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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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Being the Cheapo that I am I decided to make my own Quick Change Tool Post. I figured if it didn't work very well then I'd chaulk it up to a learning experience ;) Turns out it works really well!
First things first - I've been turning all my casting sprues for practice and here's what that all looks like :)
Quick Change Tool Post
I saw this design a few times and thought it looked easy enough to make - I "borrowed" the t-nut, screw, and handle from the tool post that came with the Enco :)
I didn't go off of any plans or work out any dimensions - probably not a good way to work (or habit to get into) :)
The first picture is the freshly fly cut blank next to the post and in the top left is the rough aluminum block I got - the post was turned from a large square block of aluminum
The next few pictures are after drilling and boring out the hole - then a few pictures of it "assembled" and ready to mill the slot for the tool holder area - then a couple of pictures of the milled slot with a tool in place and the last picture is from the video I took of it in action (pretty boring video that I probably wont upload)
Ok That's it - any questions or comments I'd love to hear them - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.