Ok, I am just a bit excited! Just ordered my kit yesterday. I think I ordered everything I need.

I ordered the MKII bonz kit, the componet kit, and the electrics kit.

I have been surfing all day on and off to try and figure out whether or not I have ordered all I need. Can someone please help me out and tell me what else. I know I need a puter with windoze and mach3 or ubuntu and emc3.

Do I need glue? screws? nails? etc.. you get the point.

I am trying to be all ready so in case I receive the MK stuff by friday, I will have everything else on hand. This weekend coming is my weekend with my son this month, and if the parts are here I want to spend it building with him not shopping.

Looking forward to a long and wonderful relationship with all you phlatboyz!

 

Congratulations cncmachineguy ! You're going to love it!
I'm afraid I can't be much help about building a MKII, because I bought a MKI long ago and then modified it like crazy. If you think you might do the same, I'd suggest not using glue on anything you might need to pull apart later. Other than that, check out all the threads at here and here and here to get your head spinning on all the possibilities.
As a side note, if you'll add your whereabouts to your profile, and maybe your name to your signature, there might be somebody in your neighborhood with a PP that can help you more personally than via email or the Forum.

 

All you guys are AWESOME!!!

 

Hey Mark - Bert has definitely caught "it" bad! You'd better get his package in the mail as soon as the Post Office opens or he's gonna have apoplexy waiting for it to arrive!

Just poking fun Bert - If you could see some of the early posts and emails that many of us sent when M&T launched the PP, you'd quickly realize you are truly among friends (and fellow CNC addicts) here.

Mark - is there a Sticky Thread somewhere that lists all the keyboard shortcuts we can use here on the Forum and in the Chat? Like just typing shift-M-&-T to type out "M&T" or shift-P-P to type "PP" ?

 

Thanks to all the kind greetings so far. This is an awesome group of people.

I have a small machine shop with 3 VMC's and 1 lathe (not including some other manual machines). All my machines have names cuz I think of them as people. The MKII will also be named, but will be even more special since it will live at home. (funny the apt. complex I live in won't let me bring home any of my VMC's :evil: )Imagine they would think it too heavy or big to put in the back bedroom.

Anyway, Mark & Trish, I just saw the thread about your new toy in the garage, I guess I won't be the proud owner of the first Bonz kit from it . But really, if you guys need any help with any part of it, just ask. I have been maintaining my own machines for about 15 years now, from mechanical to control. I also write all my g-code by hand so if you need any setup help, again just ask.

Again, thanks all!

 

Welcome to the family. It is a great feeling to be supported in whatever goofy thing (at least my goofy things) come to mind.

 

Hi cncmachineguy and welcome,

If you got an email from someone you didn't know, it was me. Seems cncmachineguy is local to me, possibly 50 miles as the crow flys. There is supposed to be another guy in southern MD, but I have never seen him here. Looks like with all that experience, it won't be much of a problem for you.

-Kwok

 

Bert I'll be building a MKII about the same time you are, perhaps we can help each other out?
I'm really looking forward to having time to build the latest pp!

 

tv, Yes I am sure we can, Anytime I have something worthwile to offer, I like to. I think Kyyu may be building his MK also, so it could be a group build. Actually, you are the one who put me over the edge to finally get me one. I been eying them for several months, but your corsair did it. I was showing the workshop build on RCG to my honey, she said why don't you make one? Of course my reply was there is no way I will get all those parts cut with a knife to meet my machinist eye. She said, well we got the ole refund so go ahead and get it!

So anyway, here I go down this wonderful path of home CNC foam cutting!! My son is already working on sketchup learning and this will help me teach him G-code. Good stuff all around.

 

Bert that's fantastic! I will eagerly await to see your corsair!
I can honestly say my MKI has been the coolest thing I have ever bought. I know you will not regret getting your MKII.

 

Yep, I'm in. Got to get my computer stable, 1st. HD is failing, bad sectors. Then can rewatch the videos and do the build. So, we can help each other out.

-Kwok

 

You know, both you guys are using EMC2. Erik, I'm pretty sure has been all along; and Burt saids he plans to. When my computer was down (all fixed now), I was using my ubuntu/EMC2 install the surf the net. I didn't use it much, just testing the install a while back. That was easy enough, but to see the ustream, I needed to install flash. And that was not straight forward, at all. It would seem to install, but still not work. Thank goodness, for google. These days you don't need, real tech support anymore. But, I finally got it figure out. So I'm more comfortable with ubuntu, now, having actually learned a few things about how it works.

-Kwok

 

Kwok, ubuntu continues to advance leaps and bounds, every six months something else (an old problem) becomes something of history.

On the latest version, 9.10, I went to a website called getdeb.net
After installing a simple app, all you have to do is click on a link to install other apps.
Anyway one of the apps is called ubuntu tweak
Once that is installed installing flash support is as simple as clicking a checkbox.

Bad part is that real time kernel.
...because of it, you must use the long term support version which may not have all those neat features, but it is possible to overcome it.

In April, wow next month, another long term support version will be released and EMC2 wil likely get an upgrade.


Got may parts kit in!! :mrgreen:

 

Did you get your Phlatprinter built? How did you order it? I don't see anywhere to place an order.... Thx