Y-Axis motor mount end plate prototypes
So after the planning work it was time to route the prototype mount plates on 12mm thick birch plywood. I sanded them and screwed them onto the RatRig 40160 profile […]
Designing the Y-Axis ballscrew bracket mount plates
A slight re-design is needed from the y-axis endplates. The end plates are to be replaced with mount plates for the BK12 brackets that are on top of the RatRig […]
3D Printed Nema23 Mount for BK12 Bracket.
What is this ?Its a mount for the stepper motors that should be possible to be mounted on the BK12 bearing bracket where the 1605 size ball screw is attached […]
CNC Y-Axis gantry plate pre-prototype
To be on safe side a prototype of the prototype gantry plate was routed using my old CNC machine on a 11mm thick wall chipboard. The idea was to check […]
Converting standard Opt Lasers XF into XF+
So here it is. Long waited XF+ conversion kit for my older PLH3D-6W-XF laser module. I will show you how i upgraded the old module to be able to use […]
CNC bottom frame parts ordered after planning and 3d modelling
The bottom of the CNC machine needed some re-thinking after observing that the table surface used as base for the machine is not 100% planar. With a consistent frame the […]
Say hello to the Aluminum Gantry plates that just arrived!
Al-Men (a local aluminum manufacturer in Finland) provides aluminum in various types like larger aluminum plate sheets from 0.7mm up to 10mm in various sizes. They also provide longer aluminum […]
DIY Linear Rail measurement jig to make it parallel.
At the moment im not able to progress in my CNC building project since i’m waiting for M5 T-Nuts for my 40160 RatRig profiles in order to be able to […]
M5Stack MLX90640 cheap thermal camera for a heat map.
Another project that i have started of by buying a thermal camera sensor which is capable of showing thermal heatmap in 32×24 pixels. You see the center spot temperature as […]
RatRig 40160 Aluminum Profiles for the CNC has ARRIVED!
RatRig 40160 Aluminumprofiles arrived yesterday and today i opened up the package. 40160 means 40mm wide, 160mm high profiles. The length of the Profiles are 1000mm. Also 90 degree brackets […]
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