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| + | All 26 of the brackets that would fit on the 4.7"x4.7" bed of my 3D printer have now been printed. The shop's laser-cutter did indeed become operational, and with some uneven pacing, I have been able to now laser-cut 11 of the larger brackets out of 3mm acrylic sheet. This leaves 4 that Ben has offered to 3D print for me, and then 11 more brackets to be cut. I may undertake to get some more of these punched out over the weekend, or early next week. |
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| − | [[File:2020-1-16-Doozer_Mk2.png|right|250px]]After days of near constant slaving away at the 3d modelling software, I now have a blueprint going forward. l also have some parts counts that I can look at... and it's not an entirely pretty picture. 50 custom mounting brackets. Thankfully many of them are reused 2, 4, even 10 times, so there's only 18 unique bracket shapes. 348 metric screws, which breaks down to over 250 M5s in 4 lengths, and nearly 100 M3s in 3 lengths. I placed a parts order on AliExpress for the screws and a spare Arduino CNC kit... just in case I earn the Level II Blue Smoke Metric Badge. |
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| + | AliExpress parts have been trickling in slowly. Chinese New Year has again ground much of the sellers' operations to a halt, and shipments which already take weeks, tend to take a few more weeks. |
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| − | The next phase in this project, aside from waiting over a month for overpriced machine screws from China (and trust me, they were the cheapest I could find!) is to begin cutting out the brackets. Original plans were to 3D print a set of them first for putting the machine together for proving.. and honestly, that's still an option for a lot of them. I may start putting some of the odd-colored filaments at my house to work on the smaller, large quantity brackets. Other brackets I will either use the big CNC table at the shop to mill out of 'plex' (whatever scrap acrylic, plexiglas, or whatever I can find), or to ideally make use of a laser cutter. |
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| + | I'm not entirely confident in the resiliency of the brackets that I have thus far. I know that things will change when I add bolts and aluminum extrusion and other rigid components.. but I still have my concerns about the longterm viability. I do still hope to have aluminum replacement brackets.. either made by my machine, or on the shop's CNC machine(s), or by farming the job out.. but at ~50 brackets.. it's no small ask for anyone. Failing this, I am keeping the idea in mind of milling a full set of (albeit thicker) brackets using HDPE/Polyethylene cutting-board material, which I know can be milled with the big CNC table at the shop. But that would be an added expense. |
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| − | Once the proving set of brackets is done, I can see if adjustments need to be made. I'll also be able to start trying to bring the machine to life. |
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| + | For now, it's mostly a waiting game. Waiting for nuts, screws, and washers.. as well as a few various and sundry bits and bobs that remain on order. |
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| − | *Tool Mounting Plate |
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| − | *: I have located a couple of aluminum chunks that may be able to be milled into a permanent mounting block for tools. This has been set aside for future use. |
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| − | *Work Surface |
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| − | *: This will be made out of 2525 aluminum extrusion.. and while I have a fair amount, I don't have huge quantities. The final design of how this will work is still on-hold, pending some more practical forward progress. There is a possible future where this extrusion ideal is abandoned, and replaced with a couple sheets of MDF and some standard SAE threaded plywood anchors. |
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| + | I am, however, getting undeniably close to the point where I'll have to start cutting aluminum. |
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| − | *Deflector Shields |
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| − | *: Simple angled plates for keeping sawdust from fouling the Y axis screws. Mountings for these will be designed once the Work Surface is sorted out. |
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Revision as of 10:24, 1 February 2020
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| Tool Owner: Karen Englebeck |
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🚨 This is an ongoing project, tool is not functional yet 🚨
Project Objectives
Project Status
01/31/2020 - Latest!
All 26 of the brackets that would fit on the 4.7"x4.7" bed of my 3D printer have now been printed. The shop's laser-cutter did indeed become operational, and with some uneven pacing, I have been able to now laser-cut 11 of the larger brackets out of 3mm acrylic sheet. This leaves 4 that Ben has offered to 3D print for me, and then 11 more brackets to be cut. I may undertake to get some more of these punched out over the weekend, or early next week.
AliExpress parts have been trickling in slowly. Chinese New Year has again ground much of the sellers' operations to a halt, and shipments which already take weeks, tend to take a few more weeks.
I'm not entirely confident in the resiliency of the brackets that I have thus far. I know that things will change when I add bolts and aluminum extrusion and other rigid components.. but I still have my concerns about the longterm viability. I do still hope to have aluminum replacement brackets.. either made by my machine, or on the shop's CNC machine(s), or by farming the job out.. but at ~50 brackets.. it's no small ask for anyone. Failing this, I am keeping the idea in mind of milling a full set of (albeit thicker) brackets using HDPE/Polyethylene cutting-board material, which I know can be milled with the big CNC table at the shop. But that would be an added expense.
For now, it's mostly a waiting game. Waiting for nuts, screws, and washers.. as well as a few various and sundry bits and bobs that remain on order.
I am, however, getting undeniably close to the point where I'll have to start cutting aluminum.
