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CNC-2116 - Up and running, sort of (2015-03-21)
Yvan256:
--- Quote from: Drnick on January 31, 2013, 10:55:07 am ---Don't apologise for Boring updates, At least you keep giving us updates. Gonna be fun when you finally have 2 cnc 64s busy making up the big brother cnc256.
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I did not even think about the fact that there is going to be two CNC64's making the parts for CNC256! :D
--- Quote from: Drnick on January 31, 2013, 10:55:07 am ---And on top of that, reading this is still better then staring at ping traces trying to work out why we keep losing connection to one of our DNS Servers. :angry: :angry: I am sure that the problem is in the routing :dunno
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Data getting lost in tubes, you say? Better call Mario and Luigi!
Yvan256:
Here's what all the six panels look like so far. At last, it's beginning to look like something!
I'm still looking for bearings for the threaded rods, the local stores are asking insane prices for those. The next panels will be the ones shown in the Sketchup image.
Yvan256:
I just added 400 more parts to the project.
Okay, so I cheated a little. It's 300 bolts and 100 nuts. Those parts are needed, maybe just not all 400 of them.
I cleared a place on the workbench, it's now dedicated for building CNC64. Still the same 8 panels except this time they're all bolted together. There's also a photo of the next panel being cut, it should be ready in less than two hours about 15 minutes. I'll update this post once it's cut, cleaned and bolted to the right side.
edit: post updated with 3rd photo. It's almost funny that CNC64 is around the same depth, front to back, as MVS99-6.
Yvan256:
I moved the MDX-3 to my parents' house so I'm able to cut panels about six times faster. I cut five panels yesterday, should have been six but I screwed up on a small panel, hence the bolts sticking out the front on the right side.
In my apartment I used the settings "speed 15, milling depth 1" to cut down on the noise, but at my parents' house I use the settings "speed 5, milling depth 10". A lot more noise, the cuts aren't as clean on the edges but the precision still seems spot-on. The MDX-3 has an automatic speed controller, if the spindle can't cut as fast as I ask it will slow down the cutting speed to compensate.
The front panel should say "CNC64" but I cut too deep and the middle dot of the "6" just got ripped away by the router bit. :P
I need 19 more panels to complete the base of CNC64, not counting the moving platform for the Y-axis (front to back).
Yvan256:
I had to re-cut the front panel with the bearing. I also still need to recut the two long red parts on the left and right which are not connected to the front in the photo and another small panel like the ones in the front. Those small setbacks aside, it's progressing incredibly fast since I've moved the machine to my parent's house. I still need to paint all of those panels, too.
I'll need to cut a longer threaded rod and make it fit the bearing at the front, cut the 8 mm smooth rods and build the moving platform but the Y-axis is nearly complete.
I can't wait to build CNC256 so that my MVS99-6 project can progress as fast as this build! We create the design and let the machine cut the parts. Everyone should have a CNC machine! :laugh:
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