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Cool! Always nice to score a freebie.

Well, either way, since you have only a fitting at top and bottom, you'll have to orient the tank vertically to get the water out. Air in at the top, water...

Just realized you've got a bladder tank (from a well water system?)...

Either way, I'm pretty sure you need to orient that baby such that the water outlet is at the bottom, i.e. the tank needs to...

Drain on the table should be at the bottom. You got that.

The outlet (tank to table) NEEDS to be at the bottom of your tank. Air should be supplied to the tank at a fitting that is above the full...

Outlet needs to be at the bottom of the tank.

Thanks for the comments! Would love to see some pictures of yours when you get it going.

You know what... it's been awhile since I built that thing... I can't remember how it's secured off the top...

Interesting on the THC. I am planning on cutting mostly .125-.250 material, so maybe I'll wait on the Z-axis until it's needed.

Did you gear the steppers at all or just direct drive them onto the...

Hey man, love the machine. Nice work. Simple and functional... which I've found is the best thing. I'm looking into building something similar... 2'x4' travel so it takes up about as much space as a...

OK, well I was finally able to load some pictures of my power drawbar. Still haven't gotten the switch and wiring done... hopefully in the next week. Anyhow, hope you enjoy the pics. Let me know if...

Well, I made a little bit of progress over the weekend... got the lever machined up and rough-mounted. Had to use some extra-long shoulder bolts I had lying around to put it together... the real...

How about cutting it out of aluminum and sending it out for hard anodizing? I've built lots of automation parts this way and they survive millions of cycles...

Or, you could go with steel and keep...

Haha, funny you noticed that in the background. Yeah, that wound up on that frame late one night. I had made up another one and was completely turned off by it... this was at about 1AM. Cut it off...

Thanks!

"how did you center that part in the first picture, just curious?"

Rough aligned it with a taper pin and dialed into the bushing ID with an indicator. Prob overkill...

"What are your...

Just started working on an electric drawbar yesterday for my X3 using an impact wrench I got from Harbor Freight... I can't stand the spanner/wrench/tap method any longer!!!

So far, I have the...

Viper: nope, it was actually the Y axis that I replace the balls in. It's a weird sound... I wonder if it's from the X-axis screw being constrained at both ends?

Teyber, I built the stand......

Well, it's up and running (actually for quite some time now)...

Ran into some cable shielding problems at one point that really set me back, but I managed to fix that...

I've been having a lot...

We've used these to talk to PLC's over ethernet at my old job:

http://www.cyberresearch.com/store/data-acquisition-control/communications/ADAM_4571_3462.2.htm

Not sure how well they will...

Hit the space bar... a box pops up... One of the boxes (can't remember what it's called) allows you to change the current view to the one you want. You can also create custom views in this tool.
...

Anybody? Bueller?

Is this the sort of thing I should turn over directly to Gecko?

Hi All,

I'm doing an X3 conversion. Have a C11G BOB and (3) Gecko drives. I finally got everything hooked up today... got the X-axis running great. When I went to plug in Y and Z, however, things...

Getting all the way to true mirror by machining won't happen... BUT, diamond tooling will get you the closest. PCD (Poly Crystalline Diamond) will get a very shiny surface, and Mono-Crystalline will...

Replacing the bearing because there was some strange noises when I rotated the shaft when I rec'd it. Tried to adjust preload... same problems. Preload was very hard to adjust also. Grizzly suspects...

Appreciate your advice. I've worked on a number of 2HP Bridgeports that didn't have the key in it, and never had a problem... I can't imagine my little X3 has enough power to spin a collet. I guess...

Hey all,

Anyone know how to remove the pin that engages the R8 collet from the spindle shaft of an X3? I've got it torn all the way down for a bearing swap and want to get rid of the thing. It has...

Work's been crazy lately, so I haven't gotten a whole lot done...

Electronics are almost all wired up. Powered it all up a couple of days ago... no smoke! Haven't spun the motors yet though. I...

Hey guys,

I used the 18awg 4C shielded "security system" cable from Home Depot for my motors ($.60 per foot and readily available)... it's shielded with foil and has a bare shield dump wire. I've...

Hey, cool man. I'm in the midst of my X3 conversion right now too... will be watching this to see what you come up with

I went the lift gate route and pallet trucked it into the garage. Then tore...

Hey, just as a checksum... there are 16 balls per circuit. I lost my balls too when I was installing the kit. Miraculously recovered all of them.

I suggest a small needle nose pliers to drop them...

Just thought I'd finish this post in case anyone is looking to do this...

I bought a 6-pin connector from SSC controls. It had a 2' pigtail on it... $30.

I gave up on making an adapter cable as...

Well, I didn't get a whole lot done over the weekend. I did manage to get down to the steel yard for some tubing and angle... got started on the electronics cart and mill stand. The cart just needs a...

So, I finally made up my mind and ordered a 65V PS and 65V N34 motor. I won't care about the extra $ later, only the lack of performance when I build a plasma table. Better to pony up now.

Anyhow,...