Excitech Cnc Router Purchase

[rocket67]

Congratulations lee.

You could not have timed it any better.

Can`t wait to see your pics.

Father xmas starts his rounds in New Zealand. When we crack open a few coldies at 9.30 in the morning we can tell our wives - Its already midday in NZ.

Merry Xmas.

Rocket.

[cabnet636]

in australia?

rocket try a program called piccasa (free by google)

its amazing i have been using it for years, last night i showed it to bill glenn and we were emailing and uploadind pics in minutes, as well as cleanining them up and making disk for marketing.

its on google it will ask you for permission to retrieve your pics on hard drive
let it, it will put them in folders, after create a file on "c" drive called photos for web or email then go back to piccasa, select photos then goto file pick export to folder resize to 640 or below when prompted (for uploading) then choose photos from your file on c drive bill told me you can upload directly from piccasa (i hav eyet to do that)

solved my carving problem and will carve away today its christmas eve here

[rocket67]

G`day cabnet, It is 12.46 A.M. Christmas Day!

I have been messing around with photobucket. I am almost there! Have uploaded images without a problem - now i am trying to work out how to get them from there to here. I like photobucket because when you click on the image it will expand to take up the whole page. Will the picaso do that?

Is your wife really going to let you go to work on xmas day? I would not stand a snowball`s chance in hell of getting away today!

Glad to see you solved your problem, are you using V Carve pro?

Rocket.

[cabnet636]

is simple and what i had done was to expand the fomt to bold and then set a set a a real minute passover (where it cuts each pass so it had to repeat many time just to clear the material in the letter.

wife is sitting here and we are at home, she say's i do damn well what i want,
she says dosen't mater whether it's on this computer or at shop which is 30 minutes away "it's too much"

i dont think so, and it's not christmas day until tommorrow it's 9:31am dec 24
here. i am so looking forward to where we go next with the routers

[cabnet636]

of attention to this thread from others in brazil and around the world

have you guys got the machines (Commercial,chinese or other wise)
please feel free to post photos and post with us i for one need all the help i can get

jim mcgrew

[rocket67]

Well you don`t have to worry about the world ending today, it`s already tomorrow in Australia!

You are right. Now we have to "walk the walk". Fair dinkum mate i am absolutely sh....ng myself. Fortunately, we have some good computer people around us, so i think we can work it out. We are going to be saving 4,000 per month once we are up to speed. My missus reminded me about the dovetail drawer machine which we have not even used yet, so we have to make this work!

Rocket.

[rocket67]

G`day all, Here are some more photos of the excitech

Rocket

[cabnet636]

some big router, carved yesterday and will become more profecient as time rolls, there is a leasrning curve to this

prepare to burn some bits and scare the sh%#@!!t out of yourself and those around you,

but its worth every minute of it

jim

[rocket67]

G`day cabnet, Xmas festivities finished finally.

We had a good look at the software this morning. The type3 and ucancam supplied with the machine looks a bit daunting. My son has been practising with V Carve Pro for a few weeks and thinks that he can do ok with it. If so, we probably will not need the other ones.

Do you like my method