PrintNC First Moves!

[@rebeccah.6403]

I have to watch more of these videos so I know what the heck my husband is making!

[@jimbmakin7975]

What a great wife! Also makes sense to understand what the heck he's spending all your money on! Mwahha. There are worse vices he could have I suppose tho the amount of money you end up spending on material and bits u might be better off financially doing the drugs.

[@rebeccah.6403]

@@jimbmakin7975 I'm trying!! You know what the say a happy husband a happy life! 🤣🤣🤣 Well drugs may be less expensive short term but long term the medical bills add up. 🤣🤣🤣 Now if he delt and made drugs that's a different story! 🤣🤣🤣

[@d3rsch0rsch]

Only someone who´s into DIY CNC mashines can understand the beauty of this moment.

[@benikorol4308]

I love this design. Very simple and robust

[@jon9947]

Amazing, I was super excited to see it move. I can only imagine how you felt, fantastic job! Looking forward to seeing it make some chips.

[@dannesser]

I can relate to "plenty of soldering practice from the drone building days" lol, I've built a lot of them myself... I'm anxiously awaiting my AliExpress order to come in. I have my frame built, painted & loosely assembled, I'm ready to tackle the rest of the build! Great work on yours btw! and thank you for taking the time to make these videos!

[@jimbmakin7975]

Looking great! congrats on your first build! I'm running a similar setup on my bulkman3d workbee 1010, I've got a 1.5kw vfd spindle high torque nema 23's and upgraded the z axis to linear rails. If you're going to do an enclosure and plan on cutting a lot of aluminum I highly recommend you run 8mm OD air hose in your cable chains so you can add mist coolant later on. Had a lot of trouble cutting aluminum at a depth of cut over 0.2mm, it would cut clean without chatter but the bit would eventually clog before the job completed. After adding the mister I can make 0.5mm+ deep cuts all day with no clogs. Got a mister kit for $20 on amazon, the most expensive part aside from the 8 gallon air compressor was the $35 gallon of concentrated Trim Mist coolant. SO worth it! I've learned that it's not enough to have a rigid machine and a vfd spindle to reliably and consistently mill aluminum without issue. I don't always run coolant the whole job bc i don't wanna soak my mdf but even with just the compressed air it's enough to cool the bit and blow the chips out of the cut and towards the vacuum hose. I'll add some videos to my channel of my setup and the mods I did to the dust shoe to work with the mister, in case anyone is interested to see how well it works.

[@TheWrate]

Thanks for this Brian. I happened onto the PrintNC via a Facebook group. I'm already planning my build!

[@JShel14]

My god the flex in those stepper mounts! But congrats on getting to this point in the build!

[@gkelly]

There's some wiggle to the steppers at 0:32 and 1:15, do you think that will affect the lifetime of those 3D printed stepper mounts?

[@mildlemon7866]

You built an amazing machine! I wish I had room in my workshop to set up one myself.

[@DreitTheDarkDragon]

Same, I think I will buy some huge tent and build something on garden in future :D

[@kenbro2801]

Excellent build, looks great.

[@ZURAD]

Wow, you've been pretty busy. This thing is looking great!.

[@BryanHoward]

Awesome machine I gotta watch through all your build videos to see what I'm still missing. I'm still a long way out and need to get a 220v line into the garage. Most parts are ordered except for steel.

[@ahsanbilal3137]

you need to add a shock absorber to motor.because it show vibration while running.I appreciate your work

[@Duraltia]

@01:12 Oof... That Stepper wobble man... Looks like you found your first parts to machine in metal, huh? 😐

[@Zimbob2424]

I came down to the comments to see if anyone pointed that out. It just needs to be designed better and can still be 3d printed, but metal should also work and that may even need to be designed better

[@ashleybevard4705]

Dude those on off buttons! 👍I wish we had the noise control at the Bevard house!

[@SB911]

Looks awesome Brian! Really great work

[@YowserUK]

7:50 You are running 1605 Z Ballscrew and not the standard printnc Z 1204 ballscrew ?

[@suprcros]

Looks awesome, I am building a mpcnc since it's my first cnc machine. I am down to the wiring and I'm a glutton for punishment and opted to do dual endstops.

