Making Motor mount plates out of aluminum
One week ago i milled the aluminum motor plates for all axises. While Milling one set, the 1 fluted 4mm bit got jammed on an aluminum piece that was not […]
Machining the aluminum plates
Finally the machine is in a shape that its possible to start making the aluminum plates bought from kauppa.al-men.fi to be replacing the plywood plates. First off the Z axis […]
Enclosing the CNC machine
So I got the profiles from Easy-Systems located in Finland, Lohja. All the parts can be found from the part listing. First of the lowest part of the enclosure needed […]
First Proto Plate Test Run
So here we are. Finally!!! First actual test runs running a GCode to make something with the machine. This has been waited for long. So first off the Z axis […]
HM12 Nema23 Size Motor Mounts Arrived 😁
INTROFinally i got the HM12 motor mounts and I was able to install them on my machine straight away. The Mounts did not fit 1:1 to my old endplate holes […]
CNC Enclosure for laser and overall safety purposes
I still haven’t got the HM12 motor mounts. The are in a neighboring city but for some reason they were sent to west Finland and back to neighbor city (TNT […]
Dust collector cyclone
I have a cheap 60€ dry/wet vacuum but it does not work that good with dust since the dust is collected inside the filter and aftre 15-20minutes the suction power […]
Setting up the new cnc and disassembling old cnc
Setting up AC electric wirings and DC wirings for the CNC is ongoing. I took the on/off switch from the old saw table that was used as table for the […]
Ball screw shaft offset measurement using Dial indicator
Since the ball screw wobbles quite much, some tuning to the bearing blocks was made and after around 30minutes tuning the shaft offset was measured to around 50-60µm (micrometers). This […]
Electronic Wirings from Motor to Power supply
Since the printed motor mounts are too flexible to use with the CNC machine, some steel HM12-57 mounts with C5 bearings was ordered from AliExpress. Mean while, the electronic wirings […]
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