I did a previous post on my first CNC linear rail upgrade, that was on my Y axis which has two drive motors. That upgrade was so impressive that I decided to next do an upgrade on the X axis, across the gantry. When I first made my machine I used the suggested aluminum angle […]
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I sell a few Mexican train domino sets on Etsy, and the complete set requires a full set of 12/12 dominoes, (that’s 91 tiles) and eight small train tokens which I obtain from Amazon, a center hub for the domino paths to start from and a nice wooden box to put all the handcrafted parts
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The original build of my machine called for linear movement rails of v bearings and aluminum angle with an inverted v shape on the edge where the v bearing rides as shown below. The bearings were fitted on the top and bottom of the extruded aluminum rails, and were fully adjustable for level and pretension.
I have a shop made CNC machine, I used the Kronos Robotics plan found online. The plan is very well laid out, and while there are two versions I chose to do the one that has lead screws. I didn’t trust the small belts that the other design featured as I wondered if it was
