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Karl Townsend Karl Townsend is offline
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Default Concrete machine tools

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There are a few ideas in there but, frankly, those guys are mostly not up to
speed with this material. The machine designer who complained about cracks
in the polymer concrete reinforced it incorrectly. Most of the others are
talking about making sheet metal structures and trying to beef them up with
concrete. That's really not what I'm talking about. That's been done for

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Yea, I know what you mean. its a bit like mining gold. You got to
shovel a lot of ore to find that nugget. My hobby time has morfed from
cutting metal to rebuilding old CNC iron to like new with a brand new
control. Among all the idiots, there are a couple gems.

For example, I learned that my old wire EDM is the best possible
candidate for upgrade to a new control and I found a guy that knows
this machine like the back of his hand.

Say, I think the project after this is to build a four foot by ten
foot Plasma, torch, router combination machine. I'm thinking weldament
for the machine frame. Does this technology have any benefit for
vibration dampening on this application?

Karl