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03-08-2017 #10
Been a busy few months.
Ordering a lot of stock aluminum for the product housing.
The unlevel bed started to show up in the finish if the housing so a bit of 8mm on the bed and faced it off about 1mm down. Oddly not that much difference in it so thinking the vice might be causing the unlevel finish. Might make some soft jaws that custom fit the housing anyway so that will make it level.
Also as I was ordering a load of circuit boards I whipped up this little ring light to fit the 80mm spindle.
These photos are just testing it but I am going to try and mount it using neodymium magnets.
I know the motor is using magnets so they might not work too well but there looks to be a decent amount of steel there so should be okay.
Take 12v at around 150mAh. Not the brightest in the world but I designed them to help improve lighting on the workpiece not light the whole thing.
I also made my cabinet.
Didn't make a whole stand like I designed a month ago. Don't really have the space for it so made a table top cabinet.
The base is actually from a Ikea bookcase. No idea where it came from. Think it was a shelf we ordered but was the wrong size, but it was perfect for this use...
The sides are just that regular chipboard? from B&Q. Everything painted with 3-4 coats of gloss. All joints filled with silicone.
The base is slanted to allow water (coolant) to run down into a small rain gutter.
2 doors on the front using 5mm acrylic.
No roof yet, will make one eventually as the noise comes from there and chips when blowing fly out of it xD
Last edited by JOGARA; 03-08-2017 at 12:52 AM.
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