New build with recycled parts on a ridiculous budget 120cm*60cm work area

When I went round to my mates barn I saw what he meant when he said he pimped the mower out.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzhW20hLp6M

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Been busy but had a chance to make some clamps

Hope you have plenty of cutters

Phill

Haha :D what are you planning on clamping there Mr crazy-clamp? ;)

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Nice...clamp clamp!!:applause:

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Haha :D what are you planning on clamping there Mr crazy-clamp? ;)

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My first clamp I made was aluminium extrusion and it flexed when I ran the machine over 2m/min when cutting so I went a little OTT with box section steel and toggle clamps lol.

They're <£1 a clamp that's why I went so OTT, you only need 4 per part, gives me a clamping range of 15mm-28mm thickness, need to put holes in the end metal plates yet so I can use T bolts to attach and adjust the clamp. Going to use 2 per plate so 4 per "clamp for 8 T bolts in total. Wing nuts for tool free adjustment and speed.

There's 28 clamps on this cost ~£32 to build I had the box section, the annoying bit was drilling and tapping 112 holes to fir the clamps, box section is 3mm wall thickness. At the moment everything I want to work on is 20-25mm thick although I might make another one to do thinner material, need access to a steel milling machine for that.

You'll see I already lost one the rubber clamp bits will need to put a new one on, if you use these You should do what I intend to do and drop a nylox nut on instead of the normal one so it won't come loose.

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Works really well only need 4 clamps per part so lot's of redundancy.

I had to move the machine which meant rewiring so I took the opportunity to replace the linuxcnc with a DDSCV

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Going to add a stop and start button.

I have a stainless steel controller box I recovered for free but needed to make a new mounting plate.

I have built a machine following this and the Joe Harris build. I am using the same BOB and having read all the way though my question is, I am using a dual ball screws and could you confirm the wiring on the inputs for the limit switches.

Cheers Tony