I've been visiting with my good buddy Tim out in Pennsylvania and he has a shop full of fabrication tools.
I know that I'm horrible with sharing all my cool DIY projects. My most recent project was an auto water change unit that also does all the math to dose concentrated brine to assist with dosing kalk beyond the evaporation point. I can get into to specifics if you want but the intent for this thread is to show what we've been doing in Tims shop.
If you attended the meeting I recently hosted you might have seen this tucked behind the kalk reactor.
Tim asked me to think of things to fabricate when I came out. The list of ideas were endless, and I did settled on a few, and one of the reef related was taking the cycloidal cam drive that I designed for my AWC and CNC it out of acetal (hard low friction plastic) to combat the wear that I see with my 3d printed cycloidal cam.
It had been a long time since I played with a cnc and Tim let me run the entire process from cam to tool changes to cleaning the entire machine. Haha
I snapped some photos of the process.
I can't wait to get home to test fit these and see how they hold up over time.
After this experience, I think my next purchase is going to be one of these machines.
It's going to open so many doors!
I know that I'm horrible with sharing all my cool DIY projects. My most recent project was an auto water change unit that also does all the math to dose concentrated brine to assist with dosing kalk beyond the evaporation point. I can get into to specifics if you want but the intent for this thread is to show what we've been doing in Tims shop.
If you attended the meeting I recently hosted you might have seen this tucked behind the kalk reactor.
Tim asked me to think of things to fabricate when I came out. The list of ideas were endless, and I did settled on a few, and one of the reef related was taking the cycloidal cam drive that I designed for my AWC and CNC it out of acetal (hard low friction plastic) to combat the wear that I see with my 3d printed cycloidal cam.
It had been a long time since I played with a cnc and Tim let me run the entire process from cam to tool changes to cleaning the entire machine. Haha
I snapped some photos of the process.
I can't wait to get home to test fit these and see how they hold up over time.
After this experience, I think my next purchase is going to be one of these machines.
It's going to open so many doors!
