Not sure what I did to get so lucky, but today I got to spend my afternoon playing with the new spindle whilst my wife tidied the house!
Here I am cutting mounts for the steppers I’m using in preparation for putting 2 motors on the x-axis.
There is backlash on the x axis so I was experimenting with compensating in the model.
Obviously important to get the mounting holes at exact distances from each other. So I put two of the holes at 1mm offset on the x axis and set up the tool path to approach them such that the backlash absorbed the extra 1mm.
I also stretched the centre hole in the x axis direction on the last attempt, a little to much, but in general it improved things. Hopefully I can use the technique to help me until I’ve got the x axis sorted out.
Water cooling seems to be working great, very quiet.
