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Re: Why Makers & Builders



"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:qa4c4u$uk4$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...


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I'm a member of various groups. Some very specialized around a particular
piece of equipment like the Yahoo mailing list for the mini lathe and others
more broad like Home Shop Machinist, so when I started my own group (on
Facebook) what did I call it?

Makers & Builders. https://www.facebook.com/groups/MakersBuilders/  Visit or
don't. I'm good either way.

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Some 13-14 years ago when I was trying to learn how to do faster more
efficient machining with small end mills and ball mills I pestered the guys
in the old RCM newsgroup constantly.  I just wasn't getting that break thru
I needed to be very efficient at what I wanted to do.  Finally one of the
guys said to me, "You know Bob.  You might just be the expert in this group
at what you are trying to do."  At first I thought he was being sarcastic
and telling me politely to go away, but eventually it dawned n me that the
type of machining I was doing might just not be so "mainstream" as I thought
it should be.  I took what I knew, learned, and had been taught and
extrapolated it.  Turned out to be pretty simple when I took the reductio ad
absurdum approach to what I knew.  Crank up the RPM, blow the chips clear,
keep everything cool, and turn up the feed rate.  Ok, its not that simple,
and I broke a lot of end mills learning what worked and what didn't, but it
wasn't rocket surgery either.



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