@@swolebro And now it's a party. To which I am a party. LinuxCNC please! Show everyone how it can be done! Oh, and full enclosure, with flood coolant. It would be a shame to have that much capacity without flood coolant.
give yourself some full-passthrough doors at the ends! you'll regret it if you give that up as soon as soon as you need to machine a pocket in the center of a full-length steel tube.
I built a similar full enclosure for my CNC machine and ended up having to redesign a big chunk of it to fix pooling & leaking issues. Lessons learned for me: if you plan to ever run flood coolant pay very close attention to how the coolant will flow through the system. In particular if there is any possibility of a leak as if flows down every surface (the gap between sliding doors is a big offender) and if there are any locations that it can pool up in. The enclosure should be able to handle a hose spraying coolant in every direction from the spindle. If you want to see what I did, here's a video of the upgrades th-cam.com/video/1de6fO-9ZDU/w-d-xo.html
Gday, definitely a brilliant idea prototyping the enclosure, I’m looking forward to seeing the new laser cutter in action a lot more, awesome video again, thanks. Take care Matty
My previous comment seemed to disappear, so there may be two. I definitely recommend a full enclosure. You will need a width that is quite a bit large than that of your current design, though. In order to calculate the enclosure width needed, use the following formula - ((table width / 2) - (saddle width / 2)*2) + (table width) + offsets of motor mounts / motors Edit - To add off of this make sure to account for your x axis motor being on one side of the table, you will have to offset the mill location in the enclosure accordingly. Make sure the offests are equal on both sides in your positioning.
I am really looking forward to watching your videos on product development. Playing in the garage is fun but it is on another level when it pays the bills.
i merged the two ideas, got the same machine just from another dealer; i used wood fiber plates, coated with epoxy and painted with a rubberized paint usually used for roofs to walk on, so it's heavy duty.... It is the sink, around the bottom of the mill, but it's open at the top: I did not want a full enclosure and i hate to dismantle a full one every time, so i came up with a "camping" idea: cut some 90° brackets and drilled holes to accept copper tubes (12mm) and build like a tent which anchors to said chip tray with some other brackets. Cheap shower curtains from amazon in gray to serve as a splash guard and presto. No more chips in the workshop, and the coolant gets funneled 100% back, no matter the RPM. Next up, it will receive a better splash guard to the front, i am thinking some drawer rails and steel tubing as a frame, that accommodates an aluminum chip tray in front of the vice. The acrylic glass will be replaced by proper stuff that holds back any shards of high speed tungsten that likes to pierce my skull, and the glass will be bigger, so it protects better on the full length of the table in 4 sections, that can be then moved with the rails full to the side like a section door. hope the inputs helps someone
The thunderstorm made me realize....you guys really need some sort of transient voltage surge suppression (TVSS) to protect your investments in your machinery. One good surge and....
I'd recommend poly-carbonate over acrylic, worth the price increase, given sizes and speeds 3/16" thick max should be fine for this. As an temporary measure or possibly long term, if you make a tub bottom, you could surround the machining area with a heavy curtain/inside shower curtain or some sort of heavy mil clear plastic. This is what I am planning to do once I go wet with my Tormach that has a bottom enclosure but no walls.
I'd take it one step further and go scratch resistant poly-carbonate. The regular stuff scratches if you look at it too hard. It's expensive, but so is replacing the regular stuff often so you can see through it. Right now it's all my supplier can get anyway. They said they might have acrylic the end of August.
Maybe not gull-wing, but if the front window was on a pivot at the top-right then it could swing up and out the way through a slot in the top. This way it could overlap the frame in a way that would keep the coolant inside, but wouldn't need to be on slides that feel like they would want to clog with swarf. So, not a Mercedes style gull-wing, more a Lamborghini style Scissor door.
andy pugh: As I was watching, I was pondering if one could design some sort of linkage that would allow a single-panel door to move fully out of the way of the opening in a vertical direction, sliding outward at the start, but only just a little bit, and then moving almost entirely vertically... I bet it could be done, though I'm not sufficiently familiar with linkages to know. Certainly one could do a linkage for pulling away, and then a bearing track for the vertical portion of the movement.
@@DavidLindes So, rather than a Mercedes Gull-wing or a Lamborghini, you want him to emulate the sliding door from a Transit van? That's not very exotic!
