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Mini Mill End Stops
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These 3 parts serve as mounts for Makerbot mechanical endstops (or compatible clones) to a Harbor Freight (Sieg X2 class) mini mill. The Z axis bolts to the screw hole on the top of the column. The Y axis bolts to my Y axis (printed) conversion here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2591938 . The X axis is mounted to the dovetail by removing the handle end of the mill and sliding it onto the dovetail. This does reduce your X travel by 20mm.
These were not intended to be permenant, but something you could print up in an hour and get going. Ultimately I plan on replacing all the printed parts on my mill with metallic parts and when I do I'll optomize limit switch locations to maximize travel.
On a related-yet-unrelated note if you notice flaky behavior or have some confounding, nondeterministic behavior it is likely because you have RFI issues. Your stepper cables are likely not shielded. For me I was able to get homing to work, no problem, but trying to enable hard limits was an
These were not intended to be permenant, but something you could print up in an hour and get going. Ultimately I plan on replacing all the printed parts on my mill with metallic parts and when I do I'll optomize limit switch locations to maximize travel.
On a related-yet-unrelated note if you notice flaky behavior or have some confounding, nondeterministic behavior it is likely because you have RFI issues. Your stepper cables are likely not shielded. For me I was able to get homing to work, no problem, but trying to enable hard limits was an
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