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Don't buy a car.... you might get a flat! ;)

I am sitting in front of a clients machine which was delivered without Documentation.... Pffffffff.

The drives are TECO drives and they are connected to a fancy breakout board from Edge Solutions...

I can't get along with BobCad and it's limitations. I use Rhino with RhinoCam now. The free and great RHinoCam support is fantastic. They even log onto your PC and show you where you are stuck when...

I use RhinoCam to generate toolpath for 6 different machines and various clients. It never failed me, and if I have a problem setting up a difficult piece I know I can call the support guys and get a...

Nice render. Have you build one yet?

Set the velocity and acceleration way down for the axis in question in motor tuning and try again. You might be issuing to many steps in to short of a time for the poor guy...
Lemo

Yes and no... it would then enter the valid realm of 'reproductions'. And those have a value as well. Just smaller. Till the majority vanishes and the remaining few become collectors items again and...

Haha... yes... the Amish Flat Pack lol... I know exactly what you are talking about. And yes, fully machined work should not be declared 'Hand Crafted'. But then... I have seen at least 10 species...

Exactly. I use it that way. In previous times an aprentice had to do the grunt work for the master and now I have 'Igor the router' doing the grunt work and can then focus on the details.
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I fully agree. Unless you gnaw the material with your teeth and claw your pattern into the material with your finger nails you are using a tool.

It's all in the detail. If the final work looks...

Besides the gecko spooking, why don't you use one BOB output to drive two gecko's (the fan out of the BOB is large enough to do that.) And then just switch the coil lines on one of them to have it...

Nice! Very nice! How do you connect the leads to power?
Lemo

Do not underestimate the building process. The simpler the design looks, the more it relies on precision. I build a large router and was a tad surprised how long it actually took. And right now... if...

Maybe it's a chinese kitchen.....
http://www.acedesignlab.com/images/FrankLabMainPic.jpg
Lemo

Whatever my wife does in the kitchen... it does not look like that. I have to talk to her...
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Whatever you do, invest into a good Dust Collector. 1HP should be good enough. You cannot use a regular vacuum as the motors do not last.
If you run MDF without a good dust collector.... you will...

On the spot Mariss!

Depends on the point of view.... Invert the incoming signal to that pin and you have a 'Drive Enable Pin' 8)))

Rainer

We're still trying to break the drives on a daily basis without much success...
And we are running the drives with all they can give according to specs.
Quite some power flowing through our...

Did it bend yet?
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Rainer

Some ramblings....

The wider the belt (up to 6 inches btw.....) the more friction is in the belt. Important is not what you 'like' important is which load the belt can take. That determines the...

You need to measure that. There is much unknown in the setup. Flex of the lines, line diameter, amount of flow, of course pressure, exhaust speed, possibly a vacuum drawing exhaust for higher speed,...

Take two valves and half the time one has to open and close.... Works like a charm.
Lemo

I build a 4x6 table this year with a heavy gantry (150lbs) and very solid linear rails. I use .5 inch timing belts with 1200oz steppers without any gearing down and the thing just flies. I am talking...

I'm in Bloomfield... What kind of assistance are you looking for?
Lemo

Depending on the VFD you might be able to connect the two thermistor leads into the VFD for protection. Check out the VFD manual, you might be lucky.
Lemo

My experience after building and designing two tables (1 servo, one stepper) this year is that the servo setup does not yield any better cut's than the stepper setup. Both tables are the size in...

Servo is more complex, don't attempt it when you are unsure if you can handle the complexity. Stepper is less than half the work, complexity, trouble shooting, and cabling.
Gecko, 1200oz/Inch,...

A friend of mine and I drove up to Grizzly this weekend. We picked up some granite plates and other cheap but immensely heavy stuff and saved a bundle in shipping. While being there I took a closer...

Seems you are getting somewhere! Good thing!
I am happily cleaning the grit of the centuries of my small used Bridgeport and the South Bend lathe. Holy Weight lifting Batman. NOTHING is light on...