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Phone call with Tommy a couple of weeks ago and two follow up emails, but still no sign of the end stop blocks or carriers, or my Mach3 license. Grrrrrrr.
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When I put the VFD on it I plan on stripping it down and doing it right. I needed to get it back together so I can cut a few pieces to fix my lathe and set up the VFD, I don't feel safe operating it like this for much longer.
Phone call with Tommy a couple of weeks ago and two follow up emails, but still no sign of the end stop blocks or carriers, or my Mach3 license. Grrrrrrr.
Slow going on the build, as I work outside on the deck during sunny days and haven't had many rain days to spend on the mill.
But I'm wiring everything up now, and I'm wondering where I should put my CNC enclosure and my case for my full-sized PC. I'm thinking on the wall *behind* the mill, I have about 12" of clearance so it'd be easy to bolt some plywood to the wall and make a little shelf for both of the cases and put a clear plastic shield over all of it.
Thoughts?
CNC enclosure? You mean your electronics cabinet? I hung mine off of the base on the left side of the mill. My computer is behind the mill for now, but looking in that box, there ain't nothing there that can't fit in to something smaller. Don't use the floppy, cd drive or dvd drive. I just carry a flash drive and require a usb port only. It could easily fit in my cabinet, or in a special built box holding the monitor. The latter is what I want to do with mine. One thing I might recommend is a flexible keyboard. That will go a long way to keeping chips out from in between and under the keys. Them chips go every where.
Bob
I don't have a chip tray on mine yet, so I'm nervous about putting anything under the mill. Maybe I should just suck it up and make a tray...
Without a chip tray tells me there's no coolant either. No worries, those chips just vacuum off. Keep the door closed and cover it with some shop rags and it'll be good. Mounting it close keeps the cabling short which is good.
I used to have a problem with way lube oil running off the machine base onto the cabinet. Kept a red rag on it to soak that up. It was due to a missing one way valve in my way oiler. Fixed now, but even that wasn't a real problem for the cabinet. I'm sure you'll figure it out!
Bob
Using mist coolant, not flood, and haven't been bothering with a drip tray during manual operations. Now I'm wondering if should just to make it easier to clean things up.
At the rate I'm going, I'll need to build a new studio just to have enough room...
about 1/3 of the way through the wiring as of this morning. I bought a controller/enclosure from Bob Campbell and have had to tweak it a bit to make room for the mongo IHCNC power supply.
It's a really nice looking kit/controller and I feel pretty good about how they've integrated everything from EPO to coolant and VFD and use CPC jacks on the case.
We'll see what happens when it's under power...
For anyone playing the home game, the Campbell Designs enclosure comes with part of the power supply that IH provides (assuming you get it :-). Once I figured that out I realized I just need some fuses to go between the IH power supply and the Geckos and that I'd wasted a good two hours wiring up a board that I'm about to dyke out.
After a bit of distraction building a lasercutter (based on Lasersaur's alpha design) I'm back to wiring up the CNC box:
CNC case | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
And not. In early December I took a nasty fall and spent two weeks recovering in the hospital. I'm able to walk/talk again, but I still need to pass some "are you allowed to drive / operate power tools" tests before I do much more than clean the house and catch up on old novels...
Forgot to follow-up, I was able to work as of March but had to play it safe with potential head injuries -- no running, biking, working under cars, etc.
I'm starting to sell off parts I don't need on ebay, starting with a relatively decent power feed for the x axis:
Workhorse AL-200S Power Feed for milling machines | eBay
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