Above 1200 Sq/FT Eastern Washington Workshop

[Bob Heine]

Steven, just looking at the pictures I'm going to have to take two Tylenol. I only had to grind 700 square feet of thinset in the great room and have a hint of what you have gone through. The worst part is the dust has probably invaded the rest of the shop. Even with the doors taped shut it made it into the far reaches of our house.

 

[slodat]

I’m grateful I don’t have any injuries in my past that make things like this impossible for me. I’m sore, but not hurting. It did kick my ****. I did my best to isolate the dust. It is everywhere.

I hope all of the effort is worth it and the mold doesn’t come back.

This is only half of this bay. The other half will happen later.

 

[slodat]

Still chipping away at the huge floor project. Used a needle gun to clean up edges and other areas that the grinder didn’t get. The surface wasn’t finished the way we do these days. Very rough with lots of small holes full of dirt and muck. Made my way around the whole area. Vacuumed as much of the fine dust as I could before blowing the cracks out with compressed air. Went through three more epoxy kits filling cracks. Next up is mixing some mud and filling holes.

What I started with:




Current status:


Sealer is set to be here end of the week.

Changed direction on the mil a little. Going with Centroid Acorn and DMM 1.3kW AC servos. Will work the mill project in parallel with the floor.

Started making a bench top CAT40 tool storage rack. Matt’s tooling organization thread gave some inspiration. These inserts match the taper. The Prusa does a nice job making them.




The concept in mdf. Will work for a while. Once I know I like it, I’ll make it out of a composite material.

 

[Finallygotit]

Nice job on the floor and I love those tool holders!

 

[harley jim]

Those floor projects seem to grow every time you start one. Looks like a fine job you are doing. Will be top shelf when you get done.

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[lilscorpion]

Steven -

The floor - dang that’s a lot of work. I’m with FinallyGotIt on how much easier a repour would seem in comparison but keeping an existing slab is probably the way to go coat and outcome-wise. It’s going to be so much nicer when you’re done.

The tooling rack is sweet. Really like how the inserts turned out. Do they press fit into the board or will they just lay in the hole and the tool leaves them behind nicely when you pull one out?

I’ve been looking into the Centroid Acorn stuff. Can’t believe that Centroid made their stuff more affordable for the DIYer. My conversion for the mill was $12k - $15k if memory serves. Think I could do it for maybe half that now but maybe I’m missing costs somewhere. Eagerly waiting to see your mill project start to take shape..

 

[slodat]

The inserts are a light press fit. The tools are nice and stable in the inserts. I have a chunk of 1” Baltic birch that would be perfect for this.

Centroid is really upping the ante with their DIY products. They have said the closed loop servo product lines (Oak and AllIn1DC) will get simplified pricing similar to Acorn for the software unlocks. I really love the way it all works.

The floor kinda is what it is. If I had the funds to replace the floor I would probably still do what I’m doing. It’s just work. Once this is done, the other half will be easy by comparison. I’ll keep working on it until it’s finished. The concrete patches will need to cure for a month so the moisture released doesn’t create more mold. I got more of the rough patch prepped last night. It’s slowly getting there. I think the mess it’s causing on the other half of the bay bothers me more than the work involved.

Today is the last day of my long break from the damjob. Moving the hot rod down the street for a while so I can get the mill going. A good friend is helping run conduit to the mill. Then back to the daily grind for a while. I’ve really enjoyed my two week break.

Thanks for stopping by guys!

 

[zmotorsports]

Dang Steven, that floor looks like a hell of a lot of work. Nice job.

 

[harley jim]

Slodat
How is the floor project coming

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[Jayman17]

Very nice updates and activities in your shop from the last time I checked in. The floor project looks brutal though! That's not easy work
Looking forward to seeing the finished product.

Jay

 

[slodat]

Dang Steven, that floor looks like a hell of a lot of work. Nice job.

Thank you, Mike. It’s a total **** job. Another that will make me smile every time I look at it.

Slodat
How is the floor project coming

Slowly. I got slammed at the day job went I went back after the holiday break. First day off is today.

Very nice updates and activities in your shop from the last time I checked in. The floor project looks brutal though! That's not easy work

Looking forward to seeing the finished product.



