My steel frame small router (Madvac Inspiration)

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Thanks for the thumbs up Khalid miyan! I will persevere!

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Hi guys,

just got some breakthrough today!

the boards seem to need 35V tantalums instead of those 25V rating where they burn off!

more later

RGDS
IRfan

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Hi Folks,

today I got the T nut and fixed them on the MDF bed!

they went in easier than I thought! and then I had gone to get some electrical stuff like delay switches etc. today, I had to order the timing pulley for the Z axis with a taper lock hub! amazing how difficult it is to get it here in bangalore and also to convince someone to make a pulley like that!

some pictures below!

RGDS
Irfan

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Hi All,

I plugged in the OMRON 60 second delay switch and set it for around 6 seconds, now I see the wonder of it! once power supply snapped and came in again, it protected any case of burnouts with high power.

well so far soo good.

Today was the day when I had to chk for the working and the deadly "O" value that henrik keeps on discussing.

Well there was the devil hidden there!

I have got "O" values upto 8 sometimes. that makes it bad. i had to to set a conservative value of 3200mm/min for the jog speeds, I found it enough for my first build anyways

the X and Y work great together, now only to get the Z axis redesigned and working.
only thing is that it will probably cost me around 300USD more than originally thought!

going thru all odds now!

RGDS
Irfan

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HI redesigned my Z axis - will post pictures of the cad file today.

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Hi folks, after deciding that I will reconstruct the Z axis I fiinished designing it and ordered teh complete aluminum required for it, here are the snapshots, pretty straight forward.

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The machined parts arrived today : took morning till evening to sove some issues and get it to our place. assembled it on the machine : it looks very nice!

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Pretty good..but seems it taking lot of ur x-axis space...How much ur working area right now?

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around 32x 42 inch not sure though, have to chk tomorrow

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some more pics which I had earlier missed.

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Ah folks, today finally I got my Z axis timing pulley with me! I havent seen it yet bcos I am at office - but my boy got it for me and fit it on. Tomorrow I will post more pictures.

It has taken 3 weeks for this to happenn and its been boring for me.

Hope to have the first cuts this weekend!

Have fun guys

RGDS
Irfan

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the working router - all three axis - now to get the limits working and the e stop etc.