Thread: My acquisition.
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04-06-2013 #1
Lol defo not
If the nagging gets really bad......Get a bigger shed:naughty:
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09-06-2013 #2
OK, just a quick update
so, last week I done some experimental electrolysis with small tanks to establish best results.
I stopeed off at the farm on way home from work friday and removed a rail.
Stole a bit of gutter off one of my sheds to create a long tank...
abra kadabra
after 24 hours...
bearings slide lovely, no play
all back on machine, heavily greased (after this pic)
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09-06-2013 #3
impressive!
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10-06-2013 #4
Brilliant!!! What a good suggestion Swarfing, and well done for following it through Kingc. G.
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10-06-2013 #5
Nice one G glad it came out so well, just don't do it on the Ali parts :-)
I'm reluctant to put a piece of sandpaper to anything these day, saves a sh*t load of hard work as well ;-)If the nagging gets really bad......Get a bigger shed:naughty:
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10-06-2013 #6
what a great idea and awesome results .. well done kingy :)
Fiction is far more plausible when wrapped around a thread of truth
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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18-06-2013 #7
So, il perhaps post more pictures later if anybody is interested in a photo adventure? But The X rails are now both clean and sliding properly. Ive removed the gantry to find the Z is round supported rails with a 16mm pitch ballscrew. Both of which have been guarded from the weather and seem fine. I have both Y rails in the gutter (aka tank) in the process of cleaning them now.
Il paint the gantry and re-assemble for the weekend where hopefully I may get it working
Ive removed the electrics, It has a 75v switched chineese power supply (which works :D)
4 Leadshine drivers ... (which at this point ive established power up which I guess is a good sign)
but I cant get a sausage from the breakout board... PLEASE tell me the reason they turfed this machine out is because the bob is broken and everything else is fine!!! :D that would be quality.....
thats about it. well apart from holding up a full time job 45 hours a week, and looking after my two year old and all the other family related duties...
Ive got all the electrics wired up on the bench and hopefully tonight/tomorrow I should be able to get the steppers going... in which case Il need to buy a new spindle a new breakout board and perhaps think about what vaccum pump solution im going to use...(obviously the present ones are 3phase) which will be directly relative to where and what I decide to do with the machine
See the thing is, my workshop is presntly approx 20ft, 10ft... the machine is 12ftx7ft!!! its presently being stored temporarily at a friends farm... but im leaning on him so It cant stay there forever
Option #1, once machine is working... keep the machine, get rid of / store my other one -- this will involve flattening my existing workshop and starting again
Advantages
Get a new purpose built workshop / which id obviously soundproof
Get to keep the bigger machine
Lots of time to use machine.. Its just down the end of the garden
Disadvantages
Loose valuable garden space for little one growing up (although we are surrounded by fields)
Would have to move / sell / get rid of existing machine due to space
or
Option #2
Rent somewhere out to keep it
Advantages
*Dont have to rebuild workshop
*Can get it going straight away
*Have more space for more toys
*No worries about falling out with neighbours over noise (not that im worried about that as I live next door to and surrounded by good friends
Disadvantages
*Rent!
*Although Ive made a few things for friends etc, im not a business I have a good job and its just a wicked toy so justifying the rent of a unit a car drive away maybe a bit silly?
anyway... theres an update...
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18-06-2013 #8
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19-06-2013 #9
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19-06-2013 #10
thanks jazz. Il upload a piccy tomorrow
got the Z working!! off its own steam. Using its own power supply its own stepper controller. The other motor controllers appear to be working but the other steppers (Y and X) are eight cable flavour
two green, two yellow, two red & two blue
with the standard 4 core ones, I work out which are the coils but shorting the cables to test for extra resistance in the shaft but these eight core ones blow my mind... has anybody got any idea how I work out how to wire it? Ive got no model number for the steppers and obviously no diagram
oh, and... and as the highlight of all your evenings... here is the z moving
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