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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!
« on: October 08, 2008, 10:28:11 AM »
Hello fellow chipmakers,
I'm Bill and live in Las Vegas and have retro-fitted the much be-littled round column drill mill via harbor freight. I was inspired by HomeCNC plans but didn't use them and came up with my own twist of the original plans. We have a machine that with hold .001 or better depending on the weather and humidity. We even went so far and to lap the ways and use bondable teflon instead of turcite/rulon. Smooth as....?(enter in you mind the slippery answer) Also, ballscrews where out of our price range and use precision acme 1/2-10 with dumpsterCNC(4) anti-backlash nuts...since we went with modified precision acme rod we made our own version of dumpsterCNC nuts out of DelrinAF(they are longer)
and made the Z axis a DelrinAF spinning nut. All the precision is from rummaging through outlet machinery and catch all store on the eastcoast. They had a wall that was just bearings. I found expensive thrust bearings for $1 each that were still in original packages.
Started using Maxnc-->TurboCNC--> CNCPro --->finally a window based system Mach3 and really like it and its ability to do more and more(as long as I keep learning).
Art and the gang, thank you for a great product!!!
Bill
I'm Bill and live in Las Vegas and have retro-fitted the much be-littled round column drill mill via harbor freight. I was inspired by HomeCNC plans but didn't use them and came up with my own twist of the original plans. We have a machine that with hold .001 or better depending on the weather and humidity. We even went so far and to lap the ways and use bondable teflon instead of turcite/rulon. Smooth as....?(enter in you mind the slippery answer) Also, ballscrews where out of our price range and use precision acme 1/2-10 with dumpsterCNC(4) anti-backlash nuts...since we went with modified precision acme rod we made our own version of dumpsterCNC nuts out of DelrinAF(they are longer)
and made the Z axis a DelrinAF spinning nut. All the precision is from rummaging through outlet machinery and catch all store on the eastcoast. They had a wall that was just bearings. I found expensive thrust bearings for $1 each that were still in original packages.
Started using Maxnc-->TurboCNC--> CNCPro --->finally a window based system Mach3 and really like it and its ability to do more and more(as long as I keep learning).
Art and the gang, thank you for a great product!!!
Bill