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Looks great! Although I do feel a bit responsible for starting this craziness off 😎🤓👍

I can’t spell it though! Tenax

They’re tenax fasteners if I’m not mistaken:- https://amzn.eu/d/caCiLK2

This is looking great. I’ve never understood Mercedes fixation with Tartan I’m sure it’s just to make future modellers lives more difficult, it certainly can’t be for aesthetic reasons!

This is looking great. I had a similar challenge making what looks like the exact same glass fuel sight glasses for my Bentley. Using LEDs is a great idea. For mine, I turned and polished a dowel in the lathe to get the bulb shape, drilled a slightly larger hole in a piece of Ali, then heated some thin, clear plastic sheet placed over hole with a heat gun and pushed the dowel through when it was soft enough. Had a few attempts to get it right! So vac forming without the vac the anode and cathode in the LED do look a lot like the fuel pipe inside them too on yours so that works really well! loving your work here. Nick

Lordy! No pressure then. If that’s true, I probably should be turning out better stuff than I am then. ☹️

Looking very sharp.

Wood grain floor was a massive error with my setup. I’ve sealed all the cupboards front, back and sides perfectly so there is nowhere for anything to go, so I don’t even bother looking now, I just sweep into a dustpan and so far, everything has turned up. But you can’t see a damn thing. I’m thinking of going for a self levelling floor paint over it, or maybe some sealed in single colour vinyl - anything but dark wood! Sorry. I would seriously think about a single uninterrupted span of cheap, single light-coloured vinyl sealed to the walls before you put anything in. I wish I had.

I do love your attention to detail. 🤓😎👍

Hi Frank, You mostly answered your own questions I think. Tools 1,2,3 and 5 are just drills. The plastic collects are fitted on standard shank tools with a provided tool and just ensure there is constant shaft length when they are in the holders for the automated tool changer to pick them up consistently. Nick

Thanks, It's this little beauty, a 4 axis Carvera. Expensive is a relative term! I got in early on the kickstarter campaign with mine, so saved myself some cash with that. Also not long ago an auto tool changing 4 axis machine would be North of £20,000 , so to get one on the desktop at all is an amazing achievement. So to cut to the chase I paid about £3,000 for mine. I think the full price now is around £5,000-£6,000. So yes it's a lot, but it's proper, accurrate little machine not a toy or construction kit like most of the'low cost' machines. I don't regret buying it one bit, although I do need to learn how to use it properly, I've barely scratched the surface of what it will do. Nick

Hi Frank, to get a bit of an insight, I recorded the fusion 360 (manufacturing module) video simulation for you. Click the play button bottom left, If you look at the detail on the left, this shows the tool changes. My little CNC machine has an auto tool changer with 6 locations, this is the first time I've used all of them!

done.

Well that was wheely hard. I'll get me coat. First complete wheel. I haven't laquered it yet. I've got the process fairly repeatable now. I may be able to get it slightly neater, but not much I suspect. I may try a different wood. It's currently walnut as I had thin strips. I may try ripping down some ebony I have. Stand by for the next version!

Meanwhile, at the steering wheel factory… ;