Today I acquired...........

[MrFluffy]

I got this in the post yesterday from over the pond, Ive sort of promised my wife not to buy anything too heavy for a bit that involves a low loader or hiab delivery and to be fair this doesn't

True to form, it doesn't actually come with any of the extra parts it should, because I bought in the pay and pray factory clearance price range of the market. Which means well under a thousand bucks... So no setup standard, surprised to see a probe in the head, no leads or case or anything. All known about up front. Its a measurement arm with 6 degrees of freedom, capable of locating a point anywhere in a 6ft radius of the arm pivot mount within 0.05mm
Last night saw it in bits being probed to try and work out whats missing and what exact model it is, and I think I can reverse engineer around the missing stuff with some cunning. Was pleased to find this inside, connected to a very proprietory plug on the case. Which will be coming off to be replaced with a standard serial connector

Happily it still looks like the logic and encoder board is still there and no crispy components.

Now to reverse engineer a psu, and connect it up to a serial port and see if it starts spewing co-ordinates.
Not quite free, but still if I can get it to fire up for the money, it'll feel like it. I fully expect a bad encoder on one of the axis or worse, but we'll cross that bridge when it appears.

 

[ukracer]

Ok Ill fall for it...what is it. lol

 

[MrFluffy]

Already in the text :-
"Its a measurement arm with 6 degrees of freedom, capable of locating a point anywhere in a 6ft radius of the arm pivot mount within 0.05mm". Its proper name is a portable CMM, it connects to a computer via serial, you touch the probe on the features you want to measure, press a button on the probe mount and it beeps and records the dimensions.
You can put a part on the bench, probe all the features and holes and there it is right in the cad package ready to make mating parts.

 

[ajlelectronics]

You can put a part on the bench, probe all the features and holes and there it is right in the cad package ready to make mating parts.

Sounds like some of the parties I never got invited to!

 

[ukracer]

Already in the text :-
"Its a measurement arm with 6 degrees of freedom, capable of locating a point anywhere in a 6ft radius of the arm pivot mount within 0.05mm". Its proper name is a portable CMM, it connects to a computer via serial, you touch the probe on the features you want to measure, press a button on the probe mount and it beeps and records the dimensions.
You can put a part on the bench, probe all the features and holes and there it is right in the cad package ready to make mating parts.

Yeah i saw it in the text but it did not help. lol. your extra description helps a lot more although i cant say i have ever seen one in use..

 

[Migmac]

me step father dropped this in today, said he has had it kicking around for years but never used it, should come in handy....

I've got that set. Got mine from Argos nearly 30 years ago.

 

[monkeymark]

Already in the text :-
"Its a measurement arm with 6 degrees of freedom, capable of locating a point anywhere in a 6ft radius of the arm pivot mount within 0.05mm". Its proper name is a portable CMM, it connects to a computer via serial, you touch the probe on the features you want to measure, press a button on the probe mount and it beeps and records the dimensions.
You can put a part on the bench, probe all the features and holes and there it is right in the cad package ready to make mating parts.

We had Faro (http://www.faro.com/products/metrology/faroarm-measuring-arm/overview) come in a while back to give a demo.
Really impressive stuff. Thy had the 3d rendering kit with it so we ended up scanning each other faces

 

[Wendelspanswick]

Already in the text :-
"Its a measurement arm with 6 degrees of freedom, capable of locating a point anywhere in a 6ft radius of the arm pivot mount within 0.05mm". Its proper name is a portable CMM, it connects to a computer via serial, you touch the probe on the features you want to measure, press a button on the probe mount and it beeps and records the dimensions.
You can put a part on the bench, probe all the features and holes and there it is right in the cad package ready to make mating parts.

We had a granite worktop cut and fitted for our kitchen, the surveyor who came had a 2d measuring device. It was a box which he set up in the middle of the kitchen on a tripod, from the centre of the box he pulled a probe on a recoil line that he used to touch various points round the room. Each time he touched the probe to a point it measured the distance from the centre of the box and also the angle relative to the box. He then emailed the dimensions to the factory and when it turned up it was millimetre perfect.
Brilliant bit of kit, I imagine yours does something similar but adds in the extra dimension.

 

[Pigwelder]

I found a wheeled golf caddy and some old galvanised troughs outside someones house (with a free sticker on not in someones boot) think they might go well into a welding trolley or just a good bottle carrier.

 

[Keith 66]

Couple of weeks ago i was driving to my local nut & bolt emporium when i spied a pile of scrap at the side of the road obviously left out for the scrappy, top of the pile was a bench pillar drill. On the way back it was still there so i nabbed it. Wasnt anything special but i soon fixed the switch & a few days later converted it into beer tokens!

 

[Keith 66]

Hell im on a roll, went to clear a load of timber from a yard that has just been sold, in a container full of garbage was a 3.5" gauge 040 Tank engine, (Steam loco) absolutely filthy & covered in cobwebs & grime. I asked what he was going to do with it & he said ebay it i suppose. How much? i ask.
I got it for 100 quid, with a rolling road. Got it in the shed & coupled to the airline & it ran for the first time in 40 years. I always wanted a Choo Choo!

 

[brightspark]

Hell im on a roll, went to clear a load of timber from a yard that has just been sold, in a container full of garbage was a 3.5" gauge 040 Tank engine, (Steam loco) absolutely filthy & covered in cobwebs & grime. I asked what he was going to do with it & he said ebay it i suppose. How much? i ask.
I got it for 100 quid, with a rolling road. Got it in the shed & coupled to the airline & it ran for the first time in 40 years. I always wanted a Choo Choo!

has it got a copper boiler . are u going to strip it and get it tested so u can steam it up . nice find by the way

 

[thinfourth]

You jammy git

 

[the snooper]

2 weeks ago I was given a non working Laney bass guitar amp, 6 quid later it was working, 2 fuses a rectifier and 2 output transistors

 

[thinfourth]

I will admit to disposing of the 30ton press at work as the elf and safety person decided we needed a brand new one with a piece of paper and the old one was missing a piece of paper

 

[the snooper]

I will admit to disposing of the 30ton press at work as the elf and safety person decided we needed a brand new one with a piece of paper and the old one was missing a piece of paper

as this is a today I acquired thread do we take it you got the old press ?

 

[thinfourth]

as this is a today I acquired thread do we take it you got the old press ?

Well they didn't say how i was to dispose of it

It is no longer in their workshop

 

[brightspark]

Well they didn't say how i was to dispose of it

It is no longer in their workshop

so its either in yours or a mates or u sold it on ebay

 

[CRB]

?A press missing a bit of paper?

Surely it just fell on the floor after being printed upon.

 

[thinfourth]

so its either in yours or a mates or u sold it on ebay

Selling on ebay or giving it away is not disposing of it

It is just resting in my workshop