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  1. #1
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    Quick built router

    Heres a few photos of a router I threw together the last two weekends. I needed a router that could do bigger parts than my jgro router could for my V2 router in my build log on here, guess that makes this one V1.5 . One project is a race car bed for my step son, it was begging for a set of cnc cut wheels . I went with a moving table design this time and besides it taking up alot of extra space I really like the way it runs so far. One word of advice to all using all thread rod for lead screws, get a threading die! I picked one up and ran it over the rod with a drill ste at slow speed and sprayed down the rod with wd-40. The amound of shavings that came off were AMAZING at one point I had a 4" long ribbon of metel come out of the die. My old router had a few spots along the way that would bind up. I went thru three different lead screws and still ended up with problems, had I ran a die over it I bet I would'nt have had su8ch a problem. Anyway here are some pics.
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  2. #2
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    Talking Interesting Machine.

    Hi,

    Very insteresting design... Am I mistaken or the "out of center" leadscrew is because you are "restraining" horizontally on just one side ?? That way it will never bind, right ?

    Is the machine running yet ? Can you get some pictures of how precisely it can make cuts ? It seems so much easier to make than most designs so far...And it maybe more than enough for wood and plastics work.

    Best regards,
    Alexandre Guimaraes

  3. #3
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    Nice work, Darren! Good improv...!!

  4. #4
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    I offset the leadscrew simply because I thought it might work better closer to the side that it is restrained on, does it? so far so good.
    Here are a few pics I took tonight. All the cutting went great. The pics are of some wheels i'm doing for a race car bed for my step son who will be 6 on the 6th.

    Darren
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  5. #5
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    Please, how did you clamp the raw material on machine in order to be machined?

  6. #6
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    if you look closely there are two drywall screws holding it down to the table. Kinda of a cheap way of doing it but it works well for me.

    Darren

  7. #7
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    Yeah. Sorry. I have seen it now.

  8. #8
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    Very nice machine! I have a question for you... how did you build the frame for the table? How did you make sure that welding the pieces together didn't bring them out of alignment/level?

  9. #9
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    Very Nice!

  10. #10
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    What feedrate do you run normally?

  11. #11
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    ignatz: the frame was something I had laying around and just happen to have the right dimentions for what I needed.

    Redline: The feedrate for cutting the wheels was 25ipm. While i was tweaking the machine the first night I had the rapids as high as 80ipm. I'm using a HobbyCNC 4 axis chopper board and 118 oz/in steppers

    Darren

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