After losing all my pictures online i decided to make a video with a slideshow with lots of pictures and descriptions so the pictures wont get lost in the future.
Man I have to say this is the best home made milling machine I've ever seen on youtube and I've seen a lot of these.. Also I work as a mechanical engineer and I have to say that in case I will ever build a machine myself I will just follow your example because I don't know how to do it any better with "accessible tools". Props
Very, very impressive. If a German precision machine company does not hire you- they are certifiably insane. But it could be that being German- building expoy granite multi-axis CNC's is a common hobby!
It seems a very common activity in Northwest Europe, I've been watching all the self built (CNC) milling machines and lathes, and 90% or more were made by Belgians, Dutch and Germans. Can't wait to upload my own machines, we have a manual lathe and CNC milling machine in the pipeline as well to add to the list!
Hi. If you ever make another polymer concrete would be interesting to see if adding Graphite would make it stronger. According to experiment made by Tech Ingredients channel it should be 50% stronger. If you want to know more watch "Making Graphene could KILL you... but we did it anyway?!" at 41:00. Love you Machine BTW. 👍
I like this format a lot. Quick pictures with text, and the viewer can pause wherever they need to see the details carefully. I've followed your build on the forums, on FB, and in video format here. This video slideshow is awesome:) Thanks.
I'm not one to say this is the best one I've seen, or comments like it, but it definitely is very high on the list, if not at the top. What I like most of all is the little things that some people might not think about like a lubrication system that doesn't require the machine to be pulled apart to service it. I have seen your build before, and it continues to impress me.
Hello Stef; how did you inject the resin in between the mating parts ? Cartridge ? Seringe ? Any advise on the minimum distance between the 2 mating part beyond which the resin would not be able to get into ? Thank you.
Stef, beautiful job on your mill and enclosure. I am looking to add windows on the side of my mill enclosure and like your use of the rubber gasket and Z channel extrusion. I was wondering what size Z channel you used?
I've been following you since your first videos that you made, I was left wondering about the pneumatic piston, I would pay for that information, they are manufacturing my machine and I have that counterweight dilemma, I also follow you on instagram,
This epoxy is a self curing one. But it needs ages. If you heat it up for a certain time it goes quicker and then the epoxy should be stable. I dont have a big oven so i made like a tent around the castings and put a electric space heater in front of it. I added some temperature sensors inside and also further inside the casting to see what the temperature did.
Dear Stef, I sincerely admire the milling machine you built! This is one of the best examples I have ever seen. The highest production culture and capital approach is visible. I was very inspired by your story. Please continue and develop! Konstantin (Ukraine).
They are free to download check grabcad.com/library/epoxy-granite-vertical-cnc-mill-1 a small donation is always appreciated of you can use the designs.
Hi Stef, I may have asked you this question one year ago on FB but I forgot:) I did some experiments with epoxy leveling between the base and the column on my machine. I'd like to ask specifically about the tightening sequence. Your machine has 3 parts of the leveling system: 1) a gap for epoxy. 2) Clamp screws. 3) Set screws to adjust the tram. When you have the tram set with the set-screws, are the clamp screws very tight at that moment in time? And then you pour in the epoxy? Or are the clamp screws "finger tight"? Next, after the epoxy cures, do you FIRST back off the set-screws, so they are not supporting the column at all, and the column is ONLY resting on the epoxy? Then tighten the clamp screws fully? Or, do you leave the set-screws where they are, and fully tighten the clamp screws? Thank you for helping to clarify this detail that has been bugging me for a while.
What i did was leveling the column with tight set screws and i belief also normal tight clamp screws. then poored in the epoxy and didn't change the set screws. I putted a dial indicator on the spindle and watched it while fully tightening the clamping bolts it didn't move. Even before pooring in the epoxy i did some test cuts the column was only supported on the set screws.
@@Svanitterzon Thank you. Do you think the epoxy shrunk slightly, and that the machine is actually still resting on the setscrews, and not the epoxy? That's why in my head I keep thinking the leveling setscrews should be disengaged at some point of the leveling process.
Awesome machine! On a very small side note- it is "put together", not "putted together". Apart from that, this really is an amazing machine Stef and i really envy you🙂!
Yeah grammar isn't my best skill, and the video editor doesn't have spelling control... but i guess and hope most of you can understand what i mean....
@@Svanitterzon Stef, i really dont mean to critisize! Your machine has my very highest respect🙂 Keep those videos coming, they really make me wanna build another cnc machine on my own:-)
