Mav68erick
got it painted, took alot longer then I expected shoulda painted it black so I didnt have to keep going over it but it looks good. You went with a tractor color so I decided to as well. But I went Kabota Orange. looks like chevy red to but never seen an orange plasma table yet so I said wth. Problem was the closest TSC to me had 3 cans figured it was enough nope... Had to drive to the out skirts of the other side of town and got 4 more cans. no pics phone died, youd think with todays tech and these new phones it would last more then oh say 10 hrs on a full charge and I dont even really use it.
So the hardware thats on its way ups, does it have all the bolts for the gantry to bolt it to the rails? The box with my plasma contorller had some extra bolts with the springs on them and I assume those are extra rollers that were in the boxes.
wickedinhere
Kubota orange? say it aint so! LOL The small boxes are the pinion gears for the motors. What bolts are you talking about?
Mav68erick
Its just orange looked like kabota. The 40 so bolts that bolt the 2 v rails to your table.
Mav68erick
Nevermind they came with my cable carrier today, now just the electronics and Im assuming the softwares with that box. Off to buy some drill bits and a drill bushing
jeepsr4ever
Stainless steel drill bushing is in the box in the white envelope
Mav68erick
hmm didnt see a white envelope will double check. are the slat holders in a different box coming ups?
edit: knew I thought something was in that foam. Bushing and CD
Mav68erick
oh all the softwares on the cd to aswell cool
Mav68erick
Drilled tapped all my holes, and guess what broke the dam tap coming out of the last hole when I started to use the drill lol... sigh It came out pretty easy though.
my X glides smooth enough when I glide it from pushing in the middle, Its prolly why its set up with 2 motors, you push it from either of the ends that the motors mount to you can cock it and even pull it off the v rail. the pinions will prolly keep that from happening as well.
Questions: Slats holders shipped seperate from the gantry? there wasnt any in that, and my cabble carrier box was obviously to small, and any insight on when Ill be seeing the electronics?
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I also left the end holes and 1 in the middle on each side un drilled. after its up and running and 100% positive its set in the right spot, Ill prolly dowel them, cant think of any reason why Id ever need to take them off but ya never know, prolly since my paint was slightly still tacky It will leave a nice witness mark of where she sat anyways.
Mav68erick
oh yea one more thing, those limit stop bolts are dangerous, I about ripped my you know whats on them about 4 times walking around it = ) If my electronics arent here for the weekend im gonna be doing some hefty garage cleaning and moving stuff around to finalize the tables placement, work my bench in the back into the mix and the shop press close by need to figure out where im gonna put the pc, want it somewheres I can sit down on a stool and mess around. got to much crap, and cant really get rid of it, its all big and I need pretty much all of it.
well time for bed, so hard to sleep when your this excited
jeepsr4ever
I really like that color!
Mav68erick
Electronics ETA?
And I deleted my demo of Mach and installed the one on the setup disk, and didnt know where to throw the license, I tossed it in the mach folder but it still asks for a license.
edit: I guess it only said no license found on first start up, now it doesnt pop up must be working
There also seems to be alot of conflicting data in the instructions on the setup pages.
One post older says use MP 3000 the top sticky uses MP1000. Then you scroll down and says if using Sheetcam use MP 1000.
- Does that mean use MP 1000 in Sheetcam or in Mach3 or in both? I assume just in sheetcam as thats all there was under post processors.
- So Mach is 3000 how ever you get that as a profile as all I have is Mill Turn Plasma and no instruction how to load the 3000, and then use 1000 in sheetcam?
I also searched the web on how to license mach, Install --> move license ---> reboot. Still no go, cant read the license file at all and the web doesnt open it either.
And mach 3 Says mach4 on the top when it shows a licenseing error.
Mav68erick
nope any way I install reboot drop license install drop license then reboot does nothing. Now my license wants to open as a notepad file as I was trying to open it.
I think some of the instructions need revamped and wrote a little more clear, I cant even find it on the mach 3 site
Im guessing the Mp 3000 1000 stuff comes from CandCnc? to load as a profile in mach? EIther way I gotta go do something before I kill someone, installed this 20 times and still cant get it off demo version and theres shit for walk throughs online about it. all they say is drag and drop reboot and done, but everyone seems to still have a problem and its magically fixed with no post on how it was completed.
wickedinhere
Did you Copy your MACH3 license into the MACH3 main folder?
