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I use this company www.wmh-trans.co.uk I have had good ball screws and rails from them.

Phill

Not very easy to read labels but I suspect your using the HV option on controller to turn on contactor.?
Don't use it my self because it's pain in arse.? It will drop the power to drives every time...

In case anyone is looking for help fixing two pieces of extrusion together... 1605916059 10mm transfer punch to mark then centre punch to get holes centred. 16060 insert 10x25mm aluminium and...

Today I changed the wiring for the AM882 alarms.

Initially each drive had the alarm set to 'High' so that if a fault occurred the internal alarm contact would close. I have four AM882's so the...

You can run drives with or without steppers, connecting or disconnecting whilst power is on can cause voltage & current spikes which may damage the drive.
I fit an unwired blanking plug when my 4th...

I had to strip it down a bit today because there was still a BK and FK bearing to sort out, both had bearings in facing the same way and no grease, made shims, greased, reassembled.
More progress,...

The rails on the gantry are 800mm long, they have 15 bolt holes. When I drilled the holes in the gantry to mount the bottom rail I made every other one 6.5mm, the others were 3.2mm tapping size. The...

Reactive Resins Syntac EPAFD epoxy with Synamin 201-c slow hardener.

This was the starting point using shims to level up the linear rail support beams.

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A test piece was made...

How many people build the control panel first ? Just got it finished today, I decided I would wire the spindle cable directly to the Inverter later on without going through a set of terminals.
The...

Use a relay with a 240VAC coil and a set of NC contacts, and wire the bleed resistor through the NC contacts.
When 240 is applied, the contacts open, then when it's removed they shut and connect the...

[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...

My advice is only build this length if you truely need it because over 1500mm your in funny territory. 16mm is too close for whip and vibration etc and has you've seen 25mm takes you to another level...

That looks much better than the initial design. Your steel sheets will help a lot to do the job of the diagonal bracing pieces, but they could cause problems with resonance since it's a large...