I'm working on a new MM quietly in the corner #5 - Orlando. FL

[Gerald D]

Congratulations for the Reish family!

Hope to see you back here sometimes between diaper duties .

[sailfl]

Sean,

Congratulations!!!!

[domino11]

Congrats Sean,
Hope you can get some sleep soon!

[cobra427mnsi]

Congratulations Sean

Children are a blessing from the Lord. Enjoy your new family! Those sleepless nights will seem endless, but take it from someone looking back from the other end of the spectrum, the time will fly by and, before you know it, you will be babysitting (sorry, my wife tells me we are Grandparenting) your babies' babies. Presently, we are "up north" (Huntsville, Ontario) grandparenting our 3 little ones (ALL UNDER 3 YEARS OLD) while daddy is working and mommy is in Florida at a work conference. We are making memories with our grandkids.
The best time in your life is always the present moment! Have fun !!

Paul

[Marc Shlaes]

Sean,

Is this your first? WOW! My advice... Start teaching them early on that mirrors are often used for more that putting on make-up and doing your hair. My second (and last) just learned to drive. Adding up the female members of the family...

3 females ->> total number of times they backed into the wall of the garage

No names but they are grouped youngest to oldest.

Seriously. Hearty congratulations!!!!!!!!!

[Greg J]

Sean,

Congratulations !!!!!!!

Kids are a blast. Not the teenage years, but before and after teenage, its fun.

Our boy (26, will always be the "boy") is a saturation (deep sea) diver. We can actually sit down over a beer and talk now. Very proud of him.

[smreish]

This is my second
Son - Cael is 2
Girl - Colby is new!
I think were done. I don't want to be outnumbered like my parents. I'm last of 5 kids
Its pretty cool typing on my blackberry and feeding the little girl at the same time! Just neat.

[sailfl]

Sean,

Very nice name your wife and you picked out. Thanks for sharing with us and lets see the pics.

[stefanv]

Congratulations with Colby Sean !!!

[revved_up]

Congrats on your new daughter, I find it incredible that you are still have enough energy to respond to the board, my question in particular withen minutes. As the proud father of a 17 almost 18 year old daughter, they truely are always daddy's little girl.

[Jay W]

I also want to offer my congratulations to you Sean! I can't remember anything in my life that tops or will ever top when our children were born. Congratulations again to you and your wife.

[Hugo Carradini]

You can recognize God in the children.
Congratulations Sean

[smreish]

Update:
Finished making all the cable chain mounts and e-chain support rails. Remember, my machine is pre Mamba, so I did it old school - shoot from the hip!
Anyway, all the cable chain mounted and working well on the x and y axis. Just a z slider and wiring and I am up and running!
Sean

[Greg J]

Sean,

If you did it (cable chain mounts) different than J.R.'s, would you mind posting pic's.

Greg

[smreish]

Of course I will post pics! I left my camera at home last night, I' ok try to get them up in the morning. Mind you, my routing is simple - not sexy keeping with the mm mantra.

[Greg J]

Sean,

Thanks. I've been working on the Z slide this week in the evenings. I don't know why it is, but a warm shop (currently snowing), music and a couple of resting dogs sure makes for a peaceful mind.

Should get started on the cable mounts this weekend.

[smreish]

Cable chains installed.

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[Greg J]

Looking good Sean,

Boy, I didn't realize that you had some paint going. Your way ahead of me.

I'll take parts of yours and J.R.'s, mounts and fab something tomorrow.

[sailfl]

Sean,

Looks good. Soon, I will be coming over to see it cut.

[Leko]

Sean,

Looks great, can't believe your wife has been letting you out long enough to work.

Note:
Can't you invert the last piece of the longer chain so that your wires come out on top of the "cable tray" running to the other chain?

See ya soon

[smreish]

Matthew
the clearance is tight on the chain loop, thus I underhung the chain to keep it flush with the bottom of the gantry and main beam. Leaving room for the indexer tailstock on the other end of the machine. (photo left for those followin along) What you don't see is the 3 holes that are marked to chase the cable up to the same plane as the y chain. Were on the Same page! Btw, I had to sneak out to get some CnC fun in last week

[smreish]

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Okay,
I put the x chain back were I started with it. This is what I get for trying to make decisions while sleep deprived.
Gerald, Please delete the previous "bad location" cable chain pics in Post #167
Thanks

[Greg J]

Sean,

That looks like a very tight bend radius coming out of the cable chain. Is there more to the picture.

[Gerald D]

Sean, if those pics are deleted then some of your subsequent posts will become strange. I'll try to add notes to them and then you can decide if you still want them removed.

Greg, I see his cables exiting the chain below the metal bracket (overshooting to right and then wrapping anti-clock to top of bracket.)

[Greg J]

Ah, I see it now.

Thanks, Gerald.

[Greg J]

Is there an advantage to Sean's cable routing over mine (coming straight out and route along Y axis).

Just want to make sure I'm not missing something.

[Gerald D]

Greg, I don't see a major difference. Your chain has a much bigger natural radius than Sean's, so it stands up taller when you keep the bottom leg in line with the bottom of the main beam. I am not wild about the idea of the chain standing up taller than the rail because you may want to load the table from that side. If you already know at which point you are loading heavy sheets (and they can be very heavy) then you will work around the chain.

Have another look at this thread to see a tighter radius chain below the x-rail.

Realise that I havn't used x-chain yet - we have umbilicals hanging well clear of the table top.

[Greg J]

Yea, I really didn't like that either.

I'm going to lower it like Sean's and figure out a clean way to route the cable. I looked at the Mamba design, but I really don't want to go to an outside source for a special part. Don't get me wrong, I like the Mamba design allot, just getting to the point where I want to start cutting wood.

[Gerald D]

The lower "tray" can be hung off the legs & uprights of the table - it doesn't have to attach to the beam.

[Greg J]

Thanks Gerald,

Stay tuned. Lets see what I can dream up.