industrial automation & machines

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pic related, a CNC I built in the little time of formal education that I received.

>>1080494
I like you toolhead ;)

I went to school for IE and to get any real use you had yo be a self starter, we were fortunate to have a lab that we could play with but it was all a solo activity. I got a 3d printer from mono price to learn on for $300 bucks, past that maybe plc's via an audrino

>optimizing automatic soldering line

not so bad

>optimizing LEAD FREE automatic soldering line

what kind of fucking monster invented this shit

speaking of automation check this fucking loot i got this week

i love when my work is in a 5S kick

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forgot pic

>>1080494
Not bad, I'm assuming you can only cut wood/ plastics on that. How much did it cost you in the end?

>>1080523
Lucky bastard, our 5S trips just consist of wasting half the week cleaning and labeling everything in sight of the supervisor.

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>>1080541
>I'm assuming you can only cut wood/ plastics on that
You can cut and engrave aluminum with it, though you have to go rather slow. But it works fine enough.

Was something like 250 bucks from china, but the school paid for all of that anyway.

>>1080545
Is there anything stopping you from replacing the extruded ally with steel box section, or are the motors just not powerful enough?

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>>1080546
I think the motors are more than powerful enough for that. What I noticed was that if you're going fast on some tough material like metal, the milling bit and the drillhead and the whole thing holding it will start to bend sideways. So yeah, replacing that part with something that's more stable and can take more force would probably make milling aluminum and the like quite a bit faster.

But my main use case for this thing would be small stuff like engraving aluminum plates and cutting softer materials. I plan on building a larger one that I can use for milling larger PCBs, and also milling aluminum and the like once I have some pay.

Pic related, fuck wires.

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now i wait
till they throw out the cable to program this

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>>1080549
k homie, your main problem is that fucking jacobs chuck

chucks can take no side load, they are not ment to sideload

get a proper ER11 collet chuck and a set of collets and that will help loads

>>1080554
Did you find all of that from dumpster diving?

>>1080557
>get a proper ER11 collet chuck and a set of collets
Cheers, I'll keep that in mind when designing the machine.

>>1080494
Have been eyeballing that little fucker for a few weeks, the 3d printed parts kinda holds me back, is it worth it?

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>>1080646
I didn't have to pay for this baby myself, so I can't really tell you if it's worth the money, but I'd say it probably is.

You can cut shit like wood and plastic, even fairly thick aluminum if you go slow. You can also exchange the drill-head for a 3D printer or a laser, so that's a nice bonus. Only complaint I have is that getting all the tolerances down and tight when building it is a pain. Mine still has a tiny bit of an angle on the Y-axis, though that's not an issue if you cut the whole thing out afterwards.

And don't expect the instructions that come with it to be good for anything. In the slightest.

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>>1080554
Why? I doubt you can download the software to program it. You've better off getting a Micrologix 1100 and Rslogix starter for free.

There are lots of other options that come in under $100. You can even "write" ladder logic and compile it for an arduino with Soapbox Snap.

Pic related, I used to be a project engineer and I programmed a lot of PLCs. Allen Bradley CompactLogix and Opto22 primarily.

I'll dump a handful of other "neat" pictures.

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>>1080704
Here's a thermal image of some terminal blocks. I took it with a Seek Thermal camera on my android phone.

This is two blocks of terminal blocks L1 and L2 on the right on a 230v 1ph system. Turns out there was a stripped out screw on one of the jumper bars.

Thermal cameras are pretty handy, but are quite limited at the moment.

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>>1080705
Adapted a router mount to put on a 4x4 torchamte plasma cutter. Here I'm machining 1.5" thick acrylic (it cost about $600 for the piece). I'm putting a 12" hole in the center, an o-ring groove, and a bolt pattern.

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>>1080706
We had to face some 6" OD stainless tube to it could be TIG welded. We needed some way to support the free end of the tube. I designed a steady rest that day, ordered the material on McMaster, and cut the pieces out on the plasma the next day. The fabricator then welded it together. Saved a shit ton of money. Besides, I couldn't find a steady rest that would hole 6+ inches for that lathe.

>>1080700
Thanks for the info, think I need to wait with routers until I have a proper space to make a mess in.