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Indeed!! Here's the start of the dust shoe. I'm trying to decide what material to use as brushes. [ATTACH]
Clamps mounted [ATTACH] Next is a dust shoe
I made the machines first cuts last night to build my router clamps. At first I zip tied the router the z axis and cut a couple out of plywood. I...
The Gecko has been great.. On my first project at first I was using those Chinese 6560 Drivers and it seemed like if you looked at them wrong...
I made a disappointing 45 dollar mistake last night.. I was working on getting my Z axis done. I decided to use one of my smaller motors for, its...
Something recently that I have ran into was that I tried to use a laptop to setup my latest build. I currently have my build inside of my house...
Will do!
Motors are mounted and boy are they fast! Here's a tip for anyone who's trying to use Mach 3 with an old laptop and having parallel port issues....
This will likely be the first real work this machine does. I've started designing some clamps to mount my Hitachi M12vc router. Still not final...
You're absolutely correct, it's def food for thought. Some type of break away style motor coupling could be used as a safety measure or a key way...
I have belts, 5 start acme, but eventually the y and x will be ballscrews (the reason I opted for the plates I used) I'm not trying to purchase...
Well I got the news on my Gecko, they said that all drive winding's on the x axis driver were destroyed. "customer induced damage found likely...
I had to return my Gecko G540 to them to repair, About a week ago I was giving the Beast one last horrah and it was working fine but all the...
So this is my first build using these V wheels and eccentric style shims. I adjusted the Y axis last night using what info I could find on the...
Stopping point for tonight. :) [ATTACH]
Thank you sir! Yes, I robbed 3 off the z so I could get the others going. The z ones can be added last where as the others are kinda built around.
I ALMOST had all my parts..I short myself 3 wheel kits and the standoffs for the Z's stepper..plenty of everything else..
This is going very well.
Today was a GREAT day! These arrived and I can officially begin!
My Openbuilds order arrived yesterday. Whoever packed it is brilliant, everything is sorted and was wrapped and stacked to Tetris perfection......
