Just wanted to drop a note to say that there was a bunch of issues with my order - shipping to the UK, sloppy company I ordered from in the UK, damage in transit, freezing weather in Scotland making assembly a nightmare and yet I’m nothing but impressed with Carbide as a company.
They always say you can never measure a company by judging it when things go well, but rather when they go badly - so I just wanted to drop a note to say how impressed I was with Carbide 3d handling all the many things that went wrong.
Indeed even the attentiveness to spot things that ‘might’ go wrong - eg ordering a VFD separately and they reached out to forewarn me about the need for a step down transformer (given the US is still on wussy electricity… )
Assembly took little over 3 hours - which included a temporary 3d print to fix some broken end limits, so a very relaxed build all in all!
Really impressed and just wanted to let you know it’s appreciated - you’ve got a big fan already in me.
Oh and I did my first test cut of a 200mm x 200mm square and calipers read @ 0.001mm off, so you clearly need to improve on that…
Love the work … oh and I love Kevin too, he made me smile with his YouTube videos throughout the build!
And I can confirm the CNC can take my weight without deflection - it was the only way my little arms were going to reach across this beast!!
My wife has placed in my head the notion of moving to Scotland one of these years. And me being me, the Highlands call to me. So I’m happy to see that it can be done there, albeit maybe having to deal with some 2nd parties.
No, you’re totally right - I was born in Wales, but I live in Scotland now! It’s all the same, just no one can speak Welsh, which makes it a bit of a secret language for me!
I believe the “PV” model could be so integrated — that possibility was discussed in that thread and there was a specific mention made of the electronics necessary — but I haven’t looked into that, since it wasn’t sold in the U.S. (and neither is the model I bought anymore).
A shout out from Edmonton Alberta Canada. I’ve been waiting for my machine for 2 months and today it was finally delivered… Sure hope UPS went easy on it… lol So now for the fun part of building it.
Heres our video of the table we built for it. Im excited to get at it but kind of nervous as well. I keep telling my self to go slow on the build n double check each step. I ordered the VFD spindle as well. So ill be installing it as well.
Really glad to hear everything worked out for you.
Yes, I’ve got mine with retractable casters to give the best of both worlds - ie lower them when you need to move it, but retract them when you want stability!
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