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The 65mm spindle sounds like a good call too.
Ah,yes, I find 'hidden' screws are the ones that even with thread lock on them have a habit of working loose too! I have a box of shame under the...
Nice. Mounting directly and saving the 20mm will keep the forces that are acting to twist the gantry as low as possible, but it is a trade-off...
One 'gotcha' I have found with Vectric software is that if you have multiple sheets in the same rotary job file, and one sheet is set for a...
The 4" travel sounds good. On my old machine, I could just scrape about 3" of actual Z travel, and found it to be ok for actual milling, but I...
:) looking good! Your Z looks like it will have a useful size travel to it. Are you making the Z actuator as a classical 'fixed rail,...
In light of Peter's comment, and looking back at your first photo, having the double X-beams does help a lot. One feature in your first photo...
My go-to for cutting aluminium and brass is a 1/8" single flute, ideally with a DLC coating, but uncoated can work too. I normally use the...
For most work, a 1.5kW would be plenty, especially when using small diameter bits for doing either fine work, or to minimise material wastage....
I have auto-squaring on my machine, but as the others say, it is no substitute for getting the machine square in the first place. The...
:) Spindles are a different rabbit hole to head down of course!
The G10 command will set the work coordinate offsets that should remain fixed between machine reboots, and G54 is the normal work coordinate...
1605's are great for the Z :) T8-8 acme thread lead screws are also a lower-cost option of course and can probably be made to fit in your design...
I have spun 1500mm 16mm ball screws at 1000rpm and they were ok, but that is approaching the critical speed: that is, the total screw length was...
I am guessing that the parts being picked up are quite light, and that the 'pickup' operation is something like pressing a block into a mould...
Ah, yes, a change to a water cooled spindle may well change the dynamics of the machine from what you have now. I have a 3kW water cooled spindle...
It very much depends on the motors and your machine really. High torque motors have a higher holding torque and higher torque at low speeds,...
I forgot to mention, as Peter said, if you always home Z before Y, then you can get auto squaring of both axes in GrblHal by ganging one pair of...
Yes fluidnc is not the only possible controller by any means. GrblHal as a prime 'alternative' code can support many options, depending on the...
Hope this is not too late, but yep, I have been running one for about 18 months now. I have the model with the 580mm stroke Y, and X 830mm (with...
