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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Thanks! Not my design, though. It’s a German made Sorotec Compact Line 0805. I don’t think the brand is well known in the US, but has a good rep here in Germany. It came as a kit (just the mechanical part) and I had to plan the control cabinets for machine control (eding cnc 720 + JMC closed loop steppers with integrated drives) and spindle control/vfd (omron mx2) myself.

    The cooling is being done by an aquarium pump and a 5L bottle of distilled water at the moment. For the winter I’ll have to make myself something with a heater, because the spindle doesn’t like temps too far below 20°C and heating up the coolant with the spindle would damage the bearings.












  • alleycat@feddit.detoLuthier@lemmy.world3d printed nut?
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    7 months ago

    You mean from the end here as circled?

    Yes, exactly!

    On of the thing I was actually also considering was making small tabs that I could use to keep it from sliding side to side and still replaceable. Think that would be wise or just glue the bastard down?

    Just use a tiny drop of superglue to hold it in place. It can still be carefully broken out and be replaced this way. The rest is done by string tension.


  • alleycat@feddit.detoLuthier@lemmy.world3d printed nut?
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    7 months ago

    I used a 3D printed nut for the rebec I posted in this community. PLA works best because of it’s high stiffness, even better if it’s PLA-CF. Make sure to add enough perimeters to not get hollow spaces in the nut.

    If you manage to print it standing on its side (add a brim!), then the layer lines will follow string direction and the strings will glide better on the nut.