Machine Building

Designed and machined custom brackets, mounts, and driveline components to retrofit a manual surface grinder with CNC-driven motion

Designed and welded a custom sub-frame to mount a crane on a work truck for stone sculpting operations

Mounted a cast-iron fixture table to my adjustable-height Portelevator cart

Repaired structural components on a vintage Harrison L6 Mk1 lathe using aluminum welding techniques

Made a press brake to assist with other shop projects

Fabricated a precision slip-rolling machine by combining plasma cutting for rough shapes with CNC machining for critical interfaces

Built a welding cart as a first project to practice and refine basic welding techniques

Built a welding positioner supporting several hundred pounds with infinitely variable rotation speed and 90+ degree tilt using sheet metal and timing belts

Reverse-engineered a legacy Staübli RX90 robot controller and replaced its failing floppy boot disk with a ZuluSCSI SD card emulator after six disassembly iterations to derive a working boot image