Featured This Month:
Features
28 PARTS IS PARTS:
TAIG Tools Desktop
CNC Mills
by Kevin M. Berry
PARTS IS PARTS
TAIG Tools Desktop CNC Mills
29 MANUFACTURING:
RioBotz Combot Tutorial
Summarized – Tooth
Design
Summarized by Kevin M. Berry
32 COMBAT ZONE’S
GREATEST HITS
by Kevin M. Berry
35 CARTOON
Events
33 Completed Events for
August 9th - September 14th
33 EVENT REPORT:
Clash of the Bots –
Schiele Museum 2010
by Pete Smith
● by Kevin M. Berry
On the ever interesting Robot Fighting League forum, I ran
across this spontaneous product
review. It meets my criteria for
this column, which is “builder
tested.” I am a firm believer that
all product reviews should be
after they’ve been “in the box.”
For tools, the combat arena is a
builder’s shop, of course! To set
the stage, here’s my favorite
builder/disaster/shop quote of
the month: “I tried TIG welding
Ti in a box filled with Argon. The
box caught on fire.”
Now that we’ve baselined
the “stress tests” that a builder
can inflict on shop equipment,
here’s the request from a builder:
“I just checked out the Taig
Tools website and fell in love with
the CNC mill (www.taigtools
.com/ cmill.html). Anyone have
any experience with this mill?”
Two experienced builders
weighed in. One commented, “I
have one. It’s a few years old, so
it is an open loop stepper made
by Micro Proto. It’s the four axis
machine running Mach 3
software. Mods I’ve made include
a custom fixture plate, 18 inch
table, and 1” Y extension. It is
fairly rugged and rigid, not to
mention pretty accurate. I’ve
been able to mill 0.1 depth steel
with a 1/4” end mill. It’s light
enough to lift and place
anywhere.“ (Editor’s note: The
website shows the CNC version
CNC mill.
www.servomagazine.com/index.php?/magazine/article/november2010_CombatZone
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