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Hi there, just saw your posts now. If I did my router again today I wouldn't use the square aluminium extrusion for the frame and I wouldn't use the linearrouterparts linear carriages. Assembling the...

Thanks for the info. The oldhams look really nice, if I'm not impressed with the helical couplings operation over time I might fork out for the oldhams.

Wow that heat shrink idea is brilliant. I...

Small update. Recently got myself some new couplings for my CNC. Previously I had jaw type Lovejoy couplings, they were really useless. Good for power transfer but they had a lot of backlash. I had...

Thanks, I appreciate it!



If you see my first post on this topic I have a large write up and mention in there some of the places I brought parts. A big part of the machine is the linear...

Hi, thought I'd post another update. Haven't been doing to much lately, been busy finishing University and unfortunately just recently have been diagnosed with an eye disease called Keratoconus. I've...

Good god thats impressively cool. When the CNC was travelling back to change tools I was thinking "yeah but isn't this dust shoe going to get in the way?" and then up it goes! Very neat. Would love...

I managed to get some time in the workshop yesterday. Got some 25mm thick HDPE down on the table and cut out a bunch of spacers that I'll be using to mount the long lengths of L shaped aluminium...

Thanks for the compliments! I really liked watching the videos myself, good reminder of how much work and time I put into this machine.



Thanks for the tips, I've noted them down. My next build...

Hello, just thought I'd post a quick update. Haven't been able to do much on the CNC due to all my time being spent finishing off my degree.

I've brought some end mills and finished my designs for...

Great to see your glad with his products, very nice write-up. I was worried a little before about the quality due to how affordable his products are.

Just to double check the round linear rails...

- First CNC, so excited I performed a cut in the house with MDF. TV, computer, furniture all covered with fine MDF dust. Inhaled a bunch of the MDF as well which wasn't nice.

- Old MDF CNC router...

Pictures don't seem to be working. The new clamping nut I ordered seems to have fixed my situation, the bit goes in well and comes out first go. With any luck my problem is sorted for now. If I do...

Well its been a while without an update, I've been busy doing nothing. I finally got off my ass and went out and found some nice clear flexible PVC material for my new dust skirt. It works a treat,...

Yea when you're doing the whole DIY thing, your CNC is NEVER finished! I've still got a bunch to do on my CNC, maybe then I can be happy with it.

But yea I envy your machine, being able to jump...

Yea the stupid collets I got only bite onto like 0.1mm of the eccentric ring. Therefore with enough turning force they may just rotate down through the ring scratching it along the way. Its what they...

Yea I wouldn't get a Kress again with the cost of collets and such. It'll be a water cooled spindle for my next build for sure.

Spent some time with my new clamping nut I ordered from the same guy...

Hi Gordon. Cheers for the link, I've been there before but couldn't bring myself to pay like $45 NZD per collet? I think thats what it works out to. Thats why I brought the ones from ebay, they only...

Just bit of an update. I've been having issues with my collets for my Kress 1050 spindle. I brought some unofficial 3rd party collets which stated they were for Kress spindles. However unlike my...

Nice video Chris. I'm glad to see someone else going through the acrylic plastic chip hell that I was a few weeks back when I made my dust shoe. Man I couldn't believe the double sided tape worked...

Chris mate thats a good looking CNC. Very jealous.

Keen to see some up and close photos of machine, electronics, vac table and everything else!

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Yea its really nice to be able to see through the dust shoe so that I can keep a close eye on the cutting. I really worry about the tool crashing sometimes so I like that I can keep...

Cheers guys. Yep Peter you're exactly right, it bolts in with 4 bolts into the spindle mount. Theres been a bit of an issue with doing that though and thats the flexible brush I brought is a little...

Got the first dust skirt done today and no big screw ups finally! This was my first go at double sided machining and I ended up 0.5mm off on the X axis but the dust skirt still came out fine. One...

Yea its a bit of a worry making sure you can still change out tools with a dust shoe connected. I'm hoping mine will work out, it looks like I should have enough room to get my hand under there.
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Nice job on the router, looks really well made. Love the Kill Em' All style colours you got going on the CNC.

Cheers Chris. Yea theres going to be several skirts which attach to the dust shoe, each "skirt" will have a different length brush and one will have some clear vinyl type material. Much like the...

Bit of an update. Ordered the flexible brush strip last week in the morning and it arrived in the evening, kinda. Seems the courier thought it would be funny to wait til I leave the house for five...

Chris,

For cutting the HDPE I used a feedrate of 800mm/min at 2mm depth increments and my Kress was running around 15,000RPM. I used a cheapy $8 carbide 8mm 2 flute endmill from Trademe, which...

Got my new HDPE mount done for my Kress spindle. Came out quite well, much better than the temporary MDF mount I had on there.

I was a bit worried the self lubricating properties of the HDPE would...

Thanks! Yea you're right and I did spend a bit of time thinking about it, but when I do pull the power with 4 stepper motors attached to the G540 idle or running, the power does drain very quickly.
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