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From: shane@cs.sunysb.edu (Shane Bouslough)
Subject: Re: Desktop NC Mills
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Shishin Yamada (squish@endor.uucp) wrote:

: 	The Light Machines Corp. TMC-1000 mills get the most use in
: our lab. They are not terribly beautiful machines, but they can easily
: cut through wax, acrylic, pvc, wood, aluminum, silver, brass, and I
: think someone has done some steel. The machines are now hooked into
: our labs macs, and are quite robust. They have withstood around four
: or five years of torture by students here and survived. Light Machines
: in New Hampshire has been extremely helpful with upgrades and problems
: when they arise (it helps that they are close by too). They are
: accurate to within 5/10,000" typically, I think (they do need to be
: stripped and lubed yearly, and are greased weekly. We like em). From
: my limited experience with these machines, I highly recommend the
: TMC-1000. Oh yeah, it's bed can go (x,y,z) = (11",6",5") at max. The
: last software upgrade we received includes 3-point Beziers, which
: we've used in an in-house postscript-to-GM code converter. They are
: running on networked macs under system 7.1

Sounds great... how many $$$?

: shishin "squish" yamada
: squish@endor.harvard.edu

-Shane

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