CNC Router - Fixed Gantry: Machine guarding / enclosure
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- An update video of my CNC router focusing on machine guarding / enclosure and a mist system. See www.WadeODesign.com for more detailed info including CAD models and full price list of components. Cheers.
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I've built this excellent design and am cutting LOTS of brass with it. I used SDSK motors from Teknic Cleapath, and a Ethernet smooth stepper control with Mach 4. So grateful for the help that came from the drawings posted on the website. THANK YOU!
That's an awesome build. I'm just starting my researching journey to find costs and components for my own CNC build. Inspired...thanks for sharing!
So that's what's necessary to accomplish what a naive person would expect to just work. Whoa. Respect.
I love the nylon brush especially. :)
Thanks for your in-depth documentation on your website. Really helpful for planning my next build.
+Jimmy Hardman Glad it's useful - good luck on your build. Will you be doing a fixed gantry style?
Love that spindle makes some good chips.
Dude, this is genius.
Very rigid build and inspiring design too. Do you feel that the machine rigidity is up to steel milling?
You may need to change the spindle to higher torque / lower speed type of course (like AC servo spindle)
Also for steel milling, you can close the 7x9 tube with two end cap and fill it with sand to damp vibration and more rigidity.
Thanks for "generous" sharing your design.
I'd very much like to try steel on this machine.... a future endeavors. I like the suggestion to fill tubes for damping. I've now got this one on my to-do list.
I just took a training class with Alex Slocum who has a couple white papers on polymer concrete to his credit.... Was hoping he'd cover that topic but didn't. Still a great class and I highly suggest reading some of his stuff.
Where do you have your gantry in the middle of end of your table. I'm building a fixed gantry chain driven machine but trying to find the best place to configure the gantry to get the most travel. Your table is just a little bigger than mine. Thanks for your time. You using the Arduino instead of individual stepper drivers?
Nice videos. Good commentary. I hope you make more.
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Thank David. Glad u enjoyed it.
Excellent build. Quite impressive as to the extend of your efforts to try to accomplish a very tight tolerance machine. I do find your build somewhat overkilled due to the lacking performance of the stepper motors as well as the lightly underpowered spindle.
Also in this circular cut demo, you should have chosen a more suitable end mill. This adaptive clearing method is a waste of time, puts way more strain-wear on your components as well as adding way more vibrations. Spindle RPMs can not always compensate for a lack of rigidity or tool size. I would have chosen circular interpolation with a proper cutter and having a part done in one tenth of the time!.. Again, thanks for sharing, thanks for posting your fabulous build. Very inspiring for the do it selfer!!
Hi Pierre. Your correct -a bit Overkill but fun fun fun! It actually didn't take me too long before moving to better motors (servos) ... Runs much smoother and faster. I still don't use CAM enough to gain any real experience level - thanks for the tips.