[Swansea Hackspace] Temporary Cnc machine enclosure

[Matthew Daubney]

I have a selection of very useful boxes that you're welcome too rather than
buying one? The only caveat is that once it's out of my hands, I never get
it back....

On 12 July 2017 at 13:31, Andy Rush <Andymrush at live.co.uk> wrote:

> Craig
>
> The swarf=glitter thing was an offhand joke in the pub on monday.
>
> Sophia
>
> Following on from Tom's email from yesterday, I'm not going to do any more
> work with the CNC machine until we come up with a suitable method of making
> it cleaner. Hence why I suggested putting a box over the machine in the
> first place. By this afternoon, I meant now-ish, not that I was going to
> intrude on the crafternoon (Wilkinsons will be closed by the time it
> starts, anyway)
>
> I hope that addresses your concerns.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* hackspace-bounces at swansea.hackspace.org.uk <
> hackspace-bounces at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> on behalf of craig david
> potter <craigdavidp at hotmail.com>
> *Sent:* 12 July 2017 13:05
> *To:* Swansea Hackspace
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Temporary Cnc machine enclosure
>
> 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
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung device
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> 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>:
>
>> 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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