New Member: Tom, Kent

New Member: Tom, Kent

This topic has 10 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 13 April 2018 at 22:15 by Neil Wyatt.

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11 April 2018 at 17:03 #349836
Thomas Dye
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New member. Looking to eventually acquire a lathe and/or milling machine, when I accumulate the budget, that is.
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11 April 2018 at 17:03 #40304
Thomas Dye
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11 April 2018 at 18:47 #349848
Neil Wyatt
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Welcome to the forum Thomas,

What sort of projects do you have in mind?

Neil
11 April 2018 at 18:53 #349851
Thomas Dye
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Hi Neil,

My current projects are: a reflow soldering oven; a CNC router controller; and a SCARA based pick and place robot for electronic components.

If I had metalwork tools I would use them to make more tools!
11 April 2018 at 20:10 #349863
Mick Henshall
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There are some very knowledgible (have I spelt that right 🤔 )people on here I have been helped a number of times and have been very grateful

Mick
11 April 2018 at 20:40 #349866
Thomas Dye
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This is the start of my 3D printed SCARA. For a sense of scale the dark bit is a NEMA17 stepper motor.

Edited By Thomas Dye on 11/04/2018 20:42:31
13 April 2018 at 15:02 #350073
george Aldous
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welcome Tom I'm in dover.

George.
13 April 2018 at 19:36 #350093
Neil Wyatt
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Looks interesting Tom, what printer are you using?

We have a 3D printer topic (we aren't as old fashioned as you might thinkl!)

Neil
13 April 2018 at 20:52 #350098
Thomas Dye
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Hi Neil,

I will be using my anet a8, it’s a prusa i3 clone with an aluminium backed heated bed and z leadscrews.
13 April 2018 at 21:06 #350099
Thomas Dye
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In my SCARA each arm is over 200mm long so, to get better positional resolution I decided to use an 18:1 worm drive to reduce the whole step angular resolution to 0.1?. Obviously I have no idea whether the design will actually work, nor whether backlash will overwhelm the designed angular resolution. But, I wanted to check if anyone thought that the speed of the arm would be sufficient even with the 18x reduction.
13 April 2018 at 22:15 #350107
Neil Wyatt
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I've no experience of implementing SCARA, but Joseph Noci is building a morgan style 3D printer and documenting it in another thread here which may have some issues in common?

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