Still dig­ging out from an excel­lent show at Cabin Fever last week­end.   For those who don’t know, Cabin Fever is the largest Model Engi­neer­ing Expo in North Amer­ica.   It was our first time there, and we had a blast.  Both our demo machines found new homes, and along the way we got to talk with many very tal­ented crafts­men — almost all the mod­els at the show would be at home in a museum. Here’s a A few of the high­lights to share with those who weren’t lucky enough to attend:

Of course, the Tor­mach Booth was busy. The star was our PCNC 1100 Series 3 with an ATC.  We also had a PCNC 770 with 4th-axis and Sprut­CAM demos run­ning all day long.  Here’s Greg chat­ting in front of the booth.

But the real stars were the mod­els.  Check out this Scratch Built at D9 Bull­dozer with work­ing Hydraulics!

And lots of Trains!  This one’s a bit longer, but you’ve gotta admit, these Model Live Steam trains are cool!

How­ever, My absolute Favorite model at the show was this 1/16 scale 9W Bucyrus-Monighan Dragline Crane.  Here’s it load­ing some of the other Dump Trucks in the Pit.

And it Walks!

I did a lit­tle online search­ing and found a great build log of the model as well.  Check it out — it turns out the the model only took 9 years to build.  In any event, I’m impressed.

Cabin Fever Returns April 2013.  See you there!

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About Andrew Grevs­tad

With over ten years of pro­fes­sional expe­ri­ence in advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing sys­tems, dig­i­tal design tools, and applied soft­ware, Andy Grevs­tad has worked in prod­uct devel­op­ment and tech­ni­cal sup­port for Tor­mach since 2008. Grevs­tad has received engi­neer­ing degrees from Michi­gan Tech­no­log­i­cal Uni­ver­sity and a M.S. and Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to Dig­i­tal Machin­ist mag­a­zine and also blogs weekly about CNC milling and related top­ics on the Tor­mach blog, Milling Around.