r/Makera

I think this is what this machine is made for. Small parts and small fixtures with 6 to 1mm endmills. This felt really easy. Especially 3d probing makes things so mutch faster than it used to be on my old router.

Not sure what steel it is. I got it as a offcut at a local shop.

I think if you use a real CAM software and make small parts with small endmills you can comfortably do this all the time. The part took 25 min because i was beeing very conservative and the spindle didnt even get to 50 C.

Pont de balancier en 316L pour un mouvement de montre (ETA 6497), il mesure environ 13 mm de long pour 1.65 d'épaisseur

Usiné sur un tour schaublin 102 pour le disque qui a servit de brut, puis makera Z1 en 2 fois pour tous les fraisages/perçages et les chanfreins

Passes débauches à la fraise de 2mm puis finition à la 0.9 et la 0.5

Perçage du piton à 0.49mm

La reprise du trou de l'incabloc sera faite ultérieurement sur une pointeuse pour garantir le centrage avec l'incabloc de la platine

I am planning my first part to cut on the Makera Z1 standard when it arrives on Tuesday (woohoo). The part is a mount for a 6axis end effector. It is milled from a 6" x 3.5" x 1.25" block of 6061 with a 1/8" flat end mill 2 flute and a 1/8" ball end mill 2 flute. Can anyone evaluate the CAM and speeds and feeds to any degree? I did the steps manually in Fusion 360 and refined them with Claude:

1. Face the bottom of the block flat

2. Flip it and face the top surfaces

3. Cut the outline most of the way down

4. Rough out the material inside the outline (the long one, about 4 hours)

5. Finish the walls

6. Finish the curved saddle with a ball mill

7. Finish the floor between the bosses

8. Bore the bolt holes and counterbores

9. Bore the two holes for threads

10. Thread-mill the M4 threads

11. Finish the flat floors

12. Cut through the bottom, leaving small tabs to hold the part

I made a clock with a custom 7 segment design using a milled single sided PCB, milled aluminium panels as well as a 3D printed core and some felt for the outer surface.

Documented on:

https://www.makerables.com/project/custom-7-segment-esp-home-clock

The controller for the LED pcb is a ESP8266 D1-mini with USB-C running ESP-home. The brightness is variable so one can change it when it is used with Home Assistant.

My first ever attempt with Makera Z1, and the engraving bit broke..

I don't know what I did wrong (maybe except not noticing the metal still has the protective plastic on...)

This is the settings and the path - https://imgur.com/a/Rvk293W

I used the engraivng bit, single flute, 1/8inch, 0.3mm.

Ther first letter engraved almost completely, but the bit got stuck? And broke. And now the top of the bit is stuck in the holder and I cannot get it out.

1. what was the faulty settings? maybe 3mm depth is too much for engraving?

2. this is the 10x10x0.5 cm alu that was in the box

3. how do I get the broken bit from the holder? The lever does not open the holder enough for it to fall out.

Damn I love this machine. To be honest, I'm really glad this is my second CNC and not my first.
I started 4 years ago on an old Genmitsu with a twisted bed. No matter the stock size, it was always losing 0.3mm somewhere. Auto-leveling in Candle didn't fix it, so I spent hours in Fusion 360 tweaking files and splitting toolpaths just to compensate.
Setting up the Z zero, probe, changing bits, and doing all the work for every small job took hours. But well, I got used to the process and learned a lot from it.
Now with the Z1, it feels like a whole different level. Everything is so fast and precise that all my old paused projects are finally back on the bench!