Quill Drive (Z Axis)
First order of business was to design and build the Z Drive. This (at the time) appeared to be the most difficult task. Little did I know....
Central to the drive design was using the threaded attachment point in the quill to connect the drive. I started out by trying out a couple of designs in Fusion 360 and 3D printing them to test. The slide show below will walk through the process of the design to completion.
Quill Ball Screw 5/17/20
Quill Motor Mount 5/17/20
Quill Drive Cover 9/11/20
Testing complete!
8/22/2020
I ran the Centroid DRO adjustments and came up with a perfect score:
Running the backlash test program I came up with these results