The CNC Router is planning to be be delivered this Thursday as well as get installed.
In short we are not ready so tonight we need to do 4 things and I need help with it.
Run an Air Line (I have the Air Lines)
Run Ethernet (There is Ethernet in the IT Closet)
Dust Collection Hoses
Setup A Computer (Desktop)
If these items are not done by tomorrow I will stop the CNC Router delivery
If you are able to come out please respond saying you will be there.
I will be there probably around 6, 6:30 depending on traffic and all that.
I’ll be there, but have class until 9.
I will be in tonight for “Wednesday party prep duties” and will contribute to this effort wherever most needed.
I’ll be onsite tonight directing the Grand Opening Prep stuff, but will lend a hand as I’m able.
I may be able to help tonight.
Thanks,
Alyssa
I can be over there about 8:30. I have PC skills and network cabling experience. Be happy to help out.
BTW I would not recommend putting a PC in the wood shop, unless its a hardened industrial PC with no fans or vents. Otherwise it will quickly be killed by sawdust.
The way the Multicam works is that jobs are queued on the PC running the multicam software. All the queued jobs are available to be run from the keypad/pendant that is attached to the router. Just select the job, setup the material and home, and hit start.
I’m at the space now. Anything you need help with right away?
one thing to help with right now is to go through paint cabinet. Find out anything that is less than 1/3rd full and set it aside for disposal.
All the other stuff we have planned for this evening requires materials either I or Robert a bringing up later.
I’ll be around to lend a hand as needed. I volunteered to run the wide format printer and help for open house but am willing to juggle or focus on whatever makes most sense. Should be there just after 6
I’ll be around some, I’ll try to juggle between open house and this.
Looks like I’ll be able to make it over more towards 7:30 instead of 8:30.
Sorry I didn’t get to this… Shortly after posting, I got a call and had
to leave. I may be in tomorrow around 11:30a if there’s anything left to
do.
BTW, the blue Cat5 cable left hanging out of the wall plate back in the corner where the CNC Router will be is just a pull cable. It’s a left over from a previous install. I left the ceiling panel open so someone can help guide the new bundle into the wall once the extensions are in place in the ceiling.
Thanks @tmc4242, I pulled the cables through and punched them down into jacks. Network cabling is 100% now.
While Alyssa is technically correct about a PC in the woodshop, we have been running our CNC router off of an old Dell Laptop for the last 3 years, in a dust environment that makes DMS look like a clean room.
bwmccall is right, I have two cnc routers working in my shop is a computer. Blow out the keyboard and in computer every once and a while and everything is fine.
Mike
One thing you guys might be forgetting, if a computer goes down in your private shops a ton of entitled DMS members don’t drag your name through the gutter. Hurt feeling often kill good help around DMS. DMS grows when we have people willing to help and work (often for FREE).
As long as we keep growing and stay smart with what we buy we should have the money to do thing correctly, why not do it right if we have the cash?
Just my two cents after all the issues with the CNC plasma computer.
Nick - I understand and agree with what you are saying, but it is also my belief that what you are saying is based on propaganda put forward by people that sell high $$$ computers with a bunch of promises (plus a touch of fear). While I do not make ANY effort to tell people how to do things at DMS, I DO feel that it is valuable to speak up when I have actual working knowledge on a subject. As stated previously, for the last 3 years, our CNC router (which runs 80 hours a week, in what can best be described as a dust bowl) has been run off of a surplus Dell laptop, with -0- failures. The laptop was set up and hooked up by a trained monkey at no cost. We have other (industrial) machines in the shop that are down frequently, and require a high dollar tech to do ANYTHING that needs doing.
You cannot tell me that “more expensive” is necessarily “better”.
Plus, we could have a dozen spare laptops sitting around ready to go for less than the up front cost of the high end computer.