Rods "Spaceship" Scratch built Plasma Cutter build

rodw wrote: Gee, the were just getting to the moon when I was a kid

tommylight wrote: O ring.

Wasn't it a rubber part that failed on your table too Tommy?

Yup.

So I am pleased to say after about 4 years in the making, I finally have the spaceship in a final position and off its casters. We also routed all the air and power down from overhead so there is nothing on the ground to trip over.

We gave it another torture test while cutting on Friday and the boost feature has solved the motors eventually overheating and the motors are much cooler to the touch. But I had an over temperature fault on the top most driver in the control panel. I think it is my fault for placing the drives where the old ones were which meant that drive was being heated by the ones below it which is not per the layout in the Lam manual. More adjustments!

But I had wired the Lam driver fault output to joint.L.amp-fault-in. This basically triggered an estop event and therefore I was unable to recover and continue to cut the file in a complex nest.

Is there an alternative method I could use to halt motion yet still recover?

Dont know if it has a functionaliy spindle.M.at−speed
Should stop (next? move) with a wait
Mike

Mike_Eitel wrote: Dont know if it has a functionaliy spindle.M.at−speed
Should stop (next? move) with a wait
Mike

Thats not a bad idea. I think Plasmac uses that signal but I could and2 it. I'll check it out. Thanks Mike!

My laser pointer died. I think it was becasue it fell off with the torch and pulled the wires out of the back. This time I used a different one with a 16mm barrel



I made a new bracket for the laser and clamped it in after slitting the part and adding a clamping bolt.


During the week, We sold a towbar for the new Isuzu Dmax which was the first available for the latest model. We would have sold the first one off the production line from this particular company.

They had drawn the part incorrectly. Luckily our customer took it in his stride and just drilled a couple of holes through the chassis!


Man, I nearly did it myself on this part as I had based my drawing on an earlier part with the bolt holes in position but I drew it up on the wrong side of the part. Lucky I saw it in time!



Just goes to show how easy it is to stuff something up even with 3D cad design.

Please do accept my sincere condolences !