Model planes.
Wez,
Your story seems a bit like mine, except that my machine is allmost finished. I made it from scrap. That is, metal parts that anybody could find. I used no drawings / building plans. I went along on the idea of a router with a fixed carving object and moving spindle. A very basic principle. Anyway...
I allso want to cut balsa (among others) and my ultimate wish would be that i find a website where there is a download section with complete cuttingfiles of complete plane-sections. For instance, i download a design called "biplane", slide in a sheet of balsa or other lightweight material and carve out all the bits and pieces that only need to be pressed out of the sheet.
I know, that is a bit too much to ask and i really woke up after i have been building and reading the cnczone forum for weeks. It's all not that easy, but hey, i started off with such a wish and i'm nearly there. If i only could get me those files.
I have no real knowledge of (model)planes so it would take a lot of time to draw / design them. Why invent the wheel again when it has allready been done?
Anyway, good luck with your project. You'll get there.
Ed.
Not the horse, of course of course...
Building my own Scrapheap challenge CNC, or is it Junkyard wars CNC?