Thanks Ken and Ries for your advice, i will try next monday those G codes, there are so much to learn in this wonderful world. The more we read , the more we know we have to learn. We need some help in implementing a Z touch plate? we have been reading about Pyvcp, do you know some place to read more about it?:o:confused::D

rceja,

great job getting your mechmate cutting so quickly! However, I'm scared by your clamping in the cutting video.

Please use a clamp to hold the workpiece, not your hands. We've been through it on other discussions here, it's dangerous to put your hands near a machine-controlled router.

The mechmate will not stop when you say "ouch!" :eek:

ouch!!!!!
 

you are absolutely right!!!, the hand in the video is my son's hand, while taking the video i told him about taking his hands out of that place because the danger implied. He understood and promisse me not to put anymore his hands near the spindle. It is better a broken bit than a bledding finger :):):):D:D:D, thanks!!!!

Awesome !!! Lets see some logos !!!

Logos OK!!!
 

Hi Mike, we have the logos, just take a look!!!!!

Do we deserve a serial number??:D:D:D

TrackerMate !!!
 

Love for MachMate goes everywhere!!!!
Thanks Gerald, Mike, Domino ..............etc,etc,etc. :):D

Our control box
 

This is our control box,we will make a small steel car to support it and put the box at a convenient level to troubleshoot.

rceja,

are you planning to make any e-stops? If not, I can still strongly suggest to make them on all 3 sides of the machine. You don't use them often but when you do... it's quite handy :)

Ries

E stops!!
 

Yes, we plan to implement E-stops and limits/home via proximity sensor, in fact, tomorrow we will begin working on that. You are right in your comments, they should be there when we need them, even once in a year, or never!!!!:D

Thank you Ries!!!!!!

Looks Like you get #76 !!! Good looking build. Here is the DXF for the real MechMate logo !!

Goooood!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

#76 is very nice and hoped number. As soon as posible we will change for the correct and real logos. Thank you very much to this awesome comunity.
We are ready to make tons of wood dust!!!!!!!
:):p

Well done and enjoy the beast. I have a sticker on the back of my truck as well..... www.MechMate.com ....:D

Surely we will enjoy it!!!
 

Thanks Kobus, surely we will enjoy our new MM, my son and I have some ideas to make wood dust inmediately. We have several projects to work on, so it is time to get our hands dirty!!!!!!:D:D:D

Updated Builder's Log
 

Rceja,

Congratulations, neighbor, to you and your son on completing your MechMate and earning Serial #76.

Here is the Updated Builder's Log.

I took a guess at your start date since you already had an assembled table on your first post. Please provide the correct start date if very different for October 15, 2010. We do not count the studying and planning time before starting actual construction.

Please provide the cutting dimensions of your MechMate for the Builder's Log.

Also, please review the Builder's Log entry and let me know any changes you want to make to your entry.

Thank you John, we are very pleased and proud with our MM and #76 :):D, now is the time to dig into the software and begin to learn how to be productive making wood stuff. In fact our first steel invoice is dated 03/Nov/2010, that is the exact date we began to cut steel, so is our begening construction date.
Our table cutting dimensions are X=244 cm Y=122 cm.
We saw the builder's log and think that is OK!!!!, excep for the begining date.

Greetings from Guadalajara!!!!

In the picture with the nice lady at the car, I see that your house windows looks very similar like ours in South Africa.....keeping the midnight shoppers OUT...;)

The girl in the picture is my daughter, she is 15 and in high school right now!!!!, We would like to know your country!!!!!, and maybe take a look to your MM :D:D

In South Africa, we have burglar bars in front of all windows..We stay INSIDE our 'jail' and the thieves are roaming the streets. :D

Same thing is happening all around the world, don't you think so????

Same here :(

Builder's Log Update
 

Thanks for the updates, Rceja.

Here is the Updated Builder's Log.

We are proud of your MechMate too. And such a quick build, only 3 months, less than half the AVERAGE. Good luck as you learn to use your MechMate and keep us posted with pictures (please) of your projects.

Felicitaciones!!

Same here :(

Houses look somewhat the same here aswell, you don't have bars if you have a wall of 3 meters though!! That was quite a change when I moved from holland where the biggest wall around a garden is something you can jump over.

Felicidades !! por esa máquina.

Ahora a hacer mucho polvo

Saludos.

