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  #31  
Old Sat 11 September 2010, 13:37
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia



Cutting area 2050 x 2800 mm ,
Mardus-Kreutz drives
Deitech Spindle and 86HS9802
42V PSU

Its been a long way!
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  #32  
Old Sat 11 September 2010, 14:30
sailfl
Just call me: Nils #12
 
Winter Park, FL
United States of America
Congratulations! Your machine looks great.
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  #33  
Old Sat 11 September 2010, 14:38
smreish
Just call me: Sean - #5, 28, 58 and others
 
Orlando, Florida
United States of America
Nicely done. Looks like you used every bit of space in your workshop!
Happy cutting...it's worth the time spent building your machine.

Congratulations.
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  #34  
Old Sat 11 September 2010, 20:46
domino11
Just call me: Heath
 
Cornwall, Ontario
Canada
Congrats, looks nice.
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  #35  
Old Sun 12 September 2010, 04:31
fanefane
Just call me: Stefan #73
 
Baia Mare
Romania
Your MM looks very beautiful!
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  #36  
Old Sun 12 September 2010, 08:18
MetalHead
Just call me: Mike
 
Columbiana AL
United States of America
Cool Color Scheme !!! Congrats on your Build and #64 !!!
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  #37  
Old Sun 12 September 2010, 20:09
jhiggins7
Just call me: John #26
 
Hebron, Ohio
United States of America
Builder's Log Update

Danilom,

Congratulations on a fine looking MechMate and on Serial #64.

The Updated Builder's Log is here.


Thanks for providing the dimensions.

Please review your entry and let me know any changes you wish to make.
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  #38  
Old Mon 13 September 2010, 00:24
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia
Everything is fine!

Will wear the #64 proudly.

Using a Mechmate is now my priority, I already routed couple of sample cabinet doors, now I need to find some woodworkers to cooperate with.

Thanks everyone for compliments, I look forward to helping the community as you all guys helped by putting so much information on the forum!
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  #39  
Old Fri 18 February 2011, 15:50
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia
As the business with the mechmate expands, using some sort of pendant is a must. After using gamepad, and some joystick emulator I made with custom housing I decided to try with pokeys55. Will post some pictures and progres I have made using it.

Also besides regular daily production of plywood toys recently I had couple of interesting jobs on kitchen doors and other.
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  #40  
Old Sun 27 February 2011, 05:24
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia
Here is the kitchen door set I did, it consisted of 18 different doors.




Next one are pictures of my pendant in progress, the box is a temporary solution to find best fit for buttons and switches, no room for MPG. It will be in next one. MPG is made from old floppy drive stepper motor with use of some op-amp, schematic that worked best for me is here to download:

SCH : floppy encoder schematic

BRD : floppy encoder board

You will need Eagle 5.10 to open it

And here are the images. MPG is working perfectly on recent tests. Velocity mode is great so as the multistep.





The knob on motor shaft will be made more massive as it helps improve "feel" of detents.
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  #41  
Old Wed 09 March 2011, 03:33
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia
new pendant case



still have to mount the MPG and joystick as well as 20x4 lcd
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  #42  
Old Wed 09 March 2011, 04:05
Kobus_Joubert
Just call me: Kobus #6
 
Riversdale Western Cape
South Africa
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Looking great...will they be on sale soon ?
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  #43  
Old Wed 09 March 2011, 04:14
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia
I have not thought about manufacturing them yet. But if I get to make a mold for the back case nothing is impossible. For now its 50mm foam with acrylic 3mm faceplate but very rigid and immune to falls and hits.

Anyone interested in dwg, dxf and aspire file can send me his email.
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  #44  
Old Wed 09 March 2011, 05:26
Kobus_Joubert
Just call me: Kobus #6
 
Riversdale Western Cape
South Africa
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Get it working, and I might be in line to buy one.
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  #45  
Old Wed 09 March 2011, 10:09
mikefoged
Just call me: Mike #27
 
Randers
Denmark
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Sweet.... Write me up for one to.
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  #46  
Old Wed 09 March 2011, 14:23
isladelobos
Just call me: Ros
 
Canary Islands
Spain
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Hey the new pink is nicee

this new have screen? is wireless?
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  #47  
Old Wed 09 March 2011, 14:58
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia
Its using Pokeys55 with mach plugin. Nice device but it really helps to have knowledge in mach3 brains. So its a USB device, some days ago they released Ethernet version.
It will have a 4 lines with 20 characters LCD ( 4x20 hd44780 ), basically it has all the functions as ModIO board.

this is the image of 4x20 lcd that modio and pokeys can use, you can display two informations per line so its 8 data positions as I understood.
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/ind...ttach=86;image
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  #48  
Old Tue 15 March 2011, 15:50
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia
Some more work today, 3 guitars cut (telecaster), two of the body's are oak and one is dark walnut. guitar necks are from swamp ash. will post a video of machining later.
Oak was darn hard to cut, but the winner is china spindle and mechmate.

