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Hello Steve,

I have used Elwood for 2+ years and say nothing except his service is brilliant, quick, relaible and cheap. best of all he speaks English ( well American drawl ) but he undersands...

Hello group

I did some lost foam casting when building a CNC router, I basically used Dave Kush's ideads from buildyouridea.com but with one slight change.

Dave dips his faom patterns into...

Hello Jason

Your machine is looking good - is it a common engineering time warp you are in??.

The base was a lot dirtier than I thought I am trying some cleaning products for an Orange firm,...

Hello Jason

Nice photos!!! was beginning to think it was all a dream, so will you soon be cutting slots in your housing lid with your new cnc router to allow for air movement??

Ed

Hello Eloid

I am an old chippy who hates noise, on my cnc router I have had a Makita trimmer and a Triton 1/2" router, in the end I made a 25mm thick double glazed box around the router to keep...

Hello carl

Sorry about the name, the first time I mis read your tag ( I thought it was Wiseboy ) Carl is easier.

Your drawing looks pretty good, is it MDF?. if it is my suggestion would be to...

Hello Eric

Harryn gave a great answer, one question I would have is why you want to go to a belt drive, is the screw to slow or is it binding? the belts will give you more speed, a big pitch ball...

Hello Wise boy

If you have mistaken my desire to have you not only suck us for information but to let us know of how you go with your quest in more than my teenage age son's response then I am...

Hello Wise boy

That would be a Fail, so you are going to use a router, how big, you also mention you have your linear rails, screws and bearings sorted, any chance of letting us know what you have...

Hello Wise boy


One thing you have ommitted is what are you going to do the cutting with??? options are something like a makita router or a spindle, one is MUCH better than the other, see if you...

Hello Wise boy


If you are going to use it as an income producer then I would buy a kit, yes you will pay more but maybe not, what??? well " trade " has a different price to others, I bought some...

Hello Wise boy

Like carve one we are happy to help but you need to ask the right question/s and do some work your self.

For example.

I have a used saw blade here, how much will it cost to...

Hello wise boy

Yes you could go down the 2 axis route, X & Y say, then you would have to stop and lift the router on every letter, move to the start of the next letter, get the machine to stop...

Hello Wiseboy

Since you only have a finished size in mind, the cost to you could be in the $500.00 to $5000.00 range.

Why the variance?? how much can you do yourself?, how much can you...

Hello Jason

The " theory " is your 30volt AC should give you 1.41 * the voltage in DC, so your 30 volts AC should be 42.3volts DC, as you know not being an engineer ( of any sort ) I don't know of...

Hello Jason

Looking good!, so finished?????

Where did you get the nice cap' in the photo, they always are the one part that seems hard to get ( for me anyway ).

I'm off to see the top gear...

Hello Jason

I'm sure you were pulling our legs but I'll bite, the alcohol, was most likely isopropyl alcohol, for some reason the yanks seem to like to do everything with it - except drink!. ( it...

Hello Jason

It looks like the Hobbycnc board is a double sided affair, it also looks as if you are soldering the components on the component side of the board, if the holes are plated through (...

So Maaaaaate, who you calling simple!!!!!!! 8-))))

Don't be put off by this self deprecating " engineer " he has most likely forgoten more than we will ever know and I'm guessing he will be able...

Hello DO

I have a ball screw / stepper table for sale, it has a cut area of about 1000mm by 440 by 120mm, it is new / unused and is complete with controllers,if you are interested please private...

Hello Rocketman

I was in contact with Elwood as recently as the 23rd Jan' 2009, he is still shipping to Oz.

here is his email if you have lost it, [email protected]

Ed

Hello Jason

Is Bathurst closer than Perth??? 8-)))

I have been fiddling with these machines since 2005, I don't get much from Sydney now except the odd section of Aluminum, I have also gone the...

Hello Shannon

One reason the cost would be cheaper to import a cnc router into NZ is you have a FTA with China and am running down tarriff levels to zoero in 2012, for cnc routers it is currently...

Sorry Shannon I only saw this after I hit the go button.

You could be right, AQIS ( Aust' Quarantine Inspection Service ) here charged me $113.00 to " inspect " the timber pallet the tubes were...

Hello Blue

That wasn't too hard, I just asked about the free trade agreement with the US of A, the pencil pusher realised straight away that he was wrong and said " oh, that shouldn't have been...

One last thought, he will also arrange shipment by other means, last year he arranged to have some 20mm linear rails sent from the States, about 10 of them and other stuff, he not only consolidated...

I have used Woody to send me stuff in Oz for the past year, he is reliable, cheap and fast. He will not only re-pack from several sources into one, but he will cut to length if required, for example,...

Hello SCO

I have been using blue foam to do what you are describing, here is a first trial cut on one I have just done, I used the densest ( heaviest ) foam ( from a Co. in Wetherill Park in Syd )...

Hello Matty

I bought it from TigerTec in the States, it is a 3HP, ER20 Collet, 0-24000rpm water cooled, 3 phase spindle, I bought a single to 3 phase inverter at the same time, all up was about...

Hello Group

I am running a Triton 1/2" router, I bought it as it looked fairly easy to make a mount for it, most Tritons have a round " nose " that it easy to make a mount for, if you don't want...