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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Final Build

« on: November 26, 2009, 07:17:42 PM »

thanks, it's been a struggle getting all this together.  I did put one part in wrong (didn't follow my own design) and that caused havoc.  I had to take a bunch apart and put back together.

Yeah, if anybody has experienced the spindle crashing, I'd like to know.

Barry

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Final Build

« on: November 26, 2009, 06:58:32 PM »

Hey folks, I'm trying to finish the build over break, but the family is so needy;)

Here's the machine with the spindle on it, and also limit switches and plus/minus x, y and z.

For some reason Mach3 is crashing right now when I tell the spindle to turn on.  It didn't used to do that, that's damn annoying.  Anybody run into that oddness before?



Barry

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Final Build

« on: November 24, 2009, 09:51:35 PM »

Thanks for the concerns Sam, I'll keep that in mind if I do a mill 2.0.  The design phase has been over for a while.  This is now assembly.  Here's the progress for today.  The Z-axis is now done, and I've hooked up the B/C drive as well.  The spindle looks rather lonely by itself on the table now, but I didn't have time to connect it.  I'll do that in the morning.  The Z axis is still really stiff, but we shall see if it's still that stiff once the weight of the spindle is on it.



Barry

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Final Build

« on: November 23, 2009, 09:28:33 PM »

I'm not opposed to making my plans available.  I designed this to be 6 axis, and that's what my wiring diagram would be in the plans.  Do you think people would pay a fee for the plans?  I did spend a crazy amount of time modeling everything.

Heh, 80/20 loves me spending my money;)  I'd love to be in the 'made with 80/20' catalog though.  I'm not sure how you get in that though.

Barry

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Final Build

« on: November 23, 2009, 09:08:49 PM »

More picts.  I didn't get as much done as I wanted to today.  Working with the Z axis was a biotch.  Still though, after doing this much I had to see it move, even though, really only the x mechanics were hooked up.  It moved like a champ though, awesome!





Barry

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Final Build

« on: November 23, 2009, 02:24:32 AM »

Thanks, it's a labor of love, kinda;)

The spindle I chose is a 1.5Kw HSD spindle (I don't recommend them as their service is god awful).  Tomorrow it'll be shown on the B/C drive.  Going to ZZZ now, been doing this stuff all day, and of course shuffling off to the hardware store for stupid things I forgot like washers;)

Barry

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Final Build

« on: November 23, 2009, 02:09:17 AM »

Here's a bit more progress.  The gantry is now on the base frame.  Plus I've started to hook up the X-axis ballscrews, and motors.  I keep getting amazed how everything is coming together, it's really cool.  What you can't see too, is I've bolted the B/C drive to it's plate, and also the spindle to it's plate.  I had to grind down the bolt heads for these items since they were sticking out slightly.  I'm going to have to do that for a bunch more bolts tomorrow too.

She's starting to look like she means business though;)



Barry

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: SWARF "0" MAT Son Of Bladerunner

« on: November 22, 2009, 01:57:35 PM »

you keep churning them out, and nice ones too.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Final Build

« on: November 19, 2009, 12:40:50 AM »

I modeled them in Rhino3D.  Everything on my build I've modeled, except for the Doughty Drive model, which came from Doughty Drive.

I posted a link to the model before on this topic:

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,12938.0.html

I'm hoping the final build will look just like that.  Well, except it's 6 inches taller at the base;)

Taking the models I've made in Rhino down to the waterjet company was a breeze to get cut.  Everything transferred over seamlessly as .iges files.  I'll post pictures of the plates getting cut too, those are pretty cool.

Barry

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Final Build

« on: November 19, 2009, 12:14:54 AM »

Here's tonights progress.  It's really starting to look like something.  Damn these things are getting heavy too;)





Not bad for a nights work.  I'm thinking it'll be done mid week next week, we shall see.

Barry