Open bed machines are good,. Can get pretty messy when you shell mill parts alot. I had a FryerVB-40 with bed/table top enclosure. Great machine when doing mid size production for speed of getting parts in and out of the vises ( 3 ) quickly. I built some side shields that were inexspensive with condiut and clear poly carb sheets. This helped keep the chips close to the machine when shell milling aluminum.
encloser are easy to find theres alot of dead cnc machines too old to be worth fixing check local scrap yards craiglist often free..so if your handy with cutting torch and stick or tig welder
Don't go for acrylic panes use polycarbonate: acrylic tends to be brittle, polycarbonate - while being more expensive - is impact resistent! If there's ever a failure inside of the enclosure (e.g. loose stock flung around) acrylic would be more likely to shatter, while polycarbonate would most likely stay structurally intact.
I'm new to the build. Awesome project. I gotta add. You might want think twice about enclosing your electronics with nasty environment in side the enclosure...with fans sucking it all in. You haven't lived until you try and find IC whiskers (Look it up).
Given the length of the enclosure vs the door size, I think you will either want 2 hinged doors or a vertical opening (on gas struts maybe?) For the enclosure, assuming you make it out of metal, I think you will want something that will positively press the doors against a foam strip when closed to prevent any annoying rattles. The enclosure shape looks good so far
Start with a smaller Chinese sourced machine... The one I have is 12" x 20" work area and a 50W laser. Less than $1500 delivered. With upgraded optics (about $150) it works great and has many of the features that "commercial" lower power laser cutters have. The manual for them sucks, but if you have any experience at all (I have about 28yrs of industrial laser experience), you'll be up and running in no time. The only reason I haven't started my own custom laser cuttting biz, is that my day job affords me the ability to cut all kinds of metal parts.
Perhaps you would consider the doors on the side of your enclosure being sized and positioned to allow you to place long pieces on the x axis (doors open for those odd shaped pieces you occasionally need to machine)
Yes, you need a full enclosure if you want to make proper chips and use decent flood cooling, as required by any self respecting YT Warrior these days. I started to make a "full enclosure" that allows the table to poke out at each side, through curtains. The aperture in the curtains moves with the table in Y axis and has its own flaps to contain the mess. Then I thought we were moving house and took it down before it got finished so now it's just a story. And now when I make chips, I get them everywhere and the coolant soaks everything again. I also bought an HVLP unit to blow the chips clear but that's still just a bar room story too.
Great to see that you guys are working on the enclosure! Maybe you do not need the roof all that much. If you'd ditch that you can also eliminate the upper brace above the front door opening. That would make it one less thing to hit with your head (ya never know if you might grow up a bit, or add some wooden flooring in front of the machine, well not for cold, but maybe if you wanna avoid chips getting in your flip flops :-) ). I like the idea of making the door slide upwards, but that might get in a way if you wanna work on the draw bar thingie. Anyhow, I'm really excited to see the next episodes! Have fun and stay safe! Oh, the name for that lil mill: Chippy or SplintR? :)
I cant remember if it was mentioned in your videos, or robot cowan's, but the tourmac cncs look to have changed the door design, to prevent water that hits the window from sliding down onto the ledge and leaking onto the floor. They did this by moving the lip that holds the sliding doors to the inside.
Oh good to know! The one we use must have been after that change (doors inside the box) but inevitable we'll run in to one that isn't. Also cool to see running design changes
I'm thinking about getting a 940m (or 833TV since it comes as belt drive) and converting to CNC, or getting a Tormach 770. How would you compare the rigidity of the Tormach to the 940? I will mostly be cutting tool steels and titanium. Also, maybe try aluminum extrusion for the frame of the enclosure?
if you are planning on using flood coolant, make sure to seal the seams of the enclosure well. even more irritating than chips on the floor is coolant on the floor. if there is a small hole, the sheer quantity of the stuff will cause it to leak a lot.
You have an enclosure for the mill already - its the entire garage. Solves the access problem and camera angles. All you need now is an intern to run the vaccuum (I volunteer!)
