Thread: A3 Marchant Dice Kit
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06-12-2009 #4
Hi,
I have a one of Kevin unit (mine it is the same like that YouTube link) and what I can tell you is you mad a BIG mistake buying that. I know it is too late... You will find many things will go wrong and also you will find you need to make your own modification to have a working machine.
To start check:
- assembly ball screw housing Y axis.
On mine I found a piece of plastic which it is supposed to work like a nut fixing. After I put all and try to tune machine with Mach that piece came out and Y ball screw was unusable. Speak with Kevin and replacement (I don't know why he didn't put that initially) came next day.
- the end of X ball screw has a screw which supposed to line up the ball screw in bearing
Try not to move the machine to the end of ball screw movement. If you do that that screw will came off and you will need to dismantle entire X axis to fix that. A "quick" fix is to install limit switch on all axis.
- Z axis has the same problems. Do not run the axis till the end of movement linear bearings will be affected.
On mine I found the Z axis with a Proxxon spindle don't reach the surface and I need to "lift up" the T-slot table with some 20 mm aluminium profile's and proper bolts.
About the support - that it is almost NIL. That guy (Kevin) take your money and after that you are on your own. If you have a problem you must send the unit for fixing and you need to pay for shipping and everything.
I don't know if he don't know much about how this machine must be made it (in all stages - design - stress (with Algor or something else) - manufacturing) or he doesn’t care about that.
Anyway if you still have the original packaging box I suggest to send that back for a full refund. Make sure you secure very good what it is inside and pay insurance for package.
I don't have anything with that company but I am an unsatisfied customer which pay a lot of money (with all 1700 GBP mechanical parts only since I have all electronics parts) and still must work and spend more money to have a working machine. I also want to advise people to pay attention when they spend money on this junk.
Have a look on this:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DjBUPQqfu0"]YouTube- eagle pcb emc2[/ame] look at comments and that links to see how good it is that machine.
Sadly I found that after I ordered mine
Good luck
Gabi
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