Gracias Ros!!!, finalmente estamos listos para llenar el taller de polvo, ahora deberemos pensar también en la manera de realizar algunos trabajos para recuperar algo de $$$$$, pues nos hemos quedado casi sin plata, jejejej. Sin embargo nos queda un camino largo en la comprensión y aprendizaje del software correspondiente, pero ahí vamos sobre la marcha!!!!!, de igual manera estamos listos para romper cortadores, clamps y lo que sea necesario para aprender, jejejej.

After a while learning about the cam software, finally we did our firs alu cut, we cut or reductor alu plates. It feel fine when you see the MM cutting alu like butter (0.5 mm per pass), 10000 RPM, 6 mm cutter and 20 IPM. Finally we got our plates and the bearings fit just fine, we are very happy of that. We show you some picutres of our plates!!!! :):):)

good work! thanks for sharing the specs as i will need them soon for my reduction assembly.

i notice in the pictures you are using a laptop. any issue with mach3? can you share your laptop specs? i'm temporarily running the machine with a laptop but i get buggy responses when using the arrow keys for jogging the axes.

Hi Tuan,we use the laptop just for designig with the CAM soft, we have a desktop running Ubuntu and EMC2 to control de MechMate, in fact our laptop does not have a paralell port!!!, i beleive that laptops are not recommended because of latency issues.
In a while i will upload a small video cutting our plates!!.
Thanks for your comments!!!! :)

And now,the video of the MM cutting our al reductor plates!!!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyoc0GS33VM

So, how did you hold the part down? It sounds like (in the movie) when you translate to the x-cut you get extra bit chatter from the part moving.....or am I missing something?

We use double adhesive tape, several strips along the alu piece, that way you can get a strong holdig force. That's all we did. No chatter at all, in fact it was quite difficult to remove the tape once we finished cutting.

Cool - You have to love machines that help make themselves better :D

You are right Mike, we love so much our MM, and we are still begening to know it!!!!

Nice work! Well done, thanks for posting. See you on skype...

Que tal yo soy de Tamaulipas y también estoy construyendo una mechmate después publico las fotos y a ver si me puedes ayudar en algunas dudas saludos!!

Con gusto, en todo lo que este de mi parte.
Que bueno que estas en esto,ademas de divertido es una actividad muy interesante.
Felicidades y estoy a tus órdenes.

Muchas gracias rceja, mira yo empece el proyecto hace tiempo pero lo deje y pues ahora lo estoy retomando ya tengo casi todo lo electrónico y de lo mecánico pues si me faltan algunas cosas, tengo 4 motores de 740 oz pero medijeron que necesitaba utilizar un reductor 3:1, tus motores ya vienen con reductor o tu lo hiciste es que la verdad se me dificulta mucho conseguir las poleas dentadas, la mayoría de las piezas yo las mande pedir a usa pero es mucho rollo para pagar y luego tener que ir por ellas que me recomiendas que haga?, saludos!! Ahh otra duda tus motores de cuanta potencia son es que no se si sean pequeños mis motores o necesito otros

Que tal Alberto. Mira mis motores son pequeños son de menos de 450 Oz, por tanto creo que tus motores son adecuados. Hasta donde entiendo, el reductor se usa principalmentre para que los coretes sean mas finos, si tu trabajo no es de muchisima precision, entonces no creo que requieras de reductores.
Nosotros conseguimos y hemos conseguido poleas en un huesario industrial que hay por aca, me imagino que en tu ciudad debra haber huesarios similares. Pero si te interesas en las poleas yo buscaria la manera de conseguirtelas aca visitando de ves en ves el huesario como lo hago por costumbre.El reductor nosotros lo fabricamos, de hecho el blog puedes observar las placas de aluminio que cortamos.
Si te interesa te consigo las poleas y te dibujo las placas para que las mandes a cortar alla, te las mandaria en DXF, deben existir empresas que corten aluminio en tu ciudad.
Nosotros las cortamos en nuestra maquina (checate el video que esta mas arriba), nos quedaron bien. como te comento, nuestros motores son pequeños por esa razòn requerimos de los reductores.
Saludos.

Te lo agradecería mucho si pudieras consegurimelas y yo te deposito el dinero, y pues me surgió otra duda, veo que hay partes que se tienen que mandar cortar en láser, ustedes las mandaron cortar en Guadalajara ?? y como en cuanto sale mandarlas cortar? Y vi que también tienen dobleces eso lo hicieron ustedes? O también lo mandaron hacer, jaja perdón por tantas preguntas pero es que son los primeras personas de mexico que conozco y yo he batallado mucho en conseguir las partes, les mando saludo y gracias!!

A video of our belt reductor moving !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKl5K0-1z5g