Build Thread- My First Machine, all steel and alu. (3 x 1,7 M)

[Lapin]

Hi everyone!


At first, sorry for my, maybe, crappy english.
My name is Björn and i live in the northern areas of sweden. I am educated as a carpenter.

Ever since i was a little boy i liked to build and invent stuff, this just escalated as i grew older and about a year ago i came up, after i stumbeled on this forum and a nice swedish cncforum, with the idea to build my own CNC.

Originally i thought small but with many designs and inspirationpics around the net i finally decided to go "real" and big. the final design ended up like this and the building was on.


I found a nice person thru my swedish forum who could help me to cut out all the aluminiumparts that i needed for my build, the result:


After alot of drilling and taping it ended up like this:


The 3Kw chinaspindle with watercooling:



The Parts just hung on place so i could see how it looks (missing the linear carriges to X and Y axes) note the 1,8 meter long waterlevel, it looks like a toy




The Z axis partly assembeled:



And a video to with the Z in motion (driven by a screwdriver)
YouTube- Movie
Some pics at the electrical parts to. Just so u know, i HAD zero experience whith this stuffs so the guys at the swedish forum helped me alot. It works atleast, dont judge me :P


The Psu gives ~62 VDC and gonna supply 4 Granite Devices VSD-XE. They are gonna run 4 BLDC servos, 3 at 660W and one at 110W.



hmm, i think this will sum up the most of the work that are done sofar, i will update when summit more happens.

Comments are appreciated.

[eaglezsoar]

One of the best builds I have seen. It looks good and sturdy.
Great job. What are you planning to cut on this machine?

[Lapin]

The main use with this machine is going to be wood. But i really do hope it will be able to cut aluminium as well, only time will tell, but i have my expectations.

[Kipper]

A very nicely engineered machine...congrats!

[CarveOne]

Very nice clean looking design. Not at all as cluttered looking as mine.

I have no doubt that it will cut aluminum. You just need to experiment with feed, speed, and depth to find where your machine works best.

CarveOne

[Lapin]

Im glad that you like my design, i have worked on it many, many hours. its funny tho when i look at my first designattempts and see the difference, not even similar to each others:O
ye i guess its just a question of settings and adjustments to make it cut aluminium. A vaccumtable would be nice too, when i cut whole sheets of MDF

[Lapin]

Hi there again. I will just post all the pics in this post because the server i uploaded on seems to be down alot. Check on post #1 for texts to the pics

[Lapin]

I have make some progress too on my build.
The Nexen RPS system has arrived along with some couplings for my servos. I have gotten quite far in the mechanical aspects of the build, some few things left (but it sure gonna eat som time). ill post some pics and if u wonder anything just ask.

I will try to update as much as i can cus i know u cncgeeks like pictures

[Lapin]

Ill keep on posting then cus noone else seems to :O

Today i've attached the cablechains from IGUS on my machine. I had no spare aluminum or steelangles so i took what i had and made supports out of wood.

feel free to comment

[PaulRowntree]

This is a beautiful build.

Could you estimate how the cost of the Nexen system compares to a lead screw?

[Lapin]

Thank you Paul.

I really dont know the pricing on screws but the Nexen stuffs arent cheap so to speak. I hope it will be as good as they say they are, time will tell.

[stevespo]

Yes, great looking build. We're always eager to look at new things, so please keep the updates coming.

Steve