584,846 active members*
3,856 visitors online*
Register for free
Login

Search:

Type: Posts; User: MoonShot

Search: Search took 0.00 seconds.

  1. Re: Ordering process for parts from BST Automation. Is this normal?

    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...
  2. Ordering process for parts from BST Automation. Is this normal?

    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...
  3. Re: Granite build, stuck in my design, please help!

    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...
  4. Re: Granite build, stuck in my design, please help!

    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...
  5. Re: Granite build, stuck in my design, please help!

    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...
  6. Re: Granite build, stuck in my design, please help!

    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.
  7. Replies
    174
    Views
    15,439

    Re: Design Concepts

    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.
  8. Replies
    174
    Views
    15,439

    Re: Design Concepts

    Server not found!!

    It's Russian? Hmmm...
  9. Re: Granite build, stuck in my design, please help!

    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...
  10. Re: Granite build, stuck in my design, please help!

    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...
  11. Re: Granite build, stuck in my design, please help!

    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...
  12. Re: Granite build, stuck in my design, please help!

    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...
  13. Re: Granite build, stuck in my design, please help!

    Found it!

    MadVac CNC - home made 4'x8' cnc precision gantry router
  14. Re: Granite build, stuck in my design, please help!

    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...
  15. Re: Granite build, stuck in my design, please help!

    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...
  16. Re: Granite build, stuck in my design, please help!

    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...
  17. Re: Granite build, stuck in my design, please help!

    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...
  18. Granite build, stuck in my design, please help!

    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...
Results 1 to 18 of 18