Tormach 440 Enclosure Mods
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2024
- I decided to pimp out my 440 a little bit with some LED lighting, magnetic window stops, and an external power switch and LED for the PathPilot controller. Here are the parts I used:
LED Lighting:
LED Strips - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01...
Power Supply - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
Remote Control - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
Connectors - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01...
Magnetic Window Stops:
Magnet - www.ebay.com/itm/321893668183?...
Knob/Screw/Washer - local hardware store
Power Switch:
3.5mm Extension Cable - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
Momentary Button - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
LED Holder - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
3.5mm Snap-In Jack (e-stop box) - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
3.5mm Jack (computer) - www.amazon.com/3-5mm-Stereo-P...
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I just wanted to say thank you Rob for chatting with me about your new 440. You answered the questions I had been wondering about.
Robert, nice work. I really like the remote power switch and LED indicator for the computer.
Great mods Robert. I will definitely use on my soon to be delivered 440.
Great vid! Pleas keep doing them :) Another idea I did on my mill. I changed the boot settings in the bios to auto boot at X time and to restart after power loss. When I apply power to the mill itself, the bios gets power and boots up.
Awesome mods!
Hi Robert,
Many thanks for sharing your tips. I like the LED lighting.
John
+helicopterjohns Sure thing.
x2 " another great video" cant wait to see some videos of this machine working, there are a lot of aluminum shaving in the enclosure.
Thank you for this video Robert. Our University just purchased two 1100M’s and after we put the enclosures on, I was kind of disappointed that the only access inside the enclosure was through the front doors. That was until I saw this video and saw how you could lift the side glass. The 1100 has four brackets (one on each side of the glass panels and they are squeezed tight to create a seal. I think I will try taking the top bracket off and loosening the three other brackets just enough to allow me to lift the panels like you do. I know it won’t be as smooth acting as your panels are, but I am hoping it will at least make it easier to do machine cleanup and be able to access other components inside the enclosure , hopefully without causing a coolant leak. Thank you very much. You do excellent videos.
Who would've thought I'd find you here after taking your class 4 years ago! Thought you might like to know that I'm looking to get my own 440 or 770 next year to machine some molds similar to what you had us do in lab. Really appreciate the time you spend to teach us know it all engineers a thing or two about actually making things!
@@noahhastings6145 OMG … hope your doing well Noah. The Tormach have been good to me as long as you stay within their constraints. Thank you for the kind words and Best of Luck to you and your future endeavors.
Hello Robert, I've now seen a couple of video's and like them quite a lot! Just subscribed and looking forward to new video's
Thanks! There are certainly more videos coming.
Nice LED mod!
Robert, great video and genius ideas. Looking forward to hearing how the 440 handles 4340 heat treated to 37-41 RC if by chance you ever run some through it.
+DavidPruittTV Thank you very much! I don't do a lot of steel, but maybe this is an excuse to try!
Nicely done. How does Tormach feel about the two modifications? Wouldn't going into the internals of the computer case void any manufacturer's warranty? Can your Tormach do pretty much anything your manual lathe and manual mill you turned into a CNC mill used to do?
If you'd posted this on a Friday, it would have been just like old times. :)
+dwDragon88 New Hacks Friday... :-)
+dwDragon88 ha, I wish I could post Fridays, but I need to spend the weekend editing. I wish this was my main job.
+Robert Cowan (Rowen Hobbies) What are you doing for a living ? Real nice videos btw !
+Ben's things & thoughts I'm the product manager for eGauge Systems. We make energy monitoring devices for solar, submetering, etc.
Nice work! Thank you for taking the time to share your early experiences with the 440 with us. These videos are kinda the tipping point for some of us who are still on the fence. So thank you. I look forward to seeing what you come up with in the future.
You planning on milling up a sweeto zoetrope to go with some of that LED strobe goodness?
+Ryan Rivas Close, but not quite ;-)
SWEET!
Nice mods! But good Lord, man -- we need to take up a collection for a shop vac so you can clean up your swarf! :-D
+EweTwoughb Haha, I specifically wanted to show a pile of chips just so no one accuses me of not using the mill ;-)
+Robert Cowan (Rowen Hobbies) In that case . . . WIN!!!
The magnetic stops for the side door are brilliant.
+EweTwoughb Hah, thanks! I actually had designs for little 3D printed tabs and a bunch of other ideas, but the 'aha' moment was just making these little magnetic stoppers, they are perfect.
Did your LED strips stay stuck? I bought the same LED strips from your Amazon link, and they fell off overnight the first night.
Did you do any surface prep? I put my LEDs on before ever running with coolant so I presumed the surfaces to be clean.
Mine did stick... You have to REALLY press them down hard, and then repeat that step a day or so later. I just did a simple wipe-down before I installed them. They're still stuck.
Nice video and great mods. All of them are simple and effective. Sometimes I think we over-design things because we can.
Have you thought about the LED connections not being waterproof? I know they are at the top of the cabinet but you may want to seal them. I was thinking a bit of hot glue would work but still be able to be removed in the future. Also, were the holes for the doorstops there from the factory?
