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Mini mill mania!
Our Harbor Freight mini mill arrived with a broken motor mounting plate. The replacement should be in this week. Eeeeeek! With a vertical mill like this one you can make all sorts of great metal objects like bushings and brackets.
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Mill, meet workbench.
Several members gathered at the space to construct a heavy tool workbench for the new mini mill. We chose a 40″ height, 4×4 legs, a double layer 1.5″ plywood top, and 2×4″ braces and supports around the sides of the legs — typical of what happens when a small circular saw is your most advanced ...
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Let the hackery commence.
Shortly after one of our lovely members bought a bunch of chairs, and another brought in a couple of tables, things started to happen. Funny how that works! Here, at one of our first meetings, someone is trying out an their early prototype of a talking circuit. We can’t tell you what it says (or ...