Interesting new UNIMAT (is it 6?)

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

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 http://www.Xebay link to view

unimat

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

[David LittlewoodParticipant @davidlittlewood51847]

Link didn't work for me.

David

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

For some reason he put an X infront of Ebay ?

**LINK**

[Alistair Grant 3Participant @alistairgrant3]

David, Just go to ebay site and search for 330767741825. This is the item number

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Here is Cool Tool website

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

[not for me, thanks]

MichaelG.

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

For some reason he put an X infront of Ebay ?

fleabay links are verboten in here

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Posted by Ady1 on 08/08/2012 01:02:32:

fleabay links are verboten in here

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

[SpringbokParticipant @springbok]

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

Bob

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

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

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

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

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

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

[DerryUKParticipant @derryuk]

<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.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Thanks Derry,

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

MichaelG.

[Peter G. ShawParticipant @peterg-shaw75338]

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

Peter G. Shaw

[Kevin BennettParticipant @kevinbennett25223]

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

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