Welcome my fellow Europeans

[Grandad]

Hi Max, I'm in the south of Portugal(Algarve), I have two machines, well, one and a half really, i'm halfway through the second one. How about you, any build going on...Rod

[maxbela]

Hi Rod,
No build going on I'm afraid, I bought a Heiz S1000 machine some time back when the pound was still worth something versus the euro - see my other posts for how pleased I am with it. I have used it to make all sorts of "attachments" for itself. I built an indexing head to get over the problem of no 4th axis when I needed to cut equally spaced slots into a cylinder, a water/air feed for cutting alloys & plastics and 3 different vacuum hold down systems. I am designing a rotary 4th axis at the moment as I can't afford to buy one, luckily my software and controller have 4th axis capability so it"s just the mechanics to deal with.
If you have built your own machines I would be interested to hear how you got on.
Regards,
Max

[miikey]

Hello from the UK!

[audioandy1762]

Hi Miikey

Welcome to the crazy world of CNC and the forum of course ; )

Andy

[miikey]

Originally Posted by audioandy1762 Hi Miikey Welcome to the crazy world of CNC and the forum of course ; ) Andy

Cheers for the warm welcome

[Heto]

Hi to everyone!

I'm a designer from heto one of the most powerful cnc, driling/milling machine in the worl, Heto!

You can visit us in the www.heto.com.pt
we have enormous solution.
if you have any doubt about you can contac me here.

Best regards
Artur Bastos

[cowleym]

Hi I'm Mike from Techserv in the UK, were aren't very powerful and dont have anything enormous (sigh) but we are fairly tall, does that count?


Cheers

Mike

PS we make plasma cutting machines if anybody wants one?

[Litografa]

Hi, looks like I am first visitor from Vilnius, Lithuania.
We are very strong and professional in laser sales with over 300 installations all over the world. Also we have interesting equipment for engraving on stone.
www.litografa.lt

[EPTech]

Hello all.

I am new to this forum and hope to contribute as much as I can. But I'll be asking questions mostly, because I do not have much experience in CNC yet. However, if you have any questions concerning electronics in general, I'm your man.

Greetings from Belgium.

[grabolo]

Hi everyone,greetings from Poland.I run a machine shop in Poland,but bought all machines in USA.Now I've got a problem with service in Europe.Specially with Mazak,if someone have a problem with converters,amplifiers from Mitsub. I can give You a adress in USA that can repair at half the price that Mitsub. Europe charge.Best regards.

[bcosmin]

Hello from Romania!!!

[Hamish911]

Hello!

Recently I've entered the fascinating world of metal working by purchasing a small micro mill by Sieg (X1). Started the CNC conversion by etching PIcStep 4 PCB's, and I was given 3 Japan Servo stepper motors (KH56KM2) and a Vexta Stepper motor (PK268-E2 851's) (Thanks Ed!).

Also I've found a scrapyard nearby with has lots of (I hope) usually aluminum.
As I don't know much about prices with regards to metals, I think I've found 2.5 kg of alu @ 4 euro quite a bargain!

Looking forward to starting a build thread to show the slow progress I am making.

regards,
Hamish