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.

Some more wiring pictures that first gantry 3 button box get full quickly a oversize 3 button box is a must.

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.

Donna;

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

Miguel

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

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.

Congratulations Donna & Gary - well done. Now the fun will start :)

Congratulations - your cutting.
Now the real fun begins...what do with that great "tool" in front of you? :)

Best to you both!

Well done and enjoy the addiction

Congratulations! :)

Lookin great !!! All we need now are some logos !!

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

Dust, logo, I think a serial number is due ;)

Awesome job! Welcome to the biggest addiction of your life :)
If I can help in any way please let me know

Cheers
Tim

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

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

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.

#87 it is !! Congrats on your build !!! Enjoy the dust !!!

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.

Another dust shoe suggestion: http://www.kentcnc.net/nc/

Congrats!

Congrats!