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I have both machines in my shop side by side. I appreciate Ahren over the years and have pushed his products for him. He makes a great product (I know, I built 5 of them and still run 2 of them). I...

The runout on the collet is pretty high. It has a long setup time and we still haven't gotten it to work. Great idea if it will work for us.

The bearings are easy to replace if you get a bearing puller. I have gone through probably 10-12 of these routers in the past 4-5 years and I am now starting to rebuild them, but we only cut wood...

I went with 32 inch, but the legs are shorter due to the feet.
Sean

I run CNCRouterParts machines probably 40 to 50 hours a week. I have a 5x8 and a 5x11 (for 2 5x5 baltic sheets) that we run and I am going to be adding in another of the 5x11 in the next couple of...

They do carry the Nema 23 setup as well. I don't think you can get much better on the price considering they have the cables ready to hook up to the G540 drive.

I have run both sizes and will say...

I had the same issue with slipping. Seems I didn't tighten the bolts on the motor side.

Sean

Job has been awarded! Thanks to all those that submitted a quote.

Sean

I am replacing an idler drum on my sander. I may want 2 depending on the price for a spare (part is obsolete from manufacture).

Quote shipping separately. Shipping to Fayetteville, AR. and I...

This is for my machines, which is aluminum and not welded.

The Gecko 540 and Nema 23 setup ran about 700 IPM rapids and cutting was sketchy for speed and cutting depth. The Nema 34 setup runs...

I run two CNCRouterPart machines 40 to 48 hours a week. With dust collection and the rail sweepers we never have any issues. We cut 30-40 sheets a day of mostly 1/2" baltic birch plywood on the two...

The camera won't stop the gantry from getting out of square.

Wouldn't it be better to have encoders on the motors for accuracy reasons?

Sean

On my machine, I ended up loosening all the bolts and then tightened everything but the four bolts on the bottom of the gantry beam. As I was tightening the bolts, I pulled the gantry back into the...

I would personally recommend some access to three sides of the CNC at least. There maybe times when you need to do get to the side to clean or pick something up. Moving the machine may knock...

I used the 1/2-10 5 start on my machine without any issues. I could run 3D files using Nema 23 motors (495 oz) at 150 IPM. Now I can run them at 300 IPM using Nema 34 (640 oz) motors.

Sean

I think CNCRP has shipped out of country. Not sure about FLA. They don't seem to be online too often anymore.

The CNCRP machine is rack and pinion on the x and y and FLA I *think* is screw driven...

I used my cordless impact drill with an adapter to tap holes on my machine. I broke a small tap before though. The adapter came from Enco.

Sean

Setup a g-code file to cut a square. Run it twice. If you get a difference, you have something loose or a wrong setting somewhere.

Sean

I run rapids at 2,000 and accel at 50. You should not be losing steps per inch at those settings.

I tightened the springs on my machine about tight as they can go. We cut 1/2" birch ply all day...

I would tighten the springs more and double check the pinion set screws. I had one come loose and it was only slipping in one direction. It wasn't by much and it seemed to accumulate over time. I...

You do not need a pull up resistor to make the switches to work with this breakout board. I don't have one on my switches and it works fine.

You have the option on the board for high or low. You...

If you want to focus more on building and not so much wiring, I suggest going with the pre wired box. I use a Bosch 1617EVS and cut 3/4" birch ply, pine and oak with it. It is a good setup.

I use...

When I use a 5/32" Centurion Tools down spiral on 3/4" pine, oak or baltic birch ply, I get severe packing. In my case it actually kind of helps as then I can cut all the way through in a single pass...

I traced the holder for my Bosch 1617 on paper and scanned it in at 100% size. I then imported the image to Aspire and hand drew it over image. It worked pretty good to make the shoe.

Sean

I second the CNCRouterParts machine. I was able to get 700 rapids and 150 cut speeds with the Nema 23 setup. Could have cut faster had I built the machine more rigid.

I am now moving to the 34...

It should be the same setup.

Sean

Could you take the flatsawn boards and rip them to the thickness you want to use and glue them together? You want to orient the ripped boards to be 90 compared to the flatsawn board. I seen this in a...

27,500 RPM is pretty high. That might burn bits up if you can't run it fast enough.

Sean

Looks like you are on a good start there!

The brushes on my machine are permanent parted where they pass over the carriage bolts.

Sean

The Nema 23 setup will work fine for doing two passes on the 3/4" MDF. With CNCRouterParts Nema 23 setup, you will actually jump teeth before the motor stalls out on my machine cutting 3/4" baltic...