<div><div><div><div>I like the nylon because you can easily snip them to length. They are plenty strong for this and they weren't a fail point. </div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>I'm just going to have a shower, head to the market for a burger/beer, then to ArtEngine Lab where I will update my blog while the drawbot runs.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Michael Ayukawa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike.ayukawa@gmail.com">mike.ayukawa@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Why did you use nylon fasteners/screws? Other than you had them hanging around.<div>The pivot one looks particularly suspicious to me. But that's just a guess from afar.</div><div>
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<div><br><div><div>On 2011-12-06, at 10:47 AM, Darcy Whyte wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div><div>Hahahah....</div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>I'll give you a hint. It's in operation right now as the fail mode wasn't so dramatic...</div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Michael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:krazatchu@hotmail.com" target="_blank">krazatchu@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I'll put $50 on "user error"...<div><div><br>
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<div>Okay, after about 6h of operation, my cnc roller system failed.
Anybody care to hazard a guess at what engineering mistake I made?</div>
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<div><a href="http://mambohead.com/2011/11/look-ma-no-clamps/" target="_blank">http://mambohead.com/2011/11/look-ma-no-clamps/</a></div>
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<div><a href="http://mambohead.com/2011/11/roller-parts-finally-made/" target="_blank">http://mambohead.com/2011/11/roller-parts-finally-made/</a></div>
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