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1/2 rod for X rails..I would go with gas pipe maybe?
Best of luck to you no matter what.

JEFF

I was crawling from a dumpster once..a guy walked by a saw me. He smilled then wlaked up gave me $5 and said "here go eat some food".
I tried to tell him I was ok but he just walked away.

A fella I talked to said if you could get a section of "rebarb" and some how fill the gas pipe (rebarb inside) with epoxy or suitable compound that this rebarb would really make the pipe strong...I...

Your right...I live next to Lansing, MI. which is GM driven.
It is bad here.

THAT IS FUNNY AL.!

Gregg what kinda beast are you going to have when finished?
It will want lots of food to eat..like big chiunks of 2x4!

JEFF

WILL THIS WORK ON MINE..I do not have a welder.
ANY INPUT WELCOMED...PLEASE AND THANK YOU.!

I use FET-3 from stepperworld.
So far I like it. It works even better in Linux EMC.

JEFF

If any body wants to share cnc ideas here is my email.
I have 2 but this is one private separate from "the boss lady" :)
[email protected]

have a good night!
Jeff

Barefooter yea I would like pics of your PSU.
I am using 1 ATX PSU (computer) 5+ for controller then
1 separte LAMBADA 15 volt 7 amp for the (4) stepper motors.

Yep 4 steppers coming from 3...

Well actually I am suppose to be using resitors since I am using that FET-3 driver. But I am low on funds for all the corrct parts so this idea of using 12 car bulbs came to me. The idea is that...

1 stepper burned up when ti was idle with power on.
So now the light goes ON when stepper is "idle" and goes out when stepper draws amps. No more hot steppers..!
YEE HAA !

I can just about make a square box out of wood and thats it. ..LOL
Barefooter...I bet there are people out there loaded with ideas.
I think it is great to see people's concepts and ideas.

I...

DAVE,
Here are some unistrut pics.
I can mail you a bunch of them later on if you want me too.
Let me know...I will zip them up and email them to you.

JEFF

Blukowski,
I believe this is the web site.
This tool can be static or used for rotating bits.
Anyway here is the link.

http://www.2linc.com/engraving.htm

Yea I hear ya, I want to try...

bkukowski,
Are you going to try glass?
I just wondered.

Barefooter...man that stinks!
Sorry about your stepper... :(
Funny I have this habit of messing with the cnc and forgetting to turn off power too...it is from being sleepy I guess.

I stay up...

DAVE,
I sure can...give me a day or 2 and I will get some pics posted here.
The machine is about 90% done so it is not pretty but the pics will show you how I used this stuff. I am sure there are...

BLUKOWSKI,
I will post that link on diamond bits for you after I find that bookmark.
I have a mess in my shop and need to get at the computer it is on.
3 PCs in one shop gets messy.

Barefooter.
Your work looks great!
I can see you already have the glass ability just looking at your work.
They have a swiveling diamond bit deal that you can use and it needs no spin...it is...

Thank you thats nice of you to say.
I must admit I have lots of broken glass and busted bits to get to where I am with glass etching. You would be surprised though anyone could do it. My machine is...

I have been getting better understanding why folks on the cnczone are sometimes very stern with rules on how do do it right. The one thing I have learned in last few weeks with my 2nd homebrew cnc...

Very interesting...I might try that out.
Thanks for sharing it too!

I live in town and up late at night. Once a truck came from the park next door and this guy drove through my back yard behind my pole barn at 1:00AM.
I called cops...cops came looked at tire tracks...

I wonder since China ownes the USA National Debt and so does Japan. Is that from Americans buying import's?

I am running 12 light bulbs inline with the stepper motor and when the motor is idle the bulb takes the heat (light comes on).
This solved my over heating steppers.
All I did was run a standard car...

Good day,
Any suggestions on a site I can purchase reasonable priced u-joint rod couplers?
I am using 1/4 20 threaded rod and ACME but this is for the 1/4 20 right now.
Thank you.

I saw your post here so I had to reply.

That was my controller I had 2 motors on 1 driver...Oh and by the way I ran this with windows 98 and Linux EMC with no problems. The way I did it was set up...

EMC.INI
I did some reading online concerning steppermod.o & freqmod.o
I chopped it down to make for smaller posting.

If you have stepper motors and a stepper motor controller that requires phase...

I think I read in the EMC handbooks that 3dchips ngc was a test for a machine with more thsan 3 axis? I had that happend with me too.
The Z on that last cut was acting like a X & Y traveling way to...

Joe I made a mistake (well sorta) by not mentioning I am running direct drive straight form the stepper to lead screw...you picked up on that I see with 200x13x2 = 5,000
I think direct for me would...