Build Your Own CNC! (Part 1) - Hardware
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- CNC Etch-A-Sketch! Probably as good a project as any to get a handle on the basics. Very basics.
Tentatively, the big picture is this:
Part 1: CNC hardware / electronics / wiring
Part 2: Software, setup and calibration • Build Your Own CNC! (P...
Part 3: Machine Design
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Music:
"Sally Goodin" & "Reuben's Train" - Nat Keefe with The Bow Ties
The subscribe on the Thinkpad was a really nice touch
As a certified nerd, I think (heh) the ThinkPad itself is a nice touch. Best laptops ever, even after years of Lenovo fuckery.
That crap was subtle as frig. Almost missed it.
I have to say....it got me *thinking*
Just got myself a older gen thinkpad T430, love it and T.O.T. Happy days.
it almost seems like there's one SUBSCRIBE reminder in every video, be it super subtle or patently obvious
it's a great Easter egg to look for. love Tony's attention to detail
a CNC pizza cutter is sounding like a great idea lol, right eBay here we go
I hope this is real. I'm much more fragile than I let on.
I’m hungry now .i can’t wait to enjoy a 1/24 size slice of pizza
Looking forward to your extreme pizza cutter colin :D
yes please!
@@red01Mustang why 1/24 of a pizza when you can have 1/36 of a pizza
Tony, thanks for another fabulous video! I'm one of those 'mechanical' nerds, who think anything electronic is 'over their head', but you did a great job of explaining the logic of this setup, and I believe I could build a similar setup if I put my mind to it! Keep 'em coming!
I have absolutely no doubt you could. but only after... part 2! ;)
Nope... I blame our Governments. CNC IS 40 YEARS OLD !! Electricity is ancient !
www.buildyourcnc.com
A pair of bookends.
He is a master at making complicated machines seems very basic. Using the very simple etch a sketch that all engineers are familliiar with makes it seem even easier.
Now I want to see Ron pattern out a buck for a fender using a CNC Etch-a-Sketch 😂
OK, I've waited a whole day. I feel I have been very patient. Now where's part 2?
and me too! part2 .... when?
🤣🤔😂
The amount of knowledge and comedy you pack in these videos is incredible. You remind me of this older gentleman I learned under when I was first cutting my teeth as a mechanic. I would listen to him for hours about anything he would talk about; some things relatable and applicable to a eager mechanic looking to find his niche in this world and some things that I just had no context for because of our 5 decade span of years lived. I can't relate to the prospect of starving, or packing up my newly wed and infant and traveling across the country just to find the job I had hoped for had been out of buisness for years. Jeffco, where ever you are, I appreciate the time you took to teach me about life.
Wow, what a channel! And the only one I know where the comments complement the video in such a meaningful way.
I know I am late to the party, really late but this is one of the most useful introductions to cnc I have found.. I like and enjoy your method of presenting information. Is there a specific video where you go into controlling the speed of the router? I’ll keep digging through your videos… great job… as always
You got me thinking.
My wife isn't going to like this.
The Stepford Wives 2
My thoughts exactly 2 years ago.
Dealing with the wife should be a video on its own.
@Grimace427 Trust me, you don't want to know. However, if you must have one, I have a "seasoned" wife model that I will let go for practically nothing. In fact, I might even pay you if you pick her up so I can get around shipping costs.
@@6milesup I don't know about him but I'm interested, I can be there in an hour.
Great intro to CNC! In 79, I was a draftsman in a little fab shop that built optical flame shape cutting machines. We retrofitted the machine with a "Burny" - one of the first CNC controllers to the machine and created what was probably one of the first CNC sjape cutting machines. I programmed it using straight G code, and generated 1" paper tape on a teletype machine that was then brought out to the shop and loaded onto the burny unit. The oxy-acetylene torch was swapped out with a Hypertherm water cooled plasma. It was an exciting time and an experience I will never forget. It's amazing to see the advances made in CNC. Thanks so much for your excellent channel.
I was a CNC programmer and R&D machinist for many years. When I started in the 70's it was NC (the first C hadn't been born yet) and we typed programs on a converted teletype terminal and then threaded the paper tape into a reader computer that was the size of a refrigerator.
This is the best, most complete instruction video on the interweb machine. Maybe these should be shown in schools. Nice job.
Man, I'm 37 years old and u make start to want to learn more, u r good explaining, thanks a lot!! Greatings from Uruguay
Use the third motor to drive a fan...gotta keep cool when you're making videos this hot!
