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gmcclure Wed 17 February 2010 21:48

Small Footprint MechMate Mounting Spindle and Support Board! - Geelong Australia
 
A couple of photos of the laser cut machine in Oswalds Factory. (files to large)

Not sure when the offical start date is however most of the machined parts are finished, bending and welding tomorrow.

Oswald and I are making 2 machines both 900 x 12500 wroking area.

Hoping to be finished by Easter.

regards

Graeme

Claudiu Wed 17 February 2010 23:39

Good luck with your build. That is some impressive size.:)

Gerald D Wed 17 February 2010 23:43

I think the 12500 is supposed to be 1250 [40ft vs 4ft]

gmcclure Sun 28 March 2010 00:57

Stepper motors arrived on Friday, time to make bench test.

Build going a little slowly, real work has been busy

gmcclure Wed 09 February 2011 02:07

Taken awhile, however mechanicals finsihed
 
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Well its been a while (sick during the year), nowever here is the mechanicals for my small table mechmate (950 x 1250 work area)

Graeme

Robert M Thu 10 February 2011 08:42

Like a toy.....that will work hard
Congrats ;)

domino11 Thu 10 February 2011 12:59

Now time to get some labels on her and show us some dust. :)

MetalHead Thu 10 February 2011 16:15

I'd like some detail shots of those belt drives !!!

gmcclure Thu 10 February 2011 19:13

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Mike close in from the original photo. Will have to go ansd shoot some more detail and angles. Trust this us good for now

domino11 Thu 10 February 2011 19:59

Are those from Mikes plates?

MetalHead Thu 10 February 2011 20:48

Nice job.

Alan_c Thu 10 February 2011 22:47

Graeme, nice job. Dont mean to nitpick but it looks like your Z axis is back to front, The plate that the router / spindle attaches to should face the front (where the Y motor is).

gmcclure Thu 10 February 2011 23:28

Allan,

You are correct and they are turned around now.

gmcclure Thu 10 February 2011 23:32

Heath,

No they are a modification of a design by MattyZee.

Ratio is 4:1.

Graeme

MetalHead Fri 11 February 2011 04:48

Make sure you tape over those holes on the back of your motors.

gmcclure Sat 26 February 2011 23:42

Long day today. Getting sick of drilling holes in 32mm MDF. Base Board all bolted down though, now to undo bolts, prime and paint.

Touch screen for MACH3 arrived the other day, works great 19 inch LCD. Loaded 2010 Screen and plugins for wbox control and smooth stepper.

gmcclure Wed 02 March 2011 03:57

3kW air cooled spindle arrived. Nice 6 hole pattern on the back.

MetalHead Wed 02 March 2011 06:10

Cool - can we see some pictures?

Surfcnc Fri 04 March 2011 04:22

Graeme - You walked right into that one :)
What no photo !!

Regards
Ross

gmcclure Fri 11 March 2011 01:53

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Photos of Spindle and Mounting plate. Will establish another registration hole and mounting bolt hole 2.25 inches further up the Z plate.

HomeMadeCnc Fri 11 March 2011 22:51

Thanks for the post, I was wondering how I was going to do that. If you don't mind I'll be borrowing your idea

timberlinemd Sat 12 March 2011 11:57

Care to share the mfg/vendor of the spindel?

gmcclure Sat 12 March 2011 14:43

Steve,

I purchased the spindle on ebay form love-happyshopping in Hong Kong

Gerald D Sat 12 March 2011 17:42

From the pics, it is identical to the Italian-built generic family of spindles under labels like HSD and Fimec.

KenC Sun 13 March 2011 01:36

18,000rpm?

gmcclure Sun 13 March 2011 01:52

Spec states 24,000 rpm. I will see when I power it up. Made in China, don't have to high a hope but won't be holding back on it either. Dought if I will be stressing the unit to 3kW at 24,000 rpm so believe it will work at the higher rpm with the likely loading the unit will receive.

gmcclure Thu 21 April 2011 20:04

Support Board all painted and bolted in. Just poured the casting resin on top of the bolt heads, time to wait for it to set.

Found out yesterday one of the cables is on back order until mid May :(

Surfcnc Thu 21 April 2011 20:11

Hi Graeme

That will give you some time to slip down to Bells for the Ripcurl Pro !!

I have checked the no load speed of the Chinese spindle with a digital tacho and they do spin at the rated RPM. My research however indicates that at 24K the bearing life would be significantly reduced from 14K usage pattern regardless of any side load being factored in.

Regards
Ross

danhamm Sun 24 April 2011 08:06

I have the same spindle, had it for about 6 mo. same supplier, its a work horse.. when I first hooked it up it started in reverse and jacked the fan thats bolted to the shaft up into the housing so had to do some fixing, got a look at the bearings at that time, its as Gerald said, a copy of the HSD..

Kobus_Joubert Sun 24 April 2011 10:40

Hi Dan and Graeme, I just ordered my 3kW air cooled spindle and a set of collets this week.
How did you fix that plate on the spindle ? Does it have pre drilled and tapped holes ?
Mind sharing the DXF for that QUICK RELEASE plate as I plan to attatch it to my Z-plate in the same manner. I had my routers fixed onto this quick release plate from the beginning.


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