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A project log for Minamil 3dp: another minimal CNC mill

A very compact, very inexpensive, very DIYable, very precise little CNC mill. This one uses 3d printed parts.

paul-mcclayPaul McClay • 07/25/2023 at 16:57•0 Comments
Title Date (created) Blurb
some entries were finished and first published later than this date

some entries (like this one) reflect ongoing accumulation and/or revision
MRRF 202524 July 2025third visit to Midwest RepRap Festival

(next three entries with later dates describe work done (mostly) before MRRF but not (finished and) written up until written up until (much) later)
yet another little differential gearbox29 Nov 2025a widget demonstrating small spur gears
Workholding21 Aug 2025hold work with screws instead of tape
A better Z axis that's actually better9 Aug 2025revised Z axis, ready to build
On making a "simple frame" simply7 April 2025make a simple frame for the X+Y and Z parts
Discord: active and productive!27 Jan 2025
One minute video15 Jan 2025haven't made an eye candy video since 2dc days -- here's a quickie with current hardware
FR-2 = "wood" for very fine detail13 Jan 2025neat material discovery
Thumbnails are the windows to ... scale modeling25 Nov 2024
circuit milling: 0.05 mm (2 mil) trace/space13 Sep 2024crazy-fine-pitch Cu isolation milling
Newer Z is gooder3 July 2024another Z axis that almost replaced the first published version
Meh. New Z is fail.3 May 2024not the next Z axis
Thicker Brass bis: Made a Thing21 Feb 2024Completed milling a nontrivial object from brass
Build? Start here.6 Feb 2024A place to start. Intent is to maintain links from here to evolving content.
Jolly Wrencher 20231 Jan 2024 (UTC? cuz it was still 2023 in my locale :-/)
Thicker Brass10 Oct 2023
doors again: current and (maybe) future8 Oct 2023
feature creep vol. {n+=1}: doors7 Oct 2023
about runout2 Oct 2023
to shrink, or not to shrink, that is the aggravation26 Sep 2023
Z axis parts & assembly notes25 Sep 2023
XY stage assembly19 Sep 2023
Parts to get started17 Sep 2023
STLs 4 XY & slicing12 Sep 2023
a note about cable management6 Sep 2023
Teaser: 0.010" slots in 0.020" slots in 0.040" slots1 Aug 2023new tiny end mills cleanly cut tiny slots in aluminum

and, incidentally, usefully small backlash
MRRF 202329 July 2023to Midwest Rep-Rap Festival with a microscope

links to neat drone fly-thru vid
closer to all-in-one: first try building in new box27 July 2023toward integrating accessory stuff that could be integrated into a compact enclosure but wasn't

long; lots of pix
Whence this project?27 July 2023...from a symbiotic pair of projects-in-progress, spawned a new thing different enough to warrant a new project

and HaD Prize.
this25 July 2023Because #Minamil 2dc: a minimal CNC mill has accumulated enough log entries to be difficult to naviigate,    ̶I̶'̶l̶l̶ ̶d̶r̶o̶p̶  I dropped this here to stake out space for a Table of Contents in case logs here  ̶g̶e̶t̶  got unwieldy.

table formatted table of contents inspired by @Vijay; just chronological for now - because I want at least this for myself sooner than later - maybe add topical structure later... (meanwhile, "Build? Start here" is a topical node)
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