Liftoff

1600 microsteping, 600 mm/sec

Awesome feeling

picking up the pace

Alignment of the rails was a PAIN, but some math procedures helped a lot. 

With that done, some fine tuning and cabling remains. 

Almost every thing needs to be adjusted slightly 

 Temporary air spring is a bit shorter so for now its only 23 cm of Z travel. 

 Hope tomorrow we shall have movement. 

Keep you posted

Assembly started

Assembly started and laster almost 4 working days, and a lots of work has been done. 

Cable holder support is in some unstandardised way, but due the profile and original design, I had to improvise. 

Works and looks nice thou

 Y car assembled and some motors mounted.  

 Love the colour combination, looks very stylish :D 

Precision of the table/floor on the longest axis (2.8 meter)

 A friend's rambo moment at the end of the hard days work. 

Posing shot, unfortunately, low quality camera 

Painting done

Almost there, just a couple of little things :)

A friend helped painting, a job well done. 

Industrial color, eye resting and beautiful 

Painting done! 1 week in total

Ready for assembling 

Measure once, drill 20 times

Fixing the space between bearing to work fine while fastened. 

 I measured, drilled and reweld the holes about 15 times until I got what I needed. 

 Marks from failed attempts!

  At the end I could screw up and redo in about 10 mins. 

Lesson learned!

Done and work's nice

Z axis coming together

Today's work was all about the Z axis and I put some time to measure it precise. 

A fun day. 

Will miss these days when I'm done

Testing the rails

Testing the MM rails and basic structure. 

A short and stupid video of MM in action. 

(A titanic moment)

Z car welded

Z car is the car which will carry Z-axis with spindle. 

The problem was that welding had to be done from underneath, which turned out to be pretty hard. Welds didn't look as nice as they usually do, and a lost of melted steel ended up on my neck, shoes, and under my shirt. 

Everything had to be precise and squarely

Passive eye protection

Every weld had its number, because when welds are getting cold, there are some distortion of metal, and some things cant be redone. 

Again, some nice welding

Ready for painting