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3D Printed Planetary Gears
I wanted to try and print some planetary gears to try and make my 4th axis work better.
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RepRap - 3D Printer
Here's my journey of building a Reprap 3d Printer. Took about two weeks to get to the point where I was printing and I am still tweaking things to get good prints but it's working well enough to share :)
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Homemade Bandsaw Bearing Guides
Here's how I made my own bandsaw bearing guides from aluminum tuping and regular skate bearings - for like $20 :)
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Homemade Power Drive
Using a Parallax Propeller Proto board and a Pololu Stepper Driver - I've built a home made power drive for my lathe / mill / drill - Check it out!
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Timing Pulleys
I am working on a project for my Enco Mill Drill Lathe - it's a Power Feed driven by a Parallax Propeller and EasyDriver - part of the project involves making some Timing Pulleys to hook it all up! So this post is about the Timing Pulleys! Check out some pictures and videos!
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Latest 4th Axis
I just realized that I've never uploaded anything about my latest 4th Axis that I've thrown together - so here are some pictures and a video about it!
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In my neverending quest to come up with a good(cheap) linear bearing idea - I had bought some "Butcher Boy" bearings off of eBay for cheap. Well they were way too sloppy for any linear motion - so here's how I converted them into good Homemade V-Bearings that I could use (and still for cheap) :)
Here's the quick and dirty recipe...
- Butcher Boy Bearing
- Two 1606ZZ Skate Bearings from Skatebearings.com
That's it! ;)
Basically I used my drill press to drill out the center bearing on the Butcher Boy bearing (actually just starting to drill half the time knocked out some "ring" and the thing fell apart) then I pressed the skate bearings in (using my vice - I know, not good, but it's all I have)
Some of the Butcher Boy bearings were oversized and made the skate bearings loose - I just chucked those because anything I tried would not make them good enough
Here's some pictures of my homemade v bearings!
