Hearing about the switch of assembled units to epoxy granite. Wonder if Langmuir will be making a video of the process and what is needed for home assembled machines?
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I would really like to see something from LS on epoxy granite for home builds as well. I would consider shipping my base back to LS and paying to have them do it since I luckily put pouring my concrete on hold for other reasons just before the announcement was made.
I know epoxy granite is more expensive but from my perspective, itās worthwhile given the strength and better attributes for reducing chance of damage when the machined is moved considering Iām not in my forever shop yet.
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MR-1 ā¦ When and where was this mentioned? I guess I missed it.
Not sure where but they were having issues with the machines they assembled with the concrete so they are considering epoxy granite
hahah there you go, gotta watch out for the hear say on the interweb
There werenāt any issues with the concrete- and having probably been the only person that has run both EG machines and concrete machines, there is zero difference in performance between the two. If anything the concrete is a bit better because it is more dense.
The reason we are switching to EG is purely a matter of logistics. Concrete simply takes too long to cure to be feasibly for mass production. EG in addition to the epoxy flood coat can all be done same day, which means the next day they can be assembled and shipped.
EG was never the original plan, but we simply have received so many āassembledā orders that we had no choice but to pivot to a more manufacturing friendly process.
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Just an Idea and thinking out loud ā¦ If the uses of āconcreteā was for mass/vibration damping and some stability, have you thought of using steel ballast (balls/shot) with an over pour of epoxy?
I missed this too. Where do I need to go to find out the lastest news.