As for the psychedelic machining party lights... I LOVE IT! 🎊🎉 I wonder if you would be able to do I me the lights to stop the chips in mid air. 😎
+Eric Wolf Thanks! I tried to make things easy and not go all fancy. I could have easily used the lathe to machine a knob for the window stops, but there was no point. I opted for simple.
Regarding the LED, it is actually sealed from behind with hot glue. It's in a great place to NOT get wet, but that's the reason I used one of those LED holders. I just put the LED in from the back and filled the whole backside with hot glue. It has pigtails coming off of it, so the faceplate is still easily removeable.
Yeah, the doorstops were in there from the factory. I would have done something else if they weren't, since I wouldn't want to drill into the powder-coating.
FOR THE COMPUTER YOU CAN SET C..MOS (IN THE SETUP) ...SO WHEN YOU TURN ON THE COMPUTER ON WITH THE RED POWER SWITCH WORKS GREAT..
Yeah, I learned that a bit later unfortunately. On the 440 there is only one power outlet and that's for the coolant system.
THAT I DIDN'T KNOW. THINKING THE 440 CAME OUT LATER YOU WOULD THINK THEY WOULD PUT IN AN OUTLET FOR THE PC..
No need for all caps ;-) I think they were trying to save some cost. The fuse, relay, etc adds some money, so they probably omitted it. Plus there's not a lot of room in the cabinet.
Another great vid! Great tips, too!! Thanks!
I was just looking at the LEDs......there's no mention of the connectors in the listing. Others say that they have them. Did yours come with connectors?
+bluehandsvideo Oops, forgot about that. I bought them separately, I've added a link above, but here it is: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015FG490U/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s03?ie=UTF8&psc=1
+Robert Cowan (Rowen Hobbies) Awesome! Thanks!! Just ordered them.....bit slow on the shipping(7-15 days), but I'm not in a hurry. :)
Mike
+bluehandsvideo Great! They make the whole project a LOT easier. If I wasn't filming, it would have been less than an hour start to finish. I have to admit, it's a LOT better than my previous ring light that I made for my other mill.
+Robert Cowan (Rowen Hobbies) I certainly understand the filming taking up time......but it's the editing that REALLY takes the time!!
I've seen ring lights that put out plenty of light, but none that really put the light where I wanted it........and I like a lot of light!! :)
Good stuff. I wish you luck with the adhesive back LED lights. Mine started to fall off after a few weeks. Yes they were applied to a clean new surface. But I'm running kero as a lube and I think the mist combined with the heat didn't help. Let us know if you have a similar problem.
+Richard Cournoyer Yeah, I'm crossing my fingers. I used some good foam double-stick tape at the T connectors, so hopefully that will help hold everything together. Yeah, I think mist wouldn't help much at all. If they start falling off, I can use another adhesive.
+Robert Cowan (Rowen Hobbies) the 3M tape used to hold accessories to trucks, like rail caps, is very strong, but solvents may still be an issue. If worse comes to worse, maybe you could mill out some aluminum strips to hold the LED strips in a channel, and attach with screws? When you have a CNC mill, many things become possible....just a matter of cleverness and time! (And sometimes money of course).
-- Mike
Since PathPilot is LinuxCNC derived, why doesn't it do an ACPI shutdown and turn off the computer, from the display panel?
+eformance I'm not sure. That's what I thought first, but when you shut down in pathpilot, it just closes the program, it doesn't really do much else. You still need to hold down the button for awhile to turn things off. I was looking for a software solution, but in the end it was just easier to wire it up like I did.
+Robert Cowan (Rowen Hobbies) So Tormach probably has PathPilot setup to run as part of Init runlevel 5, with the default runlevel set to 5. When you exit the program the script doesn't restart, so the machine just sits there dumb. The solution is to edit the script that runs X and PathPilot so that after it executes PathPilot, it runs 'shutdown -h now' to turn off the machine. That way when you exit PathPilot the machine will shutdown. I should probably DL the PathPilot ISO and run it in a VM and start looking at how to hack on it. Though I don't have a Tormach, so...
+eformance I don't have a lot of experience with Linux; I know hardware better. For me it was easier to add a physical button.
THERE IS A NEED I CANT FIND MY GLASSES..LOL
I HAVE THE 770...
that led light seems to be of very unnatural and unpleasant color. i guess its also the white balance of the camera, but surely one reason for the light is to get better shots
+Lothar Gesslein Single-color LEDs always show up a bit strange on camera. They look more purple/blueish than in real life. It's partly due to their actual color, but it's also due to how the camera's white balance acts when there's already other lighting present. I have fluorescent tubes in my shop, and that's the primary lighting source. So the camera will want to adjust white balance to that light source. Since the LEDs are a different color, it's hard to get a balance between the two.
The primary purpose of the LEDs wasn't necessarily better shots (although it does help tremendously), it was really just being able to see. If you scribe on a block of aluminum, it's hard to see with the enclosure adding a shadow. In future videos when I film inside the enclosure (while machining), I'll just adjust the white balance and you shouldn't be able to tell the difference in color. It's one of the tradeoffs of using LED, it's hard to get a natural white, especially from cheaper LED strips.