about my 48" X 48" X 5" Techno/ISEL woodworking router build

I've never experienced tooling being violently thrown from a router when it breaks. In wood working it is much more likely that the material you are milling might break or come loose from its fixture and be thrown out at high speed. That I have seen happen numerous times. But broken tooling generally doesn't go flying.

 
I have been working to improve the wiring in my control cabinet. so far i have replaced the un-fused power taps with fuse blocks, and replaced the separate scattered grounds with a single ground block (my method of a star-ground).

my next task will be to route the wires a little better, and clean up the arrangement of connections between the control box and machine, via the 25-pin parallel port cables. i have a enclosure for the machine-side junction box.

haven't posted in a while... haven't even turned on my machine in a while.
I have been having tremors, and bumping into stuff. not certain the cause, but i had a brain MRI just last friday (Dec 8th), and am waiting on the doc to say what was found as i cannot interpret the exact findings in the radiology notes. may be something, may be nothing. current gear of thought is the onset of Parkinson's, but they are still running tests.

but i find this all a bit scary, and i question if it is even safe to turn on my machine, let alone ME run it. maybe it is just a bad inner ear infection that will clear up, and i will be good to go.

in any case, i am still making plans to use it for carving wood signs. as making plans to sell it, is giving up, and i am not ready for that yet.

worst part is, i am forgetting what i have learned by not using it. i really need to study the configs and routines again. at the very least, i should make up some general setup check-list, to refresh my memory. perhaps i just had a mental scare, and i just need to jump back in, starting slow and precise, to get back into it.
i know for a fact i will have to run-in my spindle again, to ensure the bearings are still in good shape after sitting.

anyway, just wanted to update a little bit.

thinking of yet another re-wire... why you ask? when it works you ask? because the wiring is hap-hazard and hard to debug, is the answer. i have made so many changes that my schematics no longer correlate to my wiring, and that is not future-proof for the next guy.
my plan this time is to actually have rules i want to follow, and to label everything. then i want a master book that tells what every wire, relay, and junction is for. yeah, it may take longer to get back up and running. but it will be safer, and reliable. no more wires twisted together and taped up in random places i forgot about.

also, i need to make a way to lube the machine. take this last video i did of my machine:
the Z and X axis are boxed in. so i need to create access to the slides and screws for lube. Y axis i can get by climbing under the machine. and as this is a woodworking router, i can't have oil and grease dripping, so i need to be able to clean the old grease off before adding a film of new grease. (i forget what the exact grease is, Mobile 1 Extreme Pressure?)
i have thought of taking the covers for the slides right off and making removable covers, or bellows.

all this will have to wait for the new shop to be finished. still working on raising funds. collecting bottles, pan-handeling... the usual story. not expecting a huge tax refund this year, but every penny is planned to go toward the shop. if i can get a wall to mount my furnace, and a wall for my entry door, the rest should fall into place. i plan on building the entry door rather than buying one, as it is just cheaper. then it is just a matter of dragging the electrical service over from the current shop, and moving the machine.

i just hope that the nearby dead cherry tree does not fall on my new shop, as i have not the money to have it taken down...

No eBay APP ID and/or Cert ID defined in Kunena configurationreceived shipment of one of these:
it is a Modbus K-type thermo-couple device, with read-type 04, address 1, for temp C in format "270" for value "27.0C".
my plan is to attach the thermo-couple to the spindle to monitor its temperature.

i also plan on getting some spools of waxed string so i can do some old-fashioned wire-lacing on the machine to bundle wires and air-lines. it just looks neat, and i rarely change the on-machine wires now.