CNC SIEG X2P Mill project with LinuxCNC

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SwarfnStuff:
Granddads and grandchildren can have good fun together. It's great to see your "little helper" in your workshop. I Doubt my 6yr old grandson would have the attention span needed yet. In fact I know he hasn't, being the outdoors type. An Air compressor? Amazing what takes their fancy.
Cheers, :thumbup:
John B

davro:
I was very surprised with Adam he has the patience of an old man and a very logical and practical mind even come up with the suggestion to use a piece of paper to find out if the Z axis had touched down.

I did cover over the plasma cutter but the air compressor provided great fun blowing his jumper up. I think he was sold when he found all air tools hanging up ;)

davro:
Just a little update on the mill.

Upgraded the x,y motors to 180Ncm 6mm Shaft Hybrid Stepper motor's and drivers, also have put all the electronics and computer motherboard and drives into a nice strong proper electrical box that I rescued from a skip, not a mark on it looks like old three phase distrubution box :) the wiring needs some dressing and finishing.

Here is a test that went quite well, I was using the LinuxCNC import image functionality! I simply made an image in Gimp typed some text generated png file and then imported said png into LinuxCNC up pops a dialog box configure some basics, toolsize, depth ... and all the gcode is generated.

davro:

Brass_Machine:
So I just watched the last two videos in this thread. I have some questions and comments... I am going to back through the videos etc to see if I can find the answers, but, I will ask anyway in case I can't find them.

1. I see a (what appears to be) Locost 7 in the vid. Powered by a Hayabusa engine. Do you have a build thread or videos anywhere of the car? Would like to see more about it.
2. I also saw some CF headlight buckets. Did you fab those as well?
3. Anodizing setup... good stuff. One of these days, I would like to be able to do that... care to share more info about it?

Thanks!
Eric

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