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what kind of dryer?
We use a lot of compressed air for delicate machinery, and dry air is important. So we have a refrigerated dryer. We also have salt dryers. I see the cheap refrigerated dryers are less than $1000, which is less than I thought, not having been involved in buying ours. The one down the hall is right after the compressors.
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It is the Harbor Freight Refrigerated Air Dryer.
Harbor Freight Refrigerated Air Dryer
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The Multicam machines are nice but too rich for my blood even if I could justify buying one for my shop. The newest machine the shop just ordered was just shy of 100k. It does have a 12 tool changer and a rotary indexer that you can do lathe type work on. I want to see what kind of job it can do on a ball and claw foot one day. It also cuts something crazy like 2400 inches per minute. I watched a guy demo the machine cutting 1 in ply. He zipped through it in a single pass cutting about 400-500 inches per minute. I was pretty amazed especially when I saw how clean the cut was.
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I would like know about the endmill they used in that demo.
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Dave for your kind of work that would be a great time saver. I imagine the folks you are selling to are looking for the look, rather than it was done with hand tools.
Can you say what machine you are talking about. I know almost nothing about the level of equipment over homeowner stuff.
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Below is a link to the CNC router. It is a fantastic machine but I don't use it for my furniture work. Honestly in most cases I can hand carve something faster than I can draw it and cut it on a CNC machine. If I was making multiple copies the cnc would probably come out faster. The big thing is that my clientele expect everything to be carved by hand just like with dovetails. If I used a router to cut dovetails and a CNC for carving I would lose a lot of customers. It would also kill my reputation if I used a CNC for my furniture work. On top of that I just enjoy doing all my carving by hand.
https://www.multicam.com/7000-series-cnc-router/
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Now I'm confused I thought you said you had ordered this machine for the shop? If so what are you going to use it for?
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I read it as Dave's day job bought the multicam.
Two things interesting about the multicam link:
1 Weight is 6k to 30k. Wonder why the huge difference. Maybe that much more support on the base of their largest machine? Still 5x their smallest is interesting.
2 Also they have a DFW Airport address. Sure would be easy to go see them.
Looks like a great machine. $100k is a lot of jobs!!!!
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(This post was last modified: 06-18-2017, 09:06 AM by Dave Diaman.)
Steve, I work part time as a model/furniture maker. I work full time as a furniture maker for myself. This is basically because I can't afford Obamacare care and needed somewhere that offered family medical care that wouldn't cost me 20k a year. A lot of the work I do is machinest type work on CNC machines as a model maker. The great part is the shop has a lot of machines I can't afford or fit into my shop. If health care ever gets straightened out and actually affordable again I will just work for myself.
