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[Scooby Doo]

Hello JGRO,

I am working on my second machine at home. My first machine was a moving table design. My second machine is going to be fashioned after your design and I was wondering what kind of feed and rapid rates I could expect following your design. With my first machine that I built there were alot of mistakes made on my part so I have been dissappointed with the 15 ipm. In my professional life I program and operate Heian CNC routers so I can imagine that I am a bit spoiled by have the power rapid at 2400ipm and cut mdf at 350ipm. I am very ignorant when it comes to power supplys, how much I need for torque w/ a stepper and the like. Any information that you, and anyone else listening, could give me would greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Scooby Doo

[Bird605]

Hello, Your plans look great but I have two questions. Where are the assembly drawings and also, do you have drawings with standard measurements and not fractions?

John

[rwenig]

Hello guys,
This is my first venture into CNC. I finished building the JGRO router table a couple of weeks ago and am busy learning how to use it. I'm very happy with the result so far. I do have a question: The router I used can take 1/8" and 1/4" shank cutters. I'm having difficulty finding router bits in small sizes with cutting lengths over 1/2". Where do you all get your cutters? Thanks.
Rupert

[badmoonrizn]

Hello, Just wanted to drop in and say thank you for the plans. They look awesome. I am very new to cnc, but I am also very determined to build a machine.
I bought a 4 axis kit from Probotix, and seems to be decent. The software side of this is a bit challenging, but I'm starting to get it. I actually had my motors running with it.
Now if I can just come up with some extra cash, I can get started on the actual build.


Wish me luck....


Jack

[the mask]

very good

[abbas.ali]

Dears,
iam very glad to join this cummunity for the 1st time and i will try to be helpfull as much as i can.
finally i hope you can help me too
by the way iam electrical engineer and i have worked with plc and pc interfacing

[mrhickory]

Harvey Tools

[rwenig]

Thank you.

Originally Posted by mrhickory Harvey Tools

[JerryBurks]

HTC Tools, quite reasonable price ( e.g. $12 for 3" long 1/8" flat end bit with 1" flutes and $16 for the ball end):
I believe I bought them on eBay but not sure.

long bits: HTC
extra long bits: HTC

[ger21]

Originally Posted by JerryBurks HTC Tools, quite reasonable price ( e.g. $12 for 3" long 1/8" flat end bit with 1" flutes and $16 for the ball end): long bits: HTC extra long bits: HTC

I probably work 10 minutes from them.

Edit: Actually, I work about 1 minute from them

[JerryBurks]

Originally Posted by ger21 I probably work 10 minutes from them. Edit: Actually, I work about 1 minute from them

Not sure why that would be? Or do you know this brand to be crap or using bad carbide? Obviously they are not meant for miles of high speed profile cuts because they would anyway flex or break at that length. But I have been using such a bit for 3D finishing work on a few pieces and so far, so good. At least the surface quality is similar to what I see with a Precisebits ballnose cutter. I could not compare the longevity since I only do one-off pieces and because I have an unfortunate habit of breaking them before they wear out, anyway ;-)

Edit to say....now I get it. You mean you are working 1 or 10 minutes AWAY from them? I understood you can only use them for that time. Doh.
You don't happen to work FOR this company?