Awesome! Good luck with your build!

Hi Danek, Thanks for the feedback and kind words - very much appreciated! I must admit, I am very proud of that ATC system.

Hi Danek, Thank you for the feedback! Much apprecaited.

NoName, Thank you very much for the kind words, I really appreciate that!

@@MakingStuffwithChrisDeHut I'm just honest. I'm starting to think about one for my 6040 CNC. I have automated and rebuild some parts but the atc was always to complicate. Your design is awesome, relative simple and reliable. Love it!

Thanks Mario, the feedback is greatly appreciated! Good luck on your ATC, they are fun challenge.

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated!

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated!

Thank you sir! Much appreciated. Chris

Hi Marty, Yes, Centroid Acorn. At a later date I will be posting a video of why I abandoned MACH3 and switched to Centroid Acorn.

There are a few other videos on my channel that should explain most of the details.

HI Carlos, Unfortunately, no. When I did this project it was more if an experiment to see if it was even possible. The engineering said it would work but there were a lot of "I dunno" things along the way. So, I never documented it well enough to be replicated.

​@@MakingStuffwithChrisDeHutthat's a shame, I would absolutely love to implement this into my own design

There are many videos on this channel that explain how to program and use many types of devices such as motors and sensors. This is a good place to learn about programming in general. Cheers! Chris

Thanks!

Hi Ray-Char. These smaller bits stay in the collets nicely with just friction as they don't weigh much. I was concerned about this in early development and also magnetized a collet (which does work with carbide tools) to see if that would be of benefit. It certainly helped but wasn't needed in the end. Some collets are slightly tighter than others in the relaxed state, however, all of the ones I have were all slightly tight in the relaxed state. Other ideas to address that concern were to have the actuator set the collet in a slightly tight state (which is possible, but very difficult to achieve in practice). So, in the end, nothing was needed beyond ordinary collets and of course the small tools. I have not tested larger shank tools but suspect this concept will be more problematic with heavier tools.

@@MakingStuffwithChrisDeHut magnet will magnetize cutting tools. But for cutting non-ferrous material siruation and system, this is not a problem and will be a solution for the issue.