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Offline ddmckee54

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Re: It's new to me
« Reply #25 on: February 19, 2026, 11:57:37 PM »
This time I remembered to export the new CNC assembly as a JPG file.

The magenta colored bits are the parts that will be 3D printed.  I added all the spacers to the 3D model that will be used to bolt the main frame to the base, and the spacers that will turn the two Y extrusions into a sort of truss.  Coincidently, all those spacers also got printed today, and the center-points for the holes in the base got laid out.  I've got to get the holes drilled in the X and Y rails so I can verify that the locations are correct before I drill the base.
Too many irons, not enough fire.

Offline ddmckee54

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Re: It's new to me
« Reply #26 on: Today at 01:18:39 AM »
Well...  It's one step forward and two steps back time again.  I got the machine mostly disassembled, the Y rail extrusions have been removed, marked, drilled, and bolted back together into a single truss.  (Had to run out and get some longer bolts, the bolts I had were too short, or too long.)  I also added the grease zerks to the Y axis linear bearings, two straight zerks on the two top bearing blocks, and two 90 degree zerks on the bottom blocks to make greasing them easier. 

I had taken one of the X axis rails off and as long as I has the kit of zerks fittings out I figured that I'd add the zerks to those bearing blocks as well.  All of the set screws in the Y axis bearing blocks were black oxide, the set screws in the X axis blocks were SS.   I didn't pay too much attention to that at the time.  Not, until I discovered that the Allen wrench that fit the black oxide screws would not fit the SS screws - too big.  That's when I discovered that the black oxide screws were M6 - which I knew, but the SS screws were M5.  I ain't got no stinkin' M5 grease zerks, M6, M8, M10, 1/8" BSP, and 1/4" BSP I've got - but no M5's.  They are now on order.  The X rail that is out has been marked and drilled, tomorrow I'll remove the other rail and get it marked and drilled too.  I center punched the mounting hole location that was closest to the edge of the base, when I used a transfer punch to mark the other mounting hole in that rail it was about 10mm off from my layout.  I remember that when I added the mounting holes to the base, one of the mounting holes at the RH end of the machine was 10mm off - so I corrected it on the base.  I then made the 2D drawing of the base that I used to lay out the mounting hole locations on the base.  I think I moved the wrong hole in the model, so that's why the RH mounting hole locations were wrong.  Good thing I decided to do a sanity check before drilling the holes in the base.
Too many irons, not enough fire.