Here are some photos of the conversion so far, mostly the tear-down and building up the Z axis.
In other news, the kit manufacturers have supposedly shipped me a replacement part for the X ball nut holder… Hopefully it will arrive from Australia quickly.
Final positions for the DIN rails and wire management have been nailed down. It’s much more tight than one should really wire a panel like this, but…
It seems to be a rule that no matter what size electronics enclosure you have, you will always have at least 10% more stuff that you need…
While I still haven’t gotten into the detail of squaring and tramming, I’ve been intensely curious to see if the new Z axis would be happier with…
Since 2009, I’ve been messing around with CNC machines. I started out with a small manual milling machine from Grizzly, and converted it to CNC using a…
Hauled the column back down to the shop and mounted it back on the machine. Sure is a lot heavier than it used to be! Muscling things…
Had some productive time in the shop during the holiday. First step was to make the counterbores for the M6 cap screws a bit deeper. Easy to…