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

**Chaz** · 21-08-2017

Lovely gantry parts you have there Desertboy. They look awfully familiar.

**Desertboy** · 21-08-2017

Originally Posted by Chaz

Lovely gantry parts you have there Desertboy. They look awfully familiar.

They do there don't they lol, a big thanks for Chaz helping me out here couldn't have done it without him ;) Was leaving the big reveal for when the machine moved ha ha ha but confidence is a lot higher that it will all be good.

This is my first CNC machine and I designed it myself with a vague idea how my reprap moved lol, the best advice I got so far I think was using 20mm tooling plate for the gantry ;) Then ditch the SBR for the Hiwin's.

Very happy with my plates from Chaz and the only issues I have come across come from me not measuring everything out properly! After mentioning exactly that in Zeeflyboy's thread I should be super embarrassed lol.

What happens when you don't bother modelling everything and use some lines and data from the engineering drawings lol.

And let me say Thor might look impressive but when she moves the earth moves with her lol.

**Desertboy** · 21-08-2017

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PC is on it's way, got GFX card need SSD yesterday ;)

Next stop Fusion lol.

**Zeeflyboy** · 21-08-2017

looks like Thor's done a lovely job on those plates!

**RobC** · 21-08-2017

Looking good!

**Desertboy** · 22-08-2017

Got PC and ran into problems but nothing too severe but like always nothing works first time.

Need to swap the motherboard to a new case so I change the PSU as the existing case has a weird small power supply and I'd lose 2 drive bays if I fit gfx card in this machine. Have old mini tower pc's kicking round so not a biggie just hassle.

The other problem my 700w power supply I bought the other day only has 1 6pin pci connector and the card needs 1 6pin and 1 8pin so had to order a dual molex to 8pin adapter which will take a day or 2 to come and that's annoying.

Nothing's ever easy when you're budgeting lol.

The original 300w power supply is one of these
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FSP300-60E...gAAOSw3YJZO4uT

which I believe are very good quality power supplies so will keep for some future project or maybe just flog it it is 80 plus certified.