New Member: Tom, Kent

[Thomas DyeParticipant @thomasdye26707]

New member. Looking to eventually acquire a lathe and/or milling machine, when I accumulate the budget, that is.

[Thomas DyeParticipant @thomasdye26707]

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Welcome to the forum Thomas,

What sort of projects do you have in mind?

Neil

[Thomas DyeParticipant @thomasdye26707]

Hi Neil,

My current projects are: a reflow soldering oven; a CNC router controller; and a SCARA based pick and place robot for electronic components.

If I had metalwork tools I would use them to make more tools!

[Mick HenshallParticipant @mickhenshall99321]

There are some very knowledgible (have I spelt that right 🤔 )people on here I have been helped a number of times and have been very grateful

Mick

[Thomas DyeParticipant @thomasdye26707]

 

This is the start of my 3D printed SCARA. For a sense of scale the dark bit is a NEMA17 stepper motor.

Edited By Thomas Dye on 11/04/2018 20:42:31

[george AldousParticipant @georgealdous13656]

welcome Tom I'm in dover.

George.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Looks interesting Tom, what printer are you using?

We have a 3D printer topic (we aren't as old fashioned as you might thinkl!)

Neil

[Thomas DyeParticipant @thomasdye26707]

Hi Neil,

I will be using my anet a8, it’s a prusa i3 clone with an aluminium backed heated bed and z leadscrews.

[Thomas DyeParticipant @thomasdye26707]

In my SCARA each arm is over 200mm long so, to get better positional resolution I decided to use an 18:1 worm drive to reduce the whole step angular resolution to 0.1?. Obviously I have no idea whether the design will actually work, nor whether backlash will overwhelm the designed angular resolution. But, I wanted to check if anyone thought that the speed of the arm would be sufficient even with the 18x reduction.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I've no experience of implementing SCARA, but Joseph Noci is building a morgan style 3D printer and documenting it in another thread here which may have some issues in common?

N.

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