I wanted to add the capability to probe to our CNC milling machine. I looked at the 3D taster style indicator which I have used on a manual machine but for less money I thought I could set up an electronic probe that would find edges and surfaces but could also easily locate hole centers and...

We just finished up these 3 pairs of rear sets for a race team. I made one test piece that turned out to be extra. I put it back on the mill and pocketed it out to see what kind of weight I could take off. 121 vs 196 grams. Solidworks is fairly accurate predicting the weight of these parts...

A few pictures of some machine work. The first two are parts for a shop built CNC lathe I completed a couple years ago. The last is a ball turned using the CNC...

I’ve had this mic set for awhile but I just ordered the...

This small project is a good example of how working with a prototype shop can quickly bring a design into reality while accommodating design changes along the way. For those who are not familiar with racing motorcycles, the bracket shown is a “rear set” which moves the foot pegs...

A pair of shift / brake levers for a custom Honda 350 race bike. Solidworks model showing the inside of the lever with the bore for the bearing and internal snap ring groove. I wanted to do a test interpolating the bearing bore. The first two attempts were unsuccessful due to the snap ring...

The crank that raises and lowers the knee on our CNC Mill was lost somewhere before the mill came to us. After some measuring I generated a quick Solidworks model and used HSMWORKS to make the tool path. Between the “teeth” you can see some of the adaptive clearing strategy that...

Some new photos showing the mount test installed on the customer GSXR...

CNC machined aluminum motor mount for a...

Machined this motor mount for our friend Ted Dillard in Boston.  Ted runs The Electric Chronicles at evmc2.com.  Pulled this off the machine at 5pm and hustled to UPS to get it to him by...

Tree vertical milling machine arrives at the shop.

The turner’s cube is a traditional project for an apprentice or student learning lathe work who would be given one and told to reproduce it.  I made this one on a CNC mill.  Getting the diameters and depths correct for an aesthetically pleasing cube is more difficult than it would seem...

I had heard of DIY timing pulleys made by drilling a circle of holes in a piece of material and then turning down the piece to form the teeth.  SDP/SI has some great info on pulleys including a chart of tooth profiles (http://www.sdp-si.com/D265/HTML/D265T015.html) and a center-to-center...