i dont have it at home its at my dads work place, they have a CNC mill, some manual lathes , and a manual mill
do you have some pics of it ?
ps: i made the cuts my self on the mill :D
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i dont have it at home its at my dads work place, they have a CNC mill, some manual lathes , and a manual mill
do you have some pics of it ?
ps: i made the cuts my self on the mill :D
Unfortunately, I don't have a working camera right now at home, and I have to use my dad's work camera, and he isn't home most the day. I have the drawings for it that I could show you, though.
The machine's rails and lead screws will be roughly 36" x 34" x 10"
The lead screws are 3/8" threaded rod, will be upgraded once the machine is up and running.
The linear bearings for now are not built. The slides will just be pieces of aluminum tube snugly fit over the slide rail, 3/8" steel rod.
My stepper motors have about 365 oz./in. of holding torque and should do nicely. I am using a Ryobi router for the spindle, mounted vertically on a piece of acrylic bolted onto a piece of MDF.
The machine's construction will be mostly MDF. Once the machine is up and running, I'll use it to cut nicer parts out to start rebuilding the machine.
very nice, your build looks very much the same with with Zittware's cnc, but i cant find it
why dont you put up a worklog
I think I might, thing is, I'm not going to have hardly any pictures during the process of actually building it. Once it's done, it's going to be used to re-cut itstelf out. Perhaps I'll get more pics out of that, once I have a camera.
how far in to the build are you
The controller is completely done.
The computer to be controlling it is set up and ready to rock.
All the parts have been accumulated. I have built the mount for the router, as well as the frame for the X axis. The gantry still needs built, and I'm turning couplings on a lathe, so the motor shafts still need threaded so I can begin work on the custom couplings.
The bearings have been installed, as well as the bars that the liner slides will be guided on.
That's about it. But from here, stuff should come together fairly quickly.
well as you sayd , its almost done :D
its great to have you'r own CNC, the one i use is the size of my room and it eats titanium blocks bigger that me, you can imagine how it is to stay by it when its working
btw are you using ballscrews?
<EDIT> found the link and its not zittware, its JavaDog, damn i'm a fool
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthrea...ght=ball+screw
Ha! I wish I had ballscrews! Lol, I'm using threaded rod. It SUCKS, I know. However, when the machine is built and I know it's working, I'll be upgrading to ACME threaded rod, then ballscrews eventually. Also, I'll be replacing my crappy aluminum tubing slides with actual linear bearings.
man, how I would love to build one of this things.... :((
Go for it! It's definately challenging, but if you do your research and take your time it should be very rewarding. I have been researching this for over a year now.