Jay

Thanks Jay! I’m ready for the floor to be done.

I’m going to be crazy busy with the day job for another month or so. Plan is to work on the floor in the evenings when I have the energy. Hopefully I can get it done in that same month and hour or two at a time. I’m really ready to have the shop back together.

I have managed to do a little over the last three weeks. Started getting the mill tooled up with some basics.







Bench tested the new controls for the mill.


Started panel layout on the mill.




Lots of room in the mill control cabinets. Should turn out pretty nice. I have a few days off that I’ll be enjoying in my shop. Doubtful I do much on the floor. I’m going to enjoy working on the mill and rejuvenate.

Thanks for following along!

 

[Finallygotit]

Wow. Nice little cache of tooling, not cheap. Love the new vice.

 

[slodat]

The bulk of the tool holders are imports to get me started. The Kurt was a compromise. I really want an Orange dual statin. Again, it will be enough to get me started.

Lots of work to do!

 

[lilscorpion]

The bulk of the tool holders are imports to get me started. The Kurt was a compromise. I really want an Orange dual statin. Again, it will be enough to get me started.

Lots of work to do!

Tool rack looks awesome! Import tools work just fine unless you need to hold tight tolerances. That’s all I really have and have done just fine over the years being within a few tho. CNC is where the magic happens anyway. End mills aren’t themselves +/- 0.000, so tool and backlash compensation is key to making a part come in (close-ish) to matching the drawing.

Love the Orange dual station. You going to mount it sideways? I opted for dual Kurt 688’s because they seemed more accessible on my table.

 

[slodat]

I think the import tool holders will be good for now. I did make the mistake of buying one Maritool ER32 holder. Man.. they make really nice stuff! The imports were about 1/4 the cost. And, I have plenty of the ER32 now and it didn't blow the budget. Next step is.. I think I want a HF 44" box to hold tooling and such next to the mill. I'll add more rows to the tool rack to fill the depth of the top of the box. I still need a 45 and 90 degree face mill, drill chuck, and, and and

My thought on the Orange is to mount it sideways with the Kurt next to it. Time will tell. There's so much more work holding options built in to the Orange vises.

 

[slodat]

I’ve been eyeballing these latest generation HF tool boxes for a while. The additional depth and black paint really was the only thing holding me back. I had to run to town today to get a couple things for the mill.



The mini truck is perfect for stuff like this. Just rolled it out of the bed onto the floor.



Should work out well for mill tooling.

 

[lilscorpion]

I’ve been eyeballing these latest generation HF tool boxes for a while. The additional depth and black paint really was the only thing holding me back. I had to run to town today to get a couple things for the mill.



The mini truck is perfect for stuff like this. Just rolled it out of the bed onto the floor.



Should work out well for mill tooling.

There was a little room left in that bed for more box. Just sayin

 

[slodat]

It's funny you say that! I went with this box instead of the 44" because I wanted the deeper drawers. I think I'll add an end cabinet on each side for some smaller drawers. That's a lot of box for the price and should handle my cnc tooling quite well.

 

[lilscorpion]

It will be nice to have so much space, certainly enough to grow into. I recently was in HF looking around and I’ll admit that their toolboxes are nice and not unreasonable price-wise. I probably would have brought one home if I could have for one in the Jeep. [emoji1787]

Now you need to make some drawer/tooling organizers for your tools!

 

[slodat]

I do have some organization stuff to sort out!

Mill panels are starting to look like something.

 

[slodat]

Got the mill control panel going together. Pleased with the results considering I used scrap aluminum plate and it’s the first try at this panel. Should do the trick.

I’ll have to make a keyboard tray.

 

[lilscorpion]

Got the mill control panel going together. Pleased with the results considering I used scrap aluminum plate and it’s the first try at this panel. Should do the trick.

I’ll have to make a keyboard tray.

Hyper organization there and that control is slick! Ya my wait to see it make chips. [emoji16]

 

[xtremek]

Did I miss an update on the floor? Did you finish the repairs? I love the fact that the panel is a repurpose and it came out really nice.

