I need help with the Yellow Brick Road

[vicious1 (Ryan)]

@geojettson

So, knowing this, is there a simply “fudge” factor that could be added to EACH X1, X2, Y1, Y2 (such as 1/2", 1", etc) that would cover such cases? The idea is to still build a multi-material topped table WHILE building your gantry.

Yes and no. some people expect dimensions to the tenth of a millimeter, if the table is 7mm off they are going to think I am a crap designer.
The fix is a simple monolithic table surface.

@DougJoseph

It is totally doable,

I do not think it is doable. You will need to input your endstop trigger location, at that point I can tell you to a fine large decimal where it is supposed to be. At that point you have already built the table so the point is invalid.

Again the solution is a monolythinc table surface. At that point you can easily cut out the areas not needed.

What happens when you add a mod and change your home position, are you going to move your work surface. I just do not think the fancy table I made is a valid table for anyone to build even advanced users. The reasons I made it no longer work, I intended on dropping my hose through the side slot and all the chips falling down the open areas, neither worked.

@dgkeith237

I’d be willing to bet you could estimate the number of people looking to fit the LR4 onto an existing table based on the upgrade kits you sell. Perhaps you could create an FAQ specific to upgraders with existing functional lowriders with some of this information in it and link it ONLY from the upgrade kit page in the shop

Fitting an existing table is already in the calc, that is the footprint. This si the info in the docs. If you want extra room just decrease your numbers. The only issue I see here is people trying to fit a very accurate work surface instead of using a monolithic surface.

Unless I am missing something here.

@azab2c

Diagram with measurements of belts and contact points will help me plan, and, verify what I actually measure is expected per design. Helping detect if I did something fool hardy during assembly.

Think about your bent endstops. How am I going to account for that in my dimensioned drawings?

[geojettson (Steve)]

OK. Thanks for considering.

[forcerouge (Dui, ni shuo de dui)]

Problem is it will also depend on your spindle exact positioning.
Unfortunately I don’t think it’s possible to have a diagram like this that would both work in every case and be accurate.
Would be great though. I guess it’s fine if the goal is to get a ballpark idea with + or - 3 cm.

[Dreyfus]

You’d base it on a makita/kobalt or clone I expect.

[Terry_O_Sullivan]

Couldn’t agree more to what you have said.
I came across a 2nd hand machine on market place down in little old NZ, and went hey that’s cool so started looking at V1 for nearly a year now. mainly watching vids etc of what they can do, and skimming most comments. the more i looked into it the more i wanted to buy one than and there but couldn’t justify it due to my on off work due to head injury
i can now finally justify it and cant wait , wifes sick of me already haha
parts are printed just waiting on my parts to arrive from you so i can start my build, which could be a while due to the shipping taking forever, but that’s another story. ( not you but airlines)
so ive been digging deeper through forum looking for topics/questions which could be helpful to me. but when i start reading the threads omg . just blows my mind, ( in still dealing with concussion so to much blah blah spins me out ) know one actually answers the initial question. they go off on tangents, which def isn’t helpful for us newbies, which even made me think at 1 point , have i made a mistake buying this machine. i’ve read ur build process 20 times over , couple things don’t compute but i bet once i and assembling it the penny will drop.

Keep yah head up and be bloody proud of what you have designed and produced.
i take my hat off to you
you have brought joy to so many who have dreamed of owning a cnc machine , but commercial one just to far out of reach
unfortunately you will always get the bad apples in forums, maybe a 3 strike policy and your out, not sure how u would do that but must be some algorithm, that could send out warning notices , might not what you want to do kicking people of , but end of day you build this dream , don’t let it get ruined by a few noters
sorry if ive dribbled on concussion down fall

[Tokoloshe (Philipp)]

@vicious1 I think the thread has run its course, hasn’t it? There have been a lot of ideas that you can mull over, the old guys vowed to do better, everything else is just going to be a repost of a repost in different words.