Maintaining Tidiness in A Machining Shop (business website design)
No commentsBy Isaac Small
Keeping your shop clean
My first inclination is to say that it can’t be done in your home shop. My experience in my home shop has been that machining creates dirt. I use the term dirt very loosely. Dirt in many forms like plasma dust, machining chips, and cutting fluid spray. All of these forms of dirt are very invasive and get into everything. You constantly have to be cleaning just to keep up.
In my home shop experience, I treat every one of my machines differently. My CNC plasma cutter is the dirtiest by far. I built a special room for it to try to contain the plasma dust it creates. My milling machine is in my main working area. I usually just have to clean around it from time to time. My CNC Wood Router is located in my woodworking shop. It creates a lot of wood chips and wood dust, which all my other woodworking machines do as well.
Factories invest in thousands of dollars in extra machines to keep things clean. These machines purpose is to reduce the amount of dirt in the shop. Some of these machines clean the air and some of these machines take care of the physical chips leftover from machining.
Here are some examples:
Automated Chip Augers - Chip augers are generally in the belly of machines. As chips fall down the augers move them over to a collection area. These chips can then be shipped out and recycled.
Downdraft tables - Downdraft tables are usually associated with plasma or laser cutters. As the machine is cutting, air is drawn downward from below it. This air is then moved through filters, which clean the air and place it back in the shop. They put the air back in to the shop so the building doesn’t have to be continually heated in colder areas of the country.
Updraft Table - An updraft table works the exact opposite. It pulls the air upward, then through a system of filters.
Water Tables - Water tables are used mainly with plasma cutting operations. There is water directly under the piece of metal being cut. The dust and debris of the plasma cutting process is captured by the water table. Over time, the table fills with this debris and must be cleaned out.
Janitorial Services - Some factories maintain a janitorial service that cleans the facility every night. This is usually dependent on the cost in the area the factory is located.
My CNC Story
One day I knew I had a problem. I just spent 4 hours with my plasma cutter in my right hand. I had been cutting out patterns I had traced onto a sheet of metal. These shapes were going to be my new coffee table. Everyone complained to me that I didn’t have a coffee table. I thought, “I’ll show them” and began to build one.
Why make a coffee table out of metal you ask? The quick answer is that I wasn’t much of a woodworker at the time. On the other hand, I used to weld professionally and knew I could make anything out of metal. That is how it all began, making a coffee table out of metal.
Now if you knew me, you know that I can’t just make something normal. My brain is the scheming type that has to do things differently then the norm. I wanted to make a table that would knock people’s socks off. I thought a funky looking table, made out of metal, with casters and lights would do the trick. You know what? It did.
I really had a ball making this table. I mean I had serious fun. So much so that I started to design others. I began showing photos of my work to everyone I knew. On top of that, I was getting good feedback. I had just found a new hobby, furniture making. Who would have ever thought I would pick up furniture making as a hobby.
While making this first table a problem arose. It is the one I mentioned above with my right hand. After plasma cutting all those parts my wrist really began to hurt. While welding professionally there was always the threat of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Welders are constantly afflicted by this injury and others because of Repetitive Motion.
If you repeat something over and over and over and over, your body gives out at some point. After cutting up these table parts, I knew I couldn’t go on doing this for a hobby. I knew something would have to change or the new hobby would break my body.
That is when I began investigating Hobby CNC. I call it “Hobby” CNC, because that is how I found it. There were small groups of enthusiasts on the Internet that were building these machines for the fun of it. I thought this was the ticket.
My Initial Thoughts on CNC…
I thought, “If I could build a CNC Plasma Cutting Table?”
I could hook my plasma cutter to it
Create a program of the part I wanted
Cut out multiple parts to my hearts content
Save a lot of time
And Finally…
Save my wrist from the dreaded Carpel Tunnel Syndrome.
I really wasn’t scared of the technology to start with. I grew up in fabrication shops across the Midwest and had seen these machines in action. These machine “Operators” were always held in high esteem at the shop. They always made more Money and always had as much Overtime as they wanted. I decided if they could do it, I could do it.
CNC hobby projects were not cheap at the time. I figured I would have to invest $4,000 - $5,000 to build my table (they have come down considerably). Keep in mind this was in 2000-2001. For some reason that didn’t scare me off. I always liked a good challenge and this was it. With blind faith, I ordered up a CNC Controller and went down to my local steel yard to fill the back of my truck with steel.
Little Did I know…
There was a steep learning curve with CNC. Building a frame for the machine is only a small part of the project. Today it is much easier. The software, components and suppliers are better. There is an entire cottage industry that has sprung up around CNC to support it. Some of the best people in the world make their livings servicing CNC Hobbyist needs.
For some reason I figured if I just build this machine it would spit out parts whenever I wanted it to. Simple, Simple, Simple ran through my head. Over time, I started to get it. I didn’t have a teacher, but I started to learn the ins and out of what I was doing.
