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Yes but your going to loose a couple of days downtime in a few months when they fail so you don't gain anything, sorry to say. If you already...
Seems to me as though you would be throwing money away doing things twice. I'm sure acrylic would work for a while, but wouldn't last. 7days for...
Acrylic will also compress when you tighten down on it.
Acrylic is comparible to aluminum in price so that didn't really come across in your first post. Just thought you wanted it to look snazzy
how would you avoid wear in the bolt holes? Think you'd stand a better chance with carbon fibre. And if you was to layup the sheet itself you...
Yep on both. It's performs better than Mach 3 im0 and uses exactly the same method as Mach 4 for motor smoothing. you do need a uc100 or uc300...
Yes, to be honest for 3 axis there isn't anything it can't do that Mach 3 can as far as I'm aware.
Mach 4? Was never finished was it? They sacked all their programmers and have never been able to recoup the level of expertise required since, so...
For that money you should be able to find a std 100mm dust extraction setup with side channel blower fan instead of vacuum, much quieter and more...
I strongly advise against epoxying them. In case you want to change belt pitch or pulley. The standard pulley grub screws are not up to it....
Can you share your config file please, may be useful to symmas. And Be interesting to see if anything stands out that I may have missed
There are guys running grbl successfully, i Just got the feeling it was always going to run it clunky. Maybe one of them can post up their...
Ahh just spotted your using grbl, most likely you have a setting wrong, I had same problem with it when I tried, tried what I thought was...
Important tip: before playing with your motors velocity etc, use a steps per calculator to set your steps per setting. As with each new steps per...
Yeah i think they have a bedding in period, I found this happen too, only on one occasion though. Simply tightened up and not suffered it since....
Or just use to tilt the ox. Lol micro switches to stop when it's up or flat and they have a fair holding torque when unpowered so no need for...
Tell you what those actuators off the electric wheel chair lifts are just the ticket for that. Each can lift 500kg so with two you could leave the...
Get your hands on an old electric wheelchair you get two motors with gearboxes that make excellent winches, control unit and a wicked little...
Mechanically I can't imagine it makes much difference except you'd be adding a bit of weight to the z with the cbeam the opposite way Suppose the...
i think what you get is a slow machine using counter weights, too fast and those weights will loose tension and you'd get a tug from them....
