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

[Desertboy]

Mate wants a catweazle sign to name his pond so mocked him a quick on up last night.



Was discussing dust shoes last night and my mate suggested I buy a brush head cut the centre bristles out and drill 2 holes in it and add some magnets.

Found the idea interesting and also very simple so going to see what brush heads I can get today.

[Clive S]

Mate wants a catweazle sign to name his pond so mocked him a quick on up last night.

Was discussing dust shoes last night and my mate suggested I buy a brush head cut the centre bristles out and drill 2 holes in it and add some magnets.

Found the idea interesting and also very simple so going to see what brush heads I can get today.

Have you seen these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/80mm-Spin...%257Ciid%253A1

[Desertboy]

I've got it to run the splash screen ;)

https://youtu.be/JEo0zH5BMoM

Running 2.7 at moment with now working home switches, am going to upgrade to 2.8 but this was a fresh install so thought I might as well have a go.

I wasn't touching off each axis I assumed it was only for the Z causing most my errors.

My dimensions are wrong and not sure why will have to investigate tomorrow but when I move 1.2m I'm only really moving ~85cm so need to do some head scratching.

My microsteps are set to 8 and the ballscrew pitches are correct, it's set to 1:1

I also have the emergency stop button but unsure how to wire it up no instructions of course with the super cheap chinese stop button but I never expected anything more lol.

I did have it running a couple of weeks ago with Mach 3 but as soon as my mate went Oz I deleted the dodgy pirate and installed linuxcnc he's back in a week so glad I've got it working before he got back lol, he's a Windowsphile.

[Desertboy]

Bought a dust shoe
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/80mm-White...72.m2749.l2649

Think it's the same as you linked to just different colour, but UK ship although slightly more expensive.

I'm going to use a vacuum cleaner to suck on a cyclone wondering if I can use 100mm fittings on the cyclone to run a 100mm hose to the dust shoe or should I make an adapter so I can run a smaller hose to it.

Hmmm decisions.

[Clive S]

You did realise you can buy those dust shoes with different hose sizes

[Desertboy]

You did realise you can buy those dust shoes with different hose sizes

No but I would have bought 100mm anyway so I can change to a proper extractor when one comes along cheap enough ;) After all if I can't make a 100mm to 40mm adapter with my machine I'm in trouble lol.



Router is definetely setup wrong, I checked the stepconf and it's 8 microsteps and 5mm for my X and Z, 8 microsteps and 4mm for my Y. I also double checked the am882 pdf as well for jumper settings so really unsure what's going on but too cold where the router is so had to come home. More layers tomorrow ;)

Got to be something trivial.

[Desertboy]

Jumper setting for my AM882's they're all set the same, I hope they're set to autotune SW4 off/on/off twice in 1 second and 8 microsteps, not sure why I'm out dimensionally.


Also thinking about clamping

Thinking about cam, although I can CAM simple piecs of fusion most of what I designed to make is in 50+ pieces so looking for something to ease placement of the 50 pieces on a work piece, 2 sided machining and simplifiy the whole process.

I think it's a shoot out between Vcarve pro and Meshcam, leaning towards Meshcam at moment as it's $250