Project: Silent Overkill
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Well, I jinxed it, didn't I!? Seller has been gazumped and currently we're back to uncertain waiting. Will probably sort itself out in the end but it's massively frustrating when you've been told "Go, go, GO!" and now it's "Wait, wait, wait" :-C
Honestly the second you hit Sold STC you should be locked in and others locked out. The whole "no liability until contracts exchange" annoyed me with the hell I went through because there was no way I was getting back the money I'd already spent if I pulled the plug on them taking almost a year to sort their rear.
Gazumping shouldn't even be a thing.
Gazumping shouldn't even be a thing.
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Totally agree. Also don't see why if you say "I'd like £X for this house" that when offered that amount, it's not immediately sold. "Offers over" fair enough but if you just want to create a bidding war, that's what auctions are for! (Yes, I'm aware you're likely to get less at auction...I'm just bitter, ok!? 
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)Alright. I've just checked and it was very early January when the acetal turned up...so I've literally been waiting all year to cut it. Why? To get it square, I need to set up a table that's got a nice precise grid of holes...and that doesn't fit indoors. Between house-hunting and the fact that it's rained damn near every time I've even looked outside, this has been the first opportunity to do....two cuts. This is why I want some indoor space. With stuff set up, this would have been less than ten minutes work....not the better part of half a day. While I was set up, I also rounded off the corners. I could have done that inside but I might as well make just one mess to clear up rather than two. The corners were routed with a 3D printed guide.
Why that radius, haven't I missed the corner of the actual bed? Yes...but for once, it's deliberate!
With the oversized (for the size of spindle) spoilboard cutter, that's as far out as I can reach with the spindle. Otherwise, I'd end up with towers in the corner as I started to resurface the board.
I drilled and counterbored the holes to mount it using another 3D printed jig. I outdid myself though as I managed, somehow, to get one of them in the wrong place and all of them the wrong size *facepalm* Honestly, I'd modelled M6 threads even but when I checked, an M5 screw threaded in nicely...or appeared to. I even had a bag of M5 screws ordered ready. So I had to do another jig and plunge an endmill to 'move' the hole to the right place - a drill would largely have followed the existing hole.
The rest needs to be done by the CNC itself....but I suspect that's going to have to wait until I move house*. I just don't have the floor space (let alone desk space!) to run it at the moment. Or, to be strictly accurate, I do...but not in a room that I want to fill with plastic chips for a 3m radius! Doing that in an office I share with my wife....might not go down so well! Can't afford a divorce as well as a house move! 
*Edit: I should mention that the top of the chain fell through so we're waiting for that to be completed again before we all start moving again.
Why that radius, haven't I missed the corner of the actual bed? Yes...but for once, it's deliberate!
With the oversized (for the size of spindle) spoilboard cutter, that's as far out as I can reach with the spindle. Otherwise, I'd end up with towers in the corner as I started to resurface the board.I drilled and counterbored the holes to mount it using another 3D printed jig. I outdid myself though as I managed, somehow, to get one of them in the wrong place and all of them the wrong size *facepalm* Honestly, I'd modelled M6 threads even but when I checked, an M5 screw threaded in nicely...or appeared to. I even had a bag of M5 screws ordered ready. So I had to do another jig and plunge an endmill to 'move' the hole to the right place - a drill would largely have followed the existing hole.
The rest needs to be done by the CNC itself....but I suspect that's going to have to wait until I move house*. I just don't have the floor space (let alone desk space!) to run it at the moment. Or, to be strictly accurate, I do...but not in a room that I want to fill with plastic chips for a 3m radius!
Doing that in an office I share with my wife....might not go down so well! Can't afford a divorce as well as a house move! *Edit: I should mention that the top of the chain fell through so we're waiting for that to be completed again before we all start moving again.
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You'd get to cut up my fitted kitchen too! Previous owner did a lovely bodge job of plugging the power cable in to a socket in the wrong place then putting the cupboard partition over it...so the power cable now needs to be actually cut to get the plug out!
Time for a chunky hole this time methinks, assuming I can even get the thing up on my rollers to get it out. I do not have the neck or back to just drag a 60kg unit.
Time for a chunky hole this time methinks, assuming I can even get the thing up on my rollers to get it out. I do not have the neck or back to just drag a 60kg unit.
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