First “real” thing to come out of the CNC and of course it’s a little sign or plaque.  Made for Dan and Kari for their new son, Daniel Jack.  Measure roughly 10 ” x 20″ x 1 1/14″ thick.  Made from a solid chunk of Cherry.  Roughing pass with 1/2″ then 1/4″ ball nose for the detail.  90 degree v-bit for the Daniel Jack lettering and a 60 degree v-bit for the birth date.

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I finished drilling the table to accept the 5/16″ carriage bolts that will hold down the 80/20 support table.   Tightened everything down and it’s rock solid! Now I will mount and level a MDF sacrificial surface in the next week or so.   Need to purchase some T-track to slot and insert into the sacrificial table.   Once that’s done, I should be ready to roll![SinglePic not found]

Elo Touch screen that I purchased for $39 is up and running with it’s fresh paint job.  Bezel was cracked in the upper-left hand corner.  Sanded it down smooth and knocked the upper-right hand corner down to match.  3 coats of  Krylon paint and it’s ready to go!  Works well with my Mach3 designed screen.  I hope to finish the layout and graphics in the near future.

It mounted on a really nice Peerless desktop VESA adjustable mount I purchased on eBay.  Fantastic price and very heavy duty.

[SinglePic not found]Installed and configured the 24V transformer.  Configured the Hitachi VFD to signal a DPDT stop delay relay to turn the Ikawa magnetic gear pump and the cool tower light on.  The delay timer will allow the spindle coolant pump to continue to run for a programmable time (.1 seconds to 10 minutes) after the spindle has been shut off.  Thanks Dan for all your help on this!

All internal wiring has been completed.  Need to configure Mach3 to communicate properly with BoB and turn spindle ON/OFF and control frequency.

Mitch stopped by for a few hours on Saturday and worked out a schematic for the wiring along with a load analysis.  Need to go shopping for some cord and signal wire and we should be able to get this up and running in a few weeks!

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Drive pulleys were bored to 14mm from 8mm along with a 5mm keyway to accommodate the large 7.2nm AC brushless servo motors.  Rick Edwards from Edwards machine shop in Cortland, NY did a fantastic job.  They’re perfect.