Also made some clamps from 19mm MDF, they are absolutely FANTASTIC and work great, I will be making some fixture to host them permanently in T-track. clamps are from here
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:776



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  #49  
Old Wed 16 March 2011, 09:23
domino11
Just call me: Heath
 
Cornwall, Ontario
Canada
Danilo,
That looks awesome! Can you tell us what program you did the modeling in? Cant wait to see the finished product!
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  #50  
Old Wed 16 March 2011, 09:30
tnarch
Just call me: Tuan
 
Milwaukee WI
United States of America
rock'n roll man!
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  #51  
Old Wed 16 March 2011, 11:09
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia
Friend of mine used Rhinoceros to model the neck and guitar body.
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  #52  
Old Wed 16 March 2011, 13:11
Kobus_Joubert
Just call me: Kobus #6
 
Riversdale Western Cape
South Africa
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Nice work, we should get together...can make some music...or noise together..
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  #53  
Old Fri 25 March 2011, 08:07
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia
Got my 4x20 LCD yesterday, some mach macropump programming and here it is

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  #54  
Old Fri 25 March 2011, 09:00
HomeMadeCnc
Just call me: Tim
 
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
Nice job on the display, thats something else on my list to do yet.
Tim
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  #55  
Old Mon 28 March 2011, 07:41
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia
Dog shaped piggybank , 50mm pine.




clamps are proving to be invaluable.
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  #56  
Old Tue 29 March 2011, 05:18
Surfcnc
Just call me: Ross #74
 
Queensland
Australia
Hi Danilo

A Pointer (or maybe a retriever) and a Scotty, how very creative.
I assume you are going to put an acrylic side on them to test the young savers patience.

Regards
Ross
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  #57  
Old Tue 29 March 2011, 06:34
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia
yes sides are acrylic, its prototype for organisation which is raising funds for abandoned dogs shelter.
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  #58  
Old Thu 14 April 2011, 04:08
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia
Theater decor work, tarp ploting

These are some items for theater decor elements. I was also asked to cut shapes out of tarp but easy way was to use mechmate as large ploter with pen and mark the shapes to cut with scalpel, it worked very well.

Here are some pictures

Tarp:




Acrylic 3mm




12mm plywood (1220 x 2400 mm)


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  #59  
Old Thu 14 April 2011, 05:39
isladelobos
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Canary Islands
Spain
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Hey Danilo

I not see your old images.

One question about your drivers.
I see This Image about your drivers connections, and my question is:

where is the diference between PC Gruwnd, Logic Ground and Motor Ground.

Im thinking, the PC cable, 25 pins is shielded and connect between the pc and the Breakout board, this Ground is PC and connected to the żPC chasis?.

The Logic Ground is between Driver and Breakout Board or between Driver and Motor.
Im thinking the Motor Ground is between motor and General Ground.

Regards and good work.
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  #60  
Old Thu 14 April 2011, 07:13
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia
old images were on my old site which is not online anymore, I can not edit older posts but will ask mike to see how can I edit links to them.

I have my BOB 12V power supply, drives logic 12V and PC's gnd together, motor power is from another source but motor gnd and drives logic gnd is connected on the drives board, so everything is tied together and share same gnd. It serves me well that way.
There are optocouplers on the drives and proper way should be to put separate power for pc & bob on one side and drives on other.

I have bought new drives guerd87 they are 2M982 7.8AMP drivers and will rewire the whole cabinet and separate everything. Problem is that mardus kreutz are unipolar and they do work perfect but give 40% less torque for same amount of current. I am sometimes pushing the machine very hard and my current is at maximum of 5 Amps for these motors, and that causes heating. As I want it to run for 8-10 hours that became problem and that is the reason for replacing the drives. They will find their place on a smaller machine which I previously built.
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