There was more valuable info cramned into this video than all the previous I've seen. I've watched so much content regarding diy precision ive lost count... Much appreciated Thanks
Mining your own ore... You got me there! Loving this long form video, great to feel part of your thought process. I tbh wasn't seriously considering printnc, am probably still all into the Bulkman or Yayong machines. But intend to follow this series and see what comes up. Am fully aware of the torsion issues expressed on reddit and the solutions that these vendors are pushing.
I think the big benefit of the PrintNC is the fact that since you're building it yourself, there's no mysteries about what is going on, so your ability to diagnose issues or make repairs is far greater. You're also able to manage QC far better with the PrintNC than with an off the shelf machine - you're in complete control of the parts that you use to build the machine with.
Great video. Looking forward to the rest. I'm in the "window" shopping part of my PNC journey and my current main consideration is controllers. There's a lot of pushback in the discord towards the more plug-and-play controllers like Buildbotics/XPro V5 /Openbuilds controller, however to me they just make more sense. I don't want an old garbage PC with a parallel port in my workshop controlling my cnc. I'd rather do the CAM work beforehand, then in the workshop, load, zero, go. What are your thoughts?
Thanks! This is why I made the choice of the grblHAL2000 board. With LinuxCNC driving a break out board or a Mesa board via parallel port, the Teensy 4.1 does all the heavy lifting. This means that you don't have to worry about latency in your host computer - it literally doesn't matter. If you could find a g-code sender that would run on a Windows XP machine, you could use that. :) From what I've seen, there's two camps for PrintNC controllers - the first group is the LinuxCNC users - their controller choices are all over the map, but appear to be mostly parallel port interface devices. Those controllers of course require the host to have very low latency or there's problems driving the connected CNC machine. The other group falls into the ioSender camp that uses the grblHAL2000 board as the controller. ioSender is an open source g-code "sender" that runs on Windows. The author of ioSender is also the same person that created the grblHAL fork of grbl that is designed to run on larger/faster CPUs as well as increasing it's capability. Which Discord are you referring to? I haven't seen mention of the controllers you listed (but admittedly I don't pay THAT close attention sometimes). BTW, I put a link to the ioSender project in the video description.
On your stepper drivers, it's a good idea to have a spare on hand. I had one of those 542s fail on me. Because I had a spare, I didn't need to wait to order another one
@@NotTodayMaybeTomorrowOk Thanks! If I'm able to, I'm going to get Part 6 edited and up today (8/28/22), but that depends on getting other tasks completed first. :)
I really think a lot of the beginning of this video could have been cut out. I set the video play back speed to 1.5 times and it still feels like it dragged on.
Lots if good stuff there. But an hour long!!. You said it's going to be detailed and it was. But there is a difference between detailed and dribble and disorganisation that is was not needed. You could have saved 25 min and kept me interested. Lots of knowledge in your head but I will most likely not watch any more unless you change your format.
@@f15sim Hello. I hope you are well. Sorry I will explain myself and be constructive with my reply. The unboxing was painfull. And I felt the level of detail you went in to about your old CNC was unneeded. The part where you explained the extra components was good as you knew what you had. Rather than a long blind unboxing, If it was all opened the parts lined up would allowed you to keep on topic and moving forward part by part. It's obvious you have a wealth of knowledge. From what you have already pit out the videos will be full of good detail and learning for 85% of viewers. There will be alot of technical content in your videos. I think people new to CNC and building will become overwhelmed with the amount of information given if you continue to put out hour long videos. For most time is hard to come buy. I personally don't have the patients to watch an hour long video with 35-40 min of content. But would happily watch 5-7 30min videos in a series if I knew I would learn somthing and not have to filter through unneeded elements. The bit about your old CNC could have made a great snappy video looking at its design flaws and their effects over time and why the printNC is superior. Please keep up the good work and I look forward to your next video. Have a great Easter.
@@brentfixesstuff Follow up videos shouldn't be nearly as long. The discussion about my ShopBot was a "what brought me to this point" story. The unboxing was "blind" because i wanted folks to see exactly what they were going to get when they threw over $1000 at a company they didn't know in China. (My parts kit was $1223.65, as-delivered.) I see your point on the video length - I do feel I crammed entirely too much into a Part 1 - there should have been a Part 0. ;) The ShopBot I have (A PRT Alpha 96) doesn't really have a design "flaw" in those rails. 17 years ago, it was a pretty good solution. (The irritating part is 3 months after i took delivery of the PRT, the PRS came out sporting hardened rails across the board.) The ShopBot is a commercial tool and is designed for tearing through wood at stupidly high speeds - with a 1/2" cutter installed, I can tear through 3/4" plywood doing full-depth cuts at better than 5-7in/sec. It's designed for cabinet makers, sign shops, boat builders, etc. Coming in at a slice over $17k, it is NOT a tool designed for the hobbyist. ;) Thanks for your feedback Brent, it's appreciated. The next installment is going to be MUCH shorter and may be out today. ;)
Hi, love the info. Thank you so much! Can you spend a little time talking about the bench/table you’re going to put your machine on. It’s the one topic that’s just not spoken about in ANY of the videos.
That's actually going to be the Part 2 video! I'm still tweaking the design as I build it. I'll be providing some drawings for folks that would like to build one for the "default" sized machine.
@@JohnPorra I don't know if YT will clip the url, but this is what the 3D model currently looks like: i.imgur.com/q3XRypC.png. This is a photo of the table model pulled into meatspace: i.imgur.com/tJQevYe.jpg :)
