Quote Originally Posted by Kitwn View Post
I hope you are not disappointed!
One thing to be very careful of is the quality of your soldering inside the 4 pin plug to the spindle. If soldering is not one of your strong points, practice until it is
No probs on the soldering side of things. I have a full on micro soldering setup at home along with microscope and various electronics kit. I like to repair any of my tech at home as I am actually qualified in electronics test and service mechanics and have a City and Guilds certificate too.

If you think soldering is hard try hand soldering an 0203 component under a stereo microscope. Even a bit of static will lift the component if you are not careful. I’ve gently touched the board with the flux syringe before now and had the resistor, or whatever, just vanish.

I also made an emergency stop interface for my CNC. I can watch my machine from another room on my iPad and if something goes wrong I just say Computer SCRAM and it hits the emergency stop on the machine from wherever I am in the flat. It’s actually safer than the amount of time it would take to reach my machine on crutches and I’m not sitting in front of a noisy machine for 1hour plus when it’s doing 3D carving of curved surfaces.

So yeah... soldering is a good skill to have.