Actually this could be an interesting (useless) test. How big of a fan can a stepper motor run? Also thanks for the ❤
The MOMENT you showed an etch-a-sketch, I knew this was gonna be AWESOME!
I have been debating on whether to buy a CNC "ready to use" or to buy parts and roll my own because the difference in cost is massive - this video has helped a lot and I feel much better about the prospect of building my own.
Thanks, Tony!
Only you would CNC a kids toy. You crack me up. Ideas for the third stepper. Use it to invert and then one of the outputs from the driver to run a vibrating motor mounted on the underside while inverted. Easy peasy.
Keep them coming. No matter how bad my day goes you always bring a smile to this old mans face.
People have been CNCing Etch-a-Sketches for a long time. At least for 20 years now.
Dammit. You made me feel like this is something I can do. -=shakes fist at old Tony=-
Toooooneyyyy!
-=sigh=-
Whelp, I'm off to ebay... grumble grumble
Don't do it the way Tony does it. He spends money like a drunken sailor.
Just getting into CNC, an Electrician by Trade, Thank You for Distilling All Of This Information Down To A Simple Easy-To-Follow Format! This Has Greatly Accelerated My Understanding and iim looking for to Diving into Building My Own CNC System!
Hi Tony, I would suggest skipping one or two slots between primary and secondary in the terminal block to increase the isolation. Just a tip, interesting video as always!
good tip!
you are an amazing youtuber, not only the content, but in using youtube and an audience, we have all heard the usual "leave a like subscribe etc etc" that even if its a channel that the audience likes, the audience simply doesnt, and if its a new channel, me personally, i dont do it on purpose because its kinda strange to ask for that, you however manage to make that suttle, interresting and funny!
For example 6:12, replacing the laptops logo, which everyone is used to seeing at that place, me being curious after seeing the mousepad and knowing it, uh, lets see if he had to remove that logo because of product placement or something, and its just saying subscribe.
seriously, altho thats just one example, that mindset spreads through every video on this channel, its amazing. its real, its not trying too hard, its just goofing around. its quite human. i love all about this
Didn't plan to do a DIY CNC until this. This is the most informative DIY CNC on UA-cam. Funny as heck too.
Magnificent video ToT! I went thru this process recently on my mill conversion and you made it very clear and accessible. Great job...
You’re a great teacher tot! Loved it! I look forwards to the sequels. You creativity in editing, puns, dry humor, and remaining 99% or humble knowledge makes these always something I look forward to watching. Thanks!
I have never seen a more exemplary example of etch-a-sketch to explain a CNC, very well Old Tony!
Excellent vid. I built my first CNC mini mill nearly five years ago. Weekends have never been the same again...
Christmas comes early this year! :) Thanks, Tony! Don't know where you'll be headed with this, but it might be really fun to implement and compare Mach4, LinuxCNC, and GRBL. Hey, look how easily I suggest work for someone other than me!
Kidding aside, I ended up using Mach3, then GRBL, and finally LinuxCNC on my mill conversion. The backlash compensation was the big missing from GRBL that caused me to bite the bullet with LinuxCNC. And I happened to have an old computer laying around that did the job.
Anyway, I love your work. It brightens my day any time I see you have a new video out. I hope your work on the full-length feature film of This Old Tony is coming along nicely.
I've been working on becoming a real machinist for years now and hope one day to become one. My most respected coworker introduced me to your videos and I must say I am thankful. Your video was extremely informative; and as I man with a million questions, you did a great job breaking down the operations of a cnc and have inspired me to replicate this project. Great video, thank you... look forward to more.
why didn't youtube notify of this video, now I don't have time to put out roses on my bed or put on Labi Siffre let alone take my pants off.....thanks youtube you've just ruined my TOT experience :(
I don't use notifications, because I subscribe to a bunch of channels and I don't want my phone beeping at me all day. Usually I just go to the subscriptions tab and see the new videos, but today this video was not in that list. Way to blow it UA-cam! The only reason I saw this video was published is because it was on the main recommended videos page, I wonder how many videos on less popular subscribed channels I have missed seeing. Does this mean they shadow banned TOT?
This is the second video from one of my favourite channels that UA-cam decided to hide today: first Techmoan, now This Old Tony. This is not in my subscription feed, even though I'm subscribed, neither is it in my notifications, even though I have them set to "all". I will watch every TOT video that comes as soon as I see it, what possible reason does UA-cam have to hide them?
