Good morning!!!!

[Popgadget]

Here's some of our work cnc plasma cuts. I should have put them on a different background for better contrast.

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Those cuts look great, is there any dross on the back side? How thick was the material?

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Plowhog,

Yesterday, about 5pm, a TV commercial came on. With two men kissing. So it is beyond just tolerance here in CA.

That’s just too much for me, JMO ! I e really don’t want my grand children , 4 years old , two boys and girls are 2 1/2 yo, watching that ! They put too much of that on TV for my liking !

 

[Buppies]

Great picture Ken. We never had a pool parents did if I win lottery I’ll put one in

 

[sodamo]

69F and 0 inches rain.

Plan is to put finishing touches on my mending plates and get them installed.

Probably show make a dump run today.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

71 deg
Good worship service this morning. I taught the Sunday adult class on the topic of restoration of the church vs the reformation, and tied in plenty of scripture that says to follow Christ's teachings, not the teachings of the world. You either believe or you don't, your choice. All we can do is say what the good Lord says, and it's others responsibility to accept or reject, and we are even told most will reject. So no surprise and no hard feelings for those that don't, it's their decision to make.
After service we had a ceremony for the graduation seniors, and then a luncheon to honor them. Am very full and sleepy now.

I've owned most of a pool for many years. 24 ft above ground someone gave me, still in pieces, some behind the shed, some in the basement.... needs a couple new pieces for the ground base, and a liner.

Never had a pool growing up, but we did sometimes go to the crick, or a local state park.

 

[plowhog]

869F and 0 inches rain.

Hope you have really good a/c!!

 

[Hay Dude]

71 deg
Good worship service this morning. I taught the Sunday adult class on the topic of restoration of the church vs the reformation, and tied in plenty of scripture that says to follow Christ's teachings, not the teachings of the world. You either believe or you don't, your choice. All we can do is say what the good Lord says, and it's others responsibility to accept or reject, and we are even told most will reject. So no surprise and no hard feelings for those that don't, it's their decision to make.
After service we had a ceremony for the graduation seniors, and then a luncheon to honor them. Am very full and sleepy now.

I've owned most of a pool for many years. 24 ft above ground someone gave me, still in pieces, some behind the shed, some in the basement.... needs a couple new pieces for the ground base, and a liner.

Never had a pool growing up, but we did sometimes go to the crick, or a local state park.

My son and I just got back from a service and a luncheon.
My Pastor emphasized we need to be more active in spreading the word of the gospel.

I wholeheartedly agree.

 

[ronjhall]

All this talk about pools brings back good memories. This is me and my 2 brothers in our pool in the 40s. My dad built it out of cement blocks. I could swim by the time I was 4. Dad also built the boat out of plywood.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon Ron,
That looks like great fun ! Your Pop was way ahead of the curve !

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Ron, that's a great pic! What memories. Pull that mainsheet in!

Those cuts look great, is there any dross on the back side? How thick was the material?

Yes on the dross. Not real bad, most would come off with a heavy duty scraper, but a grinder would do a better job.
Metal is .071 thick, supposed to be 14 gage .075". We have been learning. On smaller cuts, pockets need to be at least 3/16" wide, or else it's better to just do 1 cut straight down the centerline. We are using cutter comp on cuts that are not just single line, to keep the kerf inside the lines. Our machine has stepper motors, which limits feedrates to 175 ipm. Should cut up to 240-270ipm or more at the .071 thickness, BUT, a big But, we have found that for tight detail cuts with a lot of geometry directional changes, to slow our machine's feedrate down to 50 or 60ipm. This greatly increases the controller/machine to be more accurate in following the geometry. I know of this from working with CNCs since 1978. The newer machines have acceleration/deceleration tables, and can look ahead in the code to know when a "hard right" is coming up. This Torchmate does not have that, and it struggles with tight stuff. Accuracy comes with slower feedrates on most machines. The parts I pictured are about 8" or 10" square. It's when you try to cut them in 4" square that you really have to pay attention. We are starting to make separate files for the smaller 4x4" stuff, mostly single line cuts.

I have to admit, my young brainy student worker has really taken to Fusion 360. that's a good thing because in his later classes, he'll have a good head start. I still want to finish a working post processor for Mastercam.

Church was great. BBQ luncheon after church with potluck. So much food! Worn out from yesterday. Had bbq yesterday at wedding, and today too, but it's OK, we are Texans and it's ok to have bbq for days in a row. Just makes you smell a little like burnt post oak. LOL

Need to try and go make amends with the cat, to let her know she can still trust me. I did yell at her, and she was trying her best to get away, but I had closed off her exit....I'm a dog person. Cats are nobody's forte. You might think so, but they'll throw in a twist when you least expect it.