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thanks for de video Sinistersam,

From what I hear the cutting noise of the router seems quite normal .
I got some 10mm upcut spiral bit right now and I'm going to cut some hardwood soon .With the...

Thanks for the reply Sinistersam,

I own 2 P+C 690 for manual woodwork .
They are great and very solid indeed .What feedrate are you using on a cnc with the 690 's ? and how long can you let...

Gerry ,

I looked at the link . The router bits look quite similar to the miniature printed circuitboard bits I used for thin ebony cutting .They sort of cut and rasp the wood in one operation....

Gerry

Thanks for the reply and usefull info .
It would be nice though to share some routing expierience on different woods ( feeds and speeds ) with other luthiers or woodworkers.
I have used...

Hello cnc musical instrument builders .

I myself am a guitar builder from Brussels Belgium .
I built myself a compact cnc router about 6 months ago .
I have been routing lots of different...

Hello,

I have recently finished my gantry router and started out with mach2 and sheetcam .( they work perfect together ) .
Last week I bought cut3d from vectric and this program does a fantastic...

Hello cnczoners ,

I would like to get some help on 3 d cad cam .
Since about 3 weeks my home built gantry router has been born.(I will post some pics on cnczone soon ).
I'm using sheetcam ( very...

JJlong ,

I've been building basses and guitars (+ repairs ) for about 14 years now .
Recently I starded to build my own cnc router .
It's going to be able to rout 900mm by 400 mm and a Z...

Scott , Neatman & DC.

Thank you for all the ideas and info .
I already started to bend it by hand pressure on some v block substitutes ( 3cut-off s of structural aluminum )
It seems to work but...

fkaCarel,

Thanks (bedankt )for the info . I'll try to align the bearing blocks as perfect as possible .
Maybe when running the machine for a while the leadscrew wil get better .I was also...

Thank you Mcgyver,

So it's better to put my torch back in its place .
I took the leadscrew off my machine ,put it on a flat piece of marble and the deflection is about 0.5 mm on the total lenght...

Dear cnczone community ,

I am building a machine with 16mm diam /4mm pitch metric acme rolled leadscrews on it .(nice quality )
The x axis is 1400mm long and the Y 600m long .
They don't seem to...

Hello cnczone community,

I just finished my 3 axis stepper driver unit (kit l297 l298 from nc-step germany) for a midsize router project .
I was going trough some demo software in dos and...

Andy ,
Thanks for the reply .
Here's a picture of the rail with a porter+cable 690 router so you can see the size .
If the beam where the rail is screwed on is very strong will it work ?
You can...

Hello,

Just one question .
I'm designing my gantry router these days .
It wil mainly be used as a wood router for gutar parts .
Cutting speed is not the most important thing for me.
Over...

Keith ,
As an instrument builder myself I would go a bit bigger than the 24x18 inch.
You could make tons of jigs and tooling for your projects ( dished out workboards , fox benders , etc etc ).
I...

Hello ,

Here's the link . www.lewetz.de
They make quite a few cnc oriented programs and they seem to be popular in germany . (and functioning )
They have english manuals .
I looked at the...

Thanks for the info and the link John.
Maybe I'll try 2 L298 's for driving at a higher current but I think at 2/3 of the torque it will be sufficient for my project .

Paul

Hello cnczone community .

I have this nice stepper made by mae ( HS200 2231 0300 ax08)
It says Vmax 8.4 v and 3 A/ph
It's a bipolar 8 wire motor .
When I measure one winding I get 1.4 ohms ....

Hi, I obtained some of these leadscrews recently (see pics ) + some kind of synthetic nuts with aluminium holders came with them . There is no sign of what brand they are or what type of thread it is...

Recently I was given a bunch of motors ,some steppers and some servos ( a few broken but most in good condition ) .
The servo's I have are Pittman mod 14206 with 280oz/inch peak torque and some CMC...

Is there a way to remagnetise these ?
I guess it's probably complex to do .

Paul

Gerry ,

Thanks .
Could you tell me why they get weaker ? Do they demagnetise or someting .
The interior construction seemed quite straightforward when I opened it .
I guess the motor was...

Jerry ,

Thanks for the reply It assures me .
The ones I have are 8 wire steppers . I had one that had some friction when turned but I openend it and aligned it and it seems to turn quite well ....

Terry ,

Thanks for the info .I looked at your website and the machine looks great ( I wish I already was at that stage ).
I'll build a machine mostly from parts I can find (aluminum ,wood etc )...

Hi,

Somebody gave me 4 slo-syn steppers for free (mod M091-FD-8109E)
They seem to be in unused condition but I think they are quite old .
I looked up the specs on the WWW ( 150 oz/inch,...

Hello ,

I'm about to build my first cnc router set up .( and a second small one afterwards )
I've been looking at lot's of websites over the past years .
Mechanically everything is decided...