Davyd: You do that too??
same.. I've randomly found the video and it wasn't even shown in my subscriptions. It happened more times :/
Looks like youtube started making the subscription feed more like facebook news feed.
same here, didn't, and still isn't showing in my subscriptions box
I have been cutting parts out with my plasma cutter by hand for a long time…it’s time to expand! Thanks for the video and encouragement…a kick in the butt would have been more effective…let’s say….but here we are.
Thank you for this! Very nice breakdown of what's involved in putting one of these together. Definitely on my to build list now. Any suggestions on a good mill to convert? Seems like it's the dilemma of the mini lathe, or DC vs AC/DC tig where to do steel, it's going to cost a lot more (except inverse in the Tig example).
Save the trouble. Get you a Fadal TRM. It's going to serve you well. 3 axis CNC without a tool changer or flood coolant. (Use a mister) you can also run it with handles like a manual mill.
thank you thank you thank you! i have watched all of your cnc based videos and they have inspired me to try and build my own cnc router. these new videos explaining the fine details of how these steppers and stepper drives work have been super helpful to me and i will definitely be coming back when it comes time to wire things up.
I wonder if there is a way in an Etch-a-Sketch to mod it so that you could physically lift the stylus from the screen to create disconnected lines. That could maybe be hooked up to a lever for manual operation, and hooked up to the Z-axis or a simple solenoid on a switch output. I know the single-line thing is half the fun/challenge when playing with an EAS, but modding is fun too for some of us nerds. I've never tried to do that, but I did take one apart as a kid and remember making a big mess.
I'm so glad you are breaking this down in super baby steps, cause I was lost when you built your router cnc. I personally would love more about setting up cnc.
I've been building and running CNC machines for over 10 years now and still like to watch a video on DIY CNC every now and then. There's a lot of them out there but you made one that goes in the top 10. Nice work.
By the way, I've noticed you kept saying "I think it's a NEMA 23" or "34". It's pretty easy to figure out what is what--Nema 17 measure 1.7" across, 23s are 2.3" and 34s are 3.4"--although I suspect you already knew this.
NEMA's not metric?
@@Tricknologyinc NEMA stands for National Electrical Manufacturers Association (of North America). I measured the motors myself because I also thought the number was a metric reference, and sure enough it's 1.7, 2.3, 3.4 inches.
That information about the motor locking up when wires are connected is really useful!
5:58 Nice ThinkPa- wait
Nice catch!
If you want to make something that'll shake the etch-a-sketch just bolt a Nokia 3310 to it and give it a call :P
Or put in an offsettable weight on one of the motors and run it at resonance for the structure.
@@Gottenhimfella r/woooosh
You can buy the cell phone vibrating motors for less than a dollar and run on 2032 battery with a switch.
use a bass shaker or modified subwoofer
Hats of for This Old Tony! I've never seen it explained so well! Just amazing!
Thank you Tony, you have great info and videos. You have have given knowledge to me on subjects I work on at my day job that inspire me to expand my shop at home also. I'm an avid watcher and respect you sir. Thanks again
I always thought that an Etch-a-Sketch needed a "space bar" (Z-axis, for "no line reposition").
I wonder if you could throw a small solenoid on the joint that holds the point (inside the 'sketch) to do that. On/off. Pen up / pen down. Hmmm. Now I want to open one up to see if that's possible.
The simplest version of this would be a little mechanism to push the stylus assembly down while you reposition it. I mean, it sounds simple on paper anyway
My desktop CNC mill uses a Gecko G540 4-axis stepper controller and a USB SmoothStepper to connect to the host PC via USB and provide a parallel port connection to the G540. Works beautifully, and I have the entire thing (controller, USB/parallel adapter, power supply for the stepper motors, a motor controller and power supply for the spindle motor, SSRs for controlling things, a pair of cooling fans, a software-switchable AC outlet on the back, and a complete mini-ITX PC running Windows) built into a single 4U rackmount enclosure. It turned out to be a beautiful workhorse of a build and works flawlessly.
Yea Tony is my spirit animal.....
Ew, a furry :P
Great video!!!! Enjoyed the humor.
I’m a custom cabinet builder wanting to buy a cnc but I have a very limited amount of knowledge about them. This is the best video I have watched that explains how it all works and what’s needed to make it work.
Great video! I appreciate the time and effort you put forth to make this.
Bravo Sir!
Thanks Tony. That was is a simple and elegant way to explain the basics.
"CNC pizza cutter"
*Stares off into the distance imagining the possibilities*
Tony, you had me with the preview image!
