I finally got my cross vice (or cross vise for American english). Amazing how these two languages are diverging.
Also I got a few stepper motors I can start playing with now. As I don't really have any experience with them.
I also have a ball screw attached to the rig. I got it a few weeks ago and had the ends machined. Also I got some oldham couplings - that is a way to connect the shaft of the stepper to the shaft of the screw. The black belt to the right is the energy chain.
A week ago I tryed to make a hole into a thicker aluminium piece with my makita hand drill. And. I failed spectacularly. The hole was not straight enough so that once I mounted the detail to a motor axel it was just wobbling all over the place.
So I decided to get a bench drill. Most probably a slight overkill but will be useful. Here it is. Optimum's Quantum B14: 350W, 520-2620 RPM.
Today got my brand new bench power supply I can use for high current/high voltage applications. I have run all my previous electronics projects off simple batteries. However, this project here requires experimentation with high current DC motors.
So the model is MATRIX MPS-3005L-3. It has one fixed output at 5V/3A and two variable outputs at 0-30V/0-5A. It has a big-ass fan at the back that is quite noisy. But I guess that was to be expected. Pretty heavy too - 8kg.
It is clearly Chinese though, as all cheap electronics these days. This can be readily verified from this chinglish:
