C Channel cut
 

folks, I got all the required metal today, will start processing it Monday.

RGDS
Irfan

I am not getting 1 mm sq cable and probably want to avoid it due to high costs.

The wheels will carry upto a TON, I have seen them on several machines now - but the Q is do I need them really? for this machine - I already have the vib foots - so probably will not buy these.

these are just call castors.

RGDS
Irfan

I love the burner guy's open footwear - he don't care about the hot blobs of sparks he makes! (I know he is the burner guy because he is carrying his guide for the torch).

I wish we can still work like this. These day's we are so drowned in paperwork and PROCEDURES when it comes to SAFETY....we as project managers are batteling to get any work done.

Kobus - u say " these days " I am 25+4 and already working on excel and powerpoints daily - developing strategies and forecasting for the spares division in oour company. building cnc machines and hovercrafts gives me the very necessary break for the brain.

In the above post I wrongly psoted my age :) I just realised the mistake. I am 29 now. (now how could I do a mistake here :D)

ok the transformers and the spindle speed control boards arrived today.

mean - had to go and pick em up.

will post the pics soon. for me the kitchen table project is all set to go forward. - minus the proper box though

RGDS
Irfan

HI folks, the pics of the sound logic control board and the transformers - these are for mine and vishnu's machine combined.

RGDS
Irfan

Kitchen Project in the workshop ON
 

some pictures of the kitchen project in the workshop.

do comment if U see anything wrong here

I will construct a box using L angles and sheet around what is seen in the pictures.

RGDS
Irfan

Hi - got the Intel atom today and started to modify the old celeron PC cabinet to suite the MB

here are some pics.

some image of the carving did on my other router.

RGD
Irfan

Nice carving Irfan. What material is that? Did you add black paint to the carved areas or is it multilayers?
Good luck with your new build. It is looking good!:cool:

Thanks Johan,

donno what wood it is - a friend gave me some for carving and he used brown fabric paint to fill it up and then sanded it up.

I aslo did some carving on the wood for the side legs. will post completed picture soon.


The above is all V carved.

On the mechmate - I did get to finish mounting the Atom MB in the box - then designed a controller box which will house everything and have only wires jutting out towards the machine. Will keep ya all informed.

RGDS
IRfan

some 3d stuff I did on the other machine.

RGDS
IRfan

Control box
 

HI Folks, I am building my control box integrated with the computer and monitor and everything.

here is the pipe frame for it, just bought a couple of CR cut sheets which will be used for covering.

RGDS
IRfan

Great idea Irfan. Looking forward to seeing the finished product.:)

Thanks Greg,
Promise you - it will be a good one! :) I am planning to mount the VFD beside the monitor. Will there be a problem ?, the computer is enclosed in a metal box already.

RGDS
Irfan

some more progress
 

The guy building my cabinet has limited knowledge of sheet - and it was the first time he had built a box like this - so looks pretty neat - the guy building my machine could only get so far as putting together the sides, not fully welded though.

RGDS
IRfan

Update
 

Just a few updates - and I got blue on the control box.

I have got most for the build - I am now only worried on finances for the spindle only - even a chinese feels expensive after spending so much :(

I ran into trouble for the atom MB I am using - it needs the windows xp cd to be in the drive to boot always.

I have tried so many things - making the boot disk as the hard drive and trying several reboots but the same problem

I have connected the cd drive as the master and hdd as slave.

hope anyone can help me here.

RGDS
IRfan

Irfan, we ran for 5 years with a router intead of a spindle. In fact, one table is still running with a Makita router. There is nothing wrong with learning to control the beast with a cheap router . . . . You ARE going to run a cutter through a clamp - do want to to that with an expensive spindle? ;)

I agree G' but I have neighbours already complaining about noise - I have a makita on the other router I build - but I fear the pollution control people will be at my door steps soon if I dont do much about the sound, I am presently planning to enclose both machines like you have did for one of yours.

RGDS
IRfan

Irfan,
I really like your computer enclosure. It will look really good beside your MM. :)

When a cutter is busy chopping up wood, it makes the same noise (and vibration) if it is driven by a router or a spindle. Believe me, a spindle that is working hard, still makes a lot of noise.

Then I think I will focus on the enclosures first!

