Uncle Ray Buck's Build #85 - Walkerville, S.Africa
 

After nearly 2 years of building my friend Uncle Ray Buck finally got his MM finished. This was a CASH project and took some time.
He is not on the forum as internet access is NON-Existent where he lives...even cell phone reception is bad.
I visited him often...about 150 km round trip from my home.
I was his FORUM and answered his questions as well as I could.
This past week he phone me and told me everything was ready for me to come and fire up. So this morning early I got on the motorbike and visited him.
Had some teething problems, but after a couple of phone calls to our Mach3 expert Greg in Edenvale I am happy to announce that his BIG BLUE is making dust.
Table is 3m in X-direction and 2m in Y- direction. He allowed about 500mm overhang at the front for an Indexer.
He cannot stop smiling.

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Just got back home... now its Fathersday lunch for us.

Wow !! Nice Looking Machine !!! Tell him to proudly display SN #85 !!

Thank's Mike he will love that number. Must say I am also very impressed with his effort.
Ray is in his 70's, retired engineer and it shows in his machine.
Every wire is numbered in his control panel. It was a pleasure to get it going for him.

Nice uncle Ray, Now you must show Kobus how to keep his workshop clean.:D

Uncle Ray Buck looks like a proud father of his new baby - Happy Father's Day!

And I think that Kobus deserves a special prize for his contribution to MechMate - the finest ambassador that we have.

Watch it Hennie.....next time you visit me I will put the broom in your hands :eek:

Nice Machine! Cant help but notice the solid bars on all the windows! :eek:

If you put those bars on the outside they use a car jack and force it open. This way it's a little more difficult but not fool proof.

You do not see hardly any bars like that on buildings around here. Too bad it comes to that!

Congratulations Uncle Buck, Kobus mooi so.

We end up putting ourselves in prisons because the folks that are meant to be in them are out on the street... (or in parliment) :)

Well said Alan ,How is the nails in your head doing?

:o Still tender thanks Hennie, but getting better...

And I thought that situation in my country was bad.

Great build for Uncle Ray !

Updated Builder's Log
 

Uncle Ray Buck via Kobus,

Congratulations to Uncle Ray Buck on completing his MechMate and earning Serial # 85 under very special circumstances...NO INTERNET ACCESS...thanks to his friend and our special MechMate ambassador, Kobus.

Here is the Updated Builder's Log.

Please let me know about any changes that are needed for this entry.

Thank's John. You can change his location to

Apple Orchards Walkerville

http://www.walkervillesa.co.za/walker.html

Updated Builder's Log
 

Thanks Kobus.

The Update to the Builder's Log is complete.

And thanks again for your contribution to this very special build.:)

Today I took the road again to see what the old man is up to.
He is fighting the SOFTWARE. He keep on asking for a manual and the more I tell him to PLAY with the machine and software, the more the BLANK stare is there.
I took him through the basics and then we surfaced his table. He had a biggish bump in the middle that we first surfaced in the Y direction and the final surfacing was on the X-axis.
The base table is now FLAT. Now for the sacrifice board.

His table is a lot wider than mine. I noticed the X-axis doing a small shudder when surfacing the table with a 19mm cutter. Don't know if the greater width of the gantry is making it a bit sloppy.

Kobus,
Can you tell if the shudder is in the Z direction (ie up and down) or does it look like the tool is swinging in the X axis direction?

If it is swinging, I might have a solution. I am interested to know as I am building a 2m x 6m machine at he moment.

Haai Marius. The shudder is of the complete gantry when it moves in the X direction

Haai Kobus,
Lekker om tuis te wees ne.

Do you know what the thickness of the tubes for the gantry where that he used?

MOEGGEVLIEG. Daai eerste boodskap nog van Dubai lughawe gestuur vanoggend. Het vanmiddag 16:24 geland.

Ek dink dis so 2mm of 3mm dik wand...sal probeer uitvind.

Is dit dieselfde as gatvol? Laat weet maar wanneer jy kan.