The first thing I want to say is thank you for sharing this fabulous design.
I had been thinking about building a CNC for quite some time, and when I discovered the low rider, I fell in love.
It’s been a friendly construction process, I have no idea about CNC, so now it’s time to learn, learn, learn. At the moment everything is going well, now after initial tests drawing, it’s time to move on to the milling machine.
By the way, sorry for my English as a translator, I’m Spanish so please be patient with me XDD
When the machine is off, the z-axis falls under its own weight. Those pieces of wood limit the fall, so the new dust shoe isn’t crushed. Is that what you meant?
At the moment the suction tube is connected to a conventional vacuum cleaner. Of course it’s only temporary, I’m looking at the issue of cyclone vacuum cleaners.
I Like it. E-stop, nice, the skirt for dust control Also a Nice idea. How did you hook up the E-stop? I use blocks under the Z also. I Park it after I have run it for a while, so the X axis stays the same. I have a single endstop and dead stops so I can re-align, but the E-stop. Good idea instead of running around and hitting all the breakers.
I’m glad you like it. The E-Stop is not yet connected/wired, but it’s not difficult, the button I have is this one:
You can use the green or orange end (or both if you need to, of course). I’m going to use the orange one, that way when I press the button, the electric power is interrupted. The green end works in reverse.
My idea is that by pressing the button I cut the general power of all the elements involved in the work, CNC, milling machine, vacuum cleaner, etc.
Also, in regards to the cyclone vacuum system, I purchased a plastic one that sits on top of a bucket, $20.00, however, there are a lot of good videos on how to make your own, just by putting holes in buckets. My first attempt, the bucket tried to go all black hole on me and suck itself in. Solution, just put that bucket in another bucket then the first bucket acts like a diaphragm, and the second bucket keeps it stationary
English is spot on, so don’t apologize.
Be creative and have fun!
One of your first jobs should be a round stiffener for the bucket top. My dust deputy is now on a plywood base that’s cut to fit the bucket. The plastic lid will fail. All the flexing will stress the lid and it will crack.
I forgot, I actually made a new lid. It’s all plywood with a groove where the bucket sits on the bottom filled with silicone.
No, those are just drips of gorilla glue. I pulled the whole thing over and broke the top of the dust deputy.
Also, double bucket! If not the bucket will get warm from all the crap swirling around inside and collapse.
