{"id":648,"date":"2011-04-03T13:45:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T18:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2011-04-03T13:45:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T18:45:56","slug":"trip-to-tormach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2011\/trip-to-tormach\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip to Tormach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We took a trip up to Tormach, a Waunakee company whose mission is to provide &#8220;geeks with tools&#8221; including CNC mills, lathes, 3D scanners, (and it looks like coming soon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tormach.com\/blog\/?p=1259\">injection molding<\/a>) etc &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tormach.com\/\">http:\/\/www.tormach.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They have a great training facility:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00600.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[648]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-649\" title=\"DSC00600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00600-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00600-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00600.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They had a nice looking ironman bust that was machined using their 4 axis CNC mill (finished left, roughed right):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00602.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[648]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-650\" title=\"DSC00602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00602-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00602-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00602.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An of course a few cabinets full of billet aluminum\/plastic\/steel parts:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00603.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[648]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-651\" title=\"DSC00603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00603-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00603-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00603.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00601.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[648]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-652\" title=\"DSC00601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00601-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00601-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00601.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One thing certainly worth stopping over for (if you&#8217;re not in the market for any heavy iron) is the blog, Andy is up to some ridiculous stuff I figured I&#8217;d only ever see in our shop, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tormach.com\/blog\/?p=2056\">like scrambling an egg with a CNC<\/a>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Of course they can&#8217;t send us home empty handed \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00604.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[648]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-653\" title=\"DSC00604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00604-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00604-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC00604.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took a trip up to Tormach, a Waunakee company whose mission is to provide &#8220;geeks with tools&#8221; including CNC mills, lathes, 3D scanners, (and it looks like coming soon injection molding) etc &#8211; http:\/\/www.tormach.com\/ They have a great training<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2011\/trip-to-tormach\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,3,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-trip","category-news","category-thank-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}