Got a bit of the inside painted, looked a bit white at first but after a bit more was painted it started to look ok. Dont suppose it will stay white for long anyway
It seems to be good paint as I had applied some earlier in the week to an uprepared surface just to check it was going to apply and harden ok and when I tried to sand it down the next day it was quite a task, thankfully I had only done about 1m²
Also got the spindle motor running via the CSMIO, couldnt get it to run as a spindle axis at first so tried it set up as an A Axis and got it working, the AutoTune worked very nicely as well. The Spindle Axis option doesnt have AutoTune but as I had already found the numbers needed by setting as an A it was just a case of typing them in and it ran very nicely
The reason I couldnt get the spindle axis working at first was I had missed that I had to enter the encoder count and accel in the plugin, I had just assumed it was motor tuning I needed them like you do for an axis.
One good thing about setting it as the A first is it let me see what I can expect when I get as far as setting up the axis. The DROs in Mach are constantly updated from the encoders so even if you disable the drives and wind by hand Mach knows where it is
Couple of pics of the inside below, hope to get more done over the weekend . As its deadly stuff and a respirator must be used I will just be doing before I leave each night, that will allow me to get on with some wiring before I paint, well as long as no one notices I am there and needs some work done
Hood