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I've bought end mills from Mari, but the endmills I've bought for Aluminum I got from Atlas.
3 Flute Carbide end mills for Aluminum
They are carbide not HSS, but they've worked pretty well for me....

Peter

Sorry to jump back so far, I've been reading your thread after you pointed it out to me in Hoss's thread, and it looks great. I'm going to steal all kinds of ideas :). I happen to have a...

Peter, great thanks for the links, I'm way behind on my thread reading, and Hoss waits for no man! I'll check them out.
Ricce, thanks for your offer as well.

My much neglected build thread is...

OK, I'll see what I can come up with adapting the Y axis plate.

Thanks

Pete

Hoss,

I'm using your plans, and wanting to save as much space as possible to wedge things into my basement (the X axis is the most constrained). I came across this X axis drive setup on a RF build...

Hoss,

Glad you are giving LinuxCNC a try, I'm not sure what you want to adjust for your one driver, but some of the timing is universal in LinuxCNC. I'm not sure if that's the case in Mach, as I...

Hoss,

Sorry to change topics from motors, but I was reviewing a mention you made of another thread where folks were debating the merits of these ER 20 toolholders
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I just heard from Chai at linearmotionbearings that my screws have been machined and will be shipping out soon. Time to get busy finishing up my motor plates, and ball nut mounts, and man there's a...

Just as an FYI, if anyone is interested, I tried a similar build with all off the shelf parts for those that might have a CNC router but not a mill or lathe. (That's how I started out) I have one...

I haven't been able to spend as much time with my machines, and thus make much progress lately, however I took some of the time at home and decided to see if I could make a fogless mister with mostly...

I've been making quite a few lithophanes, then I cut some Aluminum parts for my G0704 mill conversion, and had to spend half a day getting the machine back in alignment, I think it was actually...

I made a few parts, or at least roughed them out with my CNC Router and then did some clean-up on the motor / ball screw hole, just so I could play with my boring head. The hole wasn't terribly round...

I was looking at something similar, an mk808. You mentioned being new to LinuxCNC, so you may not realize that it is basically only x86 compatible. There has been a port to ARM, which the mk802 is,...

Haha,

Yeah that's great advice Hoss, my mill and router are at my makerspace, so I never seem to have enough time and end up running between them, and rarely sit down, or remember to drink water,...

I haven't made more upgrades yet, it's cutting well so I'm leaving it alone. Here's a couple of pictures of the cord clips I made to hold the DIN connectors together, and close to the steppers. Also...

So I've been using the mill a fair amount manually to get a feel for it and I'm a bit shocked at how low it is. It's a terribly low working height for me, and it's on a mobile base which makes it...

Got things trammed in and managed to make my first cuts, taking the keys for the t-slots down on my Shars 5" vise. The tramming issue turned out to be insufficient deburring, of both my and Grizzly's...

Hmmm, I think I have a metric pitch gauge in my tap kit, if so I'll put it on my Proxxon and let you know tomorrow.

Pete

Hoss,

I had a semi-serious question on 5 axis CAM software. The most affordable next to the gmax/CNC_Toolkit, seems to be Deskproto, at ~$1250 depending on the exchange rate, but they only support...

Hey just starting another G0704 conversion, I've got the mill, cleaned it up and put some holes in it in anticipation of CNCing with ball screws. I think we've all seen a G0704 unboxed so I won't go...

Haven't posted in quite awhile, but have made some good progress, I'm almost done removing the wood and plastic bits to get to better rigidity. Here's what the machine looks like at the moment. The...

Thanks for posting that. I was wondering about similar things. If one wanted to find out the limits of accuracy on a G0704 you could do a servo setup with linear scales. I was concerned how bad the...

Hoss, great thanks,

I've been plowing through the DVDs, looks great, lots to learn and parts to be ordered. Per a recent post, I do plan to do my build using EMC / LinuxCNC. I'll start a thread to...

Hoss,

I'm getting ready to take the plunge on the DVDs, mill etc. I've been watching your videos and was searching the thread but haven't seen much on acceleration settings. When you are testing...

FYI Coroplast, is the name of that stuff, or a brand name for it. It comes in some very heavy duty versions too. That's an interesting use for it.

Pete

hmmm,

The controller board looks like it might be an older version or copy of the hobby CNC board.

HobbyCNC PRO Chopper Driver Board Kit | HobbyCNC

Look at the chips, they look like...

Hey, I'm getting ready to cut my Multitrack, did you use a hacksaw or a power saw. I've cut lots of AL with my power miter saw and a plywood blade, but none of it have been anodized like the...

I've been cutting a lot lately, and the rigidity limitations are getting me down, so I'm more motivated to get things upgraded. I have two more AL pieces to cut and I think I'll be done.

I'm...

Vectrics Cut3D will do this as well, and it's much cheaper. Or if you are running EMC or have a linux box the free / included in EMC image2gcode script does a surprisingly good job of turning a...

FYI if you happen to be in the Twin Cites, I'm helping run a CNC Class at the HackFactory, which is where this machine lives. If you are interested there's more information on the HackFactory Blog.
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