New Project, CNC Router

[Boondocker]

Some photos on building a CNC Router

First made a torsion table top.







80/20 is used for the frame construction

[Boondocker]

[Boondocker]

Obtain the design and most of the parts from:
http://www.cncrouterparts.com/

[birdhouse]

that's awesome!  nice work.  i like the old school wooden base table design.  what profile is that in the last picture? 

what is the max length you can do? 

adam

[Boondocker]

Birdhouse,


The torsion box table makes a very solid, flat foundation to support the machine.

Can carve/cut just over seven feet long.  The table top is 4'x8', to give you a sense of scale. 

The photo is a 222GOE profile with a tapper and twist.  Practicing on small pieces to learn first. No prior CNC experience.

Boondocker

[Frank S]

Very nice superbly done
 And a great link I have an old Victor Magnetic tracing torch that I built a 4 by 12  burn table for and a gantry for the torch I could use many of these items they offer to convert the gantry system to CNC then add a torch to the back side  I would then have a CNC burn table with Magnetic tracing ability that would be great 

[Mary B]

Nice! If anyone needs plastic shapes I have a laser cutter. Up to about 18x10 inches can be cut and 1/2 inch thick. Cut edges will have a taper, nature of the beast with beam spread.

[Frank S]

Nice! If anyone needs plastic shapes I have a laser cutter. Up to about 18x10 inches can be cut and 1/2 inch thick. Cut edges will have a taper, nature of the beast with beam spread.

Actually I need to find a good laser for steel or SS up to 1/2" thick to put in place of one of my planetary Ox Gas torches That burn rig already has a Hypertherm 2000 plasma and 2 Ox /Gas torches all set up 3 axis and 9 straight line ox /gas torches on the back of the gantry
 replacing one of the front ox/ gas torches with a laser would both speed up and add higher precision cutting for super thin materials

[Mary B]

My 60 watt CO2 won't even mark steel or metal, have to use a dye process to engrave even. Get into metal cutting and it makes my CO2 laser look cheap!

[Boondocker]

Carved out a 5ft blade demo out of foam.  It took about 1 1/2hr per side using a 1/4" endmill.  Use Qblade program to design the blade export it as a *.stl file.

Watching the CNC carve out a blade is almost as fun watching your turbine spin

[tecker]

I think I'm going to join you  in this . I've been wanting to hookup a new direction to what I can do here and this is what .

[SparWeb]

Just one of the reasons that keeps bringing us back to FL.  Sharing ideas inspires the rest of us.