Building a CNC router

[HomeCNC]

Hi James,

I have been away from the zone for a long time now. I have completed building my shop first and I started on the house this summer. I got the shell completely up in three months by taking two weeks of vacation from work to frame the lower floor and then did the rest by taking every Friday off. With the help of some family & friends on weekends, this is where I was at the end of October 2006 see picture. You can see the edge of my shop to the far right of the picture.

As for the Porter Cable fixed collets that I designed. I did post the drawings here in another thread. I have searched for it but it seems that It no longer exists on this server anymore. I have attached them to this post as well.

Jeff

[ViperTX]

Jeff....beware of weathered wood....

[James Marshall]

Looks good!!! Should be a nice house when finished. Thank you for the drawings!!!!! Hopefully I will be able to put these to good use, I like to hide in the garage durring these cold Alaska winter days. The shop looks pretty big, got to love that!

[qtronpowerson]

I managed to finish my Servo controller box this weekend. It worked great! I used a torid for the transformer this time. Wow do I like them.

What made U choose servo's...arent they much more expensive than steppers? $??
Costs aside, What is the main determinant in choosing?
How did U determine the appropriate servo motor horsepower/wattage ouput?
Thanks, Qtron...

[qtronpowerson]

What made U choose servo's...arent they much more expensive than steppers? $??
Costs aside, What is the main determinant in choosing?
How did U determine the appropriate servo motor horsepower/wattage ouput?
Thanks, Qtron...

meant to say Toroids can be torid with fuses!!

[Khalid]

Any Updates Jeff?

[HomeCNC]

No updates with my CNC router, but I have a picture of my house and shop I'm still building.

[Khalid]

Jeff..Please keep up posting of ur great work especially u r doing on 4th axis... I saw ur work of column u did in Artcam, what version of Artcam u are using???Are u using ArtCam pro 2008 SP5 ? I am facing repeatable crashes with this latest version while unwrapping 3D model...Any tips u can give me to avoid this???

[Khalid]

Wow what a beautiful place u are living at

[IntarisiaQ4]

HI THERE!!!
This is the information I have been looking for, could you please send me information about this matter. I have a 5-axis machine and I want to take advantage of the A-axis for turning round extrusions. I have the post processor needed for my machine which runs with Mach 2 software.
I really appreciate any help you can give me to turn round a relief.

Thank You very much
Eduardo.

[CarveOne]

Hi Eduardo,

His website has a contact link if he doesn't respond here soon.

CarveOne