i just saw a link to this machine http://www.carvewright.com/index.html in another post somewhere in the forum, and was pretty excited about it initially. i don't want to bad mouth it in any way, for the money i think it would be a tough one to beat. i just wish that they had a heavy, heavy duty model. my other gripe, is the proprietery software. you can't just create a gcode file and run it, or import a CAD drawing into it and make a part. (just picture files)
i currently have my own, junk yard parts built cnc router, but after seeing how fast that machine moved in the video, i was thinking that my machine just isn't good enough anymore. i like all the cool features that it has and i had thought of building a machine of similar design a while back, when i turned down a job because of the size limitations of my machine.
so now i want to know, has anyone on the forum built a belt driven machine? (from looking at all the pictures on the carvewright website it appears to be belt driven) belt drive would be the only way that i could build a machine with that kind of speed, with what i have available in my spare parts bin.
next, is there any quick change router spindle that anyone knows about. i know that i had seen some images somewhere on the forum of guys working on it, and i know a guy could spend several thousand on one, but is there a homebrew version available yet?
i have a busy week this week, but next week, i think that i will have to start taking a serious inventory of parts that i have available, then i will start posting drawings.