Build continues and upgrades plus review.

[m.marino]

Well let's see,

New Nema 23's from Zap has speed up to 1200mm/min with no problems (anything above 1400mm/min and have a bit of binding problems). Had to cut the tails on both the X and Y for fitting the Claw couplers (Variation on Oldham from Sorotec). A bit under 6 hours of work and have the table level to 0.05mm +/- 0.02 (don't have the calipers to get tighter at the moment). Also taking the dive into the arcane world of feeds and speeds and realizing that i am going to have to be able to slow down the Kress 1050 or get another motor as it spins wayyy to fast which is one of the reasons i have been having a bit of burn problem with some of the woods I have been working with.

I have found a lot of resources scattered around the web on the matter and slowly building my own tables for metric to match the bits I use and than testing the table to see how true they are to real life and adjusting as needed.

Other than that doing well.

Michael

PS anyone know a good source for extruded aluminium for frame building and what i would be looking at cost wise for either a trapezoid screw or ball screw for a 120mm travel Z axis. As i am looking at increasing the Z and with it may be adding a 4th axi to the machine.