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Charlene

Good point Wicked, we will slide it over. Thanks Matt, we are certainly making some headway. Hopefully the hardest part is behind us!

jeepsr4ever

Charlene;131715 wrote
Good point Wicked, we will slide it over. Thanks Matt, we are certainly making some headway. Hopefully the hardest part is behind us!

Yes it is!

Charlene

So today we got the water table almost finished! We decided on 5 inches deep. Tomorrow we will grind down the welds and check for any weak spots. [ATTACH=CONFIG]132[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]133[/ATTACH]

Charlene

Okay, we are getting ready to hook up the electronics to our cutter. Would love any help that we can get!! Please & thank you. Matt - Any luck with some pics of the new gantry setup so we can check our work. Also, when we attach the machine torch & torch mount to the breakaway plate, it will fall off with the slightest of movement...? Any suggestions? Thanks.

jeepsr4ever

You may have to zip tie your machine torch lead to your cable carrier. The cable carrier will pull the torch. If you are still having trouble after trying that pm me please. In the next 2 days we will have very nice pics up. Sorry its taking so long we had some boo boos in mfg that is pooling all our guys.

jeepsr4ever

Let me know how that works. It should already be in the instructions. If not we will add it. The problem is the torch lead is strong enough to overcome almost any magnetic pull.

Charlene

Thanks Matt. Where do I find those instructions?

wickedinhere

Hows it going?

Charlene

So we have moved the air compressor into the new shop, wired it and started piping it. Wired the air dryer. We have finally got the warping out of the water table...
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Matt,
Here are the close ups of the gantry & stepper motors. Does everything look like we put it together correctly?
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jeepsr4ever

You need to move your ear into the width of the gear rack on all axis. Push the gear into the gear rack while tightening the nuts on the studs that are going through the motor bracket slots. You have it right though there is no other way to install the brackets. It was designed that way with the A axis and X axis mirrored. It makes for a lot more machining and mfg but they cannot be installed wrong. :( That aluminum gets dirty quick even by the hand touching it.

jeepsr4ever

Oh and it looks like you didnt install the SAE stainless steel washers under the locknuts on the motor brackets.

jeepsr4ever

Your first picture is right and there is a overload bracket available for routing. The reason it doesnt sit completely flush is so the frame builder has the ability to weld the frame within tolerances. We allow as little as 3/8" of the aluminum hanging on top the gantry side pieces and up to .700" but never over .750 which is the thickness of the sideplates so the aluminum doesnt hang over the sideplates and if that were to happen the overload routing bracket wouldnt fit right.

wickedinhere

Looking good. I also need to get a refer air dryer.

Charlene

jeepsr4ever;131748 wrote
Oh and it looks like you didnt install the SAE stainless steel washers under the locknuts on the motor brackets.

The milling on the motor brackets was not enough for the washer to fit on one of the bolts for the X & A motors. Any suggestions?

jeepsr4ever

Yes it is when the bracket is pushed up but when its hanging the washer hits.

Charlene

Thanks Matt. I got the washers on! Now, as far as getting the gear on the Y axis to line up, I can't tighten the nuts to cause it to move down. There seems to be plenty of room on the gear shaft to play with so can I loosen the set screw and move the gear down into place?

jeepsr4ever

Absolutely you need to loosen the set screws and tighten them to give the gear engagement. You dont need 100% exactly these would perform at half engagement.

jeepsr4ever

Charlene did you get the gears down to the gear rack ok?

Charlene

Yes, thank you. They line up perfectly now.

tlspeed1

Charlene....where do you plan on mounting the control box?

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