DIY Milling Machine Part 6: T-Slot Machine Table and First Movements! 

How beautiful it was heard cutting the steel in your other machine, music to my ears

You've made the most over-engineered pen plotter in the world :D

Looking great! Love that bandsaw auto feed lol

4:00 That elastic strap 'auto-feed' is pretty clever!

It's alive! I'm in love...again.

Congratulations, amazing progress.

This is probably the most expensive pen plotter I've ever seen but those crisp clean lines make it worth every penny.

This is going to be a great machine when it is finished !

Hey Alex, this is one of the best DIY cnc on RU-vid. Great work!!! One thing I would have done is to put dowel pins between the base plate and the bars that form the T slots. Machining forces can knock the bars out of alignment.... Maybe🤔. Great work anyway!!

Great video Thank you for Sharing I can't wait to see the finished Machine👌👌👍👍💪💪

Wow. You do such nice work. I can't wait to see it make chips!

Great progress. Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to hearing from you soon

Congrats, Alex.Excellent job

Amazing! Can't wait to see this in action!

good video alex..thanks for your time

Extraordinary job !

Uh nice! English version! I've been practicing my primary school german since you started the series ;-)

Love it. Great dedication!

Good job!

You owe Stefan a lot of machining time! He pulled you out of the precision despair. Btw, those rapids look a but scary. You need a house for the new dog.

Great work man,,,looking better in every new video...;-)

Hello Alex. Very good work.

Hey alex ! Good work , keep going !

your router is such a beast , most people wouldnt even think to upgrade

Good job alex

This is looking awesome! Super glad you are using LinuxCNC too. It's stupidly capable even if it's hard to get into. Question: Did you consider using precision dowel pins for locating the strings of steel that make up the T-Slots? I feel like that would be one way to lock them in fairly well. Maybe I'll have to try and make my own t-slots once I finish the enclosure to my mill and the wiring.

Those rapids! :)

Lovely Job.

Gran trabajo de scraping!!

Very nice. LinuxCNC 👍

Hey Alex, where do you buy the precision ground plates? And how much did those two cost? Great work 👌

I noticed there's no usage of coolant . . . why?

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Your video made me really think of the difference between strips and stripes for the first time. Just so no one gets the wrong impression: We all understood what you were saying, and given how often english breaks it's own rules that's all that matters. I was just left wondering about why we have two nearly identical words for two identical concepts except for that one refers to it in a 3d object context (strips, with the "i" pronounced like in bridge) and the other in a 2d, almost visual only context (stripes, with the "i" pronounced like in ice). English is weird.

That is a nice milling machine Alex. What material did you use for the T/slot bars ?

This is great progress! At 14:09, do you have any idea why it sounds kinda like a slide whistle (»Lotusflöte«) during the jogs? I'm pretty ignorant, but I don't think I've heard a mill make a sound that depends on position like that. It would make me nervous that something was loose or off-center on drive shafts, causing them to vibrate at a frequency depending on where the table is at. It could also just be the resonance of the little pocket they're in, which could be tested by throwing some rags in there to spoil the resonance. Anyway, this is awesome, and I'm really looking forward to seeing the first chips!

Hi Alex nice work. What kind of servomotor did you use?

slowly taking shape! baffled by how you have got all this equipment into your basement shop. does the pneumatic cylinder work well as a counter-weightt substitute? i have a maho on which i would like to try this on.waiting for you to make the first chips...

wow

Alex, I suspect you selected servo motors rather than stepper motors for the mill? What size (kW) motors did you use for the axis?

Hello Alex, in the t-slots plate you have also 2 or 3 fix pins ? Nice video see for the next one

Fun side project, make it play music :P

Wo hast du die linearführungen gekauft

any plans for an ATC ?? manual tool changes are fine , but many it gets old when the part requires a few

u re awesome 👍😀👍

is that probe a DIY probe? if so any details you can share?

What is the budget of the machine?

The CNC is coming together so nicely. Are you a ming to make an enclosure out of aluminium profile or leave it without? Would you mind share the source for the precision ground steel plate? Thanks a lot

This table is made from steel or aluminium?

Question for machinists. How come you guys dont make your own linear rails and buy the rails.. AND the carriage? Are they really that difficult to make?I mean I guess the carriage could be more difficult.. but ive seen guys 3d print both and they worked relatively well for being plastic rails and and plastic carriage... for use on a 3d printer. Its quite impressive. You can search youtube for the guy with plastic linear rails. he demonstrates them.

What distance you have between the rails in X, Y and Z?

15 m/min rapids?

Spindle extension block made of concrete?? Not a good idea for the motors or ballscrews

Gloves

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