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Tony - it may be worth seeing if you have another local steel yard near you. My local supplier charge £4.1 +VAT per meter for 50x50x3 (£147.60 for 30m) as a base price & charge less than that if you...

Just a note there about the Estop button: Buy a brand one. The cheap chinese ones have weak springs and stick sometimes right when you need it. I have el cheapo and it betrayed me a couple of times....

[Please note this post is not quite finished - I will be editing it in the next few days to include costings among other things]

Just over two years ago, when I made the steel frame for my router...

Irving, if you are reading this, it was on fire when I got there! :-)

MANY thanks to Adil, Geoffrey, Tony, Adam, Laurence, Joanne for all your help today and Grandma for the sarnies!


PS,...

So anyway I thought I would share my experience as a first timer in an engineering shop. To cut a short story to a very short story basically my next-door neighbour her brother has an engineering...

That works fine for a single switch on a dual axis but if you want to home each of the two sides of the gantry independently ie. to auto square. then you leave this disabled. It could be you had this...

No skill involved really and you won't believe how simple it is.!! Takes 10mins if that and in it's simplest form will cost no money. . . . I'll guide you thru it.

Just use a nice flat piece of...

M_C answered most of it but here's couple more suggestions.

1. A: Good Habbit to get into starts at the Cad when you define the part. I always place it 2 or 3mm in from X0Y0 then when you touch...

Tony SS is mostly not popular because folks are tight arse's.!! Those that have them generally love them and see better or more stable performance.

If yours is the USB version then power from...

Hi Guys

Few more updates. I've added home/limit switches and run some test cuts. Its starting to become a bit easier now. Here's a link on my website CNC Config Mach3 and TB6560 with some...

Firstly Jazz and i must say this at the begining and not the end, I dont want replies that are skirting round what im after, for fear of offending me, Im a grown man and i dont have time to waste, I...

Yep my design made by me for someone else.!

Edit: Here's some more pics i've posted before of various bits of different machines built on the same design.
I've built 2 versions one that had the...

really pleased ive read this post. its cleared lots of questions ive needed answering but didnt know how to ask the questions...

It's essential for me as a hobbyist to contain costs, yet I would also like to use software that enjoys a reasonable level of support by being in fairly common use. So please point me back to sanity...

Jazz. I have read most of your posts (and John S) and I have a lot of respect for you in the help that you have given many people including myself by reading them. it would be a great shame if the...

I have a (relatively) cheap pillar drill, similar to that one, and it's acceptable.
Drilling and tapping all the holes in the box section before mounting the rails is not a good plan, especially if...

Some people think it's a good idea to start collecting parts as & when they can afford them having a good idea in their head how the machine will be built. If you read through the build logs you will...

Interesting stuff that! Please don't get me started on another obsession.... the whole CNC thing is already difficult enough to handle without all other aspects of my life falling to pieces! Lol

Ooops nearly forgot.

As I tend to cover all soldered connections with heatshrink I have kept a spreadsheet of conections and wire colours etc, so that if I am troubleshooting or adding new wiring...

The correct way to wire in parallel is as follows.

A+ Blue/White & Red.
A- Blue & Red / White
B+ Green /White & Black
B- Green & Black / White

The easiest way to remember is to put A phase...