[Coco] Regarding disk drives

N8WQ exwn8jef at gmail.com
Sat Jan 3 12:15:29 EST 2009


Gene,
Sorry I mixed you guys up and congrats on your dumpster dive.
That is a nice web site you have.

Alan Jones

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N8WQ - Canal Winchester, Ohio
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Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Saturday 03 January 2009, N8WQ wrote:

>

>> Hi Gene,

>> I was looking at your milling setup a couple of weeks ago on your web site.

>> I like how you put the CoCo to work!

>>

>> Alan Jones

>>

>

> You must have been looking at George's site. Mine is at

> <http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene>

> I run my little mill with a linux box (dumpster dive special, with used cpu &

> memory) running emc-2.2.8. The complete kit of that software is available in

> the ubuntu repo's. It was once a Harbor Freight micro-mill but has been

> heavily reworked by me. Its most recent duty last week was making a new air

> output manifold for my small air compressor from a 1x2x4" block of alu, the

> pot metal original had cracked and the leak couldn't be stopped. Works

> great. I can leave a framing nailer plugged in overnight and it might run

> once in the night now. Was every 2 minutes. Bad leak.

>

>




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