DIY CNC Update.

[Music] what's going on youtube today's video i'm going to show you an update on my cnc and my little workstation this is my workstation this is where my cnc is on my last video i had this as a stepper motor i updated it into just a regular dc motor as you can see i had to actually drill this is what it came with it drill some holes on the plate so that i can attach the dc motor but it runs off a pc pwm there we go and just i just turn on the switch it's independent it's not working off the stepper motors and stepper drivers just beds to a power supply and this is pretty much the same where the vacuum setup is and my router and my life center this one i don't move if i have to cut a smaller piece such as 18 inches i have a extra tailtock end and that's what these bolts are for i'll just move these bolts line it up to 18 in make it as center as possible because i don't really need it as accurate cuz i will making it i'll be making it into a dowel and once i get that into a dowel i'll turn it into a queue so the biggest thing is having the accuracy between this point and this point so that's why i don't move this the only thing that moves is to put pressure on it i also use i have an extra um it's like a almost a life center dead center but i use this it has the bits on this i don't like removing this because in and out i just want it there and i have a little hammer so i can get the indentions so it holds the wood a little bit more firm but let's go ahead to my finishing station this is the finishing station itself and i also updated the motor this was a stepper motor all i got to do is just plug it in this is where the power supply is and pwm and it runs off that and this is not actually bolted and what i had to do if you go to the back over here i had to actually clean up the seals inside this um where it holds a chuck because what i noticed when i was running this motor it was running really hot and i was like what it had so much friction so i had to remove that seal i don't really use water and everything what it was supposed to do to have the bearings inside here all nice and clean but the thing is i just use it compressed there to clean the queue sometimes i'll wipe down the cues but that's pretty much what i'll use but it's a bigger motor has a lot of a little bit more horsepower cuz that's when i because this is a bigger chuck too cuz so that if i'm sanding a queue doing a finish re retapering a shaft i'll do it over here cuz it it gets really messy so i have different um this is like a m2 i believe m2 tailtock where it holds it in and you can move this and i'll just switch these out to different points what what i need to do it all depends concave and have the these are all life centers so that's what i'll use but i also have them this is what i bought earlier i bought these so that when i do maintenance on the shaft i'll just stick this to the chuck and that way i have a it's pretty much pretty much center which i like a lot so what i'm going to be also doing is to demonstrate using my cnc i'll be turning this dowel as you can see this is about a little bit over one inch 1 in dowel so it's a 1.017 i'm going to get it to 750 actually 740 is my goal just because i have my gun drill and that is set at 760 and i want it a little bit smaller you don't want it so snug when you're putting the glue when you're cing it cing it you don't want the glue so thin that it's not actually hold it's you're actually pushing the glue out and there's no more glue so you want some of the glue inside the the core and the the wood itself so that's what i'll be doing i'll show you how i get my centers and i'll get my center hole and we'll put it on the cnc now i'm going to show you how i get centers on the wood itself so this one's actually a dow but i got like i said i have to make it smaller even if i get a square i use this this is to find my centers i'll just align it here get my pencil get one line across then flip it perpendicular make sure it's draw a line what i like to do is actually get back to the same line as close to it and see where it is draw another line when you get rotate it and this will tell me where my center is so i'll get a punch once i get the punch put on the floor as best as possible and i'll punch it like that the other side is already done as you can see i did that a little earlier so all i got to do is get the punch center it and then once i get those centers i get a center drill and put it to my drill itself actually just drill it get that 60° and do both sides once i get both sides i got my centers now what i'll do is so that why i have an extra um little centering tool is that way i can use this so i could mark it normally for wood it'll have me the directions of which way i want to do but this is g if it has a taper be the nose end the butt end butt end or nose end vice versa so what i'll do is i'll get this and i get my little hammer and then i'll just tap it in you don't want to do it too hard or you split the wood you just want little indentions so once you get those indentions now now the truck has something to bite on as you can see and it'll hold it there and the thing is if i remove this off the cnc what i'll do is mark it you'll see i have marks over here little line and then i'll mark the wood that way it always goes in the same place cuz i'll i'll take the measurements when it's off it's a little bit more accurate versus messing around and seeing if i get get an accurate thing so i'm going to do the setup and then you'll see a demo on how how i use the cnc so now let's go ahead and set this up so one thing i have the little indentions here so those little indentions will go on this side yep there it is and it feels it it'll bite it then i'll go to this side turn this once i get that then i have these little allen wrenches and then that way it just stays stays put don't have to crank it too hard and then this will be there now i got to do set it up on my computer to get this um cutting tool as close as possible to the edge of this wood the dowel itself and then do my initial setups on the computer i already loaded the g-code this is the g-code i'm using this is actually the mach 3 cnc demo i still have the demo