I did the same thing as I first set up my CNC mill. I had everything ready, save a motor mount, and couldn't wait for it to come. I used duct tape to hold a couple of new epoxy bottle caps to knobs of my son's Etch-A-Sketch, then trimmed the nozzles until they were a press fit on the stepper shafts. I kept it set up for about a week, and used it to learn how to hand write my own G-Code. I've often thought of setting up another one.
Thayer
WOW! This is really the coolest introduction to CNC Matter I've ever seen! This video should be shown to young people in school if you want to get them excited about a career as a machine tool technician. Here, the basics of CNC control are explained in a funny and above all pictorial way. Verdict: Pedagogically valuable!
How about wiring third motor to invert it and a fourth one with an off center mass added to it so it would vibrate like hell
Just one extra stepper should be enough -- invert and shake at a resonant frequency while rotating forward and backwards around horizontal a few times to get even distribution.
Shaped like a rabbit, with rotating beads inside...
Really appreciate you explaining all that. I hope your not killing yourself getting all these videos out. Keep up the great work I really enjoy what you do. With my next raise I will help support the channel more.
TOT: "You could gear it down..."
Nobody:
Me: "Gear down for what?!" *music drop*
Until watching this I knew nothing about all this stuff. I've worked on up to 750 ton plastic injection machines and other factory systems but had no idea this was available for home hobbyists. Wow, can't wait for the next part!
stepper? hardly knower
This is a great example to get kids to understand how Gcode for 2d CNC/ a laser cutter works.
It is also a fun way to let kids work with Gcode in a near 100% safe way. No mom will have issues with an Etch-A-Sketch.
To drive a set of bag pipes you'll need? That's easy,,,,,,, you need a Scotsman.
It's silly, but, something as simple as putting 'X' and 'Y' on the knobs and describing the +/- x and +/- y really helped my understanding of maths; thank you!
Thanks for all that you share, time,talent, humor. I look forward to all your stuff. Gracie e Ciao.
Old Tony, I have probably commented on 10 videos in 10 years. But I want to tell you that after having read well over a hundred hours of CNC Zone, Plasma spider, and mechmate forum, and hours of videos about CNC, Asking untold number of questions on mentioned forums, I did not learn as much as half hour video. AMAZING!!! "Imagine a GPS telling you to turn a mile late?" You really help one understand the why behind it. You are the best teacher I think I have ever watched on UA-cam. Excellent content, no waste of time, detail oriented, witty and comical anechdotes/examples to clarify the points and engrave them on one's memory. It is not just displaying your knowledge, but helping us understand. Question: What was the best source you used for learning CNC? Would love to see a video on how you arrived at your knowledge of mechanical science, what the furnace of your education was to get you to this point. This is the highest praise I have ever offered in those ten years also. Well done sir! Glad I bumped into your chainsaw go cart video which led me to your channel.
no formal training... good old baptism by fire.
i searched exactly this on youtube and google many times but i could not understand them and suddenly i get recommend this video ♥️love u man
Always excited when a new This Old Tony video comes out! I thought it would be worth mentioning that when you micro-step there is a significant reduction in the motor torque. Not that it matters for this application but it might for other things.
Why do you need a CNC when you can just use special hammers to cut your work perfect?
A brilliant combination of an easy to understand and very entertaining explaination. 👍
After all those jabs I feel like I should go get my control panel off of mdf and take the tape labels off my steppers.
I love the production value of this video...
Even though you dumb down your explanations for a laugh, it’s actually incredibly effective in educating us on how all these things work together. I’m definitely not computer/electrically literate yet I completely understood how everything worked together due to your teaching style.
This was genuinely interesting and I honestly learned a lot!
Only thing that I didn’t understand was these “wires” you kept mentioning… how do these wires know what colour they are?? Is it some type of wizard magic?? What are you trying to hide?!
Brilliant. About time someone explained something that everyone understands. You dont need a degree in Physics, Electro Engineering ect. Brilliant Tony!!!!!!!
The M570! Always happy to see another fan, I've been using this mouse for almost a decade now.
Wow! One of the best This Old Tony videos ever!... Keep it coming, can't wait for part 2,3,4,5,6,7,8....
So good. You have a genuine talent for teaching. For the sake of a short comment, I love everything about this video. Please keep them coming!
