Scratch Build – In Progress My Now finished mean Computer Numerical Control machine build

Name: RMS Milltanic
Big x axis: Don't mention the size of his ballscrews. -Besides, It's more important to be able to go a long time without your Z retracting.

 

Sounds more like a really heavy aunt.

 

Satan's Cut springs to mind

 

Call it Mildred . In fact call it anything you want just hurry up and finish it so you can make stuff for me lol

 

I like Millzebub. Simple, to the point, linked to the builder in question, etc. It wins on all fronts for me.

 

TBH I have to agree Millzebub was my first thought and probably the one I'll go with and there's a few other things I'm thinking about

Should be getting the new motors in a couple of weeks

 

Oh dear now the trolls are at it lol

 

That is one hell of a machine Tel! see what I miss when I stay away

 

Yeah it's taken on a life of it's own

 

The new motors arrived, for comparison the one on the left with a X on is the old one's and the others are the new one's

Got to sort the wiring so the new one's will be in parallel they can be wired in series or parallel.

 

The colour poll results are in and .....well you'll have to wait and see.

Right the cables to the motors needed wiring. I wanted to be able to remove the motor with out loads of messing around so the only option was plugs and sockets these was the best option





The motors was going in wired in series so 4 out of 8 of the cables had to be connected in pairs together to make the series circuit.



The plugs and sockets all had to be soldered and fiddly buggers they was





Problem with these was the plug had a open back so the cables was exposed, not a good idea but I found these rubber covers on ebay perfect for the job





Did the plug side.





And sorted works great



Next post will be the last and will be pictures of the finished project.

 

That's a tidy solution for the stepper motor wiring, Tel.

Will the finished pictures come with a vid of it chewing through something?

 

Yeah they worked out well, those little rubber boots are actually for the battery connectors for cars.

Hopefully a vid will come but not just yet I've still to get the software calibrated for the machine etc and of course any little problems will need to be sorted.

And still got to finish enlarging the bench top and them I have to rebuild the machine on the bench there's no chance it will go up there in one piece lol

 

It's going to take over the house soon mate, you and the misses will be sleeping in the garage

 

Already has mate I sleep in the shed actually lol

 

At least you've got your priorities straight.

 

Off course I do it's a large shed even has a four poster bed in there not much else though

Anyway I would like to say thank you to all the people that followed this very long log and encouraged me to keep on going, as you know it started off with that little Shapeoko2 CNC kit I started to build on the 21 July 2014 , I soon realised that that was not going to do the kind of work I wanted so the upgrade path began even after taking that as far as possible I realised it still just wasn't strong enough
Most of the upgrade parts was bought from Robocutters

https://www.robocutters.co.uk/categories.asp

I would certainly recommend them if you want to build one for engraving or light duty materials like soft woods, cork etc.

But if you like me want one to cut aluminium and heavier materials then the machine had to be completely rebuilt out of heavy steel so I started to build one from all steel on the 18 Nov 2014 after some research there's only one place I would recommend "Zap automation"
http://www.zappautomation.co.uk/ an outstanding shop with excellent customer service and Gary a man with infinite knowledge and patience tbh couldn't recommend them highly enough.


Right the next post will have the pictures of the beast

 

Oh a quick apology re the colour red won the poll but after sitting back and looking I decided that dark green and gold stencils seemed more fitting

 

That is frikkin awesome, Tel. Congratulations, mate, it truly is a sight to behold!