[@jimbmakin7975]

You can actually do it with 2 normally closed limit switches wired in series to one limit input on your control board. The machine works out whether you're at min or max based on the direction it's moving.

[@MuddFlappRanch]

Awesome!

[@nedgligich]

Nice work.. any chance of a discord link update?

[@benzhuk876]

After watching this it makes me want to sell my X-Carve

[@TheVFXAssault]

doit. Im just in the process of bulding this bad boy

[@tinkerjar396]

Great stuff! Keep up the good work

[@augustsvensson9786]

Wobbling motor mount is "good". It means any forces applied to the motor axle is dampened in the mount. Putting the bearing block on a steel mount makes it more rigid, any axial forces applied to the ball screw will be eaten by the bearing block instead of the bearings in the motor. If you go by replacing the motor mount with steel ones, do yourself a service and do the same to the bearing block mount, and take extra care to align the motor with the ball screw to remove stress on the motor bearings. Food for thought.

[@BloomingtonFPV]

What is the overall footprint of the mill? Do you plan to build an enclosure?

[@neobikes]

1:10 Why is Y motor jiggling so much?

[@CharlieSolis]

Nice build! Just a thought, is it smart to have your e-stop in such an awkward place instead of in the front near where the operator would be

[@CharlieSolis]

@@ProjectsbyBrian sounds like you got it covered!

[@ronvais5838]

Can you make a video on repeatability and accuracy tests?

[@laconeccionvideo]

:D Linux EMC2, I used that program to lauch my first CNC toy on 2012... now I want to make it stronger to mill aluminum.

[@zenvent]

Max switches are good if you don't feel like homing, or the machine loses it's actual position due to missed steps / stalled motor. Like a fail safe.

[@tonyf4020]

How many feet of 3x2 did you need for this size?

[@fenders9911]

were can you purchase this cnc machine

[@ftcministriesworldwide]

Brian, have you documented how you got that 780 converted to Linux? Let alone, set up with linuxcnc? So far it seems like I'm going to build a Mars traveler... Any suggestions? Pointers?

[@matthewtimbs4919]

Is this the standard size one? Any big changes from “standard” you did or wish you did?

[@matthewtimbs4919]

Never mind. You answered :)

[@graveurgraveur2691]

Impressive!!!

[@DZ-gj6qz]

yeaa! nice job!

[@FiveFishAudio]

Are the 1610s worth it? I'm trying to build and don't know if I should stick with 1605s or if it's worth it to go 1610s?

[@gmdc5850]

Hi Brian, regarding the single endstop, does it mean that LinuxCNC uses the inductive sensor as a starting point and adds an offset to set a software limit on the opposite side? Thank you.

[@evertythingtechrelated9715]

Any plans on using dual endstops for squaring? Or is not needed?

[@evertythingtechrelated9715]

@@ProjectsbyBrian I have the mpcnc primo and it gives me problems at times. I might consider printnc in the future.

[@jimbmakin7975]

@@evertythingtechrelated9715 mpcnc seems pretty jank, as someone who spent a lot of time researching diy cnc plans it didn't seem worth it for the money. I ended up going with the RS-CNC32 for my first build but if I saw the PrintNC first I totally would've built that bc of its superior/open source design. Cnc is punishing as it is to learn I think you will find it much more enjoyable to use something like the printNC

[@evertythingtechrelated9715]

@@jimbmakin7975 I fixed the issue, one of the tubes was bent from moving to another home

[@leejones9827]

Just to clarify, the Z ballscrew should be 1204, not 1605. Nice job though. It's a lovely looking machine.

[@mattivirta]

i copy hall and ini my similar cnc but not working, hal and ini files change printcnc files to my linuxcnc debian 19, but not working, how can make hal and ini files working dual Y axis. i has try change many files but all only errors and not working

[@sandman_1071]

Any particulare benefit of running Linux CNC?

[@preciousplasticph]

Why just now notification on a 4 day old video?

[@manuelsaray]

Can you make video cutting aluminium, please?

[@andersmeiniche2746]

Cant jug it longer ! unless you lose some steps on the motor ;)

[@valmirferreira3982]

Ficou muito top💯 👏👏👏