Adrian Hill (Hillcraft) from Cape Town, South Africa

[Hillcraft]

I stumbled onto this site today and spent many hours pouring over the ideas and projects. This site is absolutely brilliant. My entire life and business revolves around manufacturing and creative problem solving. We manufacture HO scale model trains and provide all sorts of design and manufacturing services to the public. I currently have a wide variety of technologies in house. I don't like having to rely on outside service providers so if I require another technology I do the research, buy or build whatever I need and learn to do it myself. The bottom line is that I love to tinker and this site is simply a stunning encyclopaedia for somebody like myself.

This is on my list of things to do in the very near future:
1. Pull the Leetro motion controller from my one laser cutter and fit a Mach 3 controller. The laser gantry system can then be used in all sorts of interesting ways such as a huge mill (with a spindle instead as a laser head) or a foam / polystyrene hot wire (pin) cutter and lots more.
2. I just installed a 15 ton injection moulding machine and I need to build a spark eroder to make moulds for all the tiny parts.
3. A 4th and even a 5th axis for my 400mmx400mm CNC machine.
4. I have an idea for a really interesting mini cnc router which could be very very useful to the general public.
5. A miniature injection moulder (this idea just popped into my head)
6. Add CNC to my EMCO Unimat 3
7. ....and the list just goes on and on....

Anyway...I am going to be spending lots of time here in the future.

Regards,
Adrian
Cape Town, South Africa