Other things I had to learn along the way:
CAD Software
Designing Parts
CAM Software
Preparing parts for machining
Simulating Machining
Machining Basics
Cleaning parts
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How To Promote Your Articles
By drjcp
There are so many articles on the net on any given subject that any new article will be lost among them if you do not promote them. If you are not convinced, then run a search in any search engine for the topic on which you plan to write, or on which you already have an article. Any new article on a given topic would occupy something like the 50th or 100th position in the search result.
The biggest question is, would anyone look that far for an article. Think of your own unconscious search habits. Do you ever go beyond the first page of a search engine? Most people do not, and the second page is the maximum that a few go before they abandon the results. Clearly, your article should be on the first page, preferably among the first five, if it is ever to be discovered by potential readers.
The only solution is to bring people to your article, and keep bringing more people till some of them comment on the article and others decide to promote your article via linking or via recommendation. If you are serious about writing on the net, you should also aim at attaining a “critical mass” of readers to sustain your hobby. Once you are able to attract this critical mass, you can relax and give more energy to writing than promotion. However, you can never stop article-promotion altogether because the others who have written in the same subject continually compete with you to get a better position. Thus article-promotion is a long-term commitment for all serious net-writers.
How To Do It: There are as many ways as you wish if you keep thinking of ways to promote them. Here are some standard and well-tried methods that the experts use.
Place a signature file at the end of all your outgoing email that says something like “Do visit http://articlez.com/profile/Shastri/ today to see some of my life-changing articles”. What you write in your sig file depends upon you, but if you do not do it, each email that you send is another loss for you (and for all of us who wish to see good articles promoted)
Place links to your articles at the end of every blog post that you make. If you do not have a personal blog so far, then I would say I am shocked. You are losing a great opportunity to create a market, a name, and a following and an independent platform for your writings.
If you give away your articles to websites that do not belong to you, for example the Factoidz site, then do reuse them on your personal site after allowing a gap if those websites allow you to do so.
Looks for Egroups, Ezines, news-sites, etc that allow announcement about your articles. (Search for these terms in any search engine, and you will find more sites than you can use).
Place links to good articles on the same subject at the end of your article, and do send a note to the writer of the other resource about what you have done. Many of them will reciprocate.
You need to establish your “authority” and “presence” on the net to promote your articles. These come only if you keep writing within the areas of your expertise, and also if you keep promoting them till you get a critical mass of readership.
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Digital Cameras by Sony Photo
By Nestor Riddle
Sony is one of the best photo digital camera producers and this result is confirmed especially by their clients, who almost never complain regarding the product quality. Sony photo digital camera offer is wide ranging from 2 mega pixel cameras to over 8 mega pixel. In the following lines I will describe some Sony photo digital cameras characteristics with a variable price from several hundred dollars to over a thousand.
Cybershot DSC-T10 is a high performance Sony photo digital camera that is in many ways alike its predecessor the T30. What I like about it is the SteadyShot Optical Image Stabilizer that helps you take a decent shoot even in harsh conditions. Among its features I will point the 7.2 mega pixels, decent optical zoom 3x, Automatic focus and exposure, supports JPEG format, a movie mode with sound and 2.5 inch LCD. This Sony photo digital camera comes with 56 MB internal memory and Li-Ion battery.
Sony Alpha a100 is a true SLR (Single Lens Reflex), and if we are fair it is the first Sony photo digital camera real SLR. Many like to say that the A100 is the successor of the K-M Maxxum. Here are its specifications: an impressive 10 mega pixels, very nice lens Sony Alpha/Minolta A-Type. This Sony photo digital camera has image stabilization; it can switch between auto and manual focus and exposure, ISO 80 - 1600; it supports JPEG and RAW formats and has lithium - ion battery.
CyberShot H5 is a Sony photo digital camera with an awesome 12x optical zoom and 7.2 MP sensors being one of the best offers on the market. It comes with a larger LCD of no more then 3.0 inch LCD which is really nice especially if you want to actually use de 12x optical zoom. Check the specifications: 7.2 mega pixels combined with a 12x optical and 2x digital zoom. The CyberShot H5 Sony photo digital camera has optical image stabilization and can turn from auto to manual focus or exposure, ISO 80 - 1000, it supports JPEG format and has a nice movie mode, 2AA batteries, a 3.0 inch LCD screen and a 32MB internal memory.
CyberShot T50 is one of those Sony photo digital cameras that won’t stop selling, because they’re good, affordable with a nice and attractive look. The Sony photo digital camera comes in 3 colors silver, black and red. Its sensor has 7.2 mega pixels, the screen is more then enough 3.0 inch LCD, and its optical image stabilization option is a life savior. It has 7.2 mega pixels, 3x optical zoom and a 2x digital zoom, an auto focus and exposure and it supports JPEG format. You can make movie with sound, ISO 80 - 1000, internal memory of 56 MB, Optical Image Stabilization and 3.0 LCD, and the batteries are also good lithium - ion.
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