My TrashMaster 3000 is up, and running!
How’s the frame ? Stable, not loos ?
@Ramunas_Sun
It seems solid to me. I fastened the frame with 3/8x16 bolts. I tried to be really careful cutting everything square, and sized. When I setup the Y axis I used a gauge block set. It is within fourteen thousandths across its length. Which I figured for construction grade lumber was close enough.
wow im way over doing mine O_O looks good though can wait to see what kind of parts it churns out 
I’m waiting for last bits of hardware. So thinking how plywood will hold, case at my plase would be hard to get solid wood
Oh yeah! I dig it. How’s your Z setup working out?
HEY!… That’s my keyboard… lol
WAS you keyboard lol
I’ve seen many people build machines like this and I’m always amazed at how well they work. You will learn a lot with this!
@John_Scherer Actually, he already knows “a lot”. This is just him playing to see what he can make out of nothing I think… Which I myself find more satisfying than most anything…
@marmil
The Z axis has loosened up some on me. I attribute that to the plywood base, and the weather lately. The big downside to wood is it does move on you. I have been thinking about mounting the Z on something more substantial, and more stable than wood. An upgrade down the road I suppose?
@John_Scherer
yeah I have just done some pen testing with this machine so far and I am amazed at what it can do. I stopped the spiral test halfway through. Then later on I ran it again. It drew right over the first partial test, then kept right on going. The pen line is just a bit darker where it drew twice. But if you’re not looking for it you’d never see it.
@aeknarin_tomcup
I use LinuxCNC.
Seems like a fun build @Paul_Frederick ! I also use linuxcnc! Just picked up a Mesa card too
@John_Scherer
You ever go on their IRC channel? There is a regular in there with the nick pcw that knows everything about Mesa. I think he founded Mesa Electronics? He knows so much about them that he might as well have designed that hardware. That stuff is a bit too rich for my blood. It seems really high performance to me though.
I’ve not been on their IRC channel yet @Paul_Frederick I may have to look him up. The Mesa stuff isn’t all that bad. I got the plug-and-go 6i25/7i76 combo for about $200. It gives us a ton of I/O for some fun features. A good friend of mine and I are adding encoders to our system to close the loop. There are a few of us that do a hangout maybe once a month to talk about this stuff. Its great fun
@John_Scherer
they have a channel on http://chat.freenode.net called linuxcnc. I have not been there myself in years now, but back when I was there it was a good bunch. pcw knows that Mesa hardware inside, and out. But the same crew is also on the forum at the website too.
That’s awesome.
@Joshua_Martin
Thanks. If someone told me what this machine could do before I built it, I would not have believed them. Right now I am doing a lot of test plotting with it, just to get the hang of running it. I just did a plot, and it came out a little light in some places. My pen holder is not the greatest, or maybe it is the pen? So I had the machine run over it again. It runs right over the lines it laid down first. I couldn’t do that if my life depended on it. So it is accurate at least to the width of a ballpoint pen line. The lines just come out darker. To me that is awesome.
Love the name. Kinda surprising how well they work, considering! Thanks for sharing.
https://HobbyCNC.com