A garage?.........good idea, plenty of room, just curtain across the actual machine area or the chips will find themselves out of the door and into the hose on your boots.........but you need to make the floor area around the mill/lathe etc super waterproof and impervious to oil too so that you can just vac the crud up at the end of a day.
actually... what if you enclosed just the cutting head of the machine? use some sort of clear flexible material (like a table cloth cover that you can get from Walmart) and flood coolant for chip removal and cleanup. it would be like a clear curtain.
I will recommend to you to go for the sliding doors, opening and closing the doors to the outside creates a mess especially if you’re going to use coolant.
You have probably been told but those vises are not good for holding parts in a milling machine. They just don't have the strength, you want a kurt style vise as they use thrust bearings and have about 40,000 pounds psi and open easy.
Be very careful with laser cutting foam core -- it catches on fire very easily. Especially cut-off pieces that end up in your bottom tray -- the de-focused laser will turn them into kindling in the blink of an eye.
Stop... You're making too much sense! Actually my first thought after seeing that they've set up shop in a residential area, was how much their neighbors are going to love them when they start laser cutting plastics, foam or even plywood in earnest. The "stink" that is output from laser cutting likes to linger in the air on those hot humid (it is Florida after all) days!
@@swp466 Good idea, I'll have to consider something like that... My machine vents out into the back yard and on hot humid days (I'm in New England which isn't nearly as bad as FL, but not great in the summer either), I'm sure my neighbors can smell when I'm cutting birch/aircraft plywood, so I try to do this at night after dark.
A full enclosure only really makes sense if you have an automated machining centre... something with 5 or 6 axis and automatic tool changers. Otherwise it seems like it’s going to get in the way more than anything Also you should call the mill Linucks just for the haters
I have a mach3, planetCNC, linuxcnc, and centroid Acorn, centroid Acorn is simple, easy and most of all....it works. You don't have to learn a new OS. Command line maybe is faster for a expert but for the rest of us we have a cheat sheet with the commands or some gui program that we can click on a icon that shows us the command Line then we can copy and pasted to the command line 😞😞😞😞😞😞😞
Check out Chernegarose on YT, fellow hobby machinists started in garage and make their own product and have outgrown their shop that they just bought a property with garage to build their business up. I totally see you guys getting a 5k sqft warehouse and running your 20+ engineering company.
I hope the enclosure works out well! BTW, CLIs are user interfaces, and happen to be one of the best ones (not THE best, I'm only saying one of). Especially with how much work you were willing to invest in customizing Mach 3, you really should actually try LinuxCNC at some point. I believe their QT5+Python system allows for plenty amounts of customization, way more than you would get on Mach. LinuxCNC will be way more stable and reliable as well.
An enclosure is too restricting and cost too much to make bespoke.........clear the end of the workshop completely and make it a full area dedicated for the mill.
If you have not seen the enclosure Clough42 made for his mill you may want to look at that, it uses a curtain for the front and sides, it looks like it works quite well. Im bouncing between the same as the one you showed and one like his. www.thingiverse.com/thing:4385728
Linux cnc is the way to go unless you want to make fail fail fail make curse o and sinse you live in the usa get a mesa cart skip the paralel port it only will frustrate you trust me mesa will ship to Europe at the small cost of ~ 140$ and 150-200 $ shipping so I have to use parallel port
If you are looking at running LinuxCNC a group of guys I know have done a great job with a UI and setup process you will like, called Probe Basic. check it out in action here; th-cam.com/video/0tUJfmkSrIQ/w-d-xo.html , and check out a complete detailed installation here: kcjengr.github.io/probe_basic/quick_start.html. They are still adding new frequent updates. Great job with todays video guys, as always fun to watch and informative.
@@PhysicsAnonymous Yes it does. We are developing a series of CNC controllers for the mass market which will be running LinuxCNC and this UI. Chris (lead on dev work) is currently working on a Linear Tool Changer update, a lath tool changer update and also a new configuration process that is easy like Mach3/4 or UCCNC.
I'm just here to propose you the idea of using LinuxCNC on your mill.
I'm just here to upvote every comment suggesting LinuxCNC.
@@swolebro And now it's a party. To which I am a party. LinuxCNC please! Show everyone how it can be done!
Oh, and full enclosure, with flood coolant. It would be a shame to have that much capacity without flood coolant.
