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31st May 2011, 02:47 AM #1
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Hi Fresh meat
Hi all
just like to say howdy to all here, I've had a long time passion and interest for CNC, A few months back I picked up a Gantry cnc Punch I believe it was...well my imagination kicked in and the deal was done and back to Phuket with my new toy.
I soon ordered 3x 880oz 34 size motors and got those mounted as well as a 1.5kw water cooled spindle motor and VFD, wired it up gave it a quick test run very smooth and quite see what happens when the chips go fly'n......no shortage of noise then no doubt.
Things left to do ...plenty that's for sure!! I need to build a table to sit all of this on, the footprint is approx 1200x600mm. The plan is to buy a slab of 16mm Steel plate and have it surface ground, nobody here has a surface grinder big enough to perform this task in one pass ... any ideas ?
Work is a little more advanced than what the pic shows...updates to follow if anyone is interested in the progress from time to time
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31st May 2011, 08:59 PM #2
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Looks like a good starting point, not sure about steel but is aluminium an option? should be close to flat from being milled at the factory, might cost alot more but you dont have the machining costs which I dont think would be cheap, I'm thinking about 25mm or larger if your using it for the base.
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31st May 2011, 11:23 PM #3
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Aluminium is kinda expensive and its only the Cheesy variety 6063 IIRC.... its furniture grade, but it maybe good enough for this job, my plan is to only machine aluminium and make molds for casting with either wood or the Blue Foam.
Maybe I'm over engineering this but I was thinking to weld up a frame and bolt the top plate down and place shim's to get it level with Gantry or perhaps a face mill could take a cut all over and bring to something workable a .001 or .002 would be ok for starters.
The ball screws you see there have 15mm pitch on the X&Y axis Z is 10mm , I would like 5mm pitch all over but these mods can come later on.
Breastfed
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