I worked on the design of the machine this week. I will probably replace the mechanical limit switches with optical sensor from digikey – I feel they will be more precise and reliable
I received some shipments over the week for the CNC Mill project
From TNutz.com :
Received t-nuts for the Series 15 extrusion along with double inside corner angles. I planned to saw / drill the corner angles from strock aluminium angle but at the price tnutz sell them…
From CPIAutomation.com :
Received a 65lbs worth of extrusions! Quite happy about the quality of their product. I was worried about the X axis not being rigid enough but now that I received the 3×3 extrusion, lets just say I don’t think this is going to be an issue
- Linear rails / leadscrews shipped from China on the 23rd
- Placed the order for an ESS SmoothStepper thru dashx.com (Canadian distributor for Warp9.com)
- 4 x Nema23 Motors, Drives, Power Supplies and BoB shipped from China on Feb 21st
- Placed another order at TNutz.com for Series 10 t-nuts. I was hoping to be able to use the metrics t-nuts I have but they are too small
As for tonight, I’m starting to generate the details drawings for the aluminium plates I will need to manually process
Cya,