New Haul

From: Marvin Johnston <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Fri Jul 5 00:28:33 2002

What is interesting is that during this time span, I had acquired an NC
driller/router for my PC shop! I don't think the dremel tool will
withstand the sidethrust for very long to do
routing, but that is kind of what I would like to do ... assuming there
is still enough there to get it working!


Brian Chase wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Marvin Johnston wrote:
>
> > [...] The final clincher
> > was that this whole lot of stuff was used to control an "NC" drill that
> > used a dremel tool for the drill ... and that drill along with the scope
> > and control program was included for programming and drilling holes. So
> > far, I haven't found any schematics for the unit but I will try and get
> > in contact with the person that had the stuff and find out what they
> > know. From the nametags on the equipment, it was used by a local company
> > to fabricate some of their products.
>
> Wow, excellent find. My first job out of college was doing sysadmin
> work for a company that had a number of mold building shops with large
> CNC machines--mostly Fadals. I'd have never guessed that Tandy Color
> Computers were used for that type of work. Nice find.
>
> -brian.
Received on Fri Jul 05 2002 - 00:28:33 BST