Interesting new UNIMAT (is it 6?)

On fleabay, but it's the interchangability of composite sections which makes it interesting

Almost like a Transformers Toy

Remove the X at the beginning of the www.Xebay link to view

unimat

Link didn't work for me.

David

For some reason he put an X infront of Ebay ?

**LINK**

Here is Cool Tool website

and there is a promotional video on You Tube, dated 04-Dec-2007

[not for me, thanks]

MichaelG.

For some reason he put an X infront of Ebay ?

fleabay links are verboten in here

Are they? When did that happen? .... seems to me there have been plenty in the past

Ve haf vays of makeing you talk so you had better explain vy das ist verbotten!!

Bob

One interesting point ... mentioned in the text under that You Tube Video

The availability of [very] long beds and cross-slides.

That's a significant advantage of using extrusions ... I wonder if they are available individually ?

MichaelG.

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The availability of [very] long beds and cross-slides.

With a nod to Michael Williams' comments on the Metalmaster thread ... obviously there would be terrific problems with alignment at those distances ... but it would be very useful raw material.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 08/08/2012 07:43:16

O.K. "Cool Tool" suddenly gets very interesting.

Would this install and run on a Raspberry Pi ???

MichaelG.

First thoughts are here

GPIO looks the way to go

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 08/08/2012 08:15:40

Who banned Fleabay links then?

We might delete them if somone consistently posted links to their own auctions otherwise we leave them alone.

They are obsolete in a few weeks anyway so not a good idea.

regards David

Edited By David Clark 1 on 08/08/2012 10:13:14

<Would this install and run on a Raspberry Pi ???>

There is a caveat in LinuxCNC requirements that video and system memory should be separate ie not shared in system memory.

The way things are going with RasPi though someone will crack it.

Thanks Derry,

I will sit back and wait for the Geeks to do something amazing.

MichaelG.

This is the metal version of the original Unimat 1 which is a very low power machine using plastic & aluminium.

Peter G. Shaw

hi all you can do anything with this type of aluminium extrusion if you want to be creative you can get all types of aluminium extrusion from Flex link i am having a go at using it for a cutter grinder using the 40 x 40 mm section.

i am lucky as i have a contact at my old work place so i can get hold of small off cuts

**LINK**

TY Kevin