Brilliant! Concept of stepper motors explained in 20 minutes so that even I could get it! It's like retelling all seven Harry Potter novels in a tweet without any loss of content. I mean, I was a big fan of your channel before (serious content explained with lots of humour,), but this tops it so far! Please do keep it up, and please keep it as comprehensible as this first part! Many thanks and best regards from Berlin!
grbl setup isn't that hard and i have made a stand alone cnc with arduino mega + grbl and reprap 3d printer shield with small display. Just haven't made the final version of mechanical part of my cnc. Version 2 right now but it is just to sloppy so it requires version 3 which is still in my head :). Reprap shield required some minor modification to run 2 parallel motors for x axis and accept 24volts power suplly, i use small step drivers (2amp) and nema 17 motors. And arduino can control larger motors just need more capable drivers. All i need to do is generate g code save it do sd card and put the sd card into reprap shield and start the job its nice to not have to worry about pc. But i think GRBL is limited to 3 axis only, at least it was at the time i played with it.
If you want to build on the cheap make a fixed gantry moving table machine. You can't build a cheap moving gantry machine. As you've found out slop is unacceptable. My fixed gantry drawer slide machine can isolation route printed circuits in copper clad board. So it is not sloppy.
This is an amazingly good explanation of CNC for people without an engineering degree. Keep it up.
I've been building cnc machines and robots for my profession but i find this interesting in new way. Keep it coming This Old Tony!
hey! -- I did one of those lame tape flag videos with a stepper motor - got like 6 views too ..soooo :)
edit : it uses arduinos but no grbls :)
Very good explanation! It's hard for some of us slow people to follow along with instructions ,but you're doing a good job
And when you are done with making sketches you can make thermite with it to steal your own stash of methylamine
Any Braking Bad reference is a good one.
I just bought all the bits I know about to do my first CNC project, and am still daunted by the stuff I don't know and stuff I don't know I need. This could not have been more timely. Thanks.
Tony I'm local from Vegas.. If somehow one day you decide to meet some subscribers which you shouldn't but if you do.. I'm in.
Alberto I think that was a joke about him being in Vegas in that one video. Pretty sure he is in Europe. Go back and watch the one about air gun and the brass counterweight he did. He mentioned he was in Europe.
Really? I thought ToT was in the interweb ....
He’s not in Europe
He's in New England. Or the Midwest. Or somewhere.
Kenny Phillips I’m in New England he’s def not from here accent wise
THANK YOU for knowing the difference between accuracy and resolution. 👍😊
Every time I want to do a Custom CNC thing... I have to remind myself of the costs of all those boards and motors. There is just no getting around the cost of hardware.
A complete KIT OF 3 AXIS CNC IS SOMEWHERE ABOUT $ 300.00 .... WTF ... ARE YOU INCAPABLE ?
@@kennethkustren9381 $300 is a lot of money at times. It's why I still don't have a 3D printer, A desktop CNC, A Laser cutter, a lathe, a mill, a tig welder, etc. Plus, I'm in the middle of a major career change so money is mostly allocated to that and not building things.
I think Kenneth is not including the cost of the mill, lol. My reason has nothing to do with cost. It's time and space. If I had all that stuff, I know exactly what I'd do with it. I'd make custom parts and jigs and tooling for those machines to make it easier and faster to make... better jigs and custom parts for those machines. And then I'd fix the occasional consumer good or neighbor's lawnmower, like 3 times in my life. There are only so many French Alex pasta machines to rebuild in my world.
You can start with an Arduino UNO ( $3 for a good clone) + CNC Shield for UNO with 4 A4988 motor drivers ($10) + 3 Nema 17 motors ($25) + GRBL software for UNO (free) + GCode reader for PC (free)... This whole thing will cost you around $40 to do this Etch-a-sketch set-up. Also you can use this same setup and add a small spindle motor good enough for carving shapes on wood, plastics, aluminum etc for $20... Cheap enough?
for etch a sketch 28BYJ-48 tiny steppers will do the trick. they come around 2 bucks, and have integrated gear reduction - i guess otherwise they won’t be able to turn nothing. they’re soo small you can run them on 12V with a darlington array. their torque is amazing 0.034Nm though
Your videos are awesome and your voice is strangely soothing
You do a really good job at describing stuff... Well at least I think you do... Plus your style of telling the story is awesome!
Now you need to see if you can program so your airplane and horse doesn't get tangled in a rope. Maybe something to do with tool path? I don't know I just fix them and not program them.
3D Printer slicer software has options to minimize move paths and afaik it uses standard gcode. Just make 3D model and slice it in a single layer.
