Three hour fiber outage this morning
USInternet decided to do some service-interrupting scheduled maintenance this morning. Apparently they swapped out some fiber switches. All-in-all I was down fo...
Author: Timothy Foreman
Making Marshmallow Crossbow Pistols
Another long, picture filled how-to. This time I am making crossbow pistols that shoot mini-marshmallows. Click on the more link if you want to follow along.
Adventures in Work Holding
One of the problems when using a CNC mill is holding on to the work piece. It needs to be securely fastened to the machine in some manner, but the method of fas...
Circle-Diamond-Square Redux
If you have been following along, you know that I’m trying to get my ShapeOko to be fairly accurate. One of the tests I’m using is the Circle-Diamon...
ShapeOko Rebuild
Because I apparently don’t have enough projects, I decided that I needed to rebuild my ShapeOko using the newly designed motor mount plates. 🙂 (Caution, l...
Milling Ruger Mk III Grips
I just finished milling up a set of Ruger Mk III pistol grips and took some photos along the way. This is actually the second set I have made, but this is the f...
Self-inflicted DNS Outage
So now that I’m back online I can confess to the self-inflicted DNS outage that took down my web sites and email lists from around Noon on Saturday until ...
RS Resurrection – Hiatus
hi·a·tus noun \hī-ˈā-təs\ : a period of time when something (such as an activity or program) is stopped Unfortunately, I live in Minne-snow-ta. The weather here...
Bad bearing in my trim router
I was all set to do some more work with my ShapeOko tonight, but when I turned on the Rigid trim router it made a terrible noise… Sounded like a bad beari...
RS Resurrection – Front Brake Work
Over the past few days I managed to get the front master cylinder and both front brake calipers cleaned up and rebuilt. They were all a complete mess.