I guess the build doesn't officially begin until you either start tacking tubes or you are cutting aluminium for the wings but this is a big milestone for me; getting my shop organized for the build!
I built 3 tables, one of which is for my Small Mill / CNC Conversion to sit on. It will help me shape anything metal under 14" x 6" x 10". It is a 4 axis CNC and is based on a Grizzly branded Sieg X3 with a Sherline PN3700 4" rotary table for the A axis. I run LinuxCNC 2.5.3 as the controller and can dual boot into Windows for Mach3 if the CAD/CAM only supports the older G94 and not G93 Inverse Timing from RS274 NGC.
Notice the two CyberPower Sinewave UPS, I can run the entire setup for roughly 54 minutes during a power outage without losing a single step in the motors. What is amazing it one UPS runs the mill machine, computer and monitor while the second runs the stepper motor drivers only! Yeah, the motors driving the 4 axis really do take that much power!
So, when I finally have everything read to go and in place I will take a few more pictures and post them so I can have a "before" and "after" type page when I finish.
I built 3 tables, one of which is for my Small Mill / CNC Conversion to sit on. It will help me shape anything metal under 14" x 6" x 10". It is a 4 axis CNC and is based on a Grizzly branded Sieg X3 with a Sherline PN3700 4" rotary table for the A axis. I run LinuxCNC 2.5.3 as the controller and can dual boot into Windows for Mach3 if the CAD/CAM only supports the older G94 and not G93 Inverse Timing from RS274 NGC.
Notice the two CyberPower Sinewave UPS, I can run the entire setup for roughly 54 minutes during a power outage without losing a single step in the motors. What is amazing it one UPS runs the mill machine, computer and monitor while the second runs the stepper motor drivers only! Yeah, the motors driving the 4 axis really do take that much power!
So, when I finally have everything read to go and in place I will take a few more pictures and post them so I can have a "before" and "after" type page when I finish.
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