My acquisition.

[Swarfing]

Cola? Soda crystals wally :-)

A car charger and steel will do, just need to clean them off once in a while.

[Tenson]

Not the sort you want to drink then!

[Swarfing]

Lol defo not

[kingcreaky]

OK, just a quick update

so, last week I done some experimental electrolysis with small tanks to establish best results.

I stopeed off at the farm on way home from work friday and removed a rail.



Stole a bit of gutter off one of my sheds to create a long tank...



abra kadabra



after 24 hours...





bearings slide lovely, no play

all back on machine, heavily greased (after this pic)

[irving2008]

impressive!

[GEOFFREY]

Brilliant!!! What a good suggestion Swarfing, and well done for following it through Kingc. G.

[Swarfing]

Nice one G glad it came out so well, just don't do it on the Ali parts :-)

I'm reluctant to put a piece of sandpaper to anything these day, saves a sh*t load of hard work as well ;-)

[Fivetide]

what a great idea and awesome results .. well done kingy :)

[JAZZCNC]

bearings slide lovely, no play

all back on machine, heavily greased (after this pic)

Those rails and bearings look like manufactured by SBC (Take a closer pick of bearings and I'll tell for sure) and if so then I think I've got some bearings kicking around if not I've got access to getting some if you ever need any.

[kingcreaky]

thanks jazz. Il upload a piccy tomorrow

got the Z working!! off its own steam. Using its own power supply its own stepper controller. The other motor controllers appear to be working but the other steppers (Y and X) are eight cable flavour

two green, two yellow, two red & two blue

with the standard 4 core ones, I work out which are the coils but shorting the cables to test for extra resistance in the shaft but these eight core ones blow my mind... has anybody got any idea how I work out how to wire it? Ive got no model number for the steppers and obviously no diagram



oh, and... and as the highlight of all your evenings... here is the z moving