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@moderator, please move this to the 3D printer forum. I accidentally put it in the wrong forum. Thanks!

Here's the board and the damage

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Planned to build a printer with my 11YO son, but as work and other duties kept getting in the way, decided to just buy one for now, and continue the build in our free time. The one I bought is the...

Why does this thread keep coming up as having an unread post from Tom on 7/24, but the post never shows up?

edit: now it shows up. Strange...

When I was looking, I found that Home Depot had a very large selection online, and the prices on many of those were very competitive. IIRC, some were better than HF! The selection at the store is...

Thanks. I have that ported out the machine now, so I just have to connect it to the BOB. I need to look at the config and see which pins it's configured for, or decide which pins I'll use and...

Why not just buy a kit from HobbyCNC or CNC4PC which includes all of the motors, power supply, and controls?

Dave

Tom,

Thanks for that explanation. I guess it's like anything - there are those who believe it can only be done one way and anybody doing it differently isn't worth listening to. That is very...

Sorry for bringing up this old thread again. I'm wanting to add THC to my plasma table, so I've been doing a lot of reading lately. Seems to be a lot out there, some confusing, some contradictory,...

Sorry, I like the idea of building one of these, and I applaud anybody who does. But, shouldn't that have been a consideration before you started to acquire the parts? I hope somebody is able to...

Bill, I have used o-rings for stuff like that before. I didn't like anything I came up with for this, though. A lot of people just run a screw through one end and hack away a place to run a ring...

I've had a couple of Mazda 626s, both with broken remotes. I got around it by making a little ring that sat in the recess where the two halves snapped together, but it didn't work that great and...

Nice! I have to get some light in my machine someday.

Many people machine a groove in the bottom of the vise in which is bolted a bar that fits snugly within one of the t-slots. Of course, this doesn't allow the vise to be rotated like you want to do. ...

I've been making little parts with the CNC Sherline (SpectraLight LMC0200) mill and have grown tired of standing there with the shopvac or brush to keep chips out of harms way. I bought a little...

I don't think home printing will ever really replace mass produced items, but there are items that aren't mass produced that could be replicated. Even if the item isn't sold, the loss of revenue of...

That's what I was afraid of. Do you worry that the heat from the brazing affected the dimensions of the part? I guess I'll have to search for the thread I saw where somebody else had done this. It...

You are right on that account. I always joke when we are building a system at work that I am in the wrong business. OTOH, may I point out that, once you are done building this mill, you will have...

What are the specs on the steppers? What do you mean by the act like they are getting half power? Are you not getting enough torque to move the machine? Do they just not have enough speed? What...

Do post some info on your spindle. I remember seeing a thread somewhere about turning one of those straight-shank ER collet holders into a spindle. Haven't looked at it in a long time. I want to...

Called A2Z and they said that sometimes their stuff comes out out of tolerance. (Don't you think you need to implement some sort of QC or QA, then?) They are going to send me another one today.
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It just threads until it bottoms. Just like my lathe spindle.

If I wasn't in the process of building a new mill, slightly bigger than the Sherline, I'd consider putting an ER25 spindle in it. As...

I need to figure out where the runout is coming from. I turned the outside of the 3/8" holder on the threaded arbor and yet it now has some runout. So, maybe there is some crud in the threads...

Well, after all of the trouble I've had getting an endmill holder for my 3/64" EM, I went back to the drawing board. Since I can't seem to drill a hole that is centered on the lathe, or at least not...

Well, I did win an auction (actually, a buy it now) for a very nice Flynn 63 boring head that I am in love with now. But that's a different story.

3 months ago, I decided I needed to buy an 1/8"...

I've done almost that, except I left 3 tabs and broke the piece out afterward. I didn't do it for scrap value, though. I saved the slug for future projects.

Dave

A friend of mine converted an IH, RF45 clone, to CNC. There were some hurdles, and every now and then, he still finds something strange happening, but it has been serving him fine for several years...

Sure is nice to see it making chips. What was your doc and chip load like? Is it rigid enough to use for aluminum on a regular basis?

Dave

Peter, I apparently did a poor job of proof-reading my post as well. That first sentence is ugly! I think I understand what you are getting at. Ultimately, the OP needs to make sure that the drive...

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