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About 2 years ago, I set out to create a removable universal vacuum fixture for doing various jobs. (Please review my Nov. 2006 article) This universal fixture was coined the ‘BradyVac’ by Bill Young. The basic idea is to take a sheet of … Continue reading >>> The BradyVac II – A Production Vacuum Fixture on a Shoestring Budget Today we loaded up the truck going to our 2007 ShopBot Jamboree in California. Bill Young and Bill Palumbo have been working incredibly hard getting a great program ready for the event May 17th-18th at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. We think we’ve got the logistics worked out pretty well and we expect this to be … Continue reading >>> Whew … (caught up!) Each year we have this great idea to hold the Florida Camp in February so we can do a few things at the same time; We want to meet and greet the large number of Shopbotters in the Sunshine State. We want to have our “Mid Winter Jamboree planning meeting” so we can get … Continue reading >>> Florida Camp Shopbot I cannot believe I missed the entire month of August! That just goes to show you how busy the ShopBot has been this past month. Now let’s get down to what was going on… After the last article, I moved from using a high vacuum low volume pump to a single Fein Turbo III shop … Continue reading >>> Holding Things Down For the past six years there have been an ongoing series of get-togethers which have become known as “Camp Shopbots”. The first one was held in Bill Young’s shop back in 1999 for ShopBot owners interested in using the machine to build boats. Four tool owners and a few interested onlookers attended, and … Continue reading >>> What’s a ShopBot Camp? ATEA Region 5 meets in North Platte, Nebraska North Platte, NE often serves as a stopping place on the transit between the East and the West Coasts of America. The Original Transcontinental Airways that carried mail between Washington D.C., New York & San Francisco made a stopover at the North Platte Landing Field, which was the … Continue reading >>> Recognizing the Community in Colleges in Heartland America Although it’s fun to always be doing new things, sometimes it’s a plus to be able to reuse work that you’ve done in the past. It not only saves you time, but also gets you looking at old designs with new eyes. Here are two examples that I’ve worked on recently. Puzzles: 5 or 6 … Continue reading >>> Reusing Designs This is the sixth year we have run a Camp at John Forney’s shop in Edison,Ohio and it turned out to be his largest event to date. Things kicked off on Thursday with a full day of software training by the staff of Vectric, Tony McKenzie, and Brian Moran. Tony spent much of the … Continue reading >>> Mid West Camp Shopbot 2007 |
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