CNC Upgrades & Carbine Parts
Recently finished a major upgrade on the mill; from 1/4-20 threaded rod to 1/2-10 acme leadscrews. Also eliminated couplers between the motors and leadscrews, pinning the motor shafts directly into holes lathed into the leadscrews. Fewer connections, and tighter tolerances of the new hardware has backlash down to less than .01″.. for MDF and cheap off-the-shelf parts, that’s good.
So, what’s that good for? Well, it makes programs run faster, and parts cut out faster, as well. That’s a good thing, because the carbine model I finshed recently is taking a long time to run- it had to be split up into about two dozen separate milled parts. As the carbine alone will be around 2-3 days of machine time, and there’s a queue of two other entire projects after it, it’ll add up to a lot of time saved.
Speaking of other projects, I’ve been updating the halo 3 marine files to be CNC’d, maybe they’ll hold up as vacuum-forming bucks.
February 6th, 2009 at 8:18 am
i see you are really working hard on that cnc machine. keep up the good work:p
February 8th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Awesome work. I hope this works out better for you in the end. Did you ever get my email about the silicon?
February 19th, 2009 at 12:02 am
Nice work buddy!! Great to see what you’re doing these days!!
June 12th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Look really nice. You will end up having some really accurate and nice looking props.