[Swansea Hackspace] Temporary Cnc machine enclosure

[Sophia Komninou]

Hi Andy,

As you know this afternoon is a crafternoon day. I'd rather we keep the
atmosphere of the event focused on crafts. After all crafternoons are about
6 hours every month in total. I feel disturbing those 6 hours with
something that can be done any other day or time is a bit unfair.

I recognize I might be a bit biased and overprotective over crafternoon
times but this is what brought me to the hackspace in the first place as I
didn't initially think this was "a place for me" as I don't really use the
machinery or the electronics. This might be the case for potential future
members.
As I understand it, hackspace's policy is to be as inclusive as possible on
the things people create withing it so I feel that disturbing events like
crafternoon or asking if the metal fillings count as glitter is not
conductive of this.

As I said, just my biased opinion here and I don't really know how many are
sharing the sentiment. I just felt like voicing it.

Best,
Sophia



2017-07-12 12:00 GMT+01:00 Andy Rush <Andymrush at live.co.uk>:

> I had an idea for a temporary enclosure for the cnc machine: we cover it
> with one of the large transparent plastic storage boxes that Wilkinsons
> sell. It'd be easy to cut holes in to run the control wiring and a vacuum
> hose through, It should keep chips/swarf/sawdust contained for easier
> cleanup, and more importantly wouldn't involve modifying the machine in any
> way. Also it'd be a fairly cheap stopgap until a better solution can be
> rigged up.
>
> If there's no objections to this idea, I'll drop by the space this
> afternoon to get some measurements for the machine, then pop over to
> Wilkinsons to see if they've got anything that fits.
>
> Andy
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