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Best homemade tool that I have built 2 of is the DYI Mechmate.
It is a CNC Router than can cut wood, aluminum, acrylic.....if you can draw it, it can make it.
This was the first one I built that could fit a 4x8' sheet of plywood:
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Quoted from marlboroa:What does something like that cost?
About $4,000 to build.
If you already have a computer, subtract $400.
If you want to use a wood router, rather than a spindle subtract $300.
If you have a bunch of steel you can take from the scrap bins at work, subtract $1100.
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Quoted from HHaase:Used to use loc-line for my reef tank too, way back when, very handy stuff for when you need to direct fluid flow.
-Hans
Yep, we use Loc-line on our CNC mills to direct the coolant flow.
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Quoted from mhkohne:connected by some threaded inserts and a bit of threaded rod.
For the non wood workers among us:
http://www.woodcraft.com/Product/159290/Threaded-Insert---Brass---14-x-20-8-piece.aspx
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Quoted from shimoda:Power supply disconnects for testing/repairing MPUs at the bench. Basic but very helpful. I like having a label-maker for these types of things.
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I find those regulated PS wired into pins all the time!
Quoted from shimoda:I kinda think it isn't a bad idea in some pins!
LOL, I know what you mean.
I always see them in a pin the only needs a single cap or a new rectifier.
Pin power supplies are about the easiest thing on the face of the earth to troubleshoot and repair.
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Quoted from Lonzo:Ive used those hard HF wheels. Do they not mark up your hardwood floor?
I use the black rubber HF swivel wheels under my 300lb+ house plants and stereo rack
They have been in use for a decade, with no ill effects
(disclaimer: My floors are real wood with oil based poly topcoat. Never tried plastic Pergo floors - be careful)
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