OK, would that be where a spring takes up the role of counterbalance?
Indeed. And that's why I view it like a shark tank, cool to look at but I don't want to stick my hand in there. If you want to get bit just say the distasteful words "hobbyist" or "import" and observe, like blood in the water. Increasingly my impression what passes for a machinist is more like a CNC machine tender than an actual machinist of old. So not only are "hobbyists" keeping scraping alive, they are keeping the skills and knowledge of manual machining alive.Funny you should say that!There is a huge pile of good scraping info on the "other" site, among it the sentiment that scraping is now the more and more a skill kept alive by "hobbyists". The pro's just junk the amortized machine, and look forward to the new latest and greatest. There are good folk there too, but sadly, it did not take long to come across unpleasantness.
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I'm thinking like this. Forgive the artistry "skills". You could mount it on an overhead trolley as well for greater positioning freedom.
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I'm thinking like this. Forgive the artistry "skills". You could mount it on an overhead trolley as well for greater positioning freedom.
There remains the little plan to have end support rests to set it down on between spotting, or hold it somehow, turned over, the better to be cleaning off, wiping, and laying on blue ink with the brayer roller. I am not sure one wants to be inking it from underneath - upside down.
some of those guys are truly gifted as well at CNC. They are dealing with real machinist issues as well. Just different.Indeed. And that's why I view it like a shark tank, cool to look at but I don't want to stick my hand in there. If you want to get bit just say the distasteful words "hobbyist" or "import" and observe, like blood in the water. Increasingly my impression what passes for a machinist is more like a CNC machine tender than an actual machinist of old. So not only are "hobbyists" keeping scraping alive, they are keeping the skills and knowledge of manual machining alive.
I recently saw a vid on YT that was saying restaurant workers were getting paid more than machinists...it's why the Luddites movement happened. When the weaving machines started into the mills the employers didn't want to pay the craftsmen what they had to pay them before because the machines were doing the work. They were only tending the machines. I guess I'd be grumpy too
The unpleasantness seems to be a pattern in the every day discussions.Funny you should say that!
I am happy to read away through their (quite extensive) threads of good information that have built up, but I don't post to the site. I have noticed there is now some push-back from their professional members who are starting to take the troll types to task. There is increasingly less tolerance of opinionated nastiness. That's good! Even so, I can tire of having to skip past such exchanges to get back onto the real thread - if it ever does get back.
