03/01/08 Koo Koo YuKu changed the location of the board. Users can't find it. Luckly a few have read the news here. I just sent the morons another insulting TICKET.  I will keep doing that until they kick me out. They can take their Kudos and stick them up their ass. Add a blog to a message. I can't even post a new message, only reply to an old one. One of my users was able to do what I can't.  I guess they all use MS browsers for testing. Test this YuKu!  

02/29/08 Just what I needed. EZBoard switched over to YuKu. It won't let me start a new subject. I think it is my Mozilla. That's it for them. The group never really recovered after EZBoard got hacked. So I started one on Yahoo.  HSCNC is the name. At least we can stay in touch. EZBoard was impossible to run as a privite board. It was half baked at best. No more money for them!

02/21/08 This week I am adding the rest of the world for certain sales. The KleinMill-Son of 7th-Morph-Perf-X and other use materials found around the world or a good substitue can be found. I will ignore the people trying to pull money transfer and other scams. If you think I am going to give you my bank account numbers you are mistaken! You can't cheat an honest man. Making beleive you want 15 booklets so I will fall for your scam won't work. There are no PDF or Word files. If you want my plans you will need to send the money.  I have been selling plans online since 1998. I have seen it all!

02/15/08 After many years of getting letters from people in the UK I have decided to sell to the UK. I am  3/4 English and 1/4 German decent. After being tomented by sneaky cheap people from around the world I pulled the plug on international sales. I then found out other people were only selling to certain countries. They figured out what I did! People from certain countries are just on fishing expeditions.They don't buy DICK! Some of them are rude and clueless. The smart people from their countries have all come here Ha! Ha! Ha! and an Evil Laugh. The people from England and Australia for the most part have always been courteous. It is those people I have developed several machines that use materials from around the world. Morph-Son of 7th-KleinMill-Hawk-Perf-X-Banshee.

01/27/08 Happy New Year! Well after having people keep asking me to add the Perf-X project, I have. People claim it was as much fun building as the machine. The Perf-X can really take a beating. Only one guy blew a L297 when he put it in wrong. A few others fried a TIP120 transistor. The circuit is super simple. Not the greatest controller out there but the most reliable in the hands of a beginner. It has been added free!!! No hidden charges.

12/04/07 WOW! It has been so long since I updated my NEWS I even forgot I had a news section. Basically I have been doing other things. I added a surplus section to this place. I am also cleaning up the years of mess this adventure caused. I fell behind on alot of things. Lots of people have moved away or died while I was in CNCHELL. Now I just sit back and chuckle at what I read. Morons telling people you need a mill to make one of my designs. They can't read even basic english. They ask questions answered several messages back. They restart old threads with the same questions it was started with. One guy was picking on MDF!  He said it crumbles!  The funny thing is the house next to me has MDF steps and a Deck. That's where I got the idea to use MDF. If you paint MDF with a good quality acrylic latex paint it becomes very stable. Seven years has proved that! Lots of bad info on the Internet. Don't read anything! Just make something up and keep repeating it! I bet he does not know the difference between pressed wood and MDF. A well designed MDF machine can hold .003 if it is built correctly. I have said better than 1/32" That's because I have undersold my design while others oversell theirs!!! Check out my SURPLUS!

03/13/07 My Earthlink mail has been Earthstink for over a week!. I now use Yahoo. I just love it when I am told the problem is on my end. I was told I had a COOKIE problem. Yea! too many OREOs maybe! I have a backup computer that I only turn on when there is a problem. Same shit different computer. I read the messages up on their server. The next day they were down. A week later they were just down again. So I now use Yahoo.

11/13/06  I have launched the "Son of 7th" booklet even though I have not built the machine. I feel there is enough info in the booklet to justify the $36. If you look at my PICS section you will see lots of finished machines. Then look around at the various groups. Add up the finished machines. Then realize I am only showing you a few of the machines people have built using my designs. The free plans out there have my centering blocks or aluminum window channel idea. Some people give me credit while
othere say I use old ideas while they steal them. They laughed when I used skate bearings and gas pipe! Then when it worked, it was an old idea you could find in any old magazine on a table saw. A guy babbled that two years after Pipe Dream came to be! Where was he two years before? Now I have three designs that use 1" square steel tubing. No welding required! What will they say and how soon will they steal now?

11/12/06  Back in Early September I got hit with Bronchitis. I have never been that sick in my life. I got short of breath just going to the bathroom or talking on the phone. During my illness I was still able to get my booklets out but not as fast as I used too. I was also able to do more testing on the Banshee. I and several others added snubber diodes to the circuit. This seems to be keeping the Fets from poping. See Banshee UPDATE.

06/02/06 The Banshee is back!  After adding some homemade heatsinks to the Fets I did some more testing.  When I developed the Banshee it was in a 60 degree cellar. At 75 degrees the Fets overheat without heatsinks. I was hoping heatsinks would not be required with smaller steppers.  The IRF510 Fets have to have them. Other Fets I used are ok without the heatsinks. For best results I will recommend them!

05/27/06 I put the Banshee Driver on hold. One guy keeps blowing one out. I took in the board and repaired it for free. I then tested it before shipping. It blew out again. If I figure out what is going on I will offer the Banshee again. If not it is a dead item. The booklet is not selling well enough to cover the support costs.

05/06/06  The US and Canada only has not stopped the Foreign Time Bandits. They still keep emailing me with requests for things I don't even carry. Others use the I got
a friend in the US.  Let me explain this to you knuckle heads!  I have to answer hundreds of broken english emails with all kinds of scams and bullshit for 6 foreign sales in six months.  I got news for you! I really do have better things to do! Been there done that, with the same results twice. Serenity Now!