Cutter Slade Yeah I was thinking 3D printer slicers might put out better gcode. Much easier to get small “line widths” and sharp corners.
I was thinking about this as well. It should be possible to make it follow the same line backwards so it wouldn't travel point-to-point
Morten backlash might be an issue when backtracking...
@@kilrahvp I'm sad to say I've never tried an etch-a-sketch. Also it should be possible to compensate for backlash if the backlash is consistent
I really enjoyed your dry humor throughout the video. I know a little and guess the rest, so this was a nice basic tutorial. Very easy to understand. The only reason this is on my radar is me getting into 3d printing. Then I realized it's the same thing. The printer giveth and the CNC taketh away, brilliant. Probably a bit before I splash out on my own CNC, but learning is fun right. Now I know it can be done on a mere mortal budget. Thanks
"arduinos and gerbils" *snort*
We built a CNC plasma cutter. We got a professional controller/stepper motor package, to help speed up the process. I guess we are hobbyist since we built a drip proof box under the table to enclose the controller and computer and put a fillered 240 cfm forced cooling on the box. It interesting watching you do it from "scratch".
LOL, that little push to get you over the edge. The little push that I need is cash, cold hard cash. Without this magical resource, everything stands still!
I did somewhat this same thing as a fun experiment with the controller (I used some Arduino Uno Shield that ran GRBL following the NYC CNC tutorial from like 3 years ago). I hooked it up to an etch a sketch mini but I was able to use timing pulleys direct to the shafts (Under the white plastic knobs). The backlash was the killer and as far as I know GRBL and inkscape don't handle backlash.
In the end the guts went into a custom CNC that would engrave glass candle votives that we gave as our wedding gifts (Several videos on my channel) and the Etch a Sketch was way more fun than tape flags as you too have found.
This is the best and simple explanatory video of a CNC, Thanks for sharing your knowledge!👍
You really broke it down to the basics. I can finally tackle automating my mill.
Tony, this is fabulous!! I am somewhat literate on the subject, but you have an excellent way of simplifying the tech to make it understandable. I need to find an etch-a-sketch...
I bought some CNC parts not having any idea of the part numbers (a local auction but online). I got the stuff cheap and went and picked it up. They are GIANT steppers and GIANT pillow blocks. Its crazy. Was going to use to for a larger 3d printer but I think I need to make a CNC now to make use of these epic parts.
This video is worth more than few hundred dollars worth of educational material. Can't believe that you are doing this all for free.
Genuinely couldn't be happier to see this content from this old Tony... I question why I pay for university when I learn more here
At first I was a little incredulous at the idea of CNC'ing an Etch-a-Sketch... but I gotta admit, it's actually rather clever! TOT the mad engineer strikes again!
Believe it or not I've wanted to do this for a long time! This is awesome!
My buddy, the late Eddie Rees (RIP) made a CNC Etch a Sketch about 10 or 12 years ago, as a goof- his main deal was making CNC giant hot wire cutters for huge blocks of white styro-foam for architectural exterior moldings (Like 4'x4'x10' giant blocks of foam)-ON HIS, he ran the stepper motors directly in front of each knob, with a simple flex couple on the motor shafts, and a piece or car heater hose shoved over the knobs and couplings - direct drive if you will, needed WAY less math to get it done and didnt slip like a o-ring and a pulley
Something that I do to get extra reliability out of step drivers is to add a 220uF cap to the DC input lines on each of the step drivers. Those things put out a ton of noise and the caps do a good job of reducing that.
Im getting ready to build a cnc table for my shop. Big enough to take a 4x8 foot sheet of steel, wood, or whatever. Have most of the table components and the cnc ready plasma cutter and a router head to use both. Hopefully i will be starting my build later this month. I still need the ballscrews, rails, and stepper motors. Already have the framing steel and such. These videos you have made have been very helpful with design and component selection. Of course all of your videos i have seen have been excellent. Thank you. I have thought about videoing my build to post on here but have never made a video so not sure how all that would work out but never know lol.
Wow, this is so helpful for a visual learner to have it broken down "Barney style!" Thanks!
This was AWESOME ! Truly a basic to get started. My wife is going to love my new hobby !
Just thank you, thank you for bringing lightness and care to your knowledge sharing, you obviously care and it shows. You’re a total badass and appreciated.
I've been letting my own CNC build simmer on the back burner since your router videos...I guess I don't have the same set of excuses anymore. Thanks for all the good info, looking forward to the next few in the series!