EDIT: Looks like the z car has somehow lost the pre-load I put on it and there is some play I need to get rid of.
First piece on the C-Beam machine. Lots of chatter. Going too deep maybe or too fast or both? I could see the bit dancing around on z plunges and could hear the chatter.

 

I am using a 1/4 bit and 30 degree ramping. 0.5mm step down and around 1000 mm/per min. I think the issue was more the fact that somehow the z cars wheels became loose. I had a pretty good amount of pre load on them but now the plate can be easily moved enough where I'm sure that is where the chatter is coming from. Any have experience with the v-wheels becoming looser after use?

 

Once I re-tighten the v-wheels I am hoping they should stay set this time...correct?

 

Where do you get this 1mm shim?

 

Just to clarify...the only time you need the extra shim is when you are using the mini and the larger v-wheel together. It may seem obvious but I just figured it out after thinking I might have not put my z axis together correctly

 

Sorry for the double post. But to update about the issues I was having with the chatter on cuts, I went and took the z axis apart and gave the wheels a bunch more pre load as well as went back through the entire frame and gave all the screws another half turn or so. It seems to have helped quite a bit. I haven't had a chance to cut yet but I think it should make quite a difference. Also, I don't know if this will matter at all, but I decided to move the router so that with a bit touching the table the z axis plate is centered with the x cross member. Hopefully this will help a little by centering the stresses in the strongest areas of the machine.

 

I'm sure this has been asked before but I'm not sure how to search these posts but here goes. I just assembled my c beam and I wired up the x pro v2 and the motors are making grinding noises when jogging. The board came with 1/8 stepping and I switched to 1/16 and the current pots were set to about half and I tried lowering and raising them but the motors still grinding. I even took the motor off the axis to make sure it wasn't the backlash nut or anything in the axis but it was still there. I followed the steps in the video and I'm using grbl panel with the settings in the video. I noticed there was no mention to the pots or the step settings in the video. Can anyone help me??

Just had a thought. My power supply is 24v and 8a. Could the low amps be causing my issue? I never thought of the fact that my old Cnc had nema 17s and that supply worked fine with a tb6550 board.

 

If you changed your microscopic you also need to change your steps per mm. I don't use that board I but if the pots are for amperage I ran long jog move and adjusted for smoothest operation.

 

I checked and i believe they are wired correctly, the motors do move and in the right direction. I just swapped out my power supply for an ATX PS that has 12v 16a and it is sounding better. When I jog far while its moving it sounds good but when it starts and when it comes to a stop it makes the grinding noise. I attached a video and a linkt to youtube in case the uploaded video does not work.

 

Ramping ?

 

Is there a BOM for the larger build? that is excellent. and I would like to order all the parts, but want to ensure I don't miss anything.

 

So I'm finally cutting some aluminum. I'm using a 1/4" bit and have gone and tightened all my axis up which was part of my problem in a previous post. I am cutting with half a mm cut depth at 1000 mm/per min. I still seems to be getting some chatter and odd artifacts. Do I need to take a more shallow depth of cut? 1/2 mm seemed conservative to me but prob could up the speed and reduce cut depth?

 

As low as the Dewalt dpw611 will go. Says low speed is 16k

 

For the most part it looks like a lot of chatter worse in some areas better in others. On this run there was one spot the tool at into the geometry of the part...not sure if it happened all at once or on every pass. Also looks like maybe I'm getting some small amount of chips mooshed or melted to the part. I will send pics later. Part of the problem may be the 2 flute 1/4" bit. The feed and speed calculator I played with shows that the only way to get even close to the right chip load is with a single flute 1/8" bit at 16000 rpm. I have a SuperPid waiting to be installed which will let me run as low as 5000 rpm. At the rate I have been able to work on this project it will be 6 months before I can get that installed! I have cut a fair amount of wood and even some plastics on cnc but this is my first go at aluminum...and on a much smaller lighter machine. Not as forgiving as wood!

 

How do I know how much current im at while adjusting the pot?

 

Has anyone considered buying a premade Z axis like this off ebay?
Z AXIS SLIDE 6 " TRAVEL FOR CNC ROUTER,3D PRINTER,PLASMA

 

Here is a pic of what I am seeing. I'm not talking about the tabs or the fact I didn't cut all the way through.

 

Yes they were dry. That would be my preference to cut dry in my situation. So maybe less depth of cut could solve it?