tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31599891.post4504246749732579263..comments2008-10-14T18:47:27.654-07:00Adrian Bowyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17595509188999219420noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31599891.post-31404032805970943452008-10-14T18:47:00.000-07:002008-10-14T18:47:00.000-07:00Yeah, the Gingery paradim for recreating the industrial revolution has definitely needed to be brought up to date. You needed a fair sized machine shop to house the full set of Gingery equipment. This one only requires a good sized garage workshop that many homeowners have.<BR/><BR/>I guess that I get so focussed on all the people that don't have the space or the acoustical privacy to house a good-sized machine tool that I tend to disregard the importance of having something like that as a possibility. :-sForrest Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208965471464716174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31599891.post-28518137661339531852008-10-14T17:03:00.000-07:002008-10-14T17:03:00.000-07:00And the multimachine is listed in in the related links off the main page...or was.<BR/><BR/>DementedDemented Chihuahuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715419261430119998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31599891.post-60373060436214116592008-10-14T11:39:00.000-07:002008-10-14T11:39:00.000-07:00I would say it's a tool in the spirit of the gingery machines, but focused more on versatility and immediate utility. Once it's built, it's a machine shop. No need to build 10 different tools.<BR/><BR/>As far as it's relation to RepRap goes...<BR/><BR/>1: A machine this simple, with this many capabilities (including a lathe), given a skilled operator, is nearly self-replicating.<BR/><BR/>2: Eventually, if we can't replace them, it would be nice to have experience machining metal parts. Here you go.<BR/><BR/>3: In the mean time, if people hacking on RepRap want to save some cash, and learn a few skills by making the required metal parts themselves (or even an all-metal repstrap), here's a solution.<BR/><BR/>4: It's just plain nice to make friends in the budding Free / Libre and Open Source Hardware community.<BR/><BR/>5: Seeing how other people are solving the same problems you are is _always_ worth while.<BR/><BR/>I just figured our groups share a lot in common, and there might be some cross-group interest from both sets.Timothy Schmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316869463399645290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31599891.post-40095760493641377422008-10-14T11:01:00.000-07:002008-10-14T11:01:00.000-07:00I guess I'm a little puzzled. How is this machine tool different from either the Gingery machine tool series or a lot of the projects you see going on over at CNC Zone?<BR/><BR/>Mind, it's interesting and I like it, but it seems, to me anyway, tangential to Reprap goals at best.Forrest Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208965471464716174noreply@blogger.com