This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.
Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.
If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service.
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Uh... yeah, that seems like a handful.
Is that a part of your house, or some rented space / open workshop?
It's easier than you'd think, it's just really annoying to make a big one. If you're doing small stuff (ie less than 1ftx1ft) you can just throw a bit of pegboard over a sealed (most tutorials will say glue or caulk, but camper mounting tape is amazing effective) wooden box with a hole in the side for a shop vac to plug in, and then just some aluminum angle iron into two squares for the buck. Find a used toaster oven, mark it not-for-food, and the hard part is finding decent PETG without having to ship it all in.
Scale up and you either end up drilling a ton of holes by hand or by CNC machine or buying some (often expensive) specialty boards, you need some sort of guide so the buck doesn't misalign, and it starts making more sense to build an 'oven' for uniform heating and that is miserable.
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A work perk, actually. It's pretty badass and has toys I could never dream of affording, like a Tormach CNC mill with all the trimmings and a 3d printer farm, as well as the vacuformer I was making progress with. I was too casual with leaving some non-compliant tools around, so copped a month ban and a requirement to retake the safety training.
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