Hello All! I’ve finally got my LowRider 4 to that amazing stage of moving it around. Here are some pictures…
Feel free to laugh at my redneck table mounts! I get IBC totes at work for free so I’m temporarily using 2 of the cages cut down as my table supports.
I cut the the XZ plates on my first V1 build, the MPCNC Primo.
I did my ways out of some square stainless steel tubing that I sourced for free. I used the parametric table plans that Ryan and Doug had worked on and made mount system to hold the ways to the table ribs.
It’s been an absolute blast working on! I would’ve been to this point 8 months ago, but I got sidetracked with a new sunroom on the back of the house for the wife. Also, as some of you may seen in my other posts, I’m putting up a 30x40 Quonset building as my new workshop. So, for the last 8 months the only thing that hadn’t been finished was the x-belt. But the one positive to walking away for so long, was that the Jackpot 3 released. I went ahead and pulled the Jackpot 1 out that I had previously installed and replaced it (and the control box) with the Jackpot 3.
Now I’ve gotten to the fun part of moving it around. And everything is going good except raising the Z axis. Not every time, but frequently enough the Z-skips steps. Sometimes it happens on the x-min side and sometimes it’s on the x-max side. And to top it off, like a complete jackass, I tried tightening the set screws in the coupler and egged out one of the set screws, not just on one side, but both!! However, they were already really tight and I used a drop of blue Loctite on the setscrews when I originally built the unit 8 months ago. I could be wrong, but I don’t think it’s slippage between the motor and the lead screw, I think it’s exceeding the the NEMA 17 motor. Here is a video in which you can hear the noise it makes…
I was thinking about lubing the Z lead screws with white lithium grease, but I thought I’d run it past you gurus first.
My last issue, I also built a FluidNC pendant and I wanted to change my config.yaml file with the following:
(thanks to @DougJoseph for the info) however when I try to export from FluidNC I get a export.json file. I’m obviously missing something, so could someone point me in the right direction?
In advance, many thanks!!
