Update: I replaced the main shaft & pulleys in the reduction gear/carriage drive with keyed versions.
I'd run my first 'proper' job cutting 1200mm desk for the local school where my wife teaches....
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Update: I replaced the main shaft & pulleys in the reduction gear/carriage drive with keyed versions.
I'd run my first 'proper' job cutting 1200mm desk for the local school where my wife teaches....
I'm in NZ and saw that on the news - that looked proper mental! 800mm flooding is doable but fast flowing 4.5m is insanity!
I did see a containerized CNC router on a TV show (Grand Designs UK)....
Yay - an all axis test with everything running properly and at the correct Z depth :wee:
https://youtu.be/PapP_CutiOQ
Update: Mach4....lots of Mach4
+ running a bunch of very small codes to get the hang of Mach4 and how it all works
+ Made a spring-loaded pencil for the spindle and drew shapes to get the pulses/mm...
Yeah I hear they don't have good rep, but it works fine under MachGUI since I fixed the config files, plus, its got loads of IO's.
I've do have a half-built ESS/HG08 as a backup.
Cheers,
Roly
I used a copy of the wx4 screenset and the G94 wasn't in the initialization Codes. I've added it, and it works fine now without needing to included it in the gcode itself.
The controller I'm...
Solved it!
Joe - I was looking at your 3rd line in the above code, the 'safe start line', and noticed it was different to the basic one I'd used (straight from themach4 manual).
I looked up the...
I know right? I'm very new to this and still in my builds commissioning stage, so I'm assuming I've cocked something up.
example of my test file (50mm square) below:
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( File created using...
Did you solve this? I've just encountered the same issue. It will happily run a test square on G0, but will stop on any G1 line
Update:
Replaced Y axis motor (vertical travel) with a braked nema34 to stop the z-axis & spindle assembly crashing to to the bottom when the e-stop is tripped.
Got sent wrong one, with a...
Yeah, I was pretty unimpressed with it. It only ran a handful of times for test runs - no actual cutting.
Here's the link to the manual - and hopefully its attached to this post as well.
So I spent all day working out the correct settings for the new inverter to run on the Chinese spindle. It would only turn over for less than 1 sec before giving a various over current errors. </br>...
Update: drag chain swapped out for larger one, limit switch's on X wired in. Checked the spindle and found it wasn't earthed! fixed that and plumbed in water lines & pump.
Bad news - z axis driver...
First motion test:
https://youtu.be/Jnjzs5qM_Sk
My Build log here:https://www.cnczone.com/forums/diy-cnc-router-table-machines/424316-cnc.html
Hi All, long time lurker, first time poster????
I was originally inspired by this guys work - CNC router 'Otocoup' and have always wanted to try something like it.
After a long time...
HI all,
A quick intro, I'm a Industrial designer former aircraft engineer in Christchurch, who, after a looooong gestation, is building largish vertical router in ther garage. I've lurked this site...