I tried with one additional swap compared to that external diagram, but the steppers responded with sound but no movement. Sounded like they were fighting themselves. Edit: to be clear, at this point the belts were not on, so it was not the case that they were trying to move the gantry in opposite directions or anything.
Sounds like I could have swapped the first swap back before swapping the second swap. Swap swap. Swap. Swap. Unswap. Swap. I don’t see how that’s confusing?!
The promised and truly essential vid of wires-everywhere first job being completed. And it has to be the logo of course.
I’ve finished tidying, braiding and routing the wiring now, so photos to follow of version 1.0.
A follow-up comment from me having built the thing. I liked the design before I assembled, but I like it a lot more now. Even without the tension bolts and belts dialed in, it’s a very solid machine, and assembling it leads you to understand why that’s the case. So just one more thanks and kudos to Ryan!
Nice vid, that drawing turned out really nice as well.
Thanks for the compliments, I know some people hate assembling things but I feel it is really important for this machine to have a little deeper understanding. Glad your liked the build process (or at least didn’t hate it).
Well I did make a cut a couple of weeks back, but things have stalled.
I have the Katsu trim router as mentioned, a clone of Makita. From the start I’ve been interested in dust collection because my workspace is multi function and I spend a lot of time in there.
The issue is that the air cooling on this router pushes air from ducts behind the collet straight on to the work piece. I stood there with the shop vac pointed at the thing, but the dust was all over the work shop and none in the vac. This confused my until I noticed the force of air flow coming out of the router, pushing the dust into a big cloud.
Damn.
So I think to progress I’ll need start looking at dust shoe options.