X50 experience and tips

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Hey Pony,

@Pony

It actually happened that way as an accident as I didn’t plan for the dust shoe and hose when I made the cabinet. I could enlarge it but it doesn’t bother me. There’s only a problem when the cut is so huge that the carriage comes all the way to the front which is very rare.

And I’m kind of a rare duck, my 0:0:0 is always the center of the job, and I usually have my jobs about in the middle of the spoil-board, so about the only time the carriage is in the home position is when I first start the 1F up.

I imagined that you simply work away from the front edge then

I always try to post the links to dust boot overhang with my links to table dimensions and to space to reserve around the machine when someone asks for tabletop dimensions. It’s easy to not think of dust boot overhang!

@Pony

BTW, the encloser works perfectly. I made the panels by gluing 1/4" plywood to both sides of 1" foam with some solid wood where needed for connecting. The window is sealed double pane made out of 3/16" plexiglass which I bent.

With the door closed and the cnc running, it’s quiet enough that I don’t need hearing protection and I could talk on the phone if I wanted to.

Very impressing! If you clicked on the links to enclosure in my quoted older posting above, you know that I like enclosures like this.

But I think I want access from the rear too, like on this one here

You know you can mount the Y rails in the other direction, with the stepper motors pointing forward? This way you could mount the machine a motor’s length more towards the back.