Joe's router in Ohio.

[Rooney]

Sorry....nevermind. I was using the wrong conversion factor.

Thanks,
Rooney

[Rooney]

Last night I arrived home to find a large, HEAVY box on my front porch. HDL had not been kind to the package. None the less, Joe's packaging withstood the abuse. I now have a christmas tree sized box full of peanuts in my garage. Snacks for a month. haha.

Going to buy some glue tonight and start on the carriage. Will take some of my typically grainy photos as I go along.

Parts are all very nice!
Thanks Joe!
Rooney

[Rooney]

Geez this is tedious.....
bought a little harbor freight drill press to insure straight holes for tapping on my hdpe.
Coming along slowly as I only have so many clamps.
-carriage done and ready for assembly along with all z parts.
-y torsion will finish gluing tonight..maybe
-one side of gantry glued and ready for priming.
-waiting on my 90 deg. clamps from harbor frieght before I do the bottom gantry and large torsion.

No photos as my wife dropped our digital and I returned the grainy photo taking camcorder.

Coming along nicely.......lot of work to it once you get going.

[joecnc2006]

Yea a little work but well worth it, when you see it running.

Joe

[Rooney]

Joe,

Just wondering, in the hdpe parts there are 3 parts cut for the 1/2-10 nut and 3 parts of the same size with the square cut that I assume is for dumpstercnc anti backlash nuts. Is this so I can choose between options or am I not seeing something in the assembly?

Thanks,
Ron

[joecnc2006]

Yes Just incase you have the Dumpster anti-backlash nuts.

Joe

[Rooney]

Thanks, Joe

Ron

[calgrdnr]

Hello Joe did you happen to include the Dumpster retainer part on your drawings ? I have the dumpster Nuts and need to make retainer for them. If you already have it drawn up that makes it easy if not it will still be a breeze in Vcarve. Just thought I would ask . not going to do it to soon unless I get lost steps again

thanks Kent

[joecnc2006]

Here ya go try the MOD section i posted them there in V-Carve format.

Joe's CNC Model 2006 (Mods & Additions)

Joe

[Rooney]

Assembled the z carriage and router holder assembly last night. Going to finish painting the two gantry sides and y torsion tonight and glue up the bottom gantry. I've amassed a huge collection of ratchet and other styles of clamps since the start of this project. It's hard to believe how many clamps you can use in one glue up.

[Rooney]

Hey all!
Haven't posted in a while, but I am making progress.......money permitting. I've assembled everything except putting the drive screws and nuts in. On the x-axis I'm having a little trouble getting all the bearings to touch the pipe without incuring bind. I'll try to get all the pics from my cell loaded somewhere so I can make this an actual build log. It's only been almost a year ). Still have to buy my motors and router.
Cheers

[Khalid]

Where are the Pics man... I would love to see ur build... just post few pics