Hello all!

has anyone build their own router for making prototype PCBs?

I can buy a new one for the "very" small amount of $10K+ - which is wya too much for my needs, willing to spend 2-3K.

I'll not be doing card larger than aprox. 20 by 30 cm, and with an accuracy of maybe 1/10 or 1/20 of an mm.

(sorry for the metric units)

can anyone help me in the right direction?

I'm an eletronic ingeneering student woking on starting for myself :)

best regards,

Henrik

For 2-3K you can build one yourself, and a pretty decent one.

The one I'm building: http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10927 in its actual stage of building has this precision and all the parts are almost purchased. It uses THK SHS rails and NSK ballscrews for all the axis.

Comercial ones with this precision are around 5K+


Pablo

Hi, thanks for the link!

but what about complete sets?

Henrik

Check out Clanzers one at cncdudez.com he has advertising on here as well fully built ready to go will do pcb, component placement, routing etc... £1500

Ben

Check out Clanzers one at cncdudez.com he has advertising on here as well fully built ready to go will do pcb, component placement, routing etc... £1500

Ben

Thanks!
This looks very much like something I could use. But I wouldn't mind doing some work myself, have a friend with a large mill, he can do most of the metal work for me.

Thats ok clanzer can supply you with his control box etc... then you can pick and mix.

Ben

I've been looking around on the diffrent projects...

And I could use some advice on which materials to look for, but before I can ask that, I need help with something else:

I'm not sure what I want to build - my first idea was "only" a PCB router, but as I look around, maybe I want to make small plastic parts as well?
Or maybe a super highspeed PCB router with some crazy servos?

I think that I'll proberly go with the last option, but let me hear your opinions :)

Henrik

I think when making any sort of cnc router the 2 questions you need to ask are what do you want to cut? and how big is the largest stock you want to use in it?

You've answered the first one so the answer to the second would give you the size of a machine. Any machine capable of milling pcb's would be fine for lots of other operations as well.

Ben