+62 for Linux
@@swolebro Ha ha same here. At least give it a try rather than trying so hard to stay with mach 3
@@billstrahan4791 Not having flood coolant will dramatically reduce the scope of jobs it can handle.
give yourself some full-passthrough doors at the ends! you'll regret it if you give that up as soon as soon as you need to machine a pocket in the center of a full-length steel tube.
Have you guys heard of LinuxCNC?
I built a similar full enclosure for my CNC machine and ended up having to redesign a big chunk of it to fix pooling & leaking issues. Lessons learned for me: if you plan to ever run flood coolant pay very close attention to how the coolant will flow through the system. In particular if there is any possibility of a leak as if flows down every surface (the gap between sliding doors is a big offender) and if there are any locations that it can pool up in. The enclosure should be able to handle a hose spraying coolant in every direction from the spindle. If you want to see what I did, here's a video of the upgrades th-cam.com/video/1de6fO-9ZDU/w-d-xo.html
Gday, definitely a brilliant idea prototyping the enclosure, I’m looking forward to seeing the new laser cutter in action a lot more, awesome video again, thanks. Take care Matty
My previous comment seemed to disappear, so there may be two. I definitely recommend a full enclosure. You will need a width that is quite a bit large than that of your current design, though. In order to calculate the enclosure width needed, use the following formula - ((table width / 2) - (saddle width / 2)*2) + (table width) + offsets of motor mounts / motors
Edit - To add off of this make sure to account for your x axis motor being on one side of the table, you will have to offset the mill location in the enclosure accordingly. Make sure the offests are equal on both sides in your positioning.
Can’t wait to see your ideas for mounting the panels together. My shower curtain has to go so I’m going to love this series.
USE LINUX CNC! 🤷🏼♂️😭
@zomgthisisawesomelol yes!
I have this amazing and original idea for the channel: USE LINUX CNC.
No seriously guys, mesa IS the way,.
LinuxCNC connects to MESA Cards OOB .... BTW
I am really looking forward to watching your videos on product development. Playing in the garage is fun but it is on another level when it pays the bills.
i merged the two ideas, got the same machine just from another dealer; i used wood fiber plates, coated with epoxy and painted with a rubberized paint usually used for roofs to walk on, so it's heavy duty.... It is the sink, around the bottom of the mill, but it's open at the top:
I did not want a full enclosure and i hate to dismantle a full one every time, so i came up with a "camping" idea: cut some 90° brackets and drilled holes to accept copper tubes (12mm) and build like a tent which anchors to said chip tray with some other brackets. Cheap shower curtains from amazon in gray to serve as a splash guard and presto. No more chips in the workshop, and the coolant gets funneled 100% back, no matter the RPM.
Next up, it will receive a better splash guard to the front, i am thinking some drawer rails and steel tubing as a frame, that accommodates an aluminum chip tray in front of the vice. The acrylic glass will be replaced by proper stuff that holds back any shards of high speed tungsten that likes to pierce my skull, and the glass will be bigger, so it protects better on the full length of the table in 4 sections, that can be then moved with the rails full to the side like a section door.
hope the inputs helps someone
Evan and Katelyn tshirt, nice!
The thunderstorm made me realize....you guys really need some sort of transient voltage surge suppression (TVSS) to protect your investments in your machinery. One good surge and....
I'd recommend poly-carbonate over acrylic, worth the price increase, given sizes and speeds 3/16" thick max should be fine for this.
As an temporary measure or possibly long term, if you make a tub bottom, you could surround the machining area with a heavy curtain/inside shower curtain or some sort of heavy mil clear plastic. This is what I am planning to do once I go wet with my Tormach that has a bottom enclosure but no walls.
I'd take it one step further and go scratch resistant poly-carbonate. The regular stuff scratches if you look at it too hard. It's expensive, but so is replacing the regular stuff often so you can see through it. Right now it's all my supplier can get anyway. They said they might have acrylic the end of August.
GULL WING DOOR(S)!!!
Maybe not gull-wing, but if the front window was on a pivot at the top-right then it could swing up and out the way through a slot in the top.
This way it could overlap the frame in a way that would keep the coolant inside, but wouldn't need to be on slides that feel like they would want to clog with swarf.
So, not a Mercedes style gull-wing, more a Lamborghini style Scissor door.
@@andypughtube nah full on gull wings. Half the to folding etc.
