this may be covered somewhat in the New Member forum, but scattered.

I'm in Massachusetts, just a few miles south of Boston. Anyone else in New England?
Where is everyone located?

I'm in Pa. Steve, just outside of Hershey.

Dave

Northern(ish) Idaho. Trees, rivers, snow, and all that stuff.

Dean
Shop Projects

The Twilight Zone most of the time, Sometimes New Jersey too !

Tony

Steve,

Boise Idaho. All of the taters are east of here...

Rick Kernell

Central Utah. Mountains in the front yard and desert in the back yard.

sure, whatdya expect, might be even more on LI from what I see !!!

T

Sun City Calif....desert in front yard and back Yard....Hot here

Rolla Missouri, the middle of nowhere, err....everywhere

Hey Jeff,

I do notice that there are many, many companies based in MO. Always wondered why? Location ? ? Tax structure ? just curious !

Tony

Just part of the Midwest I think. Taxes and cost of living is not nearly as high as other places either.

Ahh I hear ya, Here in NJ we are the most highly taxed state in the Union, sickening !!
They say it all equals out, but I have my doubts about that !

T

This group is pretty spread out!
It may be a little while before we can have a meet up. . .

Steve, There is a Model Engineer Club in your area I think ? Do you know of any in the North East closer to NY/NJ ?

Tony

New England Model Engineering Society is a local group and they have a really good open house which i think is in Feb. at an old watch factory in Waltham.

http://www.neme-s.org/

I've definitely come across clubs in your area but of course I never pay much attention to them since they're not geographically near me. I'll let you know next time i come across one.

Wow, seems like everyone is in US here. Surely I'm not the only one from Europe???? - Ireland to be exact

Ahh Sun City - we used to call the desert around Palm Springs "Sun Cities" --- After 23 years in the desert we moved to Northern Cal to be near a new grandson -- five years later and we are still here. The weather is both better and worse, but if you like fog it is interesting. I have just started to learn to work my 25 year old Taig received from my brother-in law with the start of refurbished parts and many new parts to get it up to doing some projects. Windsor, CA (just north of Santa Rosa) is the town. The shop is 7'-5 x 9'-7 and packed to the hilt. Having fun.

Lew Bishop
Not retired but not working architect

Funny you mention Santa Rosa, Thats where the Wife is From..

We just had our Daughter and 4 yr old Grandson move back in with us.....Ahhh the Joys of Parenthood...LOL

We are lucky that at least three of the four children are employed at present. The hope is for the one laid off today -- no work in the auto body business..will be able to find something soon.

the model airplanes for me is the connection to a son and a son-in-law -- that's the direction of the projects. I'm putting floats back on a crash victim. Making new anchor
struts to connect with the landing struts. I hope to someday be a mediocre machine worker - especially after seeing many of the projects of this group and those on Nick Carter's site.

Lew Bishop

Hi.

I'm located in Trondheim, Norway.

My Taig 2019CR-ER CNC with Xylotex 4 axis controller bought used from a guy in Spokane, Washington.

Mussonor,

I have the same system as yours that I am getting ready to set up. Have you had a good experience with the Xylotex system? I plan on using the CNC version of the Sherline rotary table for the fourth axis.

Rick Kernell

Mussonor.

Great! I am going to run the DeskCNC software. May I get your advise when I start? I don't see many Xylotex users.

Rick

I still use those controllers in a DEEPGROOVE 1 Box, and as long as you keep your rapids and such down to 10 inches per min (250 mm/min) you will not loose any steps and will work fine if a bit slower. Many here started with these controllers some have since switched to the gecko controllers as they allow for better/faster control but that choice is up to you.

Bryan


Machined out wing rib, top to show connecting tabs, roughly 2" high by 7" long, done on TAIG CNC MILL using Mach 3 and Cut-2D. Tabs are partially machined away on this side. it is smooth I
had just not taken the "fuzz" off of the part after cutting with a light sanding, it was a really nice rib.

Currently I am using Autocad to draw then Cut-2D and Cut-3D and Photo-carve from VECTRIC
who have free trials of all their software, is a great way to try before you buy software and awesome customer service and support.
http://www.vectric.com/WebSite/Vectric/cut3d/c3d_features.htm
http://www.vectric.com/WebSite/Vectric/cut2D/c2d_index.htm

Calgary, AB Canada

New to the forum. Own a lathe currently that gets used for making fittings for my bamboo flyrods and just started making flyreels with it. I am now looking at picking up a 4 axis mill.

....ron
aka Troutchaser

Im in Pa south of york near the maryland line.

I have a xylotec laying around here somewhere, never really had any problems with it.

Ron,

What material do you use for the ferrules? If you get to Idaho, let me know and I will show you Silver Creek...

Rick Kernell

Ron,

Do you turn the nickel silver from stock that you purchase or do you cast it yourself? The grasshoppers are thick at Silver Creek now...

Rick

Rick,

I purchase round stock in 3/8, 5/8 and 7/8 size from various sources on the internet. A number of knife making supply shops carry the nickel silver. I can get it in as small a quantity as 1 foot lengths.

Hoppers are tailing off here but the BWOs are coming off and the Bow is fishing extremely well on the dry.

Tight lines,
...ron

Hello wildun, and welcome to the club!
Glad to have you join us.

Dean

Thanks Dean,
- Idaho sounds like New Zealand - (at least like our South Island).

I don't have a Taig, - I have an engraving machine, but you guys will probably be able to help me with CNC ( Xylotex, Gecko, Sheetcam, Mach 3 etc.) - I've used milling machines, lathes etc. for more years than I'd care to remember, but CNC ! - that's still something of a mystery to me.

wildun, there are a few sub forums here dealing with CNC software and hardware. If you put your questions in those as a new subject they will probably get noticed better than in this general interest forum.

Ask away. I'm not a CNC person either, but there are a number of them here.

Dean

Welcome to the club Wildun. I was thinking of immigrating to Austrailia at one stage. Never happened though. I bet the weather in New Zealand is better than here in Ireland (Co. Kildare).

Dave.

I'm in Hawaii: The land of rainbows, orchids, and an unfortunate amount of rust on tools in the home shop.

Tom

but you have good surfing! and sulfur in the air....

WELCOME!!!!

Hope you have a great time!

Bryan

Well... the sulfur is one of the reasons for the extra speedy rust feature, but yeah, the scenery's tough to beat.

Thanks!

Tom

45 minuets west of boston

anyone in ireland