21WW14 Machine shop meeting notes 03/27/2021

21WW14 Machine shop meeting notes 03/27/2021

Saturday, March 27, 2021

7:37 PM

21WW14 Machine shop meeting notes 03/27/2021

 

In-Person Attendees:

Tim Bene

 

Chaten Raj

 

 

Charlie Procter

 

 

 

 

Paul Morley

 

 

 

 

Bob Karnaugh

 

Randy Lisbona

 

 

Jason Ottwell

 

Thomas Fagan

 

 

Jason Hunt

 

David Kessinger

 

 

Jim Krater

 

Craig Fletcher

 

 

Julio Iglesias

 

 

 

 

 

On-Call Attendees:

Chris Marlow

 

Malcom

 

Rich Myer

Art Givens

 

Nick Silva

 

David Kessinger

Paul Morley

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Action Items:

(Thomas,04/18/2021) Shapeoko - Finish the Shapeoko enclosure

(Tim) Setup Paypal barcode for money to get put directly into the machine shop account

(Tim) Drop a line to Mastercam about a license for the space

 

Discussions:

Request for PIG Sig representative

Chaten Raj volunteered

Thomas to solicit pig sig on leader on talk

 

What are the goals for the PIG

Machining area for plastics

Thermoformer

Acrylic bending

 

PIG Funding is routed through the Machine Shop

 

Shapeoko

Enclosure

Thomas' efforts on the enclosure has been 1/2 assed

Thomas has found a good source of 8020 locally

Need to setup account with them or figure out if we can do counter sales with the DMS card

Thomas committing to finish the enclosure by 04/18/2021, assuming materials are availability

Classes

Discussion on the software

Carbide3d

Concern on getting a spare router

Nick mentioned the routers go out often; esp when some runs are 6-8hr runs. Plan for 2-3 going out per year

 

Proposed rule for for the entire machine shop that the operator can't leave a running machine

Conversation was raised during Shapeoko bring-up discussion

 

Proposed class for bending plastics using the heating element

 

Proposed solvent identification by aroma class

 

Vote on purchasing a Shark independent 4 Jaw chuck, Not to Exceed $500

6 in-person voted for the purchase

3 online voted for the purchase

1 abstained

1 against

3 no votes

14 total voters

Thomas will commit to looking for it on the pallet after the Meeting on 03/27/21

Tim found a used Cushman 4-jaw on ebay for $350

 

Machine shop was victim of an accounting error, Status 03/28/21 - Charlie is reminding the accounting group that the error hasn't been corrected

  • It accidentally took the stipend out instead of adding it in

 

Tim is working on getting new drill bits

 

CNC Sherline - Max trained Bob or demonstrated to Bob operation 2 weeks ago

 

Sherline lighting

2 lights are in-place

Do the people like them

 

HAAS

UV light is no longer working

They don't currently sell the bulbs for the one we have

 

What is the expansion team's plan for when they are putting up the walls for the blacksmithing area

We need to make sure the they are working to contain their drywall dust…..it will be murder on our machine ways

 

Proposal for a committee work day on the 4th

Build our wall

 

Next month is the semi-annual election for the machine shop chairs

 

Julio brought-up a question regarding when we will have another HAAS class

The committee needs to get together to determine a plan for the future on Solidworks vs Fusion

Fusion disabled the rapids

 

Tim dropped a line to Mastercam

Malcom wants the space to get a Mastercam license, an old version that resides with the HAAS and allows us to be CAD agnostic

 

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It still doesn’t look like my notes, but…

Here are the original notes…They are way easier to follow with indents etc…

21WW14 Machine shop meeting notes 20210327.pdf (742.6 KB)

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I have two small corrections:

The rule was proposed, but upon a search during the meeting we found we already had a rule to that effect so we didn’t move further on duplicating the rule.

Malcolm on the Call was “Malcolm Galland”

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