It’s getting close!
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Why am I seeing fresh rail holders? My God man, what have you done!?
Just replacing some that have cracked that are original, figured now would be a good time to swap them lol
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Kicked off my weekend with some progress! Assembly has been quite smooth! May even be able to make some chips fly on a part for my other bike, just in time for riding season 
And to show you I too was not happy with how you had to install/remove the screws holding the bearings to the spindle holder
More progress! Got what caps that needed to be replaced replaced, releveled the machine, trammed in the z and x axis, and got the pendant working with it! Just gotta reinstall my fixture plate so I can verify the spindle is true, then I can make some chips!
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It is absolutely mint dude. Didn’t know you had kitted it out with a rotary encoder. Can’t wait to get to printing this. What are your thoughts so far? Is it noticeably stiffer?
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If the v1 Lr4 and Onefinity cnc had a child.
-looks great your machine!
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After reefing on it a bit, pretty sure the weakest link for rigidity will be the tubing and belts. The pendant is one Arminth did and I redid the enclosure to hold all the bits nicely in it, just took a while to get it done up and out to the shop to get it connected.
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Keeeeeeen to see some chips. What is the main advantage of the new setup do you think?
Hopefully gets rid of or minimizes the chatter I was getting before, otherwise there might be a full 2.0 redesign around using only 1.25" tubing lol
That’s about 32mm in the King’s isn’t it lol? I hope you find some substantial benefit. I swear to God my CNC hobby seems to be more about making CNC machines than making anything with the machines at this point.
Yep! I know how that is, if im not using it im thinking about what other machine I should build XD Current short list is a dedicated Plasma/Laser setup that can be pulled off its table for manual use and a smaller working area all metal cnc using ball screws for the parts I have been making on the Brutus
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Got the spindle trammed in and made some chips! It didn’t 100% get rid of the vibration when pushing DOC but it did make a notable improvement leaving the top rail and belts as the weak links. Ran my 1/4" 2 flute 3/4" LOC at 60 in/min (~1500 mm/min) with a 3mm DOC and 2mm step over, pretty happy with how it turned out! Took 29 minutes to go from a 1" thick 2.25"x3" chunk of aluminum to a functioning part! Gonna start chipping away at the instructions and BOM update shortly here!
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Hmmm, I guess ~1,500 mm/min doesn’t translate for this 
This is getting real exciting now. Time for me to reserve some spools of filament for my re-print.
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The conversion factor for that is divide by .0001~10,000, value is determined by life
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Is it Christmas already? Looking very tidy. Can’t wait to fire up the printer. I was actually eating a steak dinner last night thinking the only thing that would make this better is some chips…
Do the lads have a preferred PLA? I have been using eSUN PLA + for some time with pretty good results. But curious to see if there is a more engineering focused option.
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I’ve switched from Esun to Polymaker PLA Pro, seems to be a little more ridgid than the Esun.
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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve refreshed Printables in the last 48 hours but it’s a non-zero number.
This is exciting! Can I only upgrade the core/are the 25 and 32mm rails still in the same place?
After reprinting the sides of the first version in petg (with more walls and infill) I’m pretty happy at the moment, not huge speeds or DOC but it doesn’t skip a beat, only issue is my spindle is held on with steel bands and is rough as guts