Side note I’m liquidating my 20+ collection of hobby CNC machines and going to focus on our Dominator. Building content, videos, and other stuff to help promote this awesome machine.
The Altmill was sold/picked-up this past Thursday and headed to a happy new home… this leaves me with the right amount of room in my home garage to move the Dominator in. This will make it possible for me to build social content at home around my family without having to abandon them on weekends to produce it at our facility.
I’m looking forward to finishing this build, loading it up onto a trailer and getting it moved over to its new home.
Looks fantastic, and thanks for the latest YT video I just watched!
One question, if I did not order the legs kit, is there a way to secure the machine to the bed of my table? Specifically, some way to anchor the corner brackets (a.k.a. Y-Plates) to the table?
When mounting to the surface, a few wooden blocks or L brackets can be mounted using the four holes in the front and two holes in the rear Y plates.
This will help you secure the entire machine to whatever table you’re installing it onto.
If the machine is surface mounted, I’d recommend cutting two 40x40x80mm blocks for the front:
That’s gorgeous! Are there any areas/components that might rub away the anodization over time where you’d recommend a plastic washer?
Last thing (rather minor), the black color on your anodized plates appears to be a bit more blue than on the 8020, you might want to extend the anodization time and double check dye concentrations/temperature
The black dominator I’m building, for my use, is getting the not-the-best but somewhat passable parts from our anodization process. Any that are nice and good quality are going to paying customers and if we mess any up, those initially will be going on this machine.
I have the correct chemicals so later I’ll work out the “deanodizing” process and redo them.
But yeah… a few blue parts… i have some that look really sweat but definitely go in the failures pile. This gantry-plate sat too long after anodizing in a bath before dyeing… thus it only partially dyed since even in the room-temp water it started to self-seal.
