Necessary Tools

I didn’t buy the tool kit, I had pretty much everything in my garage that I needed.
I did buy the crimper for the header pins, that was worth the money, and I didn’t have one.
You do NOT need the whole header pin “kit” that they offer though, just the crimper, or if you have to, use pliers or a butt-splice crimper. The one they sell definitely works better.

Things I can think of that you’ll need off the top of my head:

  • Wire Ties
  • Wire cutters, small
  • Wire strippers
  • Crimping tool
  • Drill driver with assorted drill bits and driver bits
  • Velcro
  • Magnifying lenses, either stationary or head mounted (at least if you’re old like my, I used these
  • Blue loctite
  • Tap set, I used these from another forum post tap set
  • Square
  • Soldering iron
  • a large workspace.
  • Extra M5 x 50mm cap bolts and nylon insert nuts to do the stiffening mod from this forum post, for certain if you have the 1000 x 1000 machine.
  • A selection of endmills and material, I got the started set from inventables, but ordered a bunch from Drillman1 on ebay.
  • If you have the DeWalt (or other 110v router), and want to let the x-carve control it, the relay mentioned in this forum post works very well.

I’m sure there’s other stuff, but that’s it off the top of my head.
-Kelly

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