This reminds me of a funny and scary incident I heard regarding a hobbyist and his new CNC mill. He never installed the limit switches on his Z axis because he lost the mounting screws during assembly. He was anxious to take it for a spin, so he bypassed the missing switches. He started testing each axis and didn't realize he inadvertently set the machine for rapids just before testing the Z axis. In a split second, the milling head with the lead screw flew up from the column and punch a hole through his garage ceiling and fell back down on the mill. He was so traumatized he returned the machine at his expense and gave up on machining.
I should be so lucky. No doubt it would save me many $$. I still don't have a lathe, and there's a bunch of tooling on my wish list. 😁 Limit switches are Top of the list for this project. No chips till the limit switches are installed.
The next video with the G-Code running should be out in less than a week. No chips yet though. I want to put on limit switches before I make chips.
This reminds me of a funny and scary incident I heard regarding a hobbyist and his new CNC mill. He never installed the limit switches on his Z axis because he lost the mounting screws during assembly. He was anxious to take it for a spin, so he bypassed the missing switches. He started testing each axis and didn't realize he inadvertently set the machine for rapids just before testing the Z axis. In a split second, the milling head with the lead screw flew up from the column and punch a hole through his garage ceiling and fell back down on the mill. He was so traumatized he returned the machine at his expense and gave up on machining.
I should be so lucky. No doubt it would save me many $$. I still don't have a lathe, and there's a bunch of tooling on my wish list. 😁
Limit switches are Top of the list for this project. No chips till the limit switches are installed.