Engineer of all the things! Hardware, software, machining and fabrication, automotive, RF, EV and HV systems. Founding engineer at Hyper Electric Marine.
@SCH_Clay Probably could measure it all, but a scan will drastically cut down the time spent modeling, and I’m scanning like 20 other parts for the machine as well, so I’ll have a decent mesh of the original machine to then model and make clone parts.
@Jack1000k Yeah for sure.. I can scan markerless with the EinScan in structured light mode but it's awful without a lot of unique features for it to align with. Always end up with fucked up misaligned scan data when I go markerless.
42 min on hold to speak with a @synchrony representative.. voice reaffirms me every 40 seconds "Your call is very important to us" but it feels ingenuine after the 67th time
Refurbishing old machines is so fun
Powder coat and black oxide parts are done, just waiting on the anodized parts now and I can start reassembly of these four machines.
I have this giant poster behind my desk so when I’m measuring things I can quickly compare it against what drill bits are available for the hole and thus the likely actual hole size (yes, gage pins are better for this, yes yes I know I’m a terrible caliper owner)
@broblas I've used them for over a decade and find myself using it less as time goes on. Literally never used any of the buttons on this thing. I also have the spacemouse for notebooks and the spacemouse, which are the most ideal versions of this product imo..
You can just have motors made exactly how you wish in the USA. Just ordered six of these for $275/ea, where the OE motor was over $700/ea before shipping and duties/tariffs.