Work on CNC Sunday?

[Scootlex]

I'm thinking of putting in a half day Sunday morning. Anyone want to come hang out? There's a little wiring work to be done if that's your fancy.

... I have a glue spreader ( for linoleum glue ) I'll bring. You bringing your glue, Derek?

Fwiw, lunch has been provided the last few weeks. No promises, but trends are trends...

Lemme know if anyone wants to come. Not sure if ill head down alone.

-dave

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[Derek Eggers]

Wish I could. We have family coming in and I'll be spending the rest of the weekend grading final presentations. Next week for sure!!!
-Derek

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[James L]

I can come down to lend a hand Sunday morning. If we need any tools/supplies let me know.

James

[Scootlex]

Sounds good, James. I'll be there around 9 or 9:30.

-dave



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[David Hempy]

Omw...

[Scootlex]

Good work today.

We swapped out the new Z rails, which tightened up all the slop there.  The new adjusters I made didn't work.  I thought they went in a hole in the mdf, but they go inside the bearing.  I planned on drilling a bigger hole in the mdf to accommodate it, but obviously that we can't bore out the bearing.  The good news is that with the new rails, we actually had to adjust them all the way wide, so we are ok. 

We trammed the router orthagonal to the table.  Thank goodness James new a smart way to do that...it turned out near perfect about the Y axis.  Adjusting about the X axis is harder,moving all the v bearings.  Fortunately, it was close enough to perfect that we didn't fool with it. 

We glued the second spoil board down and surfaced it flat.  If you look at the end edge of the board, you'll see that it took a fair bit more off the center than the long edges.  I was surprised by that!  

Do we need to paint the edges of the mdf to avoid moisture absorption? 

After a few inches of cutting, we saw we were kicking out too much dust and stopped the job.  We fashioned another duct-tape-and-cardboard dust shoe,which was near 100% effective at catching all the dust.  

Given how unpopular dust would be at Collexion, I'm inclined to go ahead and order one of these:

http://www.kentcnc.net/nc/products/94-standard-dust-shoe.aspx 

Yeah, we can make our own for (maybe) half the cost, but how many jobs will we run with poor dust collection before then?  If anyone is chomping at the bit to make one, speak up now.  Otherwise ill order one tomorrow evening.

Our e-stop button is now working for the first time.  Yay, safety!  

I happy to say we are now ahead of where we were when we tore the machine downs few weeks ago.  Yay, progress! 

Next up: limit sensors, bolt tracks down, rip mdf boards between tracks, router relay, better dust hose support, etc. 

Needs: caulk, magnets, great ideas...

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[Derek Eggers]

Great progress! Thanks for the update.

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