It borders on fraud.
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

