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I decided I'd try to replicate our mission statement from the institute's lobby on a plaque.
I received the paint mask that I ordered earlier this week and decided to give it a go on a plaque that had some corner damage as a test.
All was going well, however I lost steps on my Y axis after about an hour. I'm thinking the motor over heated as I could hear some chirping, and it's possible the threaded nut was sticking. I think I may have lost some steps on the Z as well as the lower text and some of the tree lost definition as it worked from the center area out.
Other than that, the detail was looking pretty good. I went ahead and painted it to test out the paint mask, we'll see if I need to do anything different there.
I do plan to build a new enclosure for the controller and add another axis to it, so will be checking all my voltages at that point, the current enclosure is entirely too hard to get into for doing maintenance and and too small for any updates.
I received the paint mask that I ordered earlier this week and decided to give it a go on a plaque that had some corner damage as a test.
All was going well, however I lost steps on my Y axis after about an hour. I'm thinking the motor over heated as I could hear some chirping, and it's possible the threaded nut was sticking. I think I may have lost some steps on the Z as well as the lower text and some of the tree lost definition as it worked from the center area out.
Other than that, the detail was looking pretty good. I went ahead and painted it to test out the paint mask, we'll see if I need to do anything different there.
I do plan to build a new enclosure for the controller and add another axis to it, so will be checking all my voltages at that point, the current enclosure is entirely too hard to get into for doing maintenance and and too small for any updates.