Machsupport Forum
General CNC Chat => Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) => Topic started by: AuS MaDDoG on August 15, 2010, 06:56:35 AM
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Hi All,
New to these forums and thought I would post some pics of our builds as we all love heaps of pics.
Paul and I have been working on our CnC builds for several months now and getting nearer and nearer to the fun end of the build :)
Our machines are Mechmate builds and a big thanks to Gerald and Mike for their time and effort in making these machines a joy to build. I will post some older pics also so that you can all see the progress.
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0055.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0272.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0366-1.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/DSC_2759.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0411.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0455.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0457.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/DSC_2812.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0509.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0670.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0741.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0732.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0754.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0840.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0844.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0868.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0895.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0899.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0912.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0905.jpg)
Cheers
Tony.
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Wow, very impressive building.
I thing we will be lucky and will see some videos.
Ha and by the way, nice legs too. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Excellent build Guys - you are going to have some fun with those bruisers :D
Tweakie.
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Nice! Thanks for taking the time to share with us.
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Nice fabrication guys !!! Very nice work. Can't wait to more
JH
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Excellent work.
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Whoa, just beautiful work, right there!
Dave
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Interesting build! Would love to see it in action.
Thanks for showing the pictures.
Daniel
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Hi All
Thanks for all the positive comments, I will keep you all posted with our progress.
Cheers
Tony.
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As Promised!!
I had some spare time today so done a little pre assembly here is how it's starting to shape up.
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0942.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0940.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0941.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0945.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_0944.jpg)
Cheers
Tony.
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Thanks for the pictures Tony. If this works as good as it looks (and I am certain it will) you are going to have a machine to be really proud of. It looks so professional :D
Tweakie.
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Hi All,
Latest update photos, getting closer ;)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_1037-1.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_1038-1.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_1044-1.jpg)
Cheers
Tony.
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Looks great ! Can't wait to see the videos !
JH
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Excellent work, well done!
Dave
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That looks really nice!
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Beautiful work Guys, very impressive job
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Hi Guys,
Your workmanship is truly remarkable.
One thing which you haven't mentioned here, which I think is absolutely amazing, is that you cut down one side of all the (black painted) 2 1/2" angle, ground the top surface flat and then ground the 'V' rails all with a hand held Bosh angle grinder. OK, I know you used a homemade jig but it is still a monumental task to complete.
You Guys have my total admiration.
Can't wait to see your pictures of the Roadrunner. ;D
Tweakie.
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Tweakie,
Your attention to detail is awesome ;) the rail grinding would be one of those tasks most would put off and off. Once you get into it and set yourself up too do it and with the right mind set it really is not that bad. Time taken to get it right is time well spent. ;D
Roadrunner here we come ;)
Cheers
Tony.
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Some more progress today!!
Racks all mounted as well as all motors fitted. Only the electrics/electronics to be done now and all done and dusted. !! :)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_1065.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_1060.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_1064.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_1061.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_1062.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_1063.jpg)
Cheers
Tony
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Very impressive guys.. 8) 8)
Can you tell us when to official start date was, say, when you received the materials?
Just so I can feel worse at my poor progress on my little table top CNC. :-[ :'(
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Hi
Thanks for your kind comments, We started collecting some bits and pieces August last year so it has not been a quick build either ;)
Only had the time to be able to work on it one day a week so I guess that has slowed things down a lot.
Cheers
Tony
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Hi All,
Well at long last we are now cutting, still got a few things to sort out though. We were using one of the Chinese spindels and Vfd's however have not had much success integrating it with Mach3 so now we are going down the path of the Hitachi Vfd/Modbus with the Chinese spindel. We are having better success but still working our way through all the settings to try and get it right and full integration with Mach3.
Latest Photo:
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_1610.jpg)
Video Link:
http://s142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/?action=view¤t=IMAG0042.mp4
Cheers
Tony.
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Hi Tony,
Very professional looking machine you have constructed there and it works just as well as it looks.
Please keep us posted on the things that you, and your buddy make on your machines.
Tweakie.
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Very nice build. I love the over-engineered bits. I tried to do that with my build, but you guys raised the bar in that dept. Can you show a pict of your control box?
Barry
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No worries Barry ;)
Photo of our Control box's which houses all the electronics as well as the touch screen.
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r120/scotsmanfaewayback/IMG_1248.jpg)
Cheers
Tony.
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That's novel Tony - Space Invaders on a touch screen. ;D
Seriously though, very nice work.
Tweakie.
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Great pair of builds Tony. I always liked the mechmate design... stole some of its ideas for my build :)
Some pretty fast rapids too. How many steps/mm are your units geared at?
I'll need to convert to servos to ramp mine up.
If you don't mind me asking what were your issues with the Huanyang? I agree the Hitatchi is a better unit but I've got mine integrated with Mach using Matty's plugin without issue.
Cheers
Mark
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Hi Mark,
Checking the steps in my motor tuning settings within Mach3 we are currently running them at around 153 steps / mm.
Our issues to be honest all disappeared when we changed the RS485 convertor to the Industrial one we are using now.
So the Huanyang will make a good back up if I we ever have any issues or failures with the Hitachi.
The cheaper Chinese RS 485 to USB converters seem to be very much a hit and miss, for anybody going down the Huanyang path I would strongly suggest theses converters http://www.commfront.com/USB-Serial-Adapters-Converters/Isolated-USB-RS232-RS485-RS422-Converter.htm
over several others.
A friend and fellow MM'er spent many a sleepless night and a lot of time and effort working his way through this with good outcomes.
Here are a couple of little video clips of MM finally under Mach3 control.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfMdLPgGKf0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtCUoT3yKFA
Cheers
Tony.
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;D yep I'm hearing you with those sleepless nights. For me it was getting the noise issues sorted that the VFD creates for a smoothstepper.
Hey if it was easy everyone would do it... right! ... Instead of just us crazy folk.
Have fun with the new toy.