When he put the plans online that was no help. His comments and
the fact he introduced problems into the design. Brute has a stubby
1-1/4" Z axis pipe. Dave Kush did things correctly only showing the
machine. He is a member of my group. Dave and I both changed the
Z-axis pipe within days to 1-1/4" pipe. When people give me
suggestions I am usually into another project or I have the update
done and I am testing it. The Brute was a NCF2000 then NCF2001 which
became PCBmill and then Brute. The free plans are a poor copy of the
PCBMill. At one point I had two PCBMills turning out milled Piker
boards. Then with some help from Hans here I got a PC house to make
the Piker boards.
--- In
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Stefan Trethan"
<stefan_trethan@...> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:04:06 +0100, crankorgan <john@...> wrote:
>
> > Basically he ripped me off then he made some smart remarks about my
> > design having never seen it. Read the page! With friends like that who
> > needs enemies. Since the Brute will cut aluminum it is fine the way it
> > is. Some people have made some changes. For more power I came out with
> > the Jester. To date I have built over 30 machines and I provide plans
> > for 10 models. Most homemades and some plans have my centering blocks
> > and other ideas.
>
>
> Well, you must know what business you had with the guy.
> All i'm saying is it is perfectly possible to build something that
looks a
> lot like your machine after having looked at a couple of pictures. I
dunno
> what happened to rip you off, if he didn't pay for his plans or
something.
> But i don't think you would have grounds to complain if someone just
> builds something that's similar without the plans, nor did you say you
> mind that in the past (e.g. Dave Kush or what you said to myself).
>
> ST
>