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It replaced an Ender 3, and it's just so much better I actually threw the Ender away!

Well I Have an Ender 2 - I'd have come to Liverpool to collect it.

Russell
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The Design Shop / Scanner parts What could this be used for?
« Last post by BillTodd on November 12, 2025, 03:28:21 PM »
I had to save this old drum scanner from the scrap.  It's got too many nice useable bits to waste so...

What can I , or you - if you want it,  do with it?


To explain. The film drum was placed between centres of the carriage, light sources form inside or outside illuminated a pixel. As the drum was rotated by the motor and encoder on the left the light was analysed by a the three colour sensors in the camera box (scanner 3)  . The whole carriage is shifted right,  on 19mm supported linear rails by another stepping motor with encoder

The camera box has a focus motor and orifice disc on another motor.

My first thought was coil winder , especially large Tesla type coils .

Thoughts  ?


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Announcements & Issues / Re: What happened to 'insert attachment' button?
« Last post by RussellT on November 12, 2025, 11:38:31 AM »
OK. I misunderstood.  I can't see that either, so it's presumably a question for Eric.

Russell
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Announcements & Issues / Re: What happened to 'insert attachment' button?
« Last post by sorveltaja on November 12, 2025, 09:23:18 AM »
Yeah, that's visible for me as well, but 'insert attachment' - well not actually a button - doesn't show up. What I mean is shown in the pic from another SMF forum:

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Project Logs / Re: Titivating a Wire EDM Machine
« Last post by awemawson on November 12, 2025, 08:05:22 AM »
Material is clamped to the stainless rail that surounds the work area.
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Announcements & Issues / Re: What happened to 'insert attachment' button?
« Last post by RussellT on November 12, 2025, 08:04:09 AM »
I can see it.  I checked, I can also see it on a new topic.

Russell
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New from Old / Re: Fitting Vee Guides to the Fanuc Tapecut Model M Wire EDM
« Last post by awemawson on November 12, 2025, 08:03:07 AM »
Two more big boxes have just arrived but they are staying as is until the EDM is fully sorted.
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New from Old / Re: Fitting Vee Guides to the Fanuc Tapecut Model M Wire EDM
« Last post by AdeV on November 12, 2025, 06:16:25 AM »
So I've bought a Bambu Labs P1S Combo - half of which arrived this morning

I know nothing about the Cetus (except it's a bed-slinger, IIRC, not a core-XY), so the Bambu is going to prove to be a world apart from it. In a good way.

IIRC, the "Combo" is shipped with the AMS unit inside the printer, so it's probably all arrived, not just half of it...

I struggled to justify the price of a Bambu (plus they'd just recently announced that they were going closed-shop with their software, and that if you wanted to use all the features of the printer you had to use their online services), so I went for a Qidi Plus 4 instead. Superb machine, and now I have their equivalent of an AMS, I can do most things a Bambu can do - also slightly bigger, although the Qidi experience isn't as polished as the Bambu one...



It replaced an Ender 3, and it's just so much better I actually threw the Ender away!
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Project Logs / Re: Titivating a Wire EDM Machine
« Last post by AdeV on November 12, 2025, 06:13:14 AM »
My spark eroder is of the falling electrode style, so the best I could do would be to etch your initials into the file...

QQ Andrew - how is the stock material held in your wire eroder? Does it rest on a mesh, a bit like a plasma cutter, or is it clamped at the edges, or something else?  Reason I ask; I was wondering if it would be able to cut really small parts (say 70mm long, 4mm wide, 1mm thick stainless steel)?
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Announcements & Issues / What happened to 'insert attachment' button?
« Last post by sorveltaja on November 11, 2025, 06:36:06 PM »
I was about to post a new topic, but couldn't attach images to it. I've tried it with Waterfox and Firefox, same result with both.

I wonder is it on my end, or has something changed, like forum software update or something like that?
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