Enclosure could be smaller foot print and like 20x cooler
andy pugh: As I was watching, I was pondering if one could design some sort of linkage that would allow a single-panel door to move fully out of the way of the opening in a vertical direction, sliding outward at the start, but only just a little bit, and then moving almost entirely vertically... I bet it could be done, though I'm not sufficiently familiar with linkages to know. Certainly one could do a linkage for pulling away, and then a bearing track for the vertical portion of the movement.
@@DavidLindes So, rather than a Mercedes Gull-wing or a Lamborghini, you want him to emulate the sliding door from a Transit van?
That's not very exotic!
Open bed machines are good,. Can get pretty messy when you shell mill parts alot. I had a FryerVB-40 with bed/table top enclosure. Great machine when doing mid size production for speed of getting parts in and out of the vises ( 3 ) quickly. I built some side shields that were inexspensive with condiut and clear poly carb sheets. This helped keep the chips close to the machine when shell milling aluminum.
encloser are easy to find theres alot of dead cnc machines too old to be worth fixing check local scrap yards craiglist often free..so if your handy with cutting torch and stick or tig welder
Don't go for acrylic panes use polycarbonate: acrylic tends to be brittle, polycarbonate - while being more expensive - is impact resistent! If there's ever a failure inside of the enclosure (e.g. loose stock flung around) acrylic would be more likely to shatter, while polycarbonate would most likely stay structurally intact.
I'm new to the build. Awesome project.
I gotta add. You might want think twice about enclosing your electronics with nasty environment in side the enclosure...with fans sucking it all in.
You haven't lived until you try and find IC whiskers (Look it up).
Given the length of the enclosure vs the door size, I think you will either want 2 hinged doors or a vertical opening (on gas struts maybe?)
For the enclosure, assuming you make it out of metal, I think you will want something that will positively press the doors against a foam strip when closed to prevent any annoying rattles.
The enclosure shape looks good so far
Nice laser cutter. We got our 35x48 up and running at MakerFX. I wish I could get one for my house and start my own laser cutting biz
Start with a smaller Chinese sourced machine... The one I have is 12" x 20" work area and a 50W laser. Less than $1500 delivered. With upgraded optics (about $150) it works great and has many of the features that "commercial" lower power laser cutters have. The manual for them sucks, but if you have any experience at all (I have about 28yrs of industrial laser experience), you'll be up and running in no time. The only reason I haven't started my own custom laser cuttting biz, is that my day job affords me the ability to cut all kinds of metal parts.
Perhaps you would consider the doors on the side of your enclosure being sized and positioned to allow you to place long pieces on the x axis (doors open for those odd shaped pieces you occasionally need to machine)
You should really go for LinuxCNC and MESA. That's the way to go!
Top piano hinge plus the front sliding door. Use the door most of the time, hinged front when you need more access.
Yes, you need a full enclosure if you want to make proper chips and use decent flood cooling, as required by any self respecting YT Warrior these days. I started to make a "full enclosure" that allows the table to poke out at each side, through curtains. The aperture in the curtains moves with the table in Y axis and has its own flaps to contain the mess. Then I thought we were moving house and took it down before it got finished so now it's just a story. And now when I make chips, I get them everywhere and the coolant soaks everything again. I also bought an HVLP unit to blow the chips clear but that's still just a bar room story too.
Great to see that you guys are working on the enclosure! Maybe you do not need the roof all that much. If you'd ditch that you can also eliminate the upper brace above the front door opening. That would make it one less thing to hit with your head (ya never know if you might grow up a bit, or add some wooden flooring in front of the machine, well not for cold, but maybe if you wanna avoid chips getting in your flip flops :-) ). I like the idea of making the door slide upwards, but that might get in a way if you wanna work on the draw bar thingie. Anyhow, I'm really excited to see the next episodes! Have fun and stay safe! Oh, the name for that lil mill: Chippy or SplintR? :)
Hey PA, I would like to ask if your Mach 3 screen set has a Metric version?
In for the details on developing a product and bring it to scalability.
Whatever you name the CNC, you should name the enclosure “Millhouse”.
I cant remember if it was mentioned in your videos, or robot cowan's, but the tourmac cncs look to have changed the door design, to prevent water that hits the window from sliding down onto the ledge and leaking onto the floor. They did this by moving the lip that holds the sliding doors to the inside.
