Popular Post HKM400 Posted March 3 Popular Post Share Posted March 3 Made some gates so Finn has a nice place to hang out off the lead. Gates are 100x25 Oregon and 200mm round strainers for each gate post buried a meter per side, pretty sturdy: He was keen to show that he could still escape if he wanted to… Alcatraz it is not… yet… 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Gruntfuttock Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 On 19/02/2024 at 18:12, sheepers said: Thank you for wearing pants whilst taking the pics... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NickJ Posted March 10 Popular Post Share Posted March 10 Making some thank you gifts for friends that looked after us on our recent trip overseas, reliefs of the mountains they call home. Carved out with the cnc to replicate contour lines on a map then run over with the gas torch to highlight the ridges. 36 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willdat? Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 20 minutes ago, NickJ said: Making some thank you gifts for friends that looked after us on our recent trip overseas, reliefs of the mountains they call home. Carved out with the cnc to replicate contour lines on a map then run over with the gas torch to highlight the ridges. Is there a hack for generating the profiles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickJ Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 1 hour ago, Willdat? said: Is there a hack for generating the profiles? Not really, i'd like to say I imported a topomap and draw many lines but thankfully I stumbled on this little project https://jthatch.com/Terrain2STL/ 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzstato Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 18 hours ago, NickJ said: Making some thank you gifts for friends that looked after us on our recent trip overseas, reliefs of the mountains they call home. Carved out with the cnc to replicate contour lines on a map then run over with the gas torch to highlight the ridges. Ooh that is cool.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickJ Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 20 hours ago, nzstato said: Ooh that is cool.... You're a map person too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzstato Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 4 minutes ago, NickJ said: You're a map person too? Self declared map-nerd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Lord Gruntfuttock Posted March 11 Popular Post Share Posted March 11 Legit thought that was bacon & egg pie... Sorting the garage/office, found an old rotating file thing at the tip shop for $20, pulled it apart, gave it a clean, greased bearings and assembled it inside. Shit it's heavy... 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NickJ Posted March 29 Popular Post Share Posted March 29 Had access to a large plotter table at my last job which was super handy for reverse engineering or taking prototypes from the computer to the real world, could print notes and datums to cardboard before cutting out for test fits or confirming bolt holes before longer/expensive processes. Today step one of bringing that capability home began, a vivid/sharpy holder for my cnc router. 3/4" mm seamless tube offcut has the same id as the markers, weld 1 stainless washer to the end completes the holder body, complex eh! All I needed was a suitable compression spring to ensure the marker holds a constant pressure without needing a perfect level bed. Awesomely, big green and big orange hold stocks of these things, sadly they are both closed today, buzzkill. Wanting to test NOW a full workshop search was initiated with a suitable donor found in an old BB gun, the slide spring happed to be 110% perfect for the job. Length is set to hold the two types of marker I usually have littering every corner.... Fitted up into a tool holder and good to go 14 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlownCorona Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 I want to do that but with an Er11 chuck. Maybe the inside of a gel pen?? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickJ Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 22 minutes ago, BlownCorona said: I want to do that but with an Er11 chuck. Maybe the inside of a gel pen?? Ideally I wouldn't have it in a tool holder but couldn't find any easy locations on my Z to mount it, bit lol for how big the machine is! Having 19mm collets kinda made the decision for me as a quick and easy to get running. Cos ER11 is tiny, could you mount it with P clips on the side of the spindle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlownCorona Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 yeah thats a pretty solid idea, with a known offset to the real tool it would be simple enough and remain accurate for any markouts or things in conjunction with actual cutting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickJ Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 What controller are you running? Hopefully a tool table in there so XYZ offsets are simple to implement? Have dragknife blades on the way, plan to make a small holder that mounts in one of the 8mm subspindle chucks. If I get it right both the knife and pen will be just a tool change call away. Wonder if I can find some 50mm or less markers on Ali.