[pianori]

This is my new build that took me one year to complete. It is solid and weighs over 350 lbs. It works beautifully and it is repeatable within +- 0.02mm and accurate within the same. I am using Mach3 with a C10 bob, digital stepper motors, 1.5W 110V liquid cooled spindle which works great. I also have a xbox 360 controller,and a z touch probe/plate operational. I cut my first carbon fiber sheet last week. Great feeling of satisfaction. I am now considering using a C6 spindle control and a charge pump. I know I need a charge pump, for safety so I will be looking into that. For now I have the spindle cooled with a cheap fish tank pump, but as soon as I make some mounts I will install a closed system PC CPU radiator. Again very happy with the machine.

In my journey to make this machine I have learned a ton of things, which I never thought I would when I first started. I received quite a bit of help, so now I am here to pay back what was offered to me. If you have any questions for this built, or any other in regards to building a table top CNC machine let me know and I will do my best to answer it.

-Eric

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugC5jSC1bB8

[wizard]

Nice!

You almost lost your part up the vacuum hose.

[alan_3301]

Nice!

You almost lost your part up the vacuum hose.

It's always fun when that happens.

Turn your volume down before you click this: (skip to 0:20, it's supposed to do it automatically, but I guess that's not working)

https://youtu.be/csI9o0fprzI?t=20

[pianori]

[QUOTE=alan_3301;1989794]It's always fun when that happens.

Nice!. Loud! You warned me. That is a pretty large work volume. Your dust shoe works well.

I actually started to engrave metal now. The machine is so accurate on the z that I can control 0.002" or less. I engraved a Zippo lighter for a family member with their picture on it. I used an JPG picture, removed the background with Photoshop, used Inkscape to create vector graphics, and then into Lazycam to create Gcode, and then cut it with Mach3. I was surprised that it worked.

[pianori]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJSL...m-upload_owner

[fretman_2]

Nice!!!