Since nobody posts to forums unless there is a problem, I wanted to buck the trend and report that the first day of my xcarve 1000mm kit has gone without a hitch!
I am in a situation where I don’t have the area where the xcarve will be setup yet, so I stuck to things that don’t take up the full amount of space.
- X Carriage DONE
- Y-Plates DONE
- Gantry DONE
- Y-Axis Standby (this will make the footprint huge and make it harder to move)
- Belting X axis (gantry) done, Y axis on standby
- Z-Axis DONE
- Drive Rod DONE (acme threaded rod)
- Z-Axis Motor (DONE)
- Wiring (wired to terminal blocks on the plates, the rest is on standby)
- Drag Chain Standby
- Spindle Mount DONE
- Work Area Standby (and I will be doing the T slot method instead of attaching wasteboard to the machine)
- Electronics Standby
- Calibrate TBD
- Drivers TBD
- Machine Setup TBD
I think that puts me most of the way to having the physical portion of the machine done, then I am sure a fair amount of time will be spent tweaking.
Everything so far is going great, the instructions are very helpful. The only thing that gave me ANY trouble was when attaching the Z axis to the X carraige, one of the insertion nuts would NOT thread, and when it finally did catch it cross threaded. Put that insertion nut aside, the next one threaded fine. Not sure if there are extras in the kit or not, I will find out. I assume I could get those locally, but I will have to see, getting anything metric at local stores here (in california) can be tricky. Selection is limited. Hopefully the kit came with a few extra, if not, I would suggest adding in a few extra in the future, There are very few threads on them and they can cross thread fairly easily.