Free Subscriptions to Digital Machinist!

Nothing’s for free, right? Well, this is pretty close…We’re giv­ing away Free Sub­scrip­tions to Dig­i­tal Machin­ist!

Here’s the small catch… We want some ideas for videos you’d like to see about CNC.  Edu­ca­tion is a big part of our mis­sion at Tor­mach, and we’re going to release some new video tuto­ri­als — we even got some new A/V club toys to play around with, so this should be fun.  But we want to know what you’d like to see. So reply back to this post with your ideas, and keep them coming. 

If we select your idea for a video topic, you’ll be rewarded with a free 1 year sub­scrip­tion to Dig­i­tal Machin­ist, cour­tesy of Vil­lage Press. I’ve got a few of these sub­scrip­tions to hand out, and we will keep this offer open until we run out.

If you haven’t seen Dig­i­tal Machin­ist, stop by the new­stand and pick up a copy. There’s always neat projects and great ideas. I’m even think­ing about tack­ling build­ing the Orrery fea­tured on the cover. I think that would look fan­tas­tic on the desk.

Thanks again to George and the rest of the team at Vil­lage Press for your support

BTW, George has just announced the relaunch­ing of the Dig­i­tal Machin­ist CNC Work­shop for 2010. It will be held a Washt­e­naw Com­mu­nity Col­lege in Ann Arbor, Michi­gan from June 22 – 25, 2010. I’ve never been before, but am very much look­ing for­ward to the trip as I’ve heard great things about pre­vi­ous work­shops from many of our friends and customers.

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Comments (6)

6 Responses to “Free Subscriptions to Digital Machinist!”

1. FreddyBeast says:

   October 19, 2009 at 12:20 pm

   I found that it would be nice to have a serie of videos on how to fine tune the PCNC. How to tram the machine, adjust the gibs, check pre­ci­sion prop­erly, etc… There’s some infor­ma­tions in the man­u­als but a video is a lot more intersting.
2. Willy says:

   October 19, 2009 at 7:15 pm

   Hi Guys

   I would be very inter­ested in see­ing some Videos on work hold­ing and the dif­fer­ent ways of machin­ing a part. Things like how to decide the best way to hold and machine a part. How to line up the part after flip­ping it over and before start­ing to machine the sec­ond side. Basicly any­thing to do with set­ting up the mate­r­ial before start­ing to machine it. Thanks for the Videos.

   Best regards

   Willy
3. John S says:

   October 20, 2009 at 4:34 pm

   As a prospec­tive cus­tomer look­ing to upgrade from a bench­top setup, I would love to see a video of a Tor­mach mak­ing a setup fix­ture for a 2.5x part and then using the fix­ture to make the part. Since my cur­rent mill is too small to make fix­tur­ing prac­ti­cal, this will be one of the biggest ‘upgrades’ for me. Being able to mill a fix­ture, pro­gram the fix­ture off­sets, and the use the TTS is a HUGE step towards effi­cient and accu­rate machining.
4. Andy G. says:

   October 21, 2009 at 1:12 pm

   Guys:

   Great sug­ges­tions! Keep them com­ing, I’ll let you know which ones we decide to do.
5. Bill Blackburn says:

   October 23, 2009 at 8:59 am

   How about a Video on main­tain­ing your Tor­mach. Top­ics like rust pro­tec­tion, lubri­ca­tion, when should the Spin­dle Bear­ings be looked at, elec­tron­ics cab­i­net main­te­nance, coolant maintenance.

   Willy
6. John Sasinowski says:

   October 29, 2009 at 9:26 pm

   A cou­ple of sug­ges­tions for you:

   1. Take a project — per­haps some­thing use­ful for the shop — from con­cept to com­ple­tion. This would cover design­ing the part(s) in CAD, select­ing mate­ri­als & tools, gen­er­at­ing the code in CAM, machin­ing the part(s), fin­ish­ing them, and final assembly.

   2. Illus­trate machin­ing dif­fer­ent mate­ri­als with atten­dant tool­ing choices, trade­offs of speed vs. fin­ish, etc.