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Very Cool. You'll be making chips in no time.

Nice work Shawn!

Darren,

While you have your Kondia apart is there any chance you could afford to put ball screws in it's X and Y axis? It would then be easy to put servos on it when the time is right.

Took a bit to figure out the soft limits but I finally got those working and managed to cut a test part I put together with Dolphin cad/cam. I wasn't able to get the peck drilling sequence to work but I'm sure that will be a simple fix, I'm guessing I don't have the latest post processor?



Shawn

what software are you using to drive the mill with.

DA

I'm using Mach3 to drive the mill and Dolphin CAD/CAM to design and convert to gcode. Others seem to have issue with peck drilling sequences from Dolphin. If I run the drilling wizard in mach3 peck drilling works great.

Shawn

(04-15-2014, 11:12 AM)PixMan Wrote: [ -> ]Darren,

While you have your Kondia apart is there any chance you could afford to put ball screws in it's X and Y axis? It would then be easy to put servos on it when the time is right.

Ken - I had thought about that but I really don't know if I would really want to go there. From memory, the price was fairly steep and there are other things I need to purchase first (like the 6" Vertex vise I just picked up on special for $266).

I also really want to learn how to mill manually before even contemplating CNC. Why should I let a computer crash my machine when I am capable of doing that myself!

If I do decide to go that path later on, it really isn't much work to remove the table.

My first parts for my flight simulator cut on my cnc mill. Still lots to figure/sort out but I am hooked. Took less than 2 hours to design and cut both levers, I never could have done it that quickly manually. Certainly not as much fun as running a machine by hand but it has some cool potential for my simulator.



Shawn

nice looking parts, I'm still trying to kick all the bugs out of my router,

Are you still fighting with electrical issues Dallen? I'd be interested in seeing photos of your router table. I will build one someday ands I'm always interested in hearing/seeing what others have done.

Shawn