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Old Wed 17 February 2010, 21:48
gmcclure
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Geelong
Australia
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
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Old Wed 17 February 2010, 23:39
Claudiu
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Arad
Romania
Good luck with your build. That is some impressive size.
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Old Wed 17 February 2010, 23:43
Gerald D
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Cape Town
South Africa
I think the 12500 is supposed to be 1250 [40ft vs 4ft]
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Old Sun 28 March 2010, 00:57
gmcclure
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Geelong
Australia
Stepper motors arrived on Friday, time to make bench test.

Build going a little slowly, real work has been busy
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Old Wed 09 February 2011, 02:07
gmcclure
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Geelong
Australia
Taken awhile, however mechanicals finsihed

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
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Old Thu 10 February 2011, 08:42
Robert M
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Lac-Brome, Qc
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Like a toy.....that will work hard
Congrats
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Old Thu 10 February 2011, 12:59
domino11
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Cornwall, Ontario
Canada
Now time to get some labels on her and show us some dust.
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Old Thu 10 February 2011, 16:15
MetalHead
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Columbiana AL
United States of America
I'd like some detail shots of those belt drives !!!
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Old Thu 10 February 2011, 19:13
gmcclure
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Geelong
Australia
Mike close in from the original photo. Will have to go ansd shoot some more detail and angles. Trust this us good for now
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Old Thu 10 February 2011, 19:59
domino11
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Cornwall, Ontario
Canada
Are those from Mikes plates?
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Old Thu 10 February 2011, 20:48
MetalHead
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Columbiana AL
United States of America
Nice job.
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Old Thu 10 February 2011, 22:47
Alan_c
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Cape Town (Western Cape)
South Africa
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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).
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Old Thu 10 February 2011, 23:28
gmcclure
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Geelong
Australia
Allan,

You are correct and they are turned around now.
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Old Thu 10 February 2011, 23:32
gmcclure
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Geelong
Australia
Heath,

No they are a modification of a design by MattyZee.

Ratio is 4:1.

Graeme
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Old Fri 11 February 2011, 04:48
MetalHead
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Columbiana AL
United States of America
Make sure you tape over those holes on the back of your motors.
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Old Sat 26 February 2011, 23:42
gmcclure
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Geelong
Australia
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.
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Old Wed 02 March 2011, 03:57
gmcclure
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Geelong
Australia
3kW air cooled spindle arrived. Nice 6 hole pattern on the back.
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Old Wed 02 March 2011, 06:10
MetalHead
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Columbiana AL
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Cool - can we see some pictures?
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Old Fri 04 March 2011, 04:22
Surfcnc
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Queensland
Australia
Graeme - You walked right into that one
What no photo !!

Regards
Ross
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Old Fri 11 March 2011, 01:53
gmcclure
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Geelong
Australia
Photos of Spindle and Mounting plate. Will establish another registration hole and mounting bolt hole 2.25 inches further up the Z plate.
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Old Fri 11 March 2011, 22:51
HomeMadeCnc
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Calgary, Alberta
Canada
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
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Old Sat 12 March 2011, 11:57
timberlinemd
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Arizona
United States of America
Care to share the mfg/vendor of the spindel?
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Old Sat 12 March 2011, 14:43
gmcclure
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Geelong
Australia
Steve,

I purchased the spindle on ebay form love-happyshopping in Hong Kong
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Old Sat 12 March 2011, 17:42
Gerald D
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Cape Town
South Africa
From the pics, it is identical to the Italian-built generic family of spindles under labels like HSD and Fimec.
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Old Sun 13 March 2011, 01:36
KenC
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Klang
Malaysia
18,000rpm?
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Old Sun 13 March 2011, 01:52
gmcclure
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Geelong
Australia
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.
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Old Thu 21 April 2011, 20:04
gmcclure
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Geelong
Australia
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
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Old Thu 21 April 2011, 20:11
Surfcnc
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Queensland
Australia
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.

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Ross
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Old Sun 24 April 2011, 08:06
danhamm
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Williams Lake B.C. Canada
Canada
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..
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Old Sun 24 April 2011, 10:40
Kobus_Joubert
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Riversdale Western Cape
South Africa
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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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