Mav68erick
yep 10 different times 10 different ways
Copy paste drag drop... Drop it reboot run it... drop try it. Install reboot drop it reboot. Doesnt do squat and it seems alot of people have the same issue.
wickedinhere
I hope you figure it out before i give it a try.
Mav68erick
yeah.. today Im gonna get a bigger pc for my water tray and rearrange my work space in the garage clear some benches out. Then need to tweak my v rails somemore.
there are exactly the same width apart.... but when its fully forward theres .010 gap between 1 roller and the rail even though it still rides on it. then when it gets to the back it fully touches then the other side of the table another rollers .010 off.. Like I was saying and asking earlier about the square tubing being twisted is prolly causing this. Im thinking since 3 wheels are fully contacted plus 2 motors I may leave it, I may also adjust the rollers some more to cut the distance they are off by half and .005 isnt really crap to me.
Oh yeah wicked I seen in the setup part of the forum, the cable carriers someone made a mount that mounted on the laser cut plates that hold the rollers on. To connect the cable carrier behind the Y rail. the X rail goes on one side and lays on on pc of angle or inside c Channel, any thing flat to rest on. the only thing was As I was mocking up holding it last nite, if you put it to far back it will make the table longer when the torch gets to the back because it has to form the Radius in the looop unless you mount it lower. I wanna have it high so it makes a nice bend but I guess Ill have to do whatever works and space allows.
I also think Im gonna use my 2 cans of por 15 I got, if the ones still good after opening it, to paint my water tray spent 100 bucks to use it on my car and never did because I cut anything rusty out. Did use it in the A pillar when I cut it out before welding in the new piece though. figure Por 15 the inner pan and spray the outter black if I dont have enough, just got 2 pints
wickedinhere
I had one wheel that wasnt touching the v-rail also, what i did was loosen the 4 bolts on each side where the wheel plates bolt to the gantry. When i did that it fixed the problem i guess it was slightly racked. Yeah i finally found some pics of the cable carrier setup. How did you determine where to put your stops at i just kinda guessed i am wanting to weld my water tray to the table. I really need the motors so i can set the stops and position my water tray.
Mav68erick
I just bolted the stops an inch from the ends atm, so I cant accidently roll my gantry off the table... that would be bad. I alread adjusted the 4 bolts that hold the plats to the extruded alm. All 4 wheels still touch just at one end the V rail isnt perfectly centered in the wheel groover and can see light through it, they all still roll and touch just 1 isnt centered, and I dont know why, 2 shouldnt be because at one end all 4 are dead nuts in the groove.
Im not welding my water tray to the table Im gonna bolt it. weld 3 say 2" or 3" wide angle under neither where it over hangs the front or back. and Bolt it through the square tubing. 1. that way I can take it off and 2. If you tray is bowed a alittle you can clamp it down before drill your bolt holes or using self tapping bolts make it the tray flat to the table and then clamp and bolt it. now vola! flat. Should only need 4 brackets one for each corner, the more technical the table look the more professional looki it seems to people that dont have a clue... hehe
jeepsr4ever
Electronics are shipping out on monday. The file you use for Mach 3 is on the support disk with the electronics. MP1000 is for Sheetcam only as listed in the instructions in the secret support area on the forum. Also there it says to just drag and drop the mach1lisc file into the C:/Mach3 directory. Sheetcam liscenses a different way throught he "HELP" menu and "Install liscence". The ESP2 electronics are advanced and have a new DTHC wiring with them. Dont worry your still pulling what you need for the older DTHC from the plasma cutter however their is another little box that is in line wired with the DTHC card. This helps us with any mistaken error....ie if you are getting a jittery Z axis and your calling tech on this it wouldnt be a DTHC card issue it is the settings in Mach 3 and the extra little box will tell you there is no error. It is all very easy to do and hook up.
Mav68erick
yeah the drag and drop doesnt work, guess Ill have to email the mach3 guy. Advanced is good.
So I got about 75% of my tray welded and boom!! the steel popped the other way and scared the shit outta me. the way I welded it IS I planned on it bowing down, so it acted like a bowl so it was lower in the center. Because when I welded my middle water tray support in I made it lower then the other 2 = ), that way I can put a drain in the low spot. only thing is I think it bowed more then I expected. I layed it on top of my angle, so It has 3/16 + 1/16 or so before it touches the table support. Once It filled with water and supports it should have enough weight to hold it down, I just dont want it to pop back up when its running, I may have to tack and angle piece and screw it i the center to my support just for security. w/e ill figure it when Its ready to go up on the table
