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Quick google: "idaho lasercutting bending" http://www.steelheadmetal.com/
Waterjet is usually 3-5x as expensive as lasercutting (since its slower and most places charge machine time + material cost) Around Durban I...
Set of parts ordered from the factory last night. ETA 3-5 working days. You may notice the mirror mount brackets, etc are not on the sheet yet -...
For electronics: I tried playing with TinyG (https://plus.google.com/104034368033227202956/posts/arZ9BXiYrYu) but thats still a no go... For...
A big thanks to Anthony Webb for donating $20 towards the project!
Final mock-up freeze [ATTACH]
Started the flattening process to get workable DXFs to send off to the factory this week (: 1. Sort out the components to be made [ATTACH] 2....
Added the lid and lower front panel
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Took me about a day but I think I added back all the changes lost yesterday (: Next I need to run to the hardware store and get some Hinges -...
Thank goodness I hosted my file here on OpenBuilds. SouthAfrica is currently in the grip of a phenomenon called "load shedding" which is...
Thanks Tweakie! I appreciate your feedback!
We want 25mm mirrors for no1 and no2. For the laser head - its a 20mm mirror for no3, with a 18mm diameter lens. For focal length a 50.8mm is a...
And it seems this time of day I like doublebacking over my previous design within a few minutes. While finding a spot for the X MIN endstop, I...
Y Max Endstop - sits in a cutout halfway inside the laser tube compartment - its basically in front of the no1 mirror mount's foot but far enough...
The bulk of the mechanical design is now finished. So time to start working on the "small" things that usually end up being the BIG time wasters...
Y Axis: Added mounting holes on the right hand side to mount a NEMA23, with a small closed loop GT2 belt, that drives the rear driveshaft....
Z: Done Right so I basically struck two birds with one stone on the new Z axis. I cloned the middle floor to be the bottom floor (: Now theres...
Will hack for beer : https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=KC92Q2BJL4S7U
:) I prefer to perceive it as sskepticism- because thats a really good thing :) Nothing worse than working in / on a project and no-one questions...
