Yup wish I had seen this video this morning about the ball nut being the wrong way in the manual. Instead of shimming those plates I have drilled and tapped a hole top and bottom and have 6mm grub screws in there so it can be pushed out and adjusted although after getting those tubes skimmed it appears that I might not need to shim anything now.
Nice. Yeah an adjustment screw is a good idea. Although I found the left to right adjustment the most tricky. It would probably be worth while to add a couple blocks and an adjustment screw for that as well.
How long did this take you, a lot of people on Reddit & YT Comments say a month or two of shimming and measuring followed by lots of electronic issues. Thinking about self sourcing and building a clone.
The build took me exactly a month from opening boxes to doing the first test cut. I only worked on it evenings and weekends when I had time, so not every evening or weekend in that month. I suspect most of the problems people have assembling or wiring is due to lack of experience. Which is fine, you just have to budget that into your time and do some troubleshooting. The kit is no where near as bad as some have made it out to be. Good luck building your clone! I'd be interested to see/hear how you make out. I imagine there will be a significant time investment in making many of the parts. Not to mention the cost of all the materials and hardware. I don't know this for sure but, my feeling is that it will be tough to do it for much cheaper than what the kit costs. The bit of money you do save likely won't equal the amount of extra time you'll spend making the parts. Though I am in Canada and the cost of everything is absolutely crazy. Unless you just want the challenge of it, which I can completely understand. Either way good luck!
@@amp_mechanic Its not to save money. I am in Pakistan, and dollars are a bit short these days. Other than that, just got out of University, first job, saved money just gets spent on stupid stuff, so decided to put it into something that actually enriches my life. Been missing the University machine shop & I am a Computer Engineer.
@@amp_mechanic Can you publish the parts list with specs, I assume one was provided. and secondly, Can you do a video making a complex part in aluminum. I just want to hear this machine more and see it actually accomplish a useful task. All other videos I have seen are example/exploratory cuts.
@@subuktageenfarooqi5712 There was no parts list. Parts are listed in the instructions as you go along. And I'm not going to share that since Omar specifically requested not to. I will have some video of some cuts in both aluminum and steel coming soon.
Hey man, hope you dont mind me asking. It looks like you only ran a red and blue wire to your purchased 12v/10a power supply. Where did you run your other red/black wire for the second barrel jack connection?
I don't mind at all. I only ran that one pair and connected to both 12V board inputs. Just soldered direct to the board. And I can't remember but I think both 12V taps on the board might be connected anyway. If so, I would guess it was cheaper to use 2 lower powered wall warts than a single higher output. My power supply is rated for 10A and the ones that came in my kit were only 2A each, so plenty of head room. I will cover some of this in the Part 2 video. I just haven't had time to finish editing it. Cheers!
Hey man, thanks for the reply. I actually copied your box method, ordered same 12v power supply lol. So much better than the original design thanks for the idea! I just finished my build this past week but ironing out some issues. I ended up running the leftover 4 wire cable from kit 2 and 2 soldered to the board and with a 4 prong aviation cable connected to a single connection on the 12v/10a power supply. For some reason my pump doesnt work which is why i ask, i checked all connections and getting 12v everywhere except the pump i was getting 10v at the board which seems odd. Made me think i had to run 2 separate lines connected to separate spots on the 12v power supply. @@amp_mechanic
@@amp_mechanic odd it was at the main board two screws where the brown and blue wire plugged in labeled pump on the board. I just finished taking the potentiometer off and testing it with another lesser quality one I had, and it worked. Looked at the chip on the one that came in the kit and I had a bad solder joint. Luckily that fixed it. I think the last thing I have left is the y-axis motor. If I hit up on the arrow keys the bed goes to the back of the machine but increases in mach3. I think Omar says if that happens you have the motors electric flipped. I definitely didn’t wire it up wrong, what you think is that common with CNC motors, sometimes you have to wire them in reverse?
@@loosegoosageify I believe you just need to flip a switch on the stepper driver. It's a mistake in the instructions, that 5th switch, or whichever it is, has to be off.
A few things about the kit (I got a 2nd run) *None of the bags are labeled. Given the amount of hardware this can make for being a serious pain in the arse. *Some of the smaller items like barbs for the blocks and the odd screw here and there seem to be short of. Not a deal breaker - most of the stuff is easy enough to find. *The powder coating on some of the parts even on the 2nd run machines is pretty bad. Some of the parts I had the powder coating milled off so the rails would sit flat. *Some parts of the documentation need to be updated as some things seem to of changed from the first run (example is the rear stepper motor plate - says 3 bolts but only 2 bolts actually line up on the bracket.) Overall seems like a good kit. I have brought a masso g3 to wire into mine instead of the mach 3 board. Will hopefully make it a lot easier to use but I guess time will tell. Good videos mate it's a shame Omar hasn't put a few build videos together to make life a little easier for some folks.
All good points. Thanks for posting for others. I really like the Masso G3, looked at it myself. But I couldn't justify spending that extra amount for the DMC2. I'll be interested to hear how you like the G3.
haha...I have plenty of stuff filmed but haven't had much time to edit it. Between work and having to fix a bunch of my stuff that's been breaking, there hasn't been much time. Snow here in NS today as well but it won't stay, going to be warm again this weekend.
Yup wish I had seen this video this morning about the ball nut being the wrong way in the manual.
