Today I got my cooling all plumbed in.
I have 10 litres of 70-30 mix of deionised water and anti freeze/coolant.
Unfortunately I hadn’t noticed that the pump came with a non-UK plug and I have no adapters so I have to wait before I can try it.
Had a quick play with some cuts using the new spindle, clearly seeing some interference on the z axis, I could just move the spindle power cable around and it caused the z axis motor to twitch. So I attached a basic cable guide to the far gantry leg to hopefully guide the cable away from the motor’s cable and avoid it moving around to much. That seemed to help, but I guess some research required on how to deal with interference.
In my brief test the spindle itself performed great, sadly the g code I exported from f-engrave apparently failed to set metric properly and so it decided to interpret distances in inches… Which was not a good idea. On the bright side getting plunged 0.5 inches into wood instead of 0.5mm proved to be no problem at all.
@Mark_Collins yeah it’s 240v so that is the plan, but short of stealing one from something else I didn’t have any of those either. Will buy one tomorrow and I’ll be in business.
Oh haha that thing will be able to cut 20mm ply in a single pass with out flinching if you tool and machine is robust enough to push it. Those things are powerful.
@Joe_Spanier yeah, it is awesome. At this point the rest of the machine is really not worthy of it. But I have some plans to slowly upgrade. First off I have to fix the backlash on the x axis. Power only gets you so far without precision. And there is only so much I can compensate for in cad.
Oh yes. Build in stages. It took me about 4 revisions to get to a point I was happy with on my router. And there are still admit of changes I want to make. But that’s half the fun.
+Daniel Would Are you running f-engrave on linux? How did you tell the software where to find your fonts. Fonts are not in one single directory in Ubuntu.
@Jean_Lotz I downloaded the fonts suggested on the f-engrave website into a finds directory in my home folder. Then pointed it to that folder on its config
