Happy birthday Syph007

[Northern Geek]

Happy birthday! 

[SAKnight]

 Happy birthday! May the spectacular custom work continue for many years to come!     

[Metropolicity]

Looks nice! Is the CNC conversion an option the company sells, or a third party add on?

The local guy here makes the mechanical interface parts for the stepper motors so I can get that from him, the electronics and motors I have to order as a kit.  But then im in business!

Make sure you look into getting ball screws, the slop on those mills is awful (I have the bigger one up).

Absolutely, the ball screws are a must.  The backlash in x and y should be able to be dialed down to less than 0.001, but it sounds like i wont get that for z, but i can account for that in software.   

You can replace the spring swing arm for a piston style and it'll be a lot smoother.

[Syph007]

Looks nice! Is the CNC conversion an option the company sells, or a third party add on?

The local guy here makes the mechanical interface parts for the stepper motors so I can get that from him, the electronics and motors I have to order as a kit.  But then im in business!

Make sure you look into getting ball screws, the slop on those mills is awful (I have the bigger one up).

Absolutely, the ball screws are a must.  The backlash in x and y should be able to be dialed down to less than 0.001, but it sounds like i wont get that for z, but i can account for that in software.   

You can replace the spring swing arm for a piston style and it'll be a lot smoother.

Oh right, see there's cool mods to do on tools to use for cool mods... moderific!  You said you have the bigger one up from this? The sx4?

The local guy here got a deal on some sx3's from another business that sold out when they went out of business.  It comes with the metal stand and hes got the collet sets and everything I need to make some by hand brassilox until I get tired of using the cranks and rip it apart for CNC.

[Syph007]

Also, what Wenger model(s) did you gift yourself?

I couldn't decide, since I want them all.  In the mean time I'm on an 84mm cellidor modding kick so I ordered 2 each of NIB recruits, small tinkers and waiters.  Waiter plus my scissor layer mod gives a modern golfer.  And I can upgrade the AL liners to nickel silver. 

Since the 84mm cellidor models share the same pivots as the 84mm alox ones its nice to be able to swap parts between them, and I already had little jigs made up to grind the scissors for the 84mm alox, so I can use the same method, but with bushings to reduce the holes to 2.2mm to put them on 84mm cellidors.  I dont know what it is, but I really like the small tinker, and to add scissors to one would be a nice little edc I think.   

[Heinz Doofenshmirtz]

Congrats Robert!  Have a good one!

[lowtech]

Congrats! Have a good day and thanks for getting yourself a present we can participate in!   

[Sidhartha]

happy birthday Robert!