03/12/06  I am going back to selling to the US and Canada Only! I wish you could see my inbox. It loads up with emails asking all kinds of questions. Hundreds of emails each month from all around the world. All promising  they have or are going to send the money. Guess what?  Only Six foreign orders in six months. This is the same bullshit I got several years ago. US and Canada Only!  Serenity Now!

02/19/06  I finally figured out how to make a simple cheap UniPolar chopper that uses easy to find parts that don't require a minimum order. It took me years of working on it in between other projects. I turned the design into a booklet called "Build the Banshee" that shows how to build the circuit on PerfBoard.

12/01/05  Most of my plans are now available for Worldwide sale since we now have someone selling the aluminum channel and bearings online. I have hit the five year mark working in this hobby.  My DIY designs are the most popular in the world.  See Pics for the proof that others don't have.

08/31/05  I have coined another phrase. A CNCKing!  A CNC King is someone who builds a CNC machine from scratch and actually uses it for something. This hobby is filled with big talkers.  I would say there are about 50 people in this hobby who know what they are doing!  Are you one of the 50? or do you think you are?

07/14/05  For the past year and a half I have been develeping new ways to build simple cheap CNC machines. I  also made sure I used materials that can be substituted with materials found around the world.. Now I am offering some of my newer and older designs around the world.

06/07/05  After spending several days and money testing other systems I decided to stay with EZBoard.  There are a few other almosts. One said it was the best!  The pages are there but it is dead.  Others have server problems.  BoardNation took my money but never sent me my turn on codes. I could not fill out a Ticket. I contacted the guy who took my money. He said he only collects the money and........ The message was missing the rest. When I replyed the message bounced back.  Others setup fast and looked good but you can not make them private. EZBoard is the biggest for a reason. It reminds me of the PCBoard software for the BBS I ran.  There were other softwares but PCBoard was the overall best. If their price was lower they would have been the best. While looking for a new place it remined of my BBS days. Everybody says they are the best. I remember trying all kinds of Internet providers.  In the first year I tried over five different ones. Then I was told to get BellAtlantic.Net.  It was great until Verizon took over.  I then went to EarthLink.  I tried AOL several times. LOL

06/04/05  I am moving the HardwareStoreCNC support conference to a new place as soon as I get the turn on codes. Sleazyboard is dead in the water. After putting up with their poor performance for the last two years it is time for a change. Stay Tuned!

06/03/05  EZBoard or SleazyBoard as my users call it got hacked. The hackers killed all my archived messages and half of the users.  Some people have rejoined and then emailed me the name the used while others email me with complaints. It is out of my hands. The support board is an extra. Only people who bought my plans can join but the support conference is not part of sale. The conference was set up to reduce my workload.  It has become the workload at times.  If they can't restore enough of the data I will move or fold.

06/01/05  EZBoard got hacked-virused or it just blew up.  I rent a conference I don't run the software or server.  At this point most of the messages are gone along with half the users. If you see this anouncement please do not email me. EZBoard sucks and it has always sucked.  When you contact them about a problem they make beleive it is on your end. Several times I wanted to cancel them.  If the messages or customer accounts don't return we will be moving. It will take days to get everybody back in!

05/19/05  I finalized the software solution for the Woodturtle. I found a way to cut profiles in wood without fancy software. One of my best hat tricks in years. One less sale for that pushy software salesman. Several people told me to release the turtle without software and let the customer worry about software. My answer is a $100
machine should not need a $500 software solution.  The turtle only needs a CAD program and a DXF to GCode converter. Some editing may be required but a tool path is very easy to create.  I know I made several just for testing. Think out of the box and leave your wallet at home.

04/16/05  I got the Wood Turtle and Booklet finished. At this point I am playing with a simple and cheap method of creating a tool path for the machine. I am also taking advantage of the better weather. I also noticed my sales are now tracking the stock market. Sell! Sell! Sell!

02/21/05  The "Jester Project" is starting to produce results. The first thing to roll out was the KleinChopper. I posted that info free on the Internet. If you missed it try reading the past news. Now the "Jester Mill" is leaving the nest. I am hours away from getting the drawings caught up to the finished mill. The mill is designed to mill aluminum molds used in a possible plastic injection machine in the future. A third product to spinoff of the "Jester Project" is called the Wood Turtle.

01/06/05  I spent alot of my time trying to get TurboCNC 4 to work correctly. It seems there is a HotFix you need off the Turbocnc Yahoo group to fix some of the bugs. Oh happy day!
               It  looks like my local plastics company closed down so I had to call my friend Howard at Norva Plastics. (See Links)  I have lost everything local. The local hardware store that just got a new owner last year just got sold again. Bolts and nuts are becoming a rare item. 2-56 and 4-40 are history. 6-32 only comes in certain sizes.
Happy New Year!

01/02/05  I have been editing and updating my webpages. The goal was to stop certain questions like "CAN IT BE BUILT BIGGER and HOW MUCH BIGGER?"  I am sorry to report the people are reading the message but they are either asking why? or where can they find plans for a larger machine. When I tell them where they can find plans for a bigger machine, they come back telling me the price of the plans are a ripoff! Tell him not me! You asked where!  I guess I should answer: "Try Google!"

12/30/04  I got some more modems off Ebay. One of them that I bought was not a true 56K modem.  It was a 36.6 that Window thought was a 56K. A second one I bought lasted six hours before it developed a problem. The next two I bought took the flash and are working fine.
                I posted a schematic for my L297-L298 which drives FETs over on the DIYCNC group of Yahoo.  It is a simple UniPolar Chopper that can be made using off the shelf parts. If you like tinkering it is pretty simple. Have a Happy New Year!

                                                                                                                         John Conrad Kleinbauer