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well, lets look at my baseline that i would need to beat in order for me to purchase a different mill.. i already have a cnc controller, stop switches, DRO, may need a bigger power supply and...

im looking for a mill, manual is ok at first so long as it can be converted to CNC later.. ive thought about buying a bridgeport to completely rebuild with ball screws, servo motors, etc into a four...

im trying to find someone who might be able to fabricate a an AK rifle flat bending jig?.. i do not have the tools to make one myself right now, working on getting an old bridgeport CNC machine to...

i believe i have found a suitable power supply to match the cnc controller

im back, after a trip to europe, and losing literally everything i owned and all my money, im back, i have a new computer to begin my CNC designs again, and i now have ALL the money i need to build...

the steel machine will be entire different from the one im building now.. and thatll have all the best crap thrown into it

well, ive decided to use 1/2 threaded rod, and platform, maybe flange nuts from my hardware store, i just dont have the funs for leadscrews right now, and when i do have the funds ill be building a...

nice... but im not sure if i should get 3/4 inch or 1/2 inch... maybe 1/2 inch for the rails, and 3/4 inch to hold the bearings since the pieces to hold the bearings will be in 1/4 inch deep...

THE RAILS

i ran into a problem.. 3/4 inch aluminum angle is a lot more expensive here at the hardware store.. basically, im doing a machine with a 42x24 inch TRAVEL, so my table will be larger.....

well most my projects with this machine will be wood... though..

i am designing a boat hull with a 3 dimensional naval engineering program.. itll be basically a modern bass/ski boat design, 20x9...

yeah, those prices sound great if you didnt have to pay about $20 for the shipping... then it comes to about the price it would cost me to buy angle steel locally, which is more than angle aluminum...

nah, i havent been able to draw anything.. but my table will be a bit larger than 48x24 inches, to compensate for the size of the Z axis to get the travel i need

so the table in total will be...

well... 6 feet 3/4 inch angle steel was only $8 a piece at home depot.. so when you add the shipping charges to the amount of angle aluminum i need, the price comes out to about the same... so ill...

this is just my first machine.. cheap and simple for now.. so skate bearings as well... when i have more money, im going to take the time to build a machine with 4x8 feet of travel, using fully...

oh.. no, i havent started yet, just priced out materials so i know what to buy tomorrow, or next week... i think ill make an MDF frame for the 5x3 table to sit on.. (striving for a 4x2x1 overall...

looks like my local hardware store has 4x8 sheets of MDF for $27 each and about $9 for a 4x2 sheet

running the math through my head it should be eonugh to build the really strong table i want,...

aaah.. a platform nut.. thats what its called

hmm, i may still get normal threaded rod from my hardware store because it would be more convenient and my plan is to later upgrade the machine to...

hmm... i guess it says i can get a 12 foot length of 3/8x12 inch acme rod for $16? is that right?

anyway, if $16 is real for the 12 foot length... yeah, ill go for that, since 12 feet is enough...

well i have to go for cheap right now... speed isnt a major issue, if it takes hours to cut a guitar body and neck, im fine with that.. but first priority is cost, without sacraficing too much on...

since mine will be smaller than some of these, im going to go with 3/4 inch plywood, a basic gantry design, and im going to build a well supported plywood body 60x36x6 inches, with a total router...

thing is though.. ive decided to make a plywood base frame, well supported, MDF table, and MDF gantry for a router table with a 4x2 foot travel, since im a luthier, guitars are my first priority, and...

theres a website.. forget what it is.. but it takes you through all the steps neccessary to build a very simple CNC router, even shows a nice chain drive mechanism... im going to build that much...

i really liked the machine degreaser showed me.. it gives me some ideas im going to incorperate into a much more simpler, yet far less aesthetic design...

difference is ill probably use a chain...

that is a really nice MDF router... i plan to make one like that eventually to replace the one i have now, but ill use plate steel for that future build.. the one ill build first i might use a...

i really like this design.. was the entire gantry made from a single sheet of MDF?... if so, would it at all be possible to modify the width of the gantry to allow for a full 4 feet router travel...

well ive decided to use MDF for the first router.. just a really cheap, simple build... my second router will be a small one, not a tower gantry but one that sits on elevated walls, with a sunken...

im wondering what materials an accurate CNC router could be made of?... MDF, steel, aluminum, HDPE, what about wood, or a large thickness plywood? (like 1 inch?), would it be possible to use these...

seriously.. does anyone know how many pieces of what size and thickness MDF i would need to buy for joes machine?

well.. why dont i use the gantry from joes CNC, but just stend the table, and thus the rails to get the 4 feet of travel desired? and wide or shorten the gantry for the 24 inches of travel?

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