Well the heat has arrived and I'm still moving the computers to the up-stairs and falling behind on things. I've started to work on some etching masters via...
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Mike Bauers
mwbauers@xxxx.xxxxxx....
Jun 2, 1999 1:27 pm
http://nicewww.cern.ch/~erojr/content/Picmenu/342cad.HTM I found this page of cad drawings via the OO/HO scratch builders elist. Pop over and have a look. It's...
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Mike Bauers
mwbauers@xxxx.xxxxxx....
Jun 2, 1999 1:51 pm
... Well Darn it !!! I thought I was only sending the url and not the page with this browser. My apologies to anyone that found this to be a problem. I never...
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Frank Watson
snows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.x...
Jun 3, 1999 3:29 am
Mike B. When you get to the etching what resist are you going to use and what acid? Perhaps the old Ferric Chloride and Eastman resists?? \ Frank Watson ...
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Mike Bauers
mwbauers@xxxx.xxxxxx....
Jun 3, 1999 1:24 am
... Hi Frank, I'll be using sodium persulphate and a direct transfer method as found in http://www.dynaart.com I'm not certain this is a production sort of...
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Anne Ogborn
anniepoo@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 4, 1999 4:22 am
... Mike - what sort of refuser are you using? Looks like their mechanism is a laminator. I suspect Office Max will sell me a cheaper laminator. Annie...
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Mike Bauers
mwbauers@xxxx.xxxxxx....
Jun 4, 1999 1:55 am
... Hi Annie, Well.. the url answer is downstairs on the other system.... I'll be getting the $100 cheaper -kit- version of their press from 'Robot Kits'. The...
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Mike Bauers
mwbauers@xxxx.xxxxxx....
Jun 4, 1999 2:24 am
Here are possibly the two best sites for scope'ing out methods... http://www.thinktink.com and http://www.dynaart.com And there are two do-it-yourself sites,...
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Mike Bauers
mwbauers@xxxx.xxxxxx....
Jun 4, 1999 2:39 am
... I found the site via Yahoo..... http://www.robotstore.com look for printed circuit fabrication gear in the catalog section. And while you're there.... look...
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mike.calvert@...
Jun 9, 1999 4:46 pm
I'm interested to hear of any experience in printing onto styrene. Anybody tried it? Please direct me to an archive if it's been discussed before. TIA Mike...
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Mike Bauers
mwbauers@xxxx.xxxxxx....
Jun 9, 1999 1:13 pm
... Hi Mike, It was recently mentioned in the AlpsDecal (?) list. The fellow said that he had regularly printed lots of signs on 0.010 and either 0.015 or ...
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Mike Bauers
mwbauers@xxxx.xxxxxx....
Jun 9, 1999 2:27 pm
Newbie: Aren't we all? ... I just dipped into the archives of this list in the members center and was really pleased to see just how smoothly the search engine...
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Mike Bauers
mwbauers@xxxx.xxxxxx....
Jun 9, 1999 2:56 pm
I see we have some new faces here. Well, it's going to a little slow with the nice warm seductive summer season. My plans are to get to as many of the local...
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Ron Hillsden, Victori...
ron-hillsden@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 10, 1999 4:17 am
Mike, I can confirm you can't use an ink jet printer. You just get little globs of ink which doesn't dry . Then tried to copy my artwork on a laser copier. I...
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Mike Bauers
mwbauers@xxxx.xxxxxx....
Jun 10, 1999 12:45 am
... Hi Ron, I just got this in the 'mailbox' a couple of messages before your post.... I'll ask him what thickness....... Wait a minute, he did this on an Alps...
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Peter Ellis
peter.ellis@xxxxxx.xx...
Jun 10, 1999 1:51 pm
The message <929008591.22205@onelist.com> ... Hi Vance! This really is a small world! I'm another newbie to this list. My only experience of CAD was using a...
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Frank Watson
snows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.x...
Jun 11, 1999 1:57 am
I can also confirm that ink-jet printers wont work with plastic, neither will mine AFTER trying the styrene. frank watson...
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CHoefer533@xxx.xxx
Jun 11, 1999 4:31 am
I've regular workshop equipment but no CNC kit. I understand that if I can draw the things, I can export as a .dxf file which I can pass on to an industrial...
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MARK PRIEST
EE16SVT@xxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Jun 14, 1999 1:34 am
Mike, I'd like to learn more about 3d scanners. Until I joined this list I'd never heard of one! Any suggestions? Mark Priest <EE16SVT@...> ... ...
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Anne Ogborn
anniepoo@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 14, 1999 6:39 pm
update on the stl files - I and the stereolithography guy have been tearing our hair out trying to get the output of my software to convert to STL files ready...
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Mike Bauers
mwbauers@xxxx.xxxxxx....
Jun 15, 1999 9:45 am
... Back in the days when computer animation was a brave new art, the emergence of mechanical scanners was a great time saver. The first ones relied upon a...
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MARK PRIEST
EE16SVT@xxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Jun 17, 1999 1:10 am
Mike, Thanks very much for the site tip. I visited and was fascinated. Now have some idea of whats what, and sent off for the Literature. I model in 3mm scale...
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Mike Bauers
mwbauers@xxxx.xxxxxx....
Jun 17, 1999 8:54 am
... some ... Literature? I have to admit I didn't see that in my explorations of the site. I'll go back for that. Roland, right? ... bodyshape ... That's my...
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Mike Bauers
mwbauers@xxxx.xxxxxx....
Jun 17, 1999 9:00 am
This is a cross post in reply to a previous question. from the AlpsDecal list.. Mike Bauers a thought... how about using transparency media to print on instead...
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Elmer McKay
emckay70@xxx.xxxx
Jun 17, 1999 10:35 pm
Hi Gang, I have seen brass etching mentioned a few times here, so I thought I would ask about toner removal. A friend and I are going to try the toner transfer...
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Elmer McKay
emckay70@xxx.xxxx
Jun 17, 1999 10:45 pm
I think the intention was to print the pattern for a building on the styrene sheet, cut it out and assemble it. I think the transparancey sheet would be too...
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MARK PRIEST
EE16SVT@xxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Jun 18, 1999 12:03 am
Mike If you've not already found it, on the Roland home page, at the top, theres a 'Contact' icon which when entered you get a 'to order a brochure.....'...
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Mike Bauers
mwbauers@xxxx.xxxxxx....
Jun 17, 1999 8:42 pm
Can someone suggest a program solution? I want to work with shapes such as the slanted front ends of streamlined locomotives, as an example. I can determine...
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Mike Bauers
mwbauers@xxxx.xxxxxx....
Jun 17, 1999 9:12 pm
... Good question! I think the answer is in http://www.dynaart.com They promote that method and have lots of info on site. Mike Bauers...
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Tom Troughton, MMR
tomt491@...
Jun 18, 1999 3:50 pm
Hi guys, I'm using CADRail 7.0 and am having trouble overlaying a figure on a track plan. I have drawn the plan and now want to overlay a small box with an ...