 

[slodat]

I got slammed at the day job when I went back after the holiday break. I’m going to be crazy busy with the day job for another month or so. Plan is to work on the floor in the evenings when I have the energy. Hopefully I can get it done in that same month an hour or two at a time. I’m really ready to have the shop back together.

Thanks for following along!

I’m getting excited:

 

[slodat]

Powered up the control for the first time today. Control panel is in and working. Lots left. Nice to see the screen up and running.



The Intel NUC front panel is accessible from the side away from the spindle.The opening was existing. I’ll make a new cover that trims out the NUC front panel.

 

[T-handle]

Nice work sir!!

That mill is having a new Journey in your hands master man

Love your thread and it makes me want to dive in the g-code world. All I need is a cnc router, laser and a 3d printer

Keep on posting, this is very interesting

 

[BORING HOP YARD]

Very nice work, the control has very clean layout. Not too much longer and you will be making some chips.

 

[Finallygotit]

It's aliiiiiiiive!!


Getting closer, almost there!

 

[slodat]

Short video showing 200ipm rapids from far limits back to home.

 

[lilscorpion]

Short video showing 200ipm rapids from far limits back to home.

Sweet! Chuck and end mill and let’s make some chips!!!

 

[BORING HOP YARD]

Nice work, enjoy the moment!

 

[slodat]

Sweet! Chuck and end mill and let’s make some chips!!!

You mean like this?

Used Intercon to write the simple program. I have some learning to do. It went well!

 

[BORING HOP YARD]

Job well done! neat to see your success!

 

[Finallygotit]

You mean like this?

Used Intercon to write the simple program. I have some learning to do. It went well!

 

[slodat]

Thanks guys!

Received the Hitachi SJ-P1 drive for the spindle. This is a very nice drive. And, they are rated for single phase supply to very high HP levels. I bought the P1-00800-LFUF 15kW model rated for 31a output continuous when powered from single phase. Drive comes with bracket for wall or through wall mounting which places the heat sink and fans outside the enclosure. This is how the original drive was mounted when it was new. I had to open up the hole a little.







The spindle motor has an encoder and Hitachi has an encoder interface option for the P1 drive. I think I’m going to give closed loop sensor vector a try and see what that’s like. I’ll also have a chance to run the thermistor wire to the drive when I run the encoder wire and replace the motor main leads with modern VFD cable.

I’m adding a few relays when they get here. I want the spindle fan to run for a few minutes after the spindle stops, so I ordered an off delay timer. And, I need to replicate the spindle FWD and REV outputs to drive the spindle fan contactor.

The machine is getting close. I’ll get the probe receptacle and spindle load meter wired and I’ll be pretty much done with the conversion. Very happy with the machine thus far.

Short video of the spindle and drive doing their thing.

 

[slodat]

For the most part, the mill is ready to use. As I type that I realize I have some tidying up to do with the air stuff and the wire trough cover.

Used it for a real job tonight. The Y axis cover needed clearance for the position of the new motor pulley. There is a knockout in the cover. Used the probe to locate the existing hole. Mind blowing how well this works! I’ll make an appropriate cover for the opening.



As it sits now with chip shields in place. The table is really high when close to the quill. 48” in these photos.

 

[BORING HOP YARD]

Congratulations on getting your mill converted. It will serve you well and looking forward to see how you add it to your current bag of tricks.
Nice work!

 

[xtremek]

Time to make some chips

 

[lilscorpion]

That thing looks sweet. Really wish mine had a splash guard...and I could stop by and watch it cut!

 

[slodat]

Thanks guys! First part on the cnc mill. CAD and CAM all done in Fusion 360. A few issues.. for some reason it’s 0.295 instead of 0.340. G code looks good- 0.015 off the top and 0.145 off the bottom. If the machine was off, it would have hit the vise considering I left 0.025 above the jaws for OP2. At first I was thinking my probing is somehow off. Then I was chatting with my buddy and he suggested looking at some stuff in the software. I’ll have to look into it. And, the chamfers are weird on both sides. Not sure what’s up with that yet. Nice finish for my first part though. Been working through the NYC CNC online Fusion 360 CAD and CAM courses. They have helped a ton. Lots to learn.

Not terrible for my first part. Second try using completely new to me software for design and machining.







After OP2:


It’s making a big mess of chips and a lot of fun!