| Monday, 03. April 2006 - Beginning of building the machine table |
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Today I began to build the table for the machine. I use bars of Spruce wood (70x70x2100 mm) and a plate with a strength of 38 mm as table plate. Draft:  wood bars:  12mm long wood screws:  Cutted bars. Behind of them you can see the table plate.  and finally:    It's still a bit wobbly - now i have to use glue. I think there could be some more wood bars to increase stability.  Weight of the table at the moment: 56,07 kilo oh and the moose at some pictures will be my mascot during the project :) |
| Wednesday, 05. April 2006 - First drillings at the profiles |
Today I drilled some aluminium profiles. with lowered grooves and then drilled holes through it.  The rounded area inside the groove milled with a flat countersink so the screw head has good contact.  |
| Thursday, 06. April 2006 - The drilling continues... |
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Today I drilled and milled again. Here is how I try to measure the distance to the edge. First I mark the 76 mm. Then I use a groove stone (please send me E-mails if I use wrong translations vor technical terms) to mark the distance inside the grooves.  okay it works..   |
| Friday, 07. April 2006 - Lowering, drilling, lowering... |
I made some drilling for the YZ-Axes. Hours later...  The drillings at the Y-profile  After the thread was tapped, I screwed together the YZ-portal    |
| Monday, 10. April 2006 - Finishing the table |
Now I mounted and glued two additional diagonal bars at the table to increase the contact face to the table plate and to get more stability.  Here I cutted and mounted the boards for the bottom of the table.   Weight of the table: 73,45 kilo !! |
| Wednesday, 12. April 2006 - Finishing the table |
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Today I mounted the panels at the back and the side of the table. So the table is finished so far.   Weight of the table: 83,48 kg !! |
| Wednesday, 19. April 2006 - Mounting of the first ball screw |
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The delivery from ISEL came today. I drilled the holes for the ball screws at the Y-portal and mounted them on trial. Both ball screws are sitting at the same height.  The third drilling is to adjust the play of the balls.  |
| Wednesday, 26. April 2006 - Breakthrough for the tooth belt |
After some work with the file the breakthrough in the Y-profile for the belt is now ready.
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| Thursday, 27. April 2006 - Building the interface plate |
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Today I started to build the interface plate between the Y and the Z axis. I drilled my draft from above in the plate. Then I lowered and trimmed the drillings a bit. Now I set up all 4 wagons and hope that the drillings are at the correct places :)  Fits straightaway :) From behind I mounted the ball screws. Under the ball screw there will be mounted a plate to get it at the right position later.  Now slide in the rails. No problems because the wagons are still not tighten..  Mounted at the profile  |
| Monday, 08. Mai 2006 - Finishing the interface plate |
Today the rails for my Z axis arrived.  I began drilling the holes for the Z wagons. Then I saw that the ball screws are bad placed in my Drafts. Shit.. So I had to replace the drillings in my interface plate. Front:  Back:  Some screws are still missing for the wagons. Here is a picture of the mounted ball screws. The placing is clearly better now.  |