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Retrosmith. Hi. It would be great to see a video of your machine in action. Any chance? :rolleyes:
You will need a 10mm to 8mm coupling on all your motors and rods if they are the same.
Hi Serge. Good to hear from you. :) Would it be too much trouble to swap that Stepper out for one of the other ones? And maybe call it "X" and...
I'm sure you did, but, you did reverse one pair of wires for each axis because one motor is going in the opposite direction?? :rolleyes: I think...
Keep your iPad to drive the machine, it doesn't have to be very powerful, but will do nicely. :thumbsup: I'm afraid there are hundreds of...
ZacharyB. I think you and your wife were way ahead of the game. Nice work! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
Sprags. My apologies. :( As you have probably read somewhere already, our usual question is:, "What do you intend to do with the machine?" Once...
I don't know, cos I always run AdBlock and Ghostery, so I never see any ads anyway. :rolleyes: Perhaps they were some of his own. :)
Download a program called "Ghostery" it will help keep some of those adverts out of the way. It doesn't ring as many bells as "AdBlock"
I tagged a video to my last post
Can you check how much you are pushing through it? It sounds a bit too hot to me. Is it going nice and smooth and quiet? Check out this video....
michielproce I like your sensible approach to extraction. I plan to have a similar set-up on my next machine. Keeps the stress off the...
I've used a Kress myself in the past, and yes, they are very good, and yes, they are noisy! :jawdrop: I'm about to build a new machine and intend...
I guess you will need to look into the 800watt - 1.5KW Chinese spindle area. :) Check out a few videos, I know it is hard to truly audibly...
Check out this video. [MEDIA]
Just bits of tape wrapped around the spindles to define direction
I know you have probably done this already but, have you tried the tabletop method? Just wire up the control board, the drivers and the motors...
Savvas. Have you taken a look at Estlcam's Trochoidal milling? [MEDIA]
I just go for 2 small plastic roller blinds, attached front and rear of the base board, each of which just expand and contract as needed.
There really are sooo many variations on a theme nowadays. For my two penneth, I would use two CBeams as the Y axis, and mount my two CBeam gantry...
