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I would be leery of mounting that heavy of an actuator on acrylic plates. Acrylic is brittle and subject to cracking when stressed which can be...
Try a brand new bit and greatly reduce the amount of stepover and the feed rate. The bit appears to be skating across the bottom. You're pushing...
Honestly, if I was looking to stiffen a C-Beam Machine, the first thing I would do is replace the Z gantry plate with an XL gantry plate due to...
My bad. Turns out he was cutting foam. Still might work for cardboard. Brushless Motor Foam Cutter and cutting sheet foam | OpenBuilds
Another option might be the Oscillating Tangential Knife (OTK-3) | Stepcraft, Inc. Somewhere here on the forum, back many years ago someone...
So what do you have it connected to and how have you connected it.
The 9mm recess was for the screw head to be recessed. Not sure if there was ever a design where this was really necessary. But yes it can cause...
If you included a 1mm spacer on the wheel axles between the wheel and the 6mm spacer you need to include a 1mm spacer between the 3mm spacer and...
Actually the original photos are showing a Bosch Colt installed which is what the standard OpenBuilds mounting bracket is based on.
Yes it can. That's probably the most common router used with it.
Sorry, had a 12hr shift today so I couldn't get back to this sooner. Let's go through this to come up with something workable. The problem with...
You might get away with hanging a GoPro on the end of this but 13 lbs is not going to happen. You're looking at the strengths of the system and...
Wheels? No. Look up linear guide systems. The axles in the wheels are a significant point of weakness.
Consider 1/8" wall steel tubing for the frame as opposed to steel plate. Linear rails and ball screws pretty much goes without saying. What you're...
Drill some holes in the existing plates (4 would be sufficient) and run some screws from the inside out into tee nuts embedded in the slots of the...
If you're not in a position to mill them just order the plates cut to size. (You won't find the plates you seek on a ready-made on a shelf though...
[ATTACH] This connection doesn't provide sufficient rigidity for the X-axis. Connect the X-axis plates directly to the Y-axis gantry plates for a...
Extra length also equals extra flexibility. And then combining the two, extra leverage + extra flexibility = poorer results. For best results...
