Hello to all..
Time to "GetErDone". My name is Chuck and I've been lurking about for awhile reading and learning, tryin to come up with a working design.
Since I seem to have alot of extrusion lying about, I figured it would be my best option for a frame. Did the Ebay thing and bought a bunch of worthless stuff, but did manage to get some THK slides and then bought some ballscrews from Reid.
I chose to go with a moving gantry, the gantry uprights are 6061, 1/2" by 8 and 3/4" by 23 and 1/2".
The frame worked out to be about 32 and 3/4 by 35 inches, if I can get a 18" cut, I'll be happy.
The extrusion is by 8020 and is the 2020 and 1020 series.
I'm using regular end connectors.
The steppers for the x and y are NEMA 34 and are expected to give me 420 oz-in. They are rated at 4.8v @ 2.53a. They are 6 wire so I'll be running them in bipolar series.
The z will have a 306oz (unipolar, not sure what bipolar will give) 6v @ 2a
I haven't bought the drives yet but I'm sure they will be gekos.
I did go ahead and get the "PC-to-route" breakout board.
I will be using Mach2 and autocad.
I started the assembly a couple days ago and took some pics along the way.
Also took some pics of me trying to repair a ball nut that dropped a few balls due to my carelessness.
the ideal was simple and it worked
Tonight I will be working on the y and some pieces of the z, I'll take more pics along the way and I'm sure ask alot of question.
take a look and Please offer your suggestions....this is all new to me and I'm making it up as I go..any advice is more then welcomed.
Thanks in advance,
Chuck