Instead of shimming those plates I have drilled and tapped a hole top and bottom and have 6mm grub screws in there so it can be pushed out and adjusted although after getting those tubes skimmed it appears that I might not need to shim anything now.
Nice. Yeah an adjustment screw is a good idea. Although I found the left to right adjustment the most tricky. It would probably be worth while to add a couple blocks and an adjustment screw for that as well.
How long did this take you, a lot of people on Reddit & YT Comments say a month or two of shimming and measuring followed by lots of electronic issues. Thinking about self sourcing and building a clone.
The build took me exactly a month from opening boxes to doing the first test cut. I only worked on it evenings and weekends when I had time, so not every evening or weekend in that month. I suspect most of the problems people have assembling or wiring is due to lack of experience. Which is fine, you just have to budget that into your time and do some troubleshooting. The kit is no where near as bad as some have made it out to be.
Good luck building your clone! I'd be interested to see/hear how you make out. I imagine there will be a significant time investment in making many of the parts. Not to mention the cost of all the materials and hardware. I don't know this for sure but, my feeling is that it will be tough to do it for much cheaper than what the kit costs. The bit of money you do save likely won't equal the amount of extra time you'll spend making the parts. Though I am in Canada and the cost of everything is absolutely crazy. Unless you just want the challenge of it, which I can completely understand. Either way good luck!
@@amp_mechanic Its not to save money. I am in Pakistan, and dollars are a bit short these days.
Other than that, just got out of University, first job, saved money just gets spent on stupid stuff, so decided to put it into something that actually enriches my life. Been missing the University machine shop & I am a Computer Engineer.
@@amp_mechanic Can you publish the parts list with specs, I assume one was provided. and secondly,
Can you do a video making a complex part in aluminum. I just want to hear this machine more and see it actually accomplish a useful task. All other videos I have seen are example/exploratory cuts.
@@subuktageenfarooqi5712 There was no parts list. Parts are listed in the instructions as you go along. And I'm not going to share that since Omar specifically requested not to.
I will have some video of some cuts in both aluminum and steel coming soon.
@@amp_mechanic ok that's fair, I guess if I am going to build myself, I should put in the work. Eagerly waiting for the new videos.
Hey man, hope you dont mind me asking. It looks like you only ran a red and blue wire to your purchased 12v/10a power supply. Where did you run your other red/black wire for the second barrel jack connection?
I don't mind at all. I only ran that one pair and connected to both 12V board inputs. Just soldered direct to the board. And I can't remember but I think both 12V taps on the board might be connected anyway. If so, I would guess it was cheaper to use 2 lower powered wall warts than a single higher output.
My power supply is rated for 10A and the ones that came in my kit were only 2A each, so plenty of head room. I will cover some of this in the Part 2 video. I just haven't had time to finish editing it. Cheers!
Hey man, thanks for the reply. I actually copied your box method, ordered same 12v power supply lol. So much better than the original design thanks for the idea! I just finished my build this past week but ironing out some issues. I ended up running the leftover 4 wire cable from kit 2 and 2 soldered to the board and with a 4 prong aviation cable connected to a single connection on the 12v/10a power supply. For some reason my pump doesnt work which is why i ask, i checked all connections and getting 12v everywhere except the pump i was getting 10v at the board which seems odd. Made me think i had to run 2 separate lines connected to separate spots on the 12v power supply.
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@@loosegoosageify 10v at the main board or at the output of the board with the control pot?
@@amp_mechanic odd it was at the main board two screws where the brown and blue wire plugged in labeled pump on the board. I just finished taking the potentiometer off and testing it with another lesser quality one I had, and it worked. Looked at the chip on the one that came in the kit and I had a bad solder joint. Luckily that fixed it. I think the last thing I have left is the y-axis motor. If I hit up on the arrow keys the bed goes to the back of the machine but increases in mach3. I think Omar says if that happens you have the motors electric flipped. I definitely didn’t wire it up wrong, what you think is that common with CNC motors, sometimes you have to wire them in reverse?
@@loosegoosageify I believe you just need to flip a switch on the stepper driver. It's a mistake in the instructions, that 5th switch, or whichever it is, has to be off.
A few things about the kit (I got a 2nd run)
*None of the bags are labeled. Given the amount of hardware this can make for being a serious pain in the arse.
*Some of the smaller items like barbs for the blocks and the odd screw here and there seem to be short of. Not a deal breaker - most of the stuff is easy enough to find.
*The powder coating on some of the parts even on the 2nd run machines is pretty bad. Some of the parts I had the powder coating milled off so the rails would sit flat.
*Some parts of the documentation need to be updated as some things seem to of changed from the first run (example is the rear stepper motor plate - says 3 bolts but only 2 bolts actually line up on the bracket.)
Overall seems like a good kit. I have brought a masso g3 to wire into mine instead of the mach 3 board. Will hopefully make it a lot easier to use but I guess time will tell.
Good videos mate it's a shame Omar hasn't put a few build videos together to make life a little easier for some folks.
All good points. Thanks for posting for others.
I really like the Masso G3, looked at it myself. But I couldn't justify spending that extra amount for the DMC2. I'll be interested to hear how you like the G3.
Wass-up ......3 months no post.......Where in the Great White North are you?......it's white here today. (GEORGIAN BAY)
haha...I have plenty of stuff filmed but haven't had much time to edit it. Between work and having to fix a bunch of my stuff that's been breaking, there hasn't been much time. Snow here in NS today as well but it won't stay, going to be warm again this weekend.