Okay thanks for the replies. I really had no reason to expect deception, it's just that I haven't made a custom order like this through Aliexpress before, and I haven't dropped this much money all at...
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Okay thanks for the replies. I really had no reason to expect deception, it's just that I haven't made a custom order like this through Aliexpress before, and I haven't dropped this much money all at...
So I've communicated extensively with a representative from the BST Automation store and confirmed the items and their measurements for the motion components I need. We are now to the point where I...
I had forgotten about Xometry, I had seen mention of it but never tried it, so thanks for this, "Oh Yahhhh!" moment!
I'll use the automatic quote generator when I finalize my mounting plates. I'm...
Hi, thanks for the input. I had not considered making the machine from solid aluminum. Alas, I already have the granite slabs ready for cutting. I'm currently looking around at different threaded...
Ok I'm back. I've been going down the Rising Gantry road and reached a good point to share.
https://i.imgur.com/a86mHgD.png
https://i.imgur.com/wDaDeVT.png
I got over my self-imposed limit of...
Ya I'm going to need to probably do a waterpool for drilling the holes on the top surface. I might have to rig up some kind of squirter to drill holes on the sides.
Nice! Looking through them has me thinking I didn't consider enough options when designing my machine, but I'm not done yet and I can still gather ideas from it.
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It's Russian? Hmmm...
Hey I was reading your response again and have a couple questions.
You say you worked on a Granite Router, and I'm wondering if you meant the machine was made of granite like the one I'm...
Ya that is the simplest method for toolchanging, which works really well on moving gantry machines especially when you have a lot of table space.
I can of course mount the toolrack to the table...
Ya I somewhat gave up on the carousel type. It would work but it's kind of clumsy. From where it is under the gantry, the tool has to be pulled right, then up and over a potentially large workpiece...
Ya I should have mentioned it but that's a bit of a remnant of me trying to do different automatic toolchanging strategies.
Here's a couple of examples:
https://i.imgur.com/NNQo58U.png...
Found it!
MadVac CNC - home made 4'x8' cnc precision gantry router
My mistake! I thought you were referring to the one in your 7th post in that thread. I thought you said "raised" gantry and not "raising" gantry. Now I see you were referring to you the one in your...
Another thing to mention, I did start out thinking that the granite plates would have sides that would mostly be flat and square, probably not to the thousandths or microns of the top surface but...
Yes I did see your thread last night! I liked it a lot! I should have been going to sleep but then I watched the three videos from Faggan on his granite CNC build. I had not seen that one before. I...
Thanks for your fast feedback! It took me a few minutes to understand what you were saying but now I get it!
Yes the way I opted to mount the gantry between the risers does look like it could drop...
Hi everyone, long time listener, first time poster.
I have been designing my own CNC rigid gantry machine to cut metal with. I've really latched onto the idea of making it out of granite surface...