Hi William. Yes, I still have the machine and still use it all the time. I have had no major problems with it. Wow, it's been 9 years? It's made quite a pile of chips over that time! Mechanically...
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Hi William. Yes, I still have the machine and still use it all the time. I have had no major problems with it. Wow, it's been 9 years? It's made quite a pile of chips over that time! Mechanically...
Haha, that stand looks a bit on the light side. :D Just kidding. The one you get with the machine looks to be about 10GA sheet metal with a bit of reinforcement. Good big or go home I say. Not sure...
I have done this on a number of occasions. Create a small vbit tool in Sheetcam and use if for pocketing the letters.
Harvey Tool makes a large assortment of small rotary cutters.
Find Specialty Carbide End Mills and Cutting Tools at Harvey Tool
Buy carbide tools and they will be fine for wood, aluminum and...
I'm with the other that say that you will soon find many uses for Solidworks rather than just file conversions. I think it's well worth the money and effort to learn.
If HSMWorks performs as well...
I think I would have used buttress threads on that press... :D
Paul
I couldnt disagree with you more. Job shops do what the drawing says period. How you get there is up to you, but theres no creativity as far as the parts are concerned.
Try HSMWorks...
I had the same question when I built my plasma table, but for the reasons you list, I didn't bother trying it. I just went with an additional G203 and slaved them together through Mach3.
I hope...
Yeah, depends on what your specialty is, but if your doing structural steel, something like the PythonX is kind of the dream machine. We don't have one in our shop, but we do have a MDL1000 CNC beam...
I've used long series 1/4" 2 flute carbide endmills to cutout bodies and necks in the past. Get an endmill with a long enough flute length to do a finishing pass on the total body thickness. They are...
SheetCAM would work well for that.
I designed this one and have been using it for years. Not diamond, but you could make the point diamond if you needed to...
I think its a bit stupid that you can accidentally hide the 'main body', as you call it, and it doesn't change the icon in the feature manager tree.
I've banged my head a few times trying to...
You would need a totally separate air system for a plasma room in your basement. You would need to bring in air, and exhaust the air from the room or your whole house would be covered in brown dust....
25 bucks for ~90 cuts! You would be crazy to try and do that yourself, unless you spend big money on a good saw like a Hydmech with automatic control.
I saw farm it out and do what you do best.
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Good stuff Andrew. You should have a top notch machine when it's done.
What type of rack are you using and how are you going to keep the mesh tight?
I built a steel gantry router about 5 years...
2D CAM packages all do 2 1/2D. They would be utterly useless if they didn't support the Z axis. The thing they wont do is move all 3 axis' at the same time while cutting. That's what 3D CAM is for.
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High feed rates are required with high spindle speeds, which also translates into high horsepower and machine rigidity. If you get all that right, your router will cut aluminum all day with no...
1) "Tabs"
2) Depends on what CAM software you are using. Most 2 1/2D CAM packages have the ability to add tabs to your part. (SheetCAM works well for this)
3) They don't have to be very big to hold...
Have you ruled out your computer being the problem? I saw the same type of problems when I had the pulse rate set too high and was doing a full 3d program. It would act as if it were a stepper motor...
He didn't say what type of plastic.
There's a huge difference between cast and extruded acrylic. I can cut extruded acrylic and 150ipm, .06DOC, 24krpm, 1/16" 2FL end mill all day with no melting....
Hi Rob. Nice machine you have there. I too started down the machinist road making parts for RC, but left that stuff in the dust since...too expensive, not enough money to buy tooling and other...
Nice design and renderings. What are the lasers for?
Your planning steppers rather than servos?
Paul
Nice machine! Hope it is working well for you.
Best thing I ever did for my router was to build a fully contained plexiglass enclosure for it. Cost a few bucks, but worth it considering the...
I had the same problem on my mill recently. The cap on the encoder did the trick. Dont know if they ever wear out, but it might be worth a try replacing it.
I wrote a program something like this...
I just thought I would chime in too and say that I did the same to the Z axis encoder and it totally fixed the problems I was having with it losing position. I think that it's happening on the z and...
Jim,
This method of filling and draining a plasma water table has been discussed on here before. I had the same plan when I still owned a plasma table, and my friend will be filling his table the...
Do you have a link to this? Is there video of the machine in action? We have a MDL1000 drill line, and other than some various problems, it is well worth the money. A layout machine would help that...
Hey Pete and others. Just finished reading this whole thread from start to end. Well, it's taken several days of reading for a bit here and a bit there.
I just acquired a ZAY705FG that is begging...