Making Swarf – Kyle Cothern

May 10, 2020May 17, 2020

Making Swarf #3: Productive Pandemic

Too many zoom calls. Hacker Drinkup with a cube theme.

On Lockdown

Hadn’t used the P100 respirator since the fires last year

That was an interesting 3 months. I was planning on publishing weekly blogs but I had a lot in my life change very rapidly, so I took a break from writing. In the midst of bringing the garage shop online, starting a business formally ( swarf.io ), and interviewing for jobs, a pandemic started and I got exposed to a friend who got the ‘rona. I’ve been on lockdown since (starting around Feb 28th). Luckily I never got sick, but now I’m busier than ever.

February 18, 2020May 17, 2020

Making Swarf #2- A series of tubes: plugging in a CNC Mill

Last week in making Swarf I covered moving this lil Haas TM2P into my garage and getting it placed, as well as some machine shop basics. This week I’ll go over the extensive process of getting power and air to it, getting it setup, and loading it up with coolant.

February 14, 2020May 17, 2020

Making Swarf #1- My first CNC Mill: Haas TM2P

Oooo. Powerrrr.

How to cram a CNC shop in your garage from xSpacex engineer @risknc (plus, a Corgi)