tommylight wrote: the last fast car I drove had only 508 HP! That was several years ago, now I drive a diesel ! At least I get less speeding tickets! A lot less!
Tommy, I think you need to upgrade to a diesel 4WD and then you can spend all your spare money with me making it go even slower!
Anyway, in amongst a bit of business related Python programming, I managed to get this half installed on my table today.
I thought this laser pointer was a pretty good buy for $40. I had a tiny little one here that I had thought of fitting up but it was only a single dot and this one already had a mounting ring so it was real easy to fit using plasma cut plate screwed to the torch holder. I still have to wire this in to power. Unfortunately, the cables going up onto my gantry are all used, so I'm going to add a manual switch to turn this on. This is a 5 volt device and I purchased a small 24 volt to 5 v power supply which should fit into the existing metal box on the gantry.
I know its mounted fairly low but I found it had to be mounted well away from the torch if it was any higher so I hope it works out OK over time..
It is pretty square, just the material I put down isn't! I found just tightening the 4 grubscrews that hold the laser tube twisted it off square.
So if anybody has any ideas on how to handle the offsets to use this, I would appreciate some pointers. I know what I have to do to calculate the offset and square it. but its the software stuff I'd like to know a bit more about.
