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It engraves wonderfully, although it is a bit dusty and messy. It would seem that the laser vaporizes the binding resin that holds the solids together, but does not obliterate some of the fine...

Interesting idea with the wedges. I will have to think about trying something similar if I can come up with a way to do so without eliminating any of the already small cutting area. I have also...

I have had a K40 Chinese laser like you are considering for about 4 months now and have a few observations for you....Does it have it's shortcomings sure but it has quickly become my favorite tool...

I was able to do some more work on the table and after scabbing together some temporary slats and a pan that will eventually become the water table I couldn't wait any longer and made some test cuts...

Here are a couple of pictures of how i tapped into the plasma cutter so that I could control it with Mach3. I found the two wires that came into the unit from the hand torch trigger. In the case of...

I have the rest of the components for the z axis completed. As you can see in the pictures the torch holder is mounted to a short linear rail that allows the torch to "float" about one inch up and...

I made some progress this week getting most of the z axis built and mounted on the carriage. I have now turned my attention to the control for awhile. I have the three Linisteppers mounted up on...

Ron, the end of the long axis is just allowed to follow along on two rollers and is not driven or captured in any way. It just goes where the other end goes and is only kept in guide by the rollers...

It is just sitting on the saw until it gets its own legs and wheels later on. You know how it is any flat clean surface is fair game!

I was able to spend a few hours working on the machine yesterday and I was able to get it moving for the first time. I will post a video of its first movements after motor tuning below. In the...

I got one of the motors mounted on the carriage today. I also made a couple of brackets to attach the timing belt to and mounted them on the gantry rail. The timing belt is just held on with a...

The photos with the stepper just show it sitting in place as I play around with which way I want to mount it.

More pictures of the carriage assy

Here are some more pictures. I was able to get the X axis carriage cut out and put together. I expected it to roll pretty well but I am really pleased with the way that it rolls along the tube. It...

Merry Christmas everyone. I had a chance to do some more work in the garage today and took a short video of one of the roller guides getting trued up on the lathe. It is below.

Mach # lathe...

Here is a link to short video taken during the milling of a bracket that I may or may not use. It shows the pockets getting finished up around the edges. I will also attach a pic of the bracket. I...

A few more photos..also in the previous group things were just mocked together and i just noticed that the seam of the tubing is on the "side" of the rail in those photos. As you can see in these...

Here are some additional pictures of the limited progress so far. The rollers are a set of interesting cam followers of sorts that I acquired years ago from a machine that was being scrapped. (cant...

As the title implies I have started building a very small and inexpensive CNC plasma gantry. I started on it earlier this week and plan to document the progress here as I make it. I have some goals...

Very clever use of the tools that you already have to make more tools! Your vids are top notch and well put together. Good Job and thanks

John, these are great videos, I watched each of them twice. Thanks for taking the time to share your experience with the rest for us.

Trevor H.

I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but here is a link to the current pre-install manual, good luck.

http://www.haascnc.com/pdf/ES0332.pdf

Here are a few more for you guys. All of these should be "ready to cut"(except for the one called ducks). They are created in autocad using closed polylines. Most of them have two diffirent...

I am happy to report that the demo unit that Arturo from CNC4PC sent me to test works very well with my Hypertherm plasma cutter. Installation couldn't possibly be much simpler as there are only 4...

It looks to me like this unit would work quite nicely to controll a Hypertherm Plasma cutter. I Have a 350 model which is just the older version of the 380, and it uses 28Vac thru the two purple...

I don't ahve the answer for you, but I wanted to subscribe to this thread to see what kind of answers you get, as I would also be interested in increasing the speed of the spindle on my mill drill. ...

Thanks to the help I have recieved here I do have the software working with mach2 now thru the use of the inch gcode processor, but now I am haing another problem. I am having a problem when trying...

I have Mach set to Inc units, as this is what works with sheetcam, should I try to set them to Abs, or is Incrimental the correct setting? I would really like to get this to work since I think that...

Thanks for getting back to me, I do have Mach 2 setup to accept inch units as that is what always use for milling, The strange thing is that the toolpath displays fine on the screen, and looks about...

I am impressed by some of the examples shown here and have downloaded the trial version of Vcarve Photo to try out. I have found the program to be very easy to use, and I had what I thought was...