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlownCorona Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 im about 90% done with setting up a full linuxcnc controller on a dedicated box. but just a cheap breakout board instead of fancy mesa cards like yours, my cutting speed and small table is forgiving enough to run happy within its limitations it seems. i just need to physically install limit switches so homing works and setup auto z probe and then actually learn how to operate the thing properly. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickJ Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 12 hours ago, BlownCorona said: im about 90% done with setting up a full linuxcnc controller on a dedicated box. but just a cheap breakout board instead of fancy mesa cards like yours, my cutting speed and small table is forgiving enough to run happy within its limitations it seems. i just need to physically install limit switches so homing works and setup auto z probe and then actually learn how to operate the thing properly. How are you setting it up without the Mesa board? Keen to see another way of putting it together! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HKM400 Posted April 1 Popular Post Share Posted April 1 Few more recent veneer projects, I sanded and re oiled the door and made a pattern for the edge, as it annoyed me being plain when the door is open. Bit of copper tape to tidy up the edges. Because the door hardware needed to be adapted to fit with the larch cladding, the latch area was a bit ugly so I made a cover for it out of plate, complete with creepy stamp text Made a floating shelf out of 2 pieces of 18mm mdf glued together, then a patterned front edge/top and bottom. The purple piece is Totara, really beautiful when oiled. Tried out making some 3D cube designs, I wanted it to sort of look like a serpent eye, the pupil is made of ebony. I think I fucked with it too much and then cut the board down into a weird geometric shape, I wasn’t really happy with it initially but it’s growing on me. Enjoying learning more techniques and trying to get my joins neater 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlownCorona Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 11 hours ago, NickJ said: How are you setting it up without the Mesa board? Keen to see another way of putting it together! just a cheap parallel port card and the stepper drivers that it came with. the para port card is nothing but patching the specific output wires from the DB24 port to the stepper drivers and the limit switches, z probe and e stop but through opto isolators for safety and with the addition of a couple of controllable relays. it relays on the computer itself to generate steps which so far seems to work fine. a large table such as yours may not be so gravy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickJ Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 9 hours ago, BlownCorona said: just a cheap parallel port card and the stepper drivers that it came with. the para port card is nothing but patching the specific output wires from the DB24 port to the stepper drivers and the limit switches, z probe and e stop but through opto isolators for safety and with the addition of a couple of controllable relays. it relays on the computer itself to generate steps which so far seems to work fine. a large table such as yours may not be so gravy Oh thats pretty simple! will get LCNC running really fast, all the little details in linux will make the machine really useable, excited for ya! I've just got my head around the PLC side of it, just mulling over how to re do the wiring then I can start looking at getting toolchange working, toolprobe etc etc. Wiring sucks cos once I move that its past the point of no return, up to now i've just been chipping away on another config file. Yeah parallel breakout won't work with my machine cos closed loop servo drives, needs the Mesa board to do the realtime movement control, which kinda sucks cos I pulled a stack of breakout boards from the previous controller! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
440bbm Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 17 hours ago, HKM400 said: Few more recent veneer projects, I sanded and re oiled the door and made a pattern for the edge, as it annoyed me being plain when the door is open. Bit of copper tape to tidy up the edges. Because the door hardware needed to be adapted to fit with the larch cladding, the latch area was a bit ugly so I made a cover for it out of plate, complete with creepy stamp text Made a floating shelf out of 2 pieces of 18mm mdf glued together, then a patterned front edge/top and bottom. The purple piece is Totara, really beautiful when oiled. Tried out making some 3D cube designs, I wanted it to sort of look like a serpent eye, the pupil is made of ebony. I think I fucked with it too much and then cut the board down into a weird geometric shape, I wasn’t really happy with it initially but it’s growing on me. Enjoying learning more techniques and trying to get my joins neater Thats wicked, seems time consuming asf. The black diamondy thing is doing my OCD in not being in the centre at all. What's the reason for that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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