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3D printing can be treated as an art. It?s a matter of what suits the artist, the selection easel and brushes and paints (filament) in art maybe have been OK for Rembrandt but possibly not the same

Richard, My Z axis drifts quite a bit over time.? It's driven by two steppers which I'm guessing aren't exactly matched ('cos they were the cheapest I could find), so the relationship of the X axis

John ... sounds like a plan with the oiling system.? If you want you can run up to six DC motors if you have several points you wan to oil.? You'll be trail blazing though as we only tested it with

I cannot understand the need for auto bed levelling. On my Anet A8 once I have it levelled manually I never need to touch it again. If I change the nozzle I just change the Z home point. Richard

Hi Julian Marc and guys. Reference the Real Bull lathe, many years ago I cut a rectangular hole in the top of the headstock, and fitted a cover with a perspex. I was going to drill and tap 2 holes

John, I've not heard of a Real Bull lathe before so I Googled it.? It doesn't appear to have drip oilers or will you be fitting the Auto-Oiler to another machine. If you need any additional info

??? ??? that's a pretty darn neat setup you made there Julian & Mark ! Thanks for sharing with us . animal

I'd really appreciate someone with some knowledge looking at the electrical schematics.? I built the DC motor version, but as electronics are not my area of excellence they comprise 40% copying off

Hi Julian, I believe #'s are a function of either the owner of the site or a moderator. Please feel free to ask for changes required and I will oblige. I envy your Myford, it's always been a good

I tried adding hashtags when I posted.? As the system covers many different disciplines I had several listed.? After about the third the page threw a bit of a wobbler, saying it can't save and was

It's a Prusa i2 I cobbled together myself from an electronics kit and bought printed parts (many of which I had to remake).? It's about 7 or 8 years old now.? It's paid for itself many times over,

Members I just added a #Oilers to the hashtag compilations. Please try and use in any posts concerning oiling, and or coolant supplies to our machines. Thanks -- John

Forgot to ask, what 3D printer do you use? Cheers -- John

Julian Many thanks for such an informative post. We are in for a longish winter, so time to play, and I have a few "lecky" bits and oilers etc. I will keep you informed of my progress ??? and no

Thanks Julian, that is so informative! I really appreciate the detail. Ralph

Sorry, not sure why the photo of the hose tail appears at the end of the post.? I can't get rid of it by editing so please ignore it!

*Preamble...* Having owned my ML7 lathe for some 30+ years I learned to live with the vagaries of the spindle drip lubrication system. However, fitting an inverter and 3ph motor and running it at

And for just Z, with possible X if I get lots of help there is AtomicELS </g/AtomicELS>. Ralph

I have attached a reply from R UK refence ELS systems. Gerrit The ELS software originally on the group was a modification of the software created by Oleg in Latvia. I made the changes for my own

Many thanks for your post. I will forward your inquiry to Richard UK who was the developer of this system. -- John