Luke11CNC Build Log ,I'm so naïve

[luke11cnc]

Well after a long long week

LUKE has broken his foot now

So I have decided to crack on with the CNC machine

Now the frame is true and square (spent all day Friday doing this) fitted ONE side of the gantry side to my ballscrew but I have some binding on the other side (about 5mm out)

My rails are square and parallel but the gantry still refuse's to play. One side hits the end of the table and the other is around 5mm off (I can force the other side to meet the side at a right angel) but this is not right (every fibre of my body says "no, it’s not right") but I am all out of ideas

I am going to look at the bearing today to see if they are mounted correctly (all facing in the same direction) would this throw my gantry out of square??

I am at a loss to where things have gone wrong??

Does it matter if the bearing are pointing in the same way ??

The only two ways I can get the X-axis to run true is to force the right side over by about 5mm or have the table out of square

I’ve just taken some images of the machine and its now only out about 2mm
So I think I was over reacting and it was just crabbing

But I think I would still like a second opinion

any way here we have Luke striping out the old computer (sorry but Luke is in a bad mood :twisted::twisted:(tired me thinks)) not one smile and he told me not to take any more photo's of him















do you like my drives two Bosch drills :naughty::naughty:


today I'm going to tap my M10 T-nuts and start mounting the Y-axis

James:tup::tup: