Invisible wrote:

> 
> Jig system?
> 
> What are you trying to cut? Kryptonite??
> 

Jigging -- A means of holding something together while you work on it. 
Tack on another 10K for the rolling press... btw. (You have to press the 
plates into the truss.)

The saws cut ordinary wood, but they're robotic. Lots of engineering and 
programming time goes into them.


> 
> More to the point, apparently IM machines are rated on the amount of 
> pressure they can clamp the mould down with - measured in tonnes. (!) 
> Apparently the cheap ones manage 3-4 tonnes, and the best reach 6,000 
> tonnes or more. O_O
> 

If you can find it in your country, check out the show "How Its Made" 
Here it appears on the Discovery Science network. They detail many 
industrial processes. It blows my mind how these huge presses seem to 
stamp out such things as screwdrivers with nearly no effort.

The U.S. mint apparently uses 84 tons of pressure to press a coin. All 
applied in an instant! Hundreds of times a minute.


> 
> You as well?
> 
> (Actually, you should be glad it even *has* a MIDI port in the first 
> place! Most cheap keyboards don't.)
> 

Well, I had aspirations of creating music on the computer a long time 
ago, and decided a MIDI keyboard was the appropriate input device. That 
didn't work out... :)



-- 
~Mike

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