Not sure what you mean. I’m going to assume paint bleeding into the wood…? I typically spray some polyurethane over the whole piece before painting to seal the wood before applying paint. It also makes cleaning an oops easier. 
I’m not a great painter, so there are more oops then i care to admit to…
That’s more what I’m talking about. A alternative to oramask is masking tape (suggested by some others here) but it’s holding strength isn’t as good so on these small details it got pulled up some. I guess I could overspray the paint then sand it back down, I just need to be careful of some of the fine details.
Yeah, i haven’t had great luck with ormask type films. Unless the piece is painted first, then the cut out areas painted, but still not perfect.
Welp, I’ve probably signed myself up for more work than I gathered but I’m upgrading to the jackpot sense my Pi board quit on me. If I have time I’ll try finding some stuff but if any of you have any tips I’m all ears!
The new board has already shipped! Man that was fast sense the order was placed around the holiday!
Its here, Its here! Now the question is… how much do I take on…Do I redo some of it, take it apart and paint it all pretty. Or do I simply get a case for the jackpot printed and plug it in?
Okay Getting lots done despite the rest of my life being 
Made and remade some of my first things for 3d printing, it’s only tinkercad but it did work wonders
remixed the jackpot case to use a power jack
Made a mount for the focal lenses that came with the Laser
Made my own mount for @DougJoseph kinematics mount (or Mag mount)
I hope that clears up for you soon!
Tinkercad is surprisingly useful.
Those three parts are all functionally useful for you, and that’s what counts.
Nice work! Sorry for the troubles, hope it gets better for you.
Thank you both. I know this is just a makers forum but you all really make it so much more than that. And I hope to share more of what’s going on with all of you soon but the truth is I don’t know where any of it is going currently and I can only ride the waves as they are coming at me.
Well I have more time to myself now. have to use it to do the LR3 stuff as I need/want to get this stuff over with sooner than later.
I’m looking at setting up some test files for the laser and was starting with the speed and power grid everyone does. Couldn’t figure out what I should top the speed out at… Then I was curious what Ryan set the limits to… 9000 mm/min (~150 mm/sec) 
; on the skr I upped my limits to 6000 mm/min (~100 mm/sec) but haven’t exceeded 25 mm/sec while cutting.
I don’t have a massive concern to go super fast at first here so I’ll probably set the test to only go up to 100 mm/sec sense I do that as my manual rapids frequently. I will also be setting up a DPI test and a focus test too.
It has begun. I tore out the skr, ripped the back strut off, redid the path for all the wiring, and… … … Thread Loced my GRUB screws!!!
Now I have also decided to do Doug’s floating dust shoe.
so here’s my checklist
Finish cable management
Run air assist hose for laser
Turn on and test jackpot board
Tighten strut back on
Assemble dust shoe
level, square, tram router
surface spoilboard
biggest issue I face is I am gone for the weekend; and despite what mighty amazon said some of the parts I ordered got delayed and won’t be arriving on time. Wish me luck
That thing works REALLY well to keep the surface clean during the cutting process as well as almost eliminating sawdust clean up on the spoil board after completion. You’ll always have a little here or there that shoots out of the vacuum zone too quick to catch, but having the shoe closer to the cutting surface at all gantry Z-heights makes a huge difference.
Hey Andrew, how’s it going? Missing the giant here. 
To give a brief view of my life this last year and a half-ish… 1 Family member gone (this is what I was starting to deal with in 23 ended early 24) and a huge estate to deal with (Still dealing with this). 2 weddings, 3 other funerals for friends/acquittances. Heart surgery on my 2 year old son (Minor surgery but my stress didn’t know that). And a lot of in-law drama that ended in the police 
I am starting to get my feet under me again and best of all my sister in-law has asked for a wedding sign, so finally some defiant motive to get back into it all… Doesn’t excuse my absence I considered you all friends and a great community to engage with. Defiantly let my stress and emotions control me. But hopefully I can re-earn some of that space back. if anyone wants to give me a recap of what I’ve missed that would be great. I’ll be trying to read into it too obviously
You were never really gone, you’ll always be a part of this community. 
A lot of people pop in here and then go missing for a while, because life happens. I am sorry all that happened to you, seems like a lot. The surgery would have driven me crazy as well. Glad to hear your son is okay. Trouble with the in-laws does not sound nice either, mine are really chill luckily.
Regarding the estate: Did you ever consider just burning it down for the insurance money? 
I know, I know, I have the best solutions… 
And while we are at it, do the same with the chaos in your shop and just build a LR4.
Glad you are back, a lot has happened.
if I could replace all the tools I might consider it 
but I’m too lucky that I have too many expensive tools.
Hopefully the estate will be over with quickly now. We hired a relator that didn’t really sell the price range of my grandmas house. We now have a relator that specializes in this price range, but nothing selling at the moment, which she’s telling us is semi normal (usually not nothing, but defiantly slow right around now) but I digress her reputation proceeds her. Like you with your speed
Okay. I’m definitely getting excited again. I’m love the redesign and @Tokoloshe video on milling aluminum has definitely sparked some creativity in me. So in my “free time” (time where I am not free as I have to watch my kiddo but I am able to do what I want to do like modeling, etc etc) I wanna start working on the redesign and get it right the first time.
I really wanna focus on my table for the new build. Because this unlevel issue has been driving me crazy. But I have a couple of considerations. When the estate sale does go through I’ll be moving shortly after. So unless I decide to not go complex now it’ll need to be able to be disassembled. My currently table also is tilt-able for storage with assistance via a harbor freight winch.
Thought about getting one of those steel garage shelves of marketplace. With the materials form my current table would make a good table. If I do it right 
Ordered upgrade parts today huza!
I even got Ryan’s touch plate… gonna miss my makeshift wrench plate 
Didn’t clean to shop yet 
, was hopeful I’d have time today but got my butt handed to me by a migraine.
But it gave me time to reflect on the table situation. I’m going to leave it for now but I am gonna design my “ultimate” table when I can. And honestly I probably won’t be able to help myself if I can rummage up the supplies for free once designed. But been looking at market spaces for cheap sturdy metal. And my best bets have been either the heavy duty steel garage shelves you see at Home Depot. Oooorrrrr and drum roll please. Factory pallet shelves, they seem to be more readily available about the correct size and far more than sturdy enough. Plus they are listed cheaper than alternatives… going to think it more through but I think it seems like a good choice.