[Swansea Hackspace] Temporary Cnc machine enclosure

[craig david potter]

Sophia & Andy,
I'm not sure if I'm receiving all the messages, not seeing a reference to swarf = glitter (not that this matters).
I believe that Andy (in the attached) is only offering to take measurements to buy the box in which to put the CNC. Surely the act of using a tape measure would not be too noisy?

Much love
Craig



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From: Sophia Komninou <sophia.komninou at gmail.com>
Date: 12/07/2017 12:43 (GMT+00:00)
To: Swansea Hackspace <hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Temporary Cnc machine enclosure

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<mailto: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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