Oh good to know! The one we use must have been after that change (doors inside the box) but inevitable we'll run in to one that isn't. Also cool to see running design changes
definitely a full closed enclosure is the best!
I'm thinking about getting a 940m (or 833TV since it comes as belt drive) and converting to CNC, or getting a Tormach 770. How would you compare the rigidity of the Tormach to the 940? I will mostly be cutting tool steels and titanium.
Also, maybe try aluminum extrusion for the frame of the enclosure?
Seems like tons of makers are getting lasers lately. Even I've got a 280w, 4x8 table coming in on Monday!
Might check out centroid acorn controller, they are used in cnc retro fits but also industrial machines.
if you are planning on using flood coolant, make sure to seal the seams of the enclosure well. even more irritating than chips on the floor is coolant on the floor. if there is a small hole, the sheer quantity of the stuff will cause it to leak a lot.
waiting patiently for the Elegoo Mars linear rail video and part for sale :)
You have an enclosure for the mill already - its the entire garage. Solves the access problem and camera angles. All you need now is an intern to run the vaccuum (I volunteer!)
A garage?.........good idea, plenty of room, just curtain across the actual machine area or the chips will find themselves out of the door and into the hose on your boots.........but you need to make the floor area around the mill/lathe etc super waterproof and impervious to oil too so that you can just vac the crud up at the end of a day.
It's way way harder that you can imagine...good Luck!
Any details on the lubrication system? Btw, love your content.
Does the new laser cutter use linuxCNC?
Have you been happy with the pm 40 for this cnc conversion or do you wish you went with a dofferent model?
BTW, Tormach’s Pathpilot is based on LinuxCNC. Mach3/4 sucks. Go LinuxCNC!! Also use the MESA hardware with it.
This.
Milton-Spinsly gets my vote
How do you lubricate your ways on the cnc, my rf45 clone has no y axis Oilers, fine for manual but cnc ?
You could do something like a telescoping door, similar to really large mill-turn machines.
actually... what if you enclosed just the cutting head of the machine? use some sort of clear flexible material (like a table cloth cover that you can get from Walmart) and flood coolant for chip removal and cleanup. it would be like a clear curtain.
Hi there ,
What kind of splinde are you using?
Regards
Dude you guys really ought to get the unicorn on a shirt that thing would sell so fast.
I will recommend to you to go for the sliding doors, opening and closing the doors to the outside creates a mess especially if you’re going to use coolant.
Yea controller comparison vid!
I've always wondered why these types of full enclosures don't use acrylic panels in the roof to let more of your overhead shop light in.
Whoa, y'all live.
You have probably been told but those vises are not good for holding parts in a milling machine. They just don't have the strength, you want a kurt style vise as they use thrust bearings and have about 40,000 pounds psi and open easy.
Punk Rock Unicorn T-shirts when??
Having a cubic meter (27ft³) as an enclosure for a CR-10 I relate heavily to the thumbnail
Which software you use to design?
I think I ask this every time, and I am sorry, but I really really want the full deathmetal unicorn song please! PLEASE!
Nobody commented on Anonymous Bonaparte?
I'm a fan of Anonymous Bonaparte~
I could send you some images and design ideas from my mill conversion as I have done the same mill. If you want.. keep up the great videos.
Notification gang!
You should call the mill, Millicent.
Just waiting for the new show to start: "How to avoid Linux CNC at all costs". Ah no it's already running.
What part of FL?
That is a massive laser! Who makes it?
Be very careful with laser cutting foam core -- it catches on fire very easily. Especially cut-off pieces that end up in your bottom tray -- the de-focused laser will turn them into kindling in the blink of an eye.
Stop... You're making too much sense! Actually my first thought after seeing that they've set up shop in a residential area, was how much their neighbors are going to love them when they start laser cutting plastics, foam or even plywood in earnest. The "stink" that is output from laser cutting likes to linger in the air on those hot humid (it is Florida after all) days!
@@WHJeffB On my setup, I installed a carbon filter box to remove all but the slightest odor and smoke when cutting.
@@swp466 Good idea, I'll have to consider something like that... My machine vents out into the back yard and on hot humid days (I'm in New England which isn't nearly as bad as FL, but not great in the summer either), I'm sure my neighbors can smell when I'm cutting birch/aircraft plywood, so I try to do this at night after dark.
