Comments for Life in 3D

Comment on Hanging with the Jellies, Part 2 by Instinct

Instinct — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:06:28 +0000

So he’ll be Teenbot then?

Comment on Hanging with the Jellies, Part 2 by Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:26:26 +0000

Weebot’s going to be a teenager a week from Friday.
A teenager.
In. A. Week.

Comment on Comment Rules by Linoge

Linoge — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:24:33 +0000

Unfortunately (for her, at least), Joe Huffman is probably accurate in his observation that there is simply something irrecoverably wrong in Joan’s head. Whether that something broke before or after her sister’s murder by a known-violent and known-criminal husband is somewhat immaterial, but that is the event with which her fractured mind has become obsessed.

So, in other words, DirtCrashr is dead right – she uses words, but has no comprehension of the meanings behind them. As such, communication from / with her is somewhat… pointless.

Comment on Comment Rules by DirtCrashr

DirtCrashr — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:15:03 +0000

Joan uses words that are bigger than her understanding of them, and plays with them like little Legos, building a wall around her own ideas…

Comment on Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained by Instinct

Instinct — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:17:17 +0000

Now that is a challenge I really look forward to!

Comment on Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained by Linoge

Linoge — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:41:38 +0000

Happy to help you along… Once you get comfortable with the craft, and find a good source for desert ironwood, I might send you a few grips to see if you can clone them…

Comment on And Yet ANOTHER Reason Androids Suck by Instinct

Instinct — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:19:23 +0000

Well, they say it takes effect March 1st, which means they have already started and it’s probably been going on since March of last year.

They learned a lot from working with the Chinese

Comment on And Yet ANOTHER Reason Androids Suck by DirtCrashr

DirtCrashr — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:00:40 +0000

Crap, is it time to abandon gmail? Is it past-time and too-late already?

Comment on GunsAmerica Epic Fail… Again by Instinct

Instinct — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:47:07 +0000

You’re welcome.

Comment on Missed it by THAT Much! by Will

Will — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:56:24 +0000

A problem with drill bits is they don’t always stay centered when making holes, even when you are just using a larger bit to open up a previous hole. On top of that, they don’t actually make round holes. Which sounds weird, but what happens is the bit bends a little as it rotates, and/or the part walks around. What you end up with is a hole that has lobes defining the edge, instead of being circular/round. If using a two cutting edge drill, you get three lobes, three gives you four, etc…

This will be more obvious on metal than wood, I think. Anyway, I was going to suggest you might want to try using a milling bit in a plunge cut. Use one the correct size for the through-hole, and a second one for the screw head counterbore. It’s possible there is a cutting bit with the correct c-bore and center cutter for those 1911 stocks.

You can get x-y tables to use on drill presses for this sort of semi-precision work. Making fixtures to hold the blanks would be useful, as you could then do rough shaping of the stocks using appropriate tooling in the drill press. Eventually, obtaining a vertical milling machine would enable you to utilize the measuring capabilities of the x-y-z movements to speed up the process even more.

(creating a rocking fixture to enable tooling in the drill press to give you the curved surface of the stocks would be a big time saver, plus give you repeatabilty of dimensions. Plus, you could then use it to cut angles/planes into the curved surface for different shapes.) You want to limit the amount of hand sanding needed to make a set, for time and consistency reasons.

Keep in mind I’m primarily a metal guy.
Came here from Anthroblogogy.