The madness needs to stop...how about a GROUP PROJECT?

[ErichKeane]

Thinking about it a bit... It would be nice to make something that isn't available made of Chinesium. Something we cannot get for a few hundred bucks on eBay/AliExpress/Etc.

One example might be a small shaper (sub 7", maybe just big enough to cut inside features, but this is likely too heavy even so.

Anyone have anything that they needed 1x but couldn't find a cheap alternative and had to either work-around or pay the big bucks for the expensive one?

 

[vtcnc]

Thinking about it a bit... It would be nice to make something that isn't available made of Chinesium. Something we cannot get for a few hundred bucks on eBay/AliExpress/Etc.

One example might be a small shaper (sub 7", maybe just big enough to cut inside features, but this is likely too heavy even so.

Anyone have anything that they needed 1x but couldn't find a cheap alternative and had to either work-around or pay the big bucks for the expensive one?

You might find that a slotter attachment might be a more suitably sized project, achieves the same thing a small shaper can, and if participants agree on the machine it is built for - makes it worth doing.

 

[vtcnc]

Another good idea that I think people would sign up for: toolpost grinder.

 

[ErichKeane]

Those are good ideas! A right angle milling head or slotting attachment for a mill are both fun seeming projects. If we designed it right, we might be able to flat-pack it into a flat rate box.

For example, if we made the part that goes on the spindle two 1/4" circle-to-square adapter parts, the body out of plate, plus gears/bushings, we can make it diassemble in a way that ships easy.

Additionally, it would make it somewhat easy to adapt to other mills by making different adapters.

 

[Braeden P]

How about I little shaper? Might be hard but it would be fun! Hopefully I will be able to help out but I’m not a donating member and won’t be allowed to so I might not make the requirements

 

[ErichKeane]

How about I little shaper? Might be hard but it would be fun! Hopefully I will be able to help out but I’m not a donating member and won’t be allowed to so I might not make the requirements

There are hand-shaper casting kits around... Perhaps we could copy off of one of those?

As for being a donating member, it's pretty cheap

They said, LENDING the tool to someone should require membership, but participating in the build shouldn't. If the person disappears, someone else can just take their place and the rest of us have lost nothing but time.

 

[Braeden P]

As for being a donating member, it's pretty cheap

Not for a 12 y/o who just spent all of there money on a lathe I am going to plow more drive ways to be a donating member but my birthday is in a few weeks so I will get some money but lending a big heavy tool sounds like a pain, I like the idea of only donating members getting to use the tool because nobody will like spending time to make something then someone just disappears with it would be bad.

 

[vtcnc]

If the person disappears, someone else can just take their place and the rest of us have lost nothing but time.

Not if they have the parts.

You guys might want to look at our rule set on the Pass Around Box sub-forum. It is similar (but not the same goal) as what is being proposed here.

 

[ErichKeane]

Not if they have the parts.

You guys might want to look at our rule set on the Pass Around Box sub-forum. It is similar (but not the same goal) as what is being proposed here.

I presumed the "lead" person was doing assembly and everyone else was mailing them completed parts. I thought about the pass around box, but it seems more tolerant of losing the box (and didn't one disappear just a year or two ago?).

 

[rwm]

Wow! A surface grinder...that's huge! Maybe a big bigger (size and weight) for my undertaking, but any rate...lets start another project. Did someone say the diving head seemed big?

I found the thread:

A Project Quest

That's correct, a quest, not a request. Mark F and myself have decided to do a project together. What we wish to do will be announced at a later date. Here is the quest, we are looking for some who can Plasma Cut parts for us. The largest part will come from sheet steel measuring 24x24...

www.hobby-machinist.com

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