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

[Clive S]

Parts came for the PSU this morning will build up over the weekend hopefully, I bought 4 capacitors instead of 3 should I fit all 4?
https://www.rapidonline.com/samwha-h...acitor-11-3121

Personally I would only use 3 caps. Re the pci PP it can't do any harm. The attachments above don't appear to work.

[Desertboy]

Personally I would only use 3 caps. Re the pci PP it can't do any harm. The attachments above don't appear to work.

Try again with the attachments





I bought 4 because I wanted a spare so I'll go with 3 ;)

the company I bought 4 AM882's from contacted me today they only have 2 so told them to ship them and refund the difference and bought 2 from HK angry though as I was expecting them to arrive next week now going to be at least 2 :(

When I finish the router and it moves properly I'm going to buy 1 3nm nema straight away to swap onto the X so I can swap the 2nm to the Z axis as I have a gap is bigger than I thought between the ballscrew and nema and the longer shaft of the 2nm motors are a perfect fit.

[Desertboy]

Still got to drill the spindle mount out, bolts are going through the spindle mount them through the top Z axis plate, through aluminium spacers and into the Hiwin carriages directly.

[Desertboy]

ignore wrong thread

[Desertboy]

Really am going to need to fit a dedicated 32amp line to the consumer unit, checked out the vacuum cleaners I have and 1 is 2.2kw and the other 1.8kw so if I use them both at once then that's 4kw lol.

What I need is an 800w cleaner for the dust shoe I think and dig out my vac pump or buy a 2nd hand one. At work I have infinite access to lorry air tanks (Used for the air brakes, raising suspension, etc) for free was thinking I could use a couple of them as vacuum tanks to increase the capacity of the vacuum pumps. I have compressed air on tap so less point fitting them for air.

I wonder how safe the air tanks are if I draw a vacuum on them, I think it would be wise to put them in some sort of box to give some protection against failure.

Was reading if I surface the MDF 1/16th both sides then I'll remove the non porous skin and the mdf will be permeable enough to suck through without holes I'm definitely going to have to try that.

[Desertboy]

Tried to spin my nema's up with the cncshield and arduino but no luck just a ticking sound from the motor's. I've spun all the motors up using a ramps board so will have to drag my printer to the machine to try again annoyed.

[Desertboy]

Bought myself a cheap spanner/ratchet set from banggood, missing 1/2 my spanners so have to borrow off others and they are getting annoyed.

https://www.banggood.com/12pcs-Profe...l?rmmds=search

click the EU warehouse and only £20 (£7 cheaper than China) now that never happens lol, uber cheap for Chrome Vandium. It's also good to have some cheap spanners so you whack them with a hammer which my snap on set is too expesnive for that sort of crap lol

I have 1/2 a snap on set and 1/2 a bluelight set (It's always the same ones missing lol)

13mm and 22mm are destined to always be in someone elses box, although I no longer need 22mm.

[Desertboy]

She moves! At least the gantry and Z axis not tried Y axis because of the dual ballscrew, will wait for the AM882's.

[Nickhofen]

Very nice!

[Desertboy]

Thanks been a long slog but so glad I didn't buy an Xcarve and built my own ;) For a long time I was toying with buying an Xcarve (Or Shapeoko)but I had the extrusion and I found this site and the next thing you know I have Hiwin's and ballscrews instead of a belt and some skateboard bearings lol.