A full enclosure only really makes sense if you have an automated machining centre... something with 5 or 6 axis and automatic tool changers. Otherwise it seems like it’s going to get in the way more than anything
Also you should call the mill Linucks just for the haters
LinuxCNC... there is no way around
Mist go small, flood go big
You're going to start making stuff... Instead of just getting machine tools to fix other machine tools? Heresy.
LOL true...
Bare feet in a machine shop? Very ill advised, wait till you get a long thin sliver of swarf in your foot!
“Hand scrape the ways.” What happened to that?
i would at least make the front opening the same level as the topside of the table or lower. seems more easy to wrech and put stuff into it
full enclosure to keep everything out of the splash zone
do not forget the coolant spray
Run Centroid!!!!!!!!!
Alfa Romeo s are great cars! Why did I sell mine?
Why did I watch and listen to the entire last 40 seconds of unicorn music?
haha millie mc millface you should do that one.
I have a mach3, planetCNC, linuxcnc, and centroid Acorn, centroid Acorn is simple, easy and most of all....it works. You don't have to learn a new OS. Command line maybe is faster for a expert but for the rest of us we have a cheat sheet with the commands or some gui program that we can click on a icon that shows us the command Line then we can copy and pasted to the command line 😞😞😞😞😞😞😞
why not use Polycarbonate instead of acrylic
certainly Milly McMillface.
Milly McMillyface for sure
Check out Chernegarose on YT, fellow hobby machinists started in garage and make their own product and have outgrown their shop that they just bought a property with garage to build their business up. I totally see you guys getting a 5k sqft warehouse and running your 20+ engineering company.
oh wow i didn't know you live in groove street.
I guess you can call your enclosure "Milhouse"
Why not making the whole top part of the enclosure out of polycarbonate?
Idk how everyone gets it wrong. Chitubox is "chee-two"
You mean Polycarbonate, not Acrylic.
our makers space has the same laser
Love the E&K shirt. That one's my favorite.
MillyMcMillface ist already tanken by our hackerspaces CNC.
I hope the enclosure works out well! BTW, CLIs are user interfaces, and happen to be one of the best ones (not THE best, I'm only saying one of). Especially with how much work you were willing to invest in customizing Mach 3, you really should actually try LinuxCNC at some point. I believe their QT5+Python system allows for plenty amounts of customization, way more than you would get on Mach. LinuxCNC will be way more stable and reliable as well.
Did he say Fuc-s engineering?
Go to CentroidCNC Acorn. Its professional, cheap and reliable
An enclosure is too restricting and cost too much to make bespoke.........clear the end of the workshop completely and make it a full area dedicated for the mill.
If you have not seen the enclosure Clough42 made for his mill you may want to look at that, it uses a curtain for the front and sides, it looks like it works quite well. Im bouncing between the same as the one you showed and one like his. www.thingiverse.com/thing:4385728
Centroid all the way. Unless you're a nerd and want to tinker more than machine, then that's Linux.
So I guess you'll be making flux capacitors ? ;) Am I the 1000th person to make that joke ? Ok I'll shut up now......
Linux cnc is the way to go unless you want to make fail fail fail make curse o and sinse you live in the usa get a mesa cart skip the paralel port it only will frustrate you trust me mesa will ship to Europe at the small cost of ~ 140$ and 150-200 $ shipping so I have to use parallel port
If you are looking at running LinuxCNC a group of guys I know have done a great job with a UI and setup process you will like, called Probe Basic. check it out in action here; th-cam.com/video/0tUJfmkSrIQ/w-d-xo.html , and check out a complete detailed installation here: kcjengr.github.io/probe_basic/quick_start.html. They are still adding new frequent updates. Great job with todays video guys, as always fun to watch and informative.
This looks really good!
@@PhysicsAnonymous Yes it does. We are developing a series of CNC controllers for the mass market which will be running LinuxCNC and this UI. Chris (lead on dev work) is currently working on a Linear Tool Changer update, a lath tool changer update and also a new configuration process that is easy like Mach3/4 or UCCNC.
So...... LinuxCNC. Mach is junk. Atleast consider centroid or some real controls that are actually finished products.