Fired Up My CNC Router Today

[kmmcrafts]

I finally took some time off of scroll sawing and repairing cars / mowers and all the other household things and finished assembling the CNC, hooked up all the wires / cables etc.. Set up my water cooler bucket with RV antifreeze and plumbed the tubing to the spindle and to the coolant pump.... Turned it on and registered the unit.. toyed around a bit with it even though I have no idea what I'm doing, LOL... I messed with a drawing in the V-carve software that came with it.. that itself was a adventure, LOL  Glad I have a little experience with patterns for the scroll saw using inkscape.. that helped a lot.. but sure a lot more to figure out.. I have the touch plate but for the life of me I can't figure out how to set it up.. Going to watch the set up videos again.. I watched them back in the winter but then got busy with other things and after several months I guess I need a bit of a refresher, lol

[Rockytime]

I'll be waiting to see how all this works out.

[meflick]

I feel your pain Kevin.  I haven't used ours in so long that I think I will have to go back to square one and relearn what all I learned and fear I have forgotten.   I may have forgotten how to use my scroll saw too.   First one thing and then another has kept me out of the shop then not.  Cousin's daughter's wedding this weekend.   Maybe next week.  I never figured out the touch plate yet either.  I do have several successful projects with it, so I know it can be done. 

Edited June 13, 2019 by meflick