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billscottni

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« Reply #15 on: February 08, 2010, 22:03:42 PM »
bit the bullet tonight as the pound was at it's strongest against the dollar for some time!

Ordered a hobby cnc foam pro stepper control board for my cnc foamcutter! :P  :P
The fun bit will be soldering it together when it arrives, but that will have to wait until the Frogfoot is finished as I need that for the PSS fly in in March :shock:

Only the stepper motors left to buy now, but Joe and Fred put me on to a good supplier for them and then it's all go :?:  :?:

I'll be looking for advice then Joe :wink:

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« Reply #16 on: February 12, 2010, 15:57:31 PM »
Good stuff Bill. Hope you have a decent soldering iron  :?
I got my motors from the company below. Decent price I think and pretty quick service. I believe Fred got motors here too. I use 4 unipolar Sanyo Denki motors (4pap_uni1a). You'll find them under CNC accessories. Check that unipolar motors will work with your board. They also have bipolar motors available if needed.

http://translate.google.ie/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftechnimaniacs.free.fr%2F&sl=fr&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8

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« Reply #17 on: February 12, 2010, 16:02:38 PM »
Thanks Joe.
Will wait until the board arrives abd then order the motors. Pretty sure I need them at a late stage of the soldering to check a few things

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« Reply #18 on: March 17, 2010, 20:00:22 PM »
Stepper motors ordered today from Technimaniacs. That's all the hardware either here or ordered.

No excuses now :?:  :?:  :?: