Great work Greg. Looking really good.
I would have thought that #13 was up for grabs first. 14 is my favourite number and I was hoping for that one, oh well should have started building or maybe I'll just bribe Gerald to reserve it for me :rolleyes:

Jayson.

EDIT***

I see 13 is taken... Maybe Greg could have 12 :)

Nope, Nils has already snagged #12, dont think anyone could wrestle that one out of his hands! :)

It Cuts
 

Tried running the roadrunner included with Mach.

This is what I came up with. It looks like part of the drawing is missing.

I still have to figure out how to use Mach and decide on a cad/cam program

Just waiting on my logos.:)

Nearly there Greg!

The free version of Mach3 limits the number of steps - I wonder if that is why your file stopped running?

I'm sure that's it. There is code in the display after the line that it stops on.

Time to purchase a license.

Roadrunner is over 4000 lines, free Mach3 stops at 1000 lines.

Greg M

Congratulations. I ran a lot of those Road Runners cuttings in the air. Air CNC - it saves wood and you don't need a bit.

or dust extraction .:p

I finally purchased my copy of Mach 3.

That solved the problem of the incomplete roadrunner.:)

Kobus, you just reminded me that I still have to figure on the dust collection system.:eek:

My machine is covered with sheets and other projects I have going on right now but I was able to get my logos attached. I'll take some pics later this week of the whole machine.

Congratulations Greg_M,

Looks like another # ? ;)

That looks like top of the line logos :D:p

Finally - think #15 is ready!

Only the best J.R.:D

Here is a link to the machine cutting the partial road runner, out of the box settings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH8UYkPjicY

Hey Irfan.....how much longer for your number???;)

I will take the position for the longest built ever Greg - I running into all sort of troubles :D

and my 2 week vacation is over today :)

RGDS
Irfan

Well done Greg, but keep the pictures comming. I for one would like to see what each person is making on his MM....this will stimulate more cutting idea's.

Greg M,

Congratulations on # 15. Yea.

Doesn't matter how long it took, you did it. Cutting the Road Runner is nice but wait until you cut some thing more complicated. You will have so much fun watching the machine do its thing.

Well done Greg, feels good doesn't it?

Well done Greg. Thanks for waiting so that I could get #14, its just a shame others didn't follow your lead ;)

Looking forward to seeing further updates.

Jayson

Nice one Greg!!

Greg,

Contratulations on a great accomplishment!:):):)

You join a very distinguished group MechMate builders as Serial #15, here.

Regards,
John

Congratulations on #15

Hasse

Hello everyone. I had a computer crash and I lost all my Mach3 information. My backup files are missing as well.
I can't seem to find the thread on setting up Mach. Can anybody help?

Well, got everything figured out.

Hard drive was bad.
Memory was bad.
Parallel port card was bad.

Mach re-loaded and up and running.

That's great news!

Not bad for a 10 year old machine.