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Still Having Fun With My PlasmaCam ROUTER Table

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The Hobbyist
I am building a business slowly, and things are moving along ... slowly.

http://www.aguyintown.com

I now have five CNC machines, one 4x4 PlasmaCam table that I use for plasma cutting, one 5x10 Samson table (Made by PlasmaCam) for my plasma cutting of larger sheets, one 5x10 Samson table with a router mounted in place of the plasma torch for routing operations, and two new 2x2 Go Torch machines (also made by PlasmaCam). One will have a light duty router on it, while the other will have a low power laser mounted to the carriage. :smile:

I used my 510 table with a DeWalt 611 router and a 1/16" bit to experiment routing into solid surface material. I sure like the results!
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BalloonEngineer
Precisebits (Tinker and Tinker) and on eBay, check out a seller “Drillman1”. Both have bits that are very small (less than 1/32)

Carbide 2-flute Wood and Plastic End-mills
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F152484463303

You can also use v-bits. I like the 30 degree ones for very thin cuts. Both these sellers also have these.

Warning: you need to clean out the collets very well, have very low runout, and a very rigid machine to be successful with these tiny bits.
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The Hobbyist
I haven't been here for a while. A LOT has happened in the past several months. At the moment I am doing nothing with my machines. On Labor Day 2018, my back threw me to the ground in my shop. No cell service inside, so a 30-minute crawl with more pain than I ever thought I could feel finally got me a cell signal. 9-1-1 took me to a hospital where they told me my spine was "straight as a ruler" because my back muscles were having spasms, and they were straightening out my lower spine from stress.

So I am moving around again now, but still not back into my shop.

I bought a retail building on the Square in the center of town and remodeled the interior. Long story made short, the building is currently on the market again. I had six vendor booths to sell my metal and signs, but I recently closed all but one of them.

I started up a business, and things were going well, until ...

A Guy In Town

Now I am trying to decide what I will do in 2019.

Joe

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The Hobbyist said:
I haven't been here for a while. A LOT has happened in the past several months. At the moment I am doing nothing with my machines. On Labor Day 2018, my back threw me to the ground in my shop. No cell service inside, so a 30-minute crawl with more pain than I ever thought I could feel finally got me a cell signal. 9-1-1 took me to a hospital where they told me my spine was "straight as a ruler" because my back muscles were having spasms, and they were straightening out my lower spine from stress.

So I am moving around again now, but still not back into my shop.

I bought a retail building on the Square in the center of town and remodeled the interior. Long story made short, the building is currently on the market again. I had six vendor booths to sell my metal and signs, but I recently closed all but one of them.

I started up a business, and things were going well, until ...

A Guy In Town

Now I am trying to decide what I will do in 2019.

Joe

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Geez people are cut throat ,and almost makes you want to give up on the human race . Especially seeing as it was your design and labour .

Also sorry to hear about your back issue . That doesn’t sound good . Is there anything that can be done?
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RainMan 2.0 said:
Geez people are cut throat ,and almost makes you want to give up on the human race . Especially seeing as it was your design and labour .

Also sorry to hear about your back issue . That doesn’t sound good . Is there anything that can be done?
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Oh, Don't give up on the human race yet. I'm still thinking about stealing Dave's paddle design but haven't actually done it (YET) 😉
And a few of David's longworth chucks would sell nicely in my Etsy shop too!!! 🙂

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If you steal it -- then I am too.

Copying is also a big big problem on Etsy. Complaints coming in all over. People are not only stealing the designs, but posting the copied pics with the original water marks, and even the shop name and artist. Then there's the overseas bunch that just blatantly steal the whole shooting match and cheapen them up, mass produce them with basically slave labor, and flood the marketplace. Etsy doesn't seem to care - as long as they get their fees.
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Oh, I know! I was flipping though .stl files on Etsy the other day and ran across some of Scott's designs and thought someone was reselling them until I realized it was his shop. 🙂
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The Hobbyist
The Edsel plates were not the cause of the drama. It was other stuff. I have largely lost all faith in humanity as a result.

This was my latest endeavor. I invested a whole bunch of money into buying this building, and remodeling and improving it. It is up for sale again now, but if I get back into this, I may keep the building and try to make it work in 2019.

Joe

Retail Store Project
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