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Comment on More on the Sudanese AR-10 by Ed

Ed — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:49:22 +0000

still amazed at how much work goes into this thing

Comment on Shop Update- The CNC Router by Ed

Ed — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:33:51 +0000

wow, nice job. great stash of extruder aluminum

Comment on The Mauser 1917 trench carbine receiver by Ed

Ed — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:33:41 +0000

very nice 3D printing quality. very impressive skills.

Comment on Cut away of the STg 45 rifle by Hainabu

Hainabu — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:46:14 +0000

Does anybody have information about the stamped steel receiver thickness of the Gerät 06H / StG45(M)? Sources vary between 1.2 and 1.5 mm.

Comment on Japax wire edm by Vladimir

Vladimir — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:10:48 +0000

Oh, they reminded me of my youth. In the late 80s, I worked on a Japax machine, if my memory serves me correctly, it was a wire, two-axis Japax LDM series. To program the cutting path, I used the computer that came with the machine, like it was called C-Japt, as far as I remember, this industrial computer was built on a Motorola 68000 processor. For the sake of interest, I hacked the security of the software interface and found that the program for calculating the tool trajectory and building the ISO code was created in a dialect of the Basic language and redone it for Microsoft Basic. Unfortunately, in the 90s the floppy disks with the source codes were lost. There’s an album lying around somewhere, with a printout of the code on a dot matrix printer.

Comment on Back on line by Ed

Ed — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 03:07:58 +0000

Well done. It’s looking good, glad you are back in your dream shop

Comment on Updates at Gun Lab by Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:03:48 +0000

The site took a vacation for a while. Life got in the way. I have since sold my business and i am back in the shop full time repairing equipment and making stuff

Comment on Japax wire edm by Kalle Leppik

Kalle Leppik — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:02:44 +0000

Would anyone have a wiring drawings of a Japax LUX3 machine? The RS232 link worked for many years. The machine was moved and now the link does not work.

Comment on Back on line by phred

phred — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:13:51 +0000

Welcome back!
I look forward to following your adventures once again.

phred

Comment on Japax wire edm by Wesley Orr

Wesley Orr — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:36:01 +0000

Hello to anyone out there reading this, I have a japax wire edm that dosent really have much information on it about what type. However it does use the same japt 3F controller and looks very similar in size and layout to the one pictured in this thread older or newer I’m not sure but I was wondering if anyone would have some insight into why the machine won’t pass its “self test” when first powering up. It clicks comes to life for about a second and shuts back off. The only safety switch I can find is on the back door of the VH-0Z power supply cabinet and with that door open it shuts off even faster, so I don’t believe it would be a safety sensor of sorts. I first had this issue trying to track down any issues in the unit as a whole and boy did I find plenty, the dielectric fluid unit was the first and forgetting to connect back the power and signal lines resulted in the same issue. But upon fixing all that I could find and doing a first test I had called it quits for the night and went home only to come back the next day with the state of the machine unchanged and this problem occurring. I’ve checked and cleaned all the connections between the three units and still no change. If anyone would happen to have some insight into what this could be caused by, or any helpful info on the machine at all it would be greatly appreciated.
-Wes