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Brass gear pushed beyond it limits at work

#phonetography #iphone #workplace #InTheShop #FinallyIndoors

Well, after a long discussion with my two best employees (Plushtodons) we have decided to no longer accept PayPal payments in our online shop.

This will cost us business, just the same as when we dropped Meta and Co.

We have to make a stand and sometimes this comes with a cost...

We stand with the ICC, EU, Denmark and Greenland!

This is all stupid, Danes are some of the nicest people!

#plushtodon #gpumoto #racing #gp125 #gp3 #gp125 #motogp #motorcycle #motorcycleracing #intheshop #denmark

GP-u-Moto Oct 31

Happy Halloween! (If you partake)

Sometimes everything seems to work out... Today was a good day. I turned out a top-hat for the New drawbar for the CNC mill today. So far, it looks pretty good. Only thing left is the 10mm square nut at the top to mill. I will do that after I turn the threads on the "bar" part of the drawbar.

#gpumoto #handmade #cnc #mill #HagenImBremischen #Intheshop

GP-u-Moto Sep 21

Today was a busy day. I put the table together for the ShapeOko.

The other day a box arrived with a few goodies for the mini mill. In the box was this adorable little pressure regulator from Festo. It is for the cooling system (fogbuster) to drop the pressure down to 1.5 to 2 bar.

I will be heading to Hannover on Tuesday to visit the EMO. I need to pick up some new tooling for the shop. Maybe I can find a few deals there!

#gpumoto #handmade #cnc #mill #HagenimBremischen #Intheshop #emo

dried Aug 26, 2025

Upgraded my hand sanding setup to use random orbital sanding discs on the recommendation of my brother in law and it's been a big boost. They remove material more quickly than regular sheets and since they're attached to the block by hook-and-loop, there's less hand fatigue from holding the sandpaper in place.

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GP-u-Moto May 28, 2024

I was really unhappy with the Benning MM 5-2 multimeter that I had picked up last year on sale to replace my old Fluke 77 (AC side is defective). I was planning on repairing my old Fluke but I just don't have the time. So, I just picked up a new Fluke 115. The Fluke is just so much nicer... The Benning is really slow to show a reading. The Fluke is easier to read and the bar graph is really a help.
#Intheshop #tools #tooltip #tooltime #multimeter

aekis projects Sep 17, 2023

Well, probably not a good sign, but I'm getting fast at taking the head off the mill and disassembling it so I can swap out the pastic gears (destroyed by a crash) inside. It seems daunting before you start, but actually it's a fairly easy procedure and takes less than a hour. Also this time I got the new gear to mesh a bit better than last time, yay.

Still hope it will be a while before I have to do it again :D

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aekis projects May 22, 2023

Coldblued the parts and mounted them. These are mounts for adjustment screws for tramming the mill head's swivel. This was pretty much impossible to get precise without such adjusters, because the register diameter of the head on the slide is a pretty sloppy fit & clamping it down moves the whole thing again. With these I hope I can make the adjustment with the head already clamped partways and importantly by smoothly turning a hex key instead of tapping on the head with a mallet :D
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aekis projects May 14, 2023

Continued today with the parts that I crashed the facemill into last time, switched to a 6mm endmill instead and used the opportunity for some speeds and feeds testing. Got some decent metal removal rate for this wimpy desktop mill and lots of pretty coloured chips :D

After that on to the bandsaw to split the parts into two and then went over them (half-assed, these are functional and don't need to look pretty) with files and the sanding plate & sponges to smooth them out a bit.
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aekis projects Apr 24, 2023

Remember how a while ago I had to disassemble the whole head of my milling machine to replace a gear (deliberately made out of plastic so it fails far before any expensive components get damage) I destroyed with a crash?

Well yeah, oops...

Probably the final reminder I needed to never ever again touch off in Z with the axis instead of the quill. The axis slide is sticky, which means sometimes it accumulates and then "jumps" down the screw backlash while moving downwards.
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