Quote Originally Posted by shedbob View Post
Hallo Skyfire.This is fascinating.It looks like it will be a great machine.Nothing
commercial this size currently has linear guides.Can you tell us the weight of the
castings for head,column and base.Will you also cast the table yourself ?Please
keep posting.Thanks, Robert.
Hi, thanks for your comments. I think this size machine is not as commercial as bigger machines. But it's the machine I wanted to build by my hand for long time. I had some experience on bigger machines and I'm working on them now too. In this thread I want a table CNC can be put on desk and can do some small hard precision works that small routers can't do. The size is just a little bigger than SIEG X2. So maybe you want to build a higher end table CNC, it's fitful plan. Or I think maybe some place like labs, small metal workshop like jewelry etc will need such small but precision cnc machines.

Sure, I can share the weight. Refering to PTC colculating, the weight are:
head:12KG / 26.5lbs
column:15KG / 33lbs
base: 18KG / 40lbs

I can't cast the parts by myself. It will need many other resources. I will send the molds to a casting factory for casting parts after I finish them. I think I may take some photos there to share with you guys.