cuz i don't make enough cues to actually purchase the cnc and i don't really write codes but this is pretty simple it's telling cuz i have this on the yaxis is where it goes just like in a graph paper yaxis is my north and south and my x-axis is my east and west so i'm telling my g-code first thing to do is um move 0.1 inch these are in inches towards the material and then it'll it will climb backwards into the y axis cuz it's at zero and it'll go um -30 spinning - 38.5 in that's how long i'm doing it because this is a 30-in shaft or 30-inch dowel and then it'll go back to zero and then i'll go one y two so step in a little bit that should be 0 2 yep it's 0 2 not two two would be way too far it'll crash into the material and it'll move 30.5 and then that should give me a rough estimate of 08 because this is at one already so it should be at 08 then i'll check my measurements i don't want to go exact and then cut way too much and and waste the wood versus now i have a little little tolerance and then once i have that tolerance and then i'll just move it in increments and small movements and then of course it go back to 00 m30 just says hey work is complete that's all on the g-code so let me go ahead and set everything up and move everything and then you will do the demo so now i'm going to go set this the the cutting wheel as close as possible to the material itself like i said so this is pretty much set because it's already done and what i'm going to do is just hit my tab button this has increments of how fast you want your your jog the jog is to move it back and forth so you'll see the cnc moves at 20% and of course both both sides move on the plane and once i get it close enough then i'll do slow increments i'll move this down to almost five or 10 10% i like 5% because i don't want to crash it cuz i don't have i don't have i don't have stops on these so once i get it and then i'll feel it so i got to move this towards me so i'll move it to the left that is pretty close so one way also to do it is actually spin this and then slowly bring this up so once this hit you'll see it stop [Music] there so it's actually touching the material now so which is pretty good so now it's now it's just touching the material now i can put my y axis into zero cuz that's where i want it to start and then i can bring this go to zero where you'll see the machine move back once i hit that button you'll see it'll move back to zero and i got to move it a little bit more towards the right so i'll do a little increment to the right that's about good and i'll move this again to zero on the computer you can see it right here so it moved 0661 on the positive side and i'll put that to zero now i have all zeros on my x and y axis and then now this is pretty much ready for me to do my initial cut forgot to mention before i even do all my work i will always have my ppe on of course got earplugs and of course my eye protection that's like a must especially when you're working with wood chips and normally i have a respirator cuz i'll have the vacuum on and that's going to be super loud so sometimes i'll have a respirator or i'll just be outside and of course the compressor when i'll have that so but these are pretty much my pp i have a respir little breathing respirator doesn't have breathes it just has filters and then of course the air pros well i forgot to put hit the record button so this is what it turned out i noticed um cut in a little too deep anyway so have another one since i got to make um three of these and this is a little bit oversized so once i put this back on the leg cuz right now is at 8 and i need to go to 740 so i'll just take some of it off and then you'll see so we'll do the demo again and hopefully i have this one should be right because i should have it in two passes now i have adjusted it to 03 and 03 so and i actually move my yaxis a little bit towards me on this on the negative side because i noticed it was way too much and i cut it that's my that was actually one pass and it went all the way to point 8 so that's not good so let's go do a second try and see if that one works [Music] [Music] [Music] so i just did a rough pass to show you how the demo works on my cnc so i'm going to go ahead and take this off that way you guys can exactly see the measurements itself and i also turn off the machine that way this doesn't accident and cut my hand when i'm working around here that that would be really bad so let's go ahead take the measurements this was a rough pass so this measures at 872 and this one measures at roughly at 900 9002 so 9 - 7 = 2 so we're looking at what 02 on a climb and i'll show you what 02 looks like so make it like make it about 24 so that's the tolerance that i actually have on this machine and it's climbing what 30 inches so that's actually pretty good like and also even with that little small taper i'll still have the groove line cuz i don't like it all smooth i'll have a groove line so that once i split the glue the glue will climb out and i'll actually stick to the other wood a lot better also i make the the nose where the pin goes and the joint collar i'll shave this down i'll actually go back to my lay inside and i'll cut it to almost about 4 in that's how deep my um my like um my drill is and i'll get it down to 630 so 630 you look it will be a 5/8 and i have the 5/8 here so with the 5/8 this is 626 so when i have them together you'll see the big difference this is how much the joint collar will look like inside and you can see how much that would be versus having this so big and then this is what you're going to shave you're going to shave a lot off so you don't want i don't want i don't want the joint collar so thin i want it a lot thicker so that when i put the joint color on the core it has more the joint color will have more meat on it also the fast way i verify my sizes is just get one of these this is already at 75 and i just make sure it fits all the way through well hopefully this video was informative if you haven't already hit the subscribe button hit the like button and leave a comment down below thank you for watching and see you next time thank you for watching please subscribe me don't forget the thumbs up bye-bye so this is