My home build - so far so good

[Andy T]

Hi Guys,

Hello from the U.K.

Thought I'd share my homebuild with you all at this point as the young lady has just performed her 1st moves on the dance floor.
She's driven by an Acorn (4 axis), with x3 teknic sdsk servos and will have a 4th with a closed loop stepper and harmonic drive by Easter. I've built this for a specific purpose in mind. The base is filled with epoxy granite and after I've run her in anger for the 1st time she'll get a dose of EG in the gantry too. I suppose you could call it a mash up of a gantry type router and a machining centre. It'll be getting the 16 tool carousel ATC up and running very soon.

Critique and questions humbly accepted .

Cheers
Andy

[martyscncgarage]

Nice,
Sure looks like quite a build and labor intensive. Can't wait to see it doing its thing.
Marty

[Magneto]

Nice! I like the design and the construction method you used to achieve rigidity.

[suntravel]

Very cool, seems to be a rigid design.

Uwe

[Andy T]

Thanks for your kind words guys, i appreciate it.

In terms of rigidity i'm happy so far, at this stage its only when the spindle is at the very top of z that i have around 4/1000 of movement (front to back) but i have some extra plates to stiffen that up, but not fitted yet.

But a big shout out and thankyou to Marty, his video's on the Acorn & C86ACCP have been invaluable when i was 1st getting my head around the wiring and it was Tom at teknic who pointed me towards those.

still have some tidying to do and add a few more things in the panel, soon .

cheers
Andy

[cnckeith]

right on, cool design, looks rigid. thanks for posting.
reminds me of the old MHO designs. https://www.centroidcnc.com/compactmill.htm

i encourage you to post videos on youtube to reach wider audience.
and create a photo album of the machine with any of the online photo services such as google photos. and post the link here to the album so we can follow along with your project with hi res images. thanks, Keith