Ruffel's cnc cutting journey

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Quick update.

Vertex VA-4 vice came in and I must say It very good for the price. Nice and heavy (~20Kg) and it allows larger work-pieces to be clamped because of the movable jaws.

I also installed inductive sensors on all axis to home the machine. The step loss is 0-1 and in the rare occasion 2. 1 step loss is about 0.0025mm and that is probably because my sensor holder is a bit wonky and the sensor probably has some error to. I have hybrid steppers with encoder so there should be none to very little step loss. I haven't tested it with a dial indicator yet...

The Haimer 3d probe is a nice piece of kit. When I was getting it out of my ER tool holder It fell a few cm and the probe broke off. So I have ordered a new one and a spare.

The As196 compressor is a nice and quiet compressor. I would like some more volume. In a later stage I might hook up 2-3 of them to a 50-100L tank and get that up to 6 bar. This would be nice for non-cnc stuff.

Last but not least I received the china mist thing from ebay ... but I haven't had much luck with it.
There is no way to adjust the amount of coolant that gets in the nozzle. When you turn the air down and the coolant reservoir is higher than the nozzle you will get quite a stream of coolant coming out of the nozzle.

When the reservoir is just a bit higher or lower than the nozzle there will be no coolant coming out. Does not matter if the system is at 1, 2 or 6 bar. The airbrush pistol that came with the compressor does a much better job. It even has a ionizer pin inside of it. Might hack that up later ....

I would like a fogbuster ... but they are just so damm expensive. Haven't the Chinese copied it yet?

Now I just use 1 or two air blasts at the endmil.

Oh and I also found out how to do automatic tool height compensation with EdingCNC and a tool-setter. Sadly during my last test I entered the estimated tool length wrong. The tool went into the tool-setter and broke the limit switch inside... Damage 3$

Tomorrow I will do some milling with the machine. I will also make a short movie about it and post some pictures of my setup.