Thanks G'

RGDS
Irfan

some updates and trouble
 

Hi Folks as the first development on populating the Controls into the control box I fixed in the Intel Atom computer into the control box and also fixed in the cd rom in such a way that its accessible to the outside.

well now the problem - we were trying to cut the angle iron today (see pic in the zipped file, donno why but always the cuts went one mm below as if the cut was digging into the L - angle rail.

May be I did not have a sturdy enough clamp made for the angle grinder.

will try again on monday though - any comments and help are welcome - meanwhile I did not laser cut the grinding attachment - thought would borrow it from vishnu - since vishnu is down with high fever I will be postponing the angle grinding or may be ask sharma to lend his.

will keep all posted though.

RGDS
IRfan

I think you have the wrong grinding technique if your disk is that deep through the metal. . . . .


The idea is to cut a shallow groove over a long distance, come back and cut it a bit deeper, come back again and cut it deeper again, etc. You may take 10 to 20 "steps" or oscillations to get through the metal.

Irfan, I used that method and it did work for me.
Screw your rail against some flat surface,maybe the spoil board and get your friend to hold some safety glases in front of you:(, use both hands on your grinder.Looks like you are holding the grinder down with your right hand on the handle( might be that you are pushing it down.Your clamps look ok I used one of my extractors hose clamps )

Like Gerald`s reply don`t force the cutting disk into the angle iron just, just let the cutting disk touch the metal you will be amazed how much it takes of. Take it from side to side running the full length of the rail. you will do some serious exersise behind the rail but it works.

Look at my thread it should show you.Try putting your rails back to back then you cut them together same hight and they are straight.

thanks for the inputs folks will try that tomorrow.

RGDS
IRfan

Irfan, your build is looking good. I found out that it will cost about $145 U.S. to ship the 3KW Chinese Spindle to you from taiwan according to the address you PM to me. Good Luck with your build:)

Oh, I forgot to mention, my purchase of the spindle has been further delayed as I'm still learning the ropes and don't mind distroying a cheap router. Geralds advice on an earlier post is definitely worth heeding. I've had a few OOPS:eek: already and every time it happens, you say to yourself, "Thank God it's just a cheap router and cheap router bit and not an expensive spindle and/or $70 O-flute cutter!"

Hi David, thanks for the update on the spindle. the shipping costs looks better from Taiwan.

the makita router is around 16.5K INR , which means is close to 340USD- I rather invest the same in the new spindle - i will try a el-cheapo chinese router for the time being.

RGDS
IRfan

Some more progress
 

HI Folks,

some more updates and pictures of my shop - since there were bikes every where on the forum - here is mine - a Bajaj 110CC 4 stroke - its now 8 years old. still a good workhorse for me.

Mechmate build is going on smoothly.

RGDS
Irfan

What about BBB...no not Big Blue Brakpan, but Beard, Bike and Boep on this side......for those on the other side of the world....BOEP is what we call a big belly.

my wife says I have a reasonably sized belly at 29 :)

so only BB, Bike and Belly - no beard :)

the bike is my daily commute everwhere.

RGDS
Irfan

Hi Folks,

Was thinking of trying to avoid the mixing up of signal and power cables - but its very difficult - just using shielded for the signals, realised have to study some more on interfacing the whole thing together - meaning the disable thingi on the gecko - how do we club all that - I will chk up for that.

till then any comments are welcome . I left some extra wire in the cable tubes - I hope thats ok : (see pics)

RGDS
IRfan

Looking good Irfan. The fan blowing air through the heat sinks on which you have mounted your Geckos should keep them good and cool.

Thank you Doug.

RGDS
IRfan

Hi Folks, my mechmate build is sort of slowed due to more office work and some orders for the smaller machine.

I am so worried about the router sound. :)

here is the link to some of my work

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showpo...&postcount=201

RGDS
IRfan

Obviously we were wondering about our Indian friends in the last 3 days . . .

I was hoping you would have experimented with removing that router fan and given us some noise/(smoke?) results? :D

tomorrow I promise the its either going to be no noise or no router (smoke it up baby) the elcheapo I have will be the bakra - :)

RGDS
IRfan

Is the "bakra" a sacrificial goat?