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MVS-99-6 - Project on hold until further notice (2014-03-10)
Yvan256:
My Roland MDX-3 needs to be repaired (again), I need to rebuild the Z-axis with a new metal bracket and bronze bushings, the original design is so weak that I'm shocked it lasted this long (i.e. for the right rod, there was a single bronze bushing at the top, an HDPE hole at the bottom and three small HDPE fingers for the left rod).
Typefighter01:
Sorry to hear Yvan, things where coming along nicely.
Do you source regular bronze sleeves for your bushings, or do you use oil impregnated bronze like Oilite?
Yvan256:
--- Quote from: Typefighter01 on March 10, 2014, 05:44:08 pm ---Sorry to hear Yvan, things where coming along nicely.
Do you source regular bronze sleeves for your bushings, or do you use oil impregnated bronze like Oilite?
--- End quote ---
I think the MDX-3 has regular bronze sleeves like printers and scanners, so I'm trying to find the same thing from old printers, scanners, CD-ROM and floppy drives, however 6mm rods aren't exactly a popular design choice for these devices.
Yvan256:
Just a small update, the MDX-3 is "kinda fixed", I got 6mm bronze bushings from China and I hot-glued one in place for the time being. The plan is to use the MDX-3 to cut a new Z-axis assembly for itself, I also plan on making that assembly compatible with the Black & Decker RTX mount I already have. It will offset the work area of the MDX-3 but I should be able to work around that easily enough.
Yvan256:
My last post for this project was in 2014?!
Maybe I should post an update about it... Except that multiple life-related things happened so there's nothing else new to post about.
I supposed I should say something new though, otherwise there's no point in writing this post about nothing, right?
First, in the last decade ultra-wide LCD displays have become widely available in multiple sizes. So it pains me to say this, but even though I put a ton of work into it, I don't think I will use that small LCD anymore.
Second, I now have a Genmitsu Reno 6080 CNC which has (almost) the same cutting area as Typefighter01's CNC, I no longer have to limit myself to smaller parts.
[insert "The Six Million Dollar Man" theme here]
"Gentlemen, I can rebuilt it. I have the technology. I have the capability to remake my first bartop arcade cabinet. MVS-99-6 will that cabinet. Better than it was before. Better, bigger, cooler."
The MVS-99-6 project is back.
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