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  #61  
Old Fri 30 September 2011, 06:37
docarter
Just call me: Donna #87
 
Suwanee, Georgia
United States of America
lots of progress

Here are some pics of our progress will try to post some pics later
the motor connectors with 3 black wires and one yellow were really fun. keeping up with your pin-outs and troubleshooting a bad connection can be pretty time consuming. It is still good to be finally connecting the machine to the control box.
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  #62  
Old Fri 30 September 2011, 06:47
docarter
Just call me: Donna #87
 
Suwanee, Georgia
United States of America
Some more wiring pictures that first gantry 3 button box get full quickly a oversize 3 button box is a must.
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  #63  
Old Fri 30 September 2011, 08:02
docarter
Just call me: Donna #87
 
Suwanee, Georgia
United States of America
Some more wiring Pic

Had to change that small 3 button box keep those labels coming.
What a relief to finish the wiring everything seems to be working fine.
The VFD is connected and working time to start cutting.
Spindle temperature 115 degree f after running for three hours still need to address that issue.
setting-up and configuring mach3 will take some time, back to the drawing board lots of reading still to do.
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  #64  
Old Fri 30 September 2011, 14:24
TechGladiator
Just call me: Miguel #94
 
Randolph, NJ
United States of America
Donna;

Very Nice!... I am trying to catch up with you .. Hopefully this weekend I will get closer.

Miguel
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  #65  
Old Mon 03 October 2011, 18:39
garycdba
Just call me: Gary #87
 
Suwanee
United States of America
Cutting in Suwanee

Hi: Miguel hope you had plenty of success this last weekend.
I must tell you that once you get the machine to work the real problem is getting the machine to follow instruction with g-code we had problems generating g-code because we thought generating g-code would be easy. Donna is very good in Autocad and we just assumed generating g-code would be easy. Finding the right application to generate g-code is not hard there were plenty of free application that generated g-code but you must still do your research on how to use each application for your needs. We ended up using g-simple to generate g-code just to get us cutting we may have to use something else for production. I will give some screen shots on how to use g-simple found at g-siimple.com. Today the pictures will show the results of the our machine cutting we still have issues when we hit the ref all button our Z hits the stops and we don't know how to stop it from doing that. But we can get the machine to cut words hopefully this is enough to get a serial number. Here is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZSyNHxgufs
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  #66  
Old Mon 03 October 2011, 23:15
Gerald D
Just call me: Gerald (retired)
 
Cape Town
South Africa
Hey, it is cutting - well done Donna & Gary!

Yeah, it is bit of a surprise when the machine starts cutting lines in the same sequence that you drew them in AutoCad. SheetCAM was a great little program a few years back, maybe still today.
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  #67  
Old Tue 04 October 2011, 04:43
234ahmed
Just call me: Ahmed #81
 
Damietta
Egypt
Congratulations Donna & Gary - well done. Now the fun will start
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  #68  
Old Tue 04 October 2011, 06:34
smreish
Just call me: Sean - #5, 28, 58 and others
 
Orlando, Florida
United States of America
Congratulations - your cutting.
Now the real fun begins...what do with that great "tool" in front of you?

Best to you both!
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Old Tue 04 October 2011, 07:13
Kobus_Joubert
Just call me: Kobus #6
 
Riversdale Western Cape
South Africa
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Well done and enjoy the addiction
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Old Tue 04 October 2011, 07:20
domino11
Just call me: Heath
 
Cornwall, Ontario
Canada
Congratulations!
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  #71  
Old Tue 04 October 2011, 11:48
MetalHead
Just call me: Mike
 
Columbiana AL
United States of America
Lookin great !!! All we need now are some logos !!
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  #72  
Old Tue 04 October 2011, 12:34
garycdba
Just call me: Gary #87
 
Suwanee
United States of America
Logo

Thanks everybody
I had so much trouble getting the camera to load video i forgot to show the logo's
Here they go let me know if i need to submit another video.

Gary
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  #73  
Old Tue 04 October 2011, 13:11
Kobus_Joubert
Just call me: Kobus #6
 
Riversdale Western Cape
South Africa
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Dust, logo, I think a serial number is due
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  #74  
Old Tue 04 October 2011, 13:31
HomeMadeCnc
Just call me: Tim
 
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
Awesome job! Welcome to the biggest addiction of your life
If I can help in any way please let me know

Cheers
Tim
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  #75  
Old Tue 04 October 2011, 13:51
garycdba
Just call me: Gary #87
 
Suwanee
United States of America
To much dust

Any suggestion on how to make a dusk shoe?
I have dust everywhere and it is getting hard to clean-up. I have vacuum equipment but no idea how to create an dust shoe been reading all day and still drawing a blank. Appreciate any help.

Thanks
Gary
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  #76  
Old Tue 04 October 2011, 14:15
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia
You can use faster spin up time for the spindle, I got mine set up at 100hz/sec and its just right for automatic start up on program start.
If you got the RS485 on the Huanyang VFD its easy to set it up to start automaticaly and set speed from gcode.

Look here for dust shoe
http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showt...&postcount=290
http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showt...&postcount=427
maybe it will get you some ideas

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  #77  
Old Tue 04 October 2011, 16:02
docarter
Just call me: Donna #87
 
Suwanee, Georgia
United States of America
This machine has been an addiction of mine for years before I started this project. I like to thank Gerald, everyone on this forum and my husband who continued to work hard to complete our dream

I was looking forward to making dust, but this is way too much. Dust shoe is on the list.
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Old Tue 04 October 2011, 18:10
MetalHead
Just call me: Mike
 
Columbiana AL
United States of America
#87 it is !! Congrats on your build !!! Enjoy the dust !!!
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  #79  
Old Tue 04 October 2011, 18:40
jhiggins7
Just call me: John #26
 
Hebron, Ohio
United States of America
Builder's Log Update

Donna,

Congratulations on a great looking MechMate and earning Serial #87. Nice job!

Here is the Updated Builder's Log.

Please review your entry and let me know any changes you want to make.
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  #80  
Old Wed 05 October 2011, 10:26
timberlinemd
Just call me: Steve #66
 
Arizona
United States of America
Another dust shoe suggestion: http://www.kentcnc.net/nc/

Congrats!

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Old Wed 05 October 2011, 22:36
KenC
Just call me: Ken
 
Klang
Malaysia
Congrats!
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