[shags0024]

Great build Landarts, I may lean heavily on your design for my own build.

[landarts]

No problem, give me a shout if you need anything i will try to help where I can.

[landarts]

Finally cut my first piece on the machine. I cut a radio installation plate for my 72 Chevy Cheyenne that I am in the middle of restoring. Used 1/4" high density board for testing purposes, final will be cut out of 1/4" aluminum. Everything went well as expected. Have a few more items to nail down before I am 100% tuned.

Things left to do:
- Having issue with proximity sensors - The sensor are being activated but cant seem to get them programmed properly in mach3
- Need to finish mounting rotary axes and test
- Need to finish up wire management - just have temporary setup, need to get cable track
- finish cutting dust shoe and assemble

[landarts]

Working with Ahren on getting the proximity switch issue sorted out. Basically when I home over to X-- it stops then backs up, then tries to individual home the X prime which causes the gantry to skew and me pushing the e-stop button. I do not need Mach2 to home each motor separate since the the X and A are slaved together. Also had to put 1K resistor on the input signal wires on the PMDX-126 so that the pull-down would acknowledge the 5V, this was done per Ahren suggestions. That seemed to wake up the switches, now just to get the slave thing sorted out.

Image of resistors going to input 11,12,13 on PMDX board.

[landarts]

The X axis and A axis slaved together has been nothing but a pain trying to get the proximity switches to work properly. Ahren has reached and saved the day again. Basically what I had to do is go into the Mach3 config screen and click on "general config" and select slave and homing. Once that was done all was good. After talking to Ahren on the phone he said mine was a little different since I was not using the Smooth stepper and had mine hooked up with a parallel printer cable. Certain homing functions are taking care of by the Smooth stepper, since I did not have one we needed to set it up different in the mach3. All is good so I will post later a screen shot of the where I made adjustment just in case someone else down the road needs a little help.

Thanks to Ahren again!

[landarts]

In the process of cutting out a dust shoe to fit my Porter Cable router. Should have that wrapped up and my dust collect configuration. Will post pictures later.

[landarts]

Finished up with the dust shoe and cut a few more projects. Will take some photos this week and show where I am at with these projects. I will be moving back to the 4th Axis indexer, will be working on mounting and wiring in another Gecko. Time to start turning some custom bats!

[landarts]

Just tried a little logo with the v-carve function on a piece of 3/4 particle board.



Working on getting the indexer rolling and also hooking up a standalone lathe that can function as an indexer and a finishing tool. Using it with both a stepper motor and removing belt from stepper and using electric motor. Trying to follow what a few guys have done over at the Shopbot site. Also got the dust shoe completed and all is working well in the dust collection area.

[BuckNaked31]

Where's the dust shoe pics? You promised

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[Frankmali17]

The sign looks good...
Got any pics of the General Config changes you had to make?
how about your Spindle and dust shoe?

[landarts]

Here is a quick pict from my phone I had...I will take a few more this evening showing the pieces.

[landarts]

Here are a few more picts of the dust shoe. Just use some 1/4 hardboard MDF for the top half and a scrap piece of 3/4" particle board for the bottom and I ordered a strip of 2" brush material from McMaster Carr. Took a few measurements and threw it together in V-Carve Pro. Hooked it up to a new 6.5 hp rigid shop vac with a 5 gal bucket with a Thein separator lid I got from Woodcraft. So far it has worked great and I have cut a few items that were MDF and it is just powder in the 5 gal bucket and nothing in the new rigid vac.

Attachment 247502

[landarts]

The sign looks good...
Got any pics of the General Config changes you had to make?
how about your Spindle and dust shoe?

I will see if I can get a screen shot of the config file this weekend.

[javabugz]

Could you share your sketchup file for this set up? Thanks.

[landarts]

Are you talking about the table or the entire drawing? Or the drawing for the dust shoe?

[javabugz]

The entire drawing. I'd love to use it as a base doc to build mine.

[Frankmali17]

Hello Landarts,
Thank you for your posts, they are helpful to all of us.
It would be great to see how you constructed your sketchup model.
Would you be willing to share it on the 3DWarehouse, and tell us how to find it?

I personally hope to build a 5 x 8 machine based on the CRP Pro kit... when I get my shop set up.
I know they updated the Riser design.. but I would as your opinion of the V wheels.
Specifically, did they send you brand name Vgroove bearings or some cheap chinease ones?
Also, I know that vertically they should handle a great load, but how do you feel about sideways load?
For example, will there be deflection in the Z axis, when the machine is pushing through material moving from front to back?...

Thank you

[landarts]

I have uploaded the Pro4848 Sketchup model to the 3d warehouse. Go to the warehouse and in the search type in " Pro4848" that will get you to the model. Best of luck with it.

[shags0024]

where can I find the "warehouse"

[landarts]

here is the direct link Google warehouse https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/