Some assembly completed

Post date: Jun 26, 2016 2:54:28 AM

I assembled things enough to check squareness... and it looks pretty good. At least as far as I can tell without actually machining some hard material.

That said, I may or may not have broken one of my stepper drivers. Due to a wiring issue, I blew up one of the current-sense resistors (it's 0.056 ohms, so I don't know what else it would be). On the up side, I can replace that pretty easily (and DigiKey will get parts here in a couple days for a reasonable fee). On the down side, it's one more thing to do.

Next step is probably trying to wire up a 240Vac outlet. I don't have one of those here, and definitely need one before I can cut anything.

So... mechanical good, electrical still needs work. And actually the mechanical does as well (adding in two more bracing pieces on the bottom, tapping the holes in the table, putting all the screws in the Y axis rails, etc.), but it's enough to try cutting things.