Showed this to my wife, and she asked me if I was going to make one. I said not unless he is having a class on how to do it.
You are just a man with many talents, Nice pie by the way! (apple is my favorite)
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So I dont get why you left the .038 gap?
Ha thanks!
Be happy to share the recipes! It’s just two - one for the crusts and the other for the apple pie
You can skip making your own crusts if you don’t want to cut butter into dry mix, roll it out, or deal with freezing/refrigerating it
It melts easily when you’re forming it due to having butter so you have to play musical chairs with throwing it in the freezer and back out again
Some people bake apple pie all in one go
I do it differently in that I cook the apples first to create a nice, smooth filling before it goes into the crust for baking
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I drove by their creamery/tasting shop the other day. I was on a tight schedule and didn’t have time to stop in. I was planning to initially but the office added another two buildings to my list during the week and it took all week and an extra night out to get it all done. Started in Sacramento and flew out of Portland. Hoping to get a little further north on one of my next trips and drop in on some friends in Sequim. 
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Go out there and do the tour!
Their cheese is freaking delicious too; if you’re into the outdoors, there are a lot of beautiful trails for backpacking. Spent some 5 days backpacking out there when I visited them.
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I did the little hike to the Big Spruce and the Octopus Tree last time I was there. Also found a sand dollar on the beach. There were thousands of broken ones… only found one that was intact.
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Good Job Craig, I enjoyed the video!
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Thank you!
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Sir, from the basics online and from what short research on laser welding I have accumulated (mostly from after watching your videos), I have come to the realization the smoke is actual particles sintered from high heat.
If anyone gets bored, I will provide a greater, in-depth amount of time for this particle business and how large mfg. firms plan on the laser weld particle releasing for their workers…
So, I think the smoke or the release of particles in this instance of laser welding is a normal attribute to the act. Heat metal at high temperatures and sintered particles get released.
Also, I wanted to read more but all the articles are short-winded and it would take more time to find a good, well-thought-out few articles to summarize on.
Just like with other particles being released from different processes, metal sintering (whether from welding or cutting) can be dangerous to inhale and bath in.
I heard what you said. You had a mask. On the up and up with the mask is a good thing…
- I am pretty sure firms are not doing intake on people to breathe sintered metals (yet).
- And a bunch of other hoopla.
Anyway, as usual, good videos and in anticipation for me for more from you and the laser tasks, I may just start to research more ideas on the builds surrounding laser welds and cutting more.
Seth
P.S. So, that burnt crystalline from whatever type of metal fabric you use, will affect you. How? No clue but a mask will inevitably do better than my chat about it. Anyway, to whomever wants to read up and learn more: crystalline metal oxide will provide more in depth ideas than my short rant here. So, Bing or Google will be a good starting point. Books, the more favored way of learning, even some online books like with VitalSource or Kindle for PC, may be in a future!
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Great information! I’ve watched probably a100 laser cutting/welding videos and have never heard anything specific on airborne particle emission.
I’m curious that I’ve never seen a black cloud from other’s videos that’s like mine. I thought it was gas pre-flow or flow rate needs tweaking. Tried this, no change. Sanding off mill scale, no change. Maybe its a laser setting like frequency or wobble speed. We tried welding aluminum, its particularly nasty. Masks along with a ventilation fan are required for this. So far, our luck with AL is zero.
I’m going to research as you suggested and make sure that our masks filters are adequate and changed more often. Thanks for the heads up. Every person in our shop currently has some health issue happening, we don’t need another.
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My safety research started here
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg%3D%3D_ade1c73e-c280-465d-a4a8-32a6b2875431
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ANSI Z136.1 is the sheet in question that may read a bit too well-educated. I really do not know as of now…
I am sure it costs money to get the document too. The specification may prove valuable to try to consider who-what-how-where on the laser welding/cutting ideas.
I spent about 40 minutes trying (trying) to review ideas online. Most posts and some Welding Society online all point to the spec. sheet from ANSI.
Seth
P.S. I am just guessing there are ooey-gooey details in the spec. sheet from ANSI online. Anyway, I will keep reading if necessary and who knows, I may find an older model of the spec. online somewhere in some time. https://webstore.ansi.org/standards/lia/ansiz1362013 is something else I found on their website at their webstore.
It is for mfg. instead of the entire process. It may be a good read.
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it’s different and their user group sucks. i had a crossfire but needed to go bigger and no crossfire in the size i needed sadly. unless something has changed the default settings are not good. PM me and we can take it off line. i have it working well but had i not had the experience with my crossfire it would have been a long row to hoe. i hope you learned sheetcam. dont use thier post and they dont have one for 360 to the best of my knowledge.
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Yeah, I joined the group some 2 weeks ago as I guess you can only join once you become an owner 
Joined both the Optimum group as well as the STV Table Owner’s and really, I have no idea why I’m even in them.
There’s still a bit to learn for sure, but the stuff posted on there is like the most basic shit you find on here and on the Langmuir group. Sometimes worse actually…
I am a little familiar with Optimum as my friend (who just sold his table) ran a 5’ x 10’ Sparx Pro for over a year non-stop. I’d visit his shop often to just chill and drink, or weld shit (that’s me at his shop, table in the background)
If I have learned anything from the group though it’s that, a lot of people opt to use Sheetcam instead of Optimum for their cam.
Still, I’d like to see where I can benefit from using Optimum for nesting or something I mean shit I paid $500 for it.
But yeah, lots of people just suggest running Sheetcam.
Sucks because I’m completely dialed in on my Hypertherm via Fusion 360. Not just my tool library, but the specific rules I use for each thickness and whatnot. I’m trying hard not to run Sheetcam because I’m already going to learn a new program (Optimum), and don’t want to learn two at once.
I suffer from memory loss (TBI).
As for Fusion 360 post - you are correct there is no post processor available. However, Barry said a few members do indeed create g-code on Fusion 360 but couldn’t tell me exactly what post processor people use. They do it for the same reason why I want to do it, to create their own specific cut paths for their designs.
When I posed my question in the group, people didn’t understand what I was asking exactly 
I had one of the first. the first six months were a challenge. do not use thier post, it is fairly inflexible. SHeetcam rules can do the same thing you are doing in fusion 360 just write some rules or they are available. I have a few good ones. Get the real password for the real settings page. they had the THC totally way way to fast and it was sawing. there is no work zero button, only table zero. parking is the work around.
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This project isn’t anything spectacular but this is exactly why I wanted my plasma table and exactly why Fusion 360 makes my designs possible.
So I have a dump trailer and grand kids (young). I am tired of the manual wind jack for hooking/unhooking the hitch so I bought an electric one. I know my grandson will not hesitate to play with the power on the jack once he finds it so I want to put a disconnect inside the lock box that holds the controls and hydraulic pump and battery for the dump bed.
Thanks to Fusion, the design was easy to make both the plastic model as well as the metal plate that will be riveted to the metal lock box (inside).
Now these patterns move to the respective equipment and Voila!
I couldn’t be happier with the outcome. You can’t really appreciate but that plastic part has square metal nuts that will allow bolts from the top to pull the plastic bottom securely onto the plate. The plastic turned out to be strong enough for me to turn it on its side and step on the smallest portion with my heel and there is no risk of breaking.
I used 16 gauge steel and Clear PETG GratKit Filament (5 walls, 25% infill, with addition support added in the shaft for the bolts with 50% infill).
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