Finally someone who actually replaced those guide rods with linear rails instead of saying they installed linear rails but really only installed more useless guide rods. Gratz man and happy cutting! This confirms that what I was planning to do with the 3018 I ordered should work fine. Time to get to printing and milling parts.
They are holding up well I mostly do Alumnium work with the occasional wood project here and there, I have dual air hoses to keep the dust from accumulating
Original model genmitsu 3018, I don’t have the list of items handy but is 500W motor, HGR20 rails for the bed, MGN12 rails for Z and X, and SFU1204 ball screws for the X and Y.
Purchased them about 8 months ago and the conversation was not hard I used the plastic machine to help me with the hold alignments and drill by hand, nice I had a rigid frame I redid the frame.
By that time that ain’t no more 3018 and I guess for the costs one could have had another model. That all said this Frankenstein monster does work excellent. It ain’t the 3018 but it is awesome mini CNC machine finally. Good job.
3018 refers to the surface area.. but yeah. best upgrade ever.. my 500W spindle and mount are on the way. cant wait to get to work. In contrast.. it was this or a drill press with X-Y mill table. this costs way less. and a $35 offline controller. its just a digital drill press for aluminum plate now.
@@guser210ar15,Ar10,Ar9 lower receivers for a firearm. im looking into getting a CNC router/machine to mill n router and cut aluminum. In the great state of North Carolina, citizens are allowed to build and manufacture their own firearms only for *PERSONAL USE ONLY* if u choose to sell it you have to go to a FFL dealer to get it serialized and registered if not youre immediately a felon. Just looking into a mid ranged CNC machine. I know ghostgunners has one but its over 5 grand with a 500 dollar deposit.
@@guser210 awesome, thank you. I'm "upgrading" my 3018 like you did yours and I think I'm struggling with figuring out the spindle situation the most. Do you think the rigidity/vibrations, the stepper motors, or the spindle is the weakest point right now?
@@samhoodak8075 the spindle neck on the original machine was the biggest source of vibration followed by the rail guides on the z axis and then the guides on the x and y.
@@samhoodak8075 now the weakest point is the aluminum extrusions, I will not be replacing those since I’m building a bigger machine and this one will be for small stuff.
Используя Google Translate... Я думаю, вы спрашиваете, сколько стоило обновление, я действительно не помню, но я уверен, что оно стоило около 500 долларов.
No matter how many of these I watch its the same. I know during my 20 years of nc cutting we used a collant/lubricant for aluminum. Not one vid ever does. But hey what do i know 😝
@@pierpaolop9534used the orignal 3018 to spot drilled the hole locations on the columns and the spindle base and holder and drill everything manually, that was the first upgrade, 2nd upgrade was a motor and mount, also spot drilled the holes since the old motor could not cut anything oustide of soft wood, but with the previous upgrades it made it more precised, 3rd upgrade machined all the parts with the upgraded machine. the upgrade also includes 2.1amp steppers and the spindle is contrlled externaly with a speed controller.
Why are you dancing around with the camera like you gotta take a leak?! It's making me dizzy. Hold still, son! Cuts look clean though. I know it's not easy to dial right off the bat but the finishing pass, while it was great on the DOC, could've been shallower on the WOC. The longer area of flute engagement with material means more deflection (in a tabletop machine). I dunno if I would've broken the finishing pass into two, or just made the roughing passes go out a little further to thin out the finishing cut on the walls. Looks like it worked out really great though!
You know how it is when you got to go you got to go… thanks for taking the time to comment and as you can see I am new to machining and that was my first cuts ever I’ve since come up with good recipes and continue to improve on them.
Ужасно!!! Поставите асинхронный шпиндель! этот мотор не пригоден ему не хватает жёсткости и массы! И запомните два самых важных параметра в мех обработке это вес и жёсткость чем они больше тем лучше!!!
Your taking too large of step downs, you've got spindle chatter from a looze z and lack of coolant. But for what it is, this is awesome Save stock for for very light cut finish passes for better and flatter finishes
