Excitech Cnc Router Purchase

[Jimmy007]

Originally Posted by rocket67 jubee, thanks for your offer, but i think i can do it ok on my bench grinder. If you come to SA feel welcome to come and say hullo and check out our machine. We are located at Pooraka. Kent, i have included a photo of the problem DSP location. It should be easy to move it to another location in box. I hope you buy the machine. Ours works great. Jimmy, you could sell your grease gun as an antique. Should bring big bucks. The Anglomoil prices seem ok. We have to buy in boxes of 12 tins. For a box of Uniplex grease - $68.72 incl GST For a box of Pro-lon $ 198.01. Quite happy with the prices but they will not arrange freight outside of Sydney? So i will arrange freight myself tomorrow. Jeremy is going to Sydney this weekend for the Mustang Show at Castle Hill, perhaps he can pick it up if they are open on Saturday. The Photos 1) Ramon settling into the control room. 2) The troublesome usb cable. 3) The DSP area. 4) Just testing program. 5) Testing. 6) Going for it. 7) The routered pattern. 8) The internal mounting of the DSP. 9) Front of control box. Rocket.

I really don't know the retail prices- distributor is a family friend and would rather drink my beer than go into detail on price :-)...

I do know the grease is in a 20kg bucket... The pro-lon is in an aerosol can so handy just to give things a quick squirt.

Very happy to see things are working well with your router Rod.

Looking Great!

[Jimmy007]

Originally Posted by cabnet636 there you go bada bing bada boom if your gonna switch switch to screw on connectors jim

Thanks Jim,

I'm looking to relocate the DSP board further inside the control cabinet and sealink off the existing connector location. I will route a cable (need longer than 3m so will get my son to hone his soldering skills) out through the back of the control box to a McGrew styled preacher stand on the other side of the machine where I hope to have the PC gear running mach 3.

[Jimmy007]

Originally Posted by rocket67 jubee, thanks for your offer, but i think i can do it ok on my bench grinder. If you come to SA feel welcome to come and say hullo and check out our machine. We are located at Pooraka. Kent, i have included a photo of the problem DSP location. It should be easy to move it to another location in box. I hope you buy the machine. Ours works great. Jimmy, you could sell your grease gun as an antique. Should bring big bucks. The Anglomoil prices seem ok. We have to buy in boxes of 12 tins. For a box of Uniplex grease - $68.72 incl GST For a box of Pro-lon $ 198.01. Quite happy with the prices but they will not arrange freight outside of Sydney? So i will arrange freight myself tomorrow. Jeremy is going to Sydney this weekend for the Mustang Show at Castle Hill, perhaps he can pick it up if they are open on Saturday. The Photos 1) Ramon settling into the control room. 2) The troublesome usb cable. 3) The DSP area. 4) Just testing program. 5) Testing. 6) Going for it. 7) The routered pattern. 8) The internal mounting of the DSP. 9) Front of control box. Rocket.

Hey Rod I'm thinking it wont be long before your looking to replace the plastic dust shoe surround with some type of brush arrangement- big priority for me also.

Let me know if you find a source first....

Btw- for those who were greatly interested in spindle speed control through DSP there is a great photo above showing the 7 terminal green header on the right, note only two wires are connected which head under the table to the delta spindle inverter. We know the inverter is MBUS capable so I can't undersatnd why the DSP manufacturer would use a 7 pin connector if only two terminals are utilised. This remains a mystery to me.

[Jimmy007]

Looking forward to see what you get up to when you have some time away from the paperwork with the machine.

Do you recall what speed your spindle was running- seemed fairly quiet compared to mine.

What power rating is it?

[cabnet636]

at one point we were filming kiethg's machine and you can hear the message notice on my cell phone go off on tape, my dust collection ans vac motor are right at table and we were having conversation, kieths dust collection and vac are out of the working area as mine will be, one of my big next moves is another building as i sold this one last march and can stay but we will have to move eventually. jim

mcgrew pulpit photo

i expect with just a dsp you would not need all of this and we have multiple computers in office with which to design jim


note the foot bridge tony built for passing cable from wall to machine
last photo

[Kent_Norway]

To all who have worked with you're machines ;

As mentioned, I'm in the phase of closing a deal now, but I had a little panic here in respect of the following:

Doing really intricate pocketing and cutting matching designs to inlay using a really small bit like 0,3 -0,5mm, which processing speeds do I need and which spindle speeds do we need? The movement part is not an issue, but is for instance 18000 Rpm on the mill enough? Milling that small, should you use high movement speeds and slow mill speed or is it slow movement and 100 000 RPMs on the mill which is the best ? In other words, the more RPMs the better ?

K

[cabnet636]

http://hubpages.com/hub/Learn-CNC
jim

[rocket67]

You blokes are bloody legends!

I will be on the dog and bone first thing to organise a new cable. Thanks.

We do intend to make a perspex dust shoe with hair type brushes so i will start looking for a supplier. It takes the fun out of it when the solid type dust collector is in place. We want to see what is going on.

The uniplex grease that we are getting is in 450gram cartridges. Works for us as it will keep things tidy. There are 12 cartridges per box so it should last a long time.

We have not yet altered our spindle or machine speed. It is going quite slow but is cutting nicely and has not bogged down.

I do have a question regarding x and y zero. When we routered the panel yesterday we used the centre of the board as the zero point, but i do not think that this is the correct procedure? Is it better to rout a scribe line into the spoil board across both x and y in order to use these as reference points to ensure that board to be routered is square to table and to use as the x, y zero point at top left of table?

Keep those links coming - they are fabulous information.

Rocket.

[Big S]

Originally Posted by rocket67 I do have a question regarding x and y zero. When we routered the panel yesterday we used the centre of the board as the zero point, but i do not think that this is the correct procedure? Is it better to rout a scribe line into the spoil board across both x and y in order to use these as reference points to ensure that board to be routered is square to table and to use as the x, y zero point at top left of table? Keep those links coming - they are fabulous information. Rocket.

To pilfer one of your pics, The multicam here has the arrowed corner as the home.

Shannon.

[rocket67]

Thanks Shannon, i would call that the top right of table.
How do you ensure that your board is square to the table? Is my theory correct - to scribe a line with router and use the lines as reference points?

[Jimmy007]

Originally Posted by rocket67 Thanks Shannon, i would call that the top right of table. How do you ensure that your board is square to the table? Is my theory correct - to scribe a line with router and use the lines as reference points?

My machine runs as close to sqaure to the bad as I have been able to establish, I routered a cross and referenced back to machine front and edge.

I set my origin at front left- find it a convenient location to set Z0 as it is right near machine home position and when I have a job that requires both sides of the material to be machined makes it easy to reset origin to edge of material so everything is in register. I intend to instal a fence on front of machine so I can square things up quick.

[Jimmy007]

Originally Posted by cabnet636 at one point we were filming kiethg's machine and you can hear the message notice on my cell phone go off on tape, my dust collection ans vac motor are right at table and we were having conversation, kieths dust collection and vac are out of the working area as mine will be, one of my big next moves is another building as i sold this one last march and can stay but we will have to move eventually. jim mcgrew pulpit photo i expect with just a dsp you would not need all of this and we have multiple computers in office with which to design jim note the foot bridge tony built for passing cable from wall to machine last photo

Thanks Jim- just what I needed..... Here I am trying to resist the temptation to tinker and focus on jobs at hand and now you yo have made me want to start wiring things up.......

I'll get there.

Hope to take pics today of my overhead VAC hose mounting- Rocket will soon get tired of the supplied 'curtain rod system' when his machine starts to tru and remodel the VAC hose ;-)....