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Well took apart the router again last night to fix the exhaust fan and found that the JB weld quick set was all flimsy!! Mixed another small batch of regular JB weld and so far after curing it feels...

I do have some of that laying around... will try tonight.

I've tried the JB weld quick set and that has failed 3 times now. Is there a brand of epoxy you recommend other than JB weld?

I also made a very terrible mistake.. I removed the 2 screws for the bosch evs1617 router at the bottom to check and make a exhaust deflection shield and vacuum attachment. Well I forgot about...

So tried the vectoring of images for Cut2D and must say, I'm extremely impressed at using it for cutting than other stuff. Cuts so much faster!!. Tho I found that with this foam I cannot use...

K took my try at using inkscape and vectoring some images and importing them to cut2D... I must say holy f'ing cow that is so much better than using microcarve! Thank you guys very much for showing...

Will give that a try!

Hmm soapy water huh? I might try that next! I wish I had the 480 it cost to upgrade my cut2d to vcarve pro :(

That's what I figured. I have looked at your pdf and will use it tonight to test some settings. I don't really want 600ipm on my machine! I currently limit it to only 300 due to super long acme...

Honestly not sure how Microcarve does their code, but it does generate a ton of lines which is odd. I will check today about turning off the tool path viewer as I think that might cause the pc to...

So cutting out a picture using MicrocarveV4 and setting it to 175IPM to cut out foam. Now mind you I've been able to run my machine up to 300IPM without any issues with studdering or anything else.
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The ones I picked out for the Z are HSR15's and the ones I picked out for my Y are SSR20 so I think I'm in the good! Appreciate all of your input. Seriously been a big help.

Sadly I had already built and learned my lesson the hard way. So now saving up for new rails.

My cnc is currently 1500mm x 1500mm or close to 50x50in. I would indeed be using a 1/8in x 1in x 60in aluminum plate to mount the 15mm rail to so that it's fully supported on the extrusion.

I really wish I would have found this info on the RM2 bearings before I decided to use them for my linear rails.

this was my thought for the 20mm
THK SSR20 Linear Bearings Rails L1550MM CNC NSK Router Block | eBay

Right now I'm using acme's and will eventually upgrade to ballscrew, but for now I need to figure out whether or not 15mm will do. I'm using 8020 extrusion for my gantry which is spec'd at 5010 aka...

I'm at the decision point of buying new rails for my X,Y, and Z. I'm trying to decide between ssr20 and ssr15. How much force/weight can SSR15's take? I ask this because they are quite a bit less in...

I suggest going with a 2010 ballscrew or 2510. Long screws tend to bend and whip at fast speeds. By increasing the diameter of the screw you reduce the whip that occurs.

Given how much play I have (1/32in) how much play does others have? if any at all?

so here is another video cutting an old part.. Warning.. mute your speakers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4D93_YBURY

So sorry for the delay... here are updated pictures

https://i.imgur.com/mzxmuuj.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/WVKsQGq.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ct0JQvb.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/pdGUPL5.jpg

With this...

Awesome thanks! Just finishing up building my home made switches from the forum and was getting ready to use your script.. just needed to know if I needed that! will have my cnc back up tonight woot!

Think I may have mis stated what I was asking :( I already have both x and a using refcombination to home both at the same time. I was curious about your script if I also need to /10 and *10 the a...

Ger21, with having a A axis do we need to modify the script to set param's for the A axis or is the A auto set due to mirroring the X ?

So, I'm pretty tired of v-grooves for the Z axis. with most designs including my own everyone is mounting the v-grooves in a way that is putting axial twisting loads vs lateral loads. Sadly there is...

Will need to take some pictures soon but tore down my Y axis AGAIN. after seeing the pit falls of the aluminum tracks I decided the best thing I can do is go ahead and upgrade to CRP v-con system. So...

Nice work!

I ordered McMaster-Carr this. As the plastic housing was better. However I have not yet attached it to my dustboot as cnc is under reconstruction again.

A lot of new pictures showing the new Z and Y axis parts and mostly assembled

Updated -> https://imgur.com/a/my5hg#0

First off I want to say openbuildparts are awesome parts. However like any...