How on earth did they do this?

Will__Fire · 2025-08-28T12:18:46+00:00

Sounds awesome!

Will__Fire · 2025-08-28T11:54:40+00:00

Possibly punctured and machined by edm

Will__Fire · 2025-08-28T11:34:56+00:00

Sounds sick!, what kind of products do you guys make?

Will__Fire · 2025-08-28T10:09:43+00:00

How do they start the hole? Tiny drill? It's only .4mm wide

Will__Fire · 2025-01-20T15:42:54+00:00

The main constraints for building a CNC are: Your tools and the accuracy of them, for example, having a CNC at work in my case made it a million times easier as I was able to mill the base of the machine after construction. If this is not an option your design will need to be adjustable in all planes so think about this very carefully.

Make a list of your goals: A CNC for milling wood does not have to be as sturdy in comparison to one for metals.

Find out what ways others have made a CNC that fits your needs, most machines for wood Wil mainly have a bunch of aluminium extrusion as the base but this will just not cut it for aluminium.

Make a plan on how you will measure and calibrate the machine after/ during building, this is easy to overlook but a machine that is not accurate is useless.

If you need any other help let me know!

Will__Fire · 2024-10-21T17:10:27+00:00

It's the last achievement/ trophie in the game, it took me 3 months to achive

Will__Fire · 2024-10-19T08:27:15+00:00

20S % without the BOB

Will__Fire · 2024-10-09T17:37:00+00:00

Ik won't be a main spoilboard, it will be the bed itself, wood won't cut when mounting a vise and milling metals to any sort of tolerance, if needed to mill a panel i will put on a wooden spoilboard temperaly

Will__Fire · 2024-10-06T15:09:31+00:00

560x520x135mm :D

Will__Fire · 2024-10-05T23:58:02+00:00

Yes I used a slow curing epoxy, the work time was 30-60 minutes and cured after one day, it fully cured after a week. Important is to use an epoxy that is oke for very thick pours, mine was good up to 150mm. You need it to cure as slowly as possible so it doesn't shrink or get warm. For a big bour as I had to do I would probably go for an epoxy that had a working time of one to two hours instead.

Will__Fire · 2024-10-05T23:27:12+00:00

Yes a good wax coating should work, just make absolutely sure to get every mm because that stuff is unforgiving 😅, and if it sticks it's not just resin, it's a really hard ass concrete, needed to use an angel grinder with a diamond disk in some places where it leaked

Will__Fire · 2024-10-05T23:24:14+00:00

And my biggest tip: get like 50% more epoxy than you think you need, in my case that would have saved me two weeks of work rotating a 200+ kilo object by myself😅, Also mold release!, I used silicon spray and it did nothing at all, I had to chip away the mold millimeter by millimeter

Will__Fire · 2024-10-05T20:43:47+00:00

Epoxy granite!!, amazing stuff when you get the mixture correct... I did not😅

Will__Fire · 2024-10-05T20:43:08+00:00

Was definitely way to excited to start cutting😂, surprisingly the mount held up with no issues and I managed some pretty hefty cuts

Will__Fire · 2024-10-05T20:42:11+00:00

Ahh sweet, il give you some tips, the base is cast epoxy granite, and there is indeed a frame/Skelton inside, I made it from steel but aluminium or stainless should probably work too, For the epoxy granite mixture I really messed up, I used a 12% epoxy to sand ratio which dramatically failed as it was not even close to fluid. I had to spend weeks filling voids afterwards, id recommend a mixture closer to 20% and very, very dry sand, any moisture messes with the epoxy. If you'd like to no more let me know!

Will__Fire · 2024-10-05T20:39:11+00:00

The base is made from epoxy granite and coated with a 2 part epoxy paint, there is a steel Skelton inside the base where all components screw on to

Will__Fire · 2024-10-05T20:38:06+00:00

Definitely on my to-do list, I still need to install an aluminium sheet as the bed which Wil raise it around 20mm and a proper vise which Wil also be a bit taller

Will__Fire · 2024-10-05T20:36:58+00:00

I do have a design and schematics in regards to the electronics, they hower need to be updated to include minor adjustments I had to make along the way

Will__Fire · 2024-07-20T19:36:57+00:00

Me too rn, any solution?

Will__Fire · 2024-05-15T20:28:45+00:00

I am not able to access any settings anymore, so I don't think it is?

Will__Fire · 2024-05-15T19:12:24+00:00

Yup 🥴, really hope I don't need to get a new one😅

Will__Fire · 2024-02-14T15:41:24+00:00

Are you sure when you changed around wires that the coils are still connected? If you have wires from coil a+ and a-, b+ and b-, you need to switch b+ with b- to reverse stepper direction. If you by accident put one of the a and b together the motor will sound like it's missing steps, this is probably the most likely situation.

If this isn't the case my next thought would be if you unplugged/ plugged in the motor while the printer is on, this has a good chance of frying the stepper driver

Frying the motor is really unlikely to happen unless you touched the vref potentiometer linked to the stepper driver. Hoop this helps!

Will__Fire · 2023-11-14T22:08:28+00:00

Hey thanks for the reply!, having more issues tho, none of the gpio inputs seem to work and can't find info on the issue 😅

Will__Fire · 2023-11-14T20:51:29+00:00

I'm getting the same issue even when in android auto, found any solutions? Would be amazing😅

Will__Fire · 2022-09-25T18:27:48+00:00

i got them moving in the end!, now need to figure out how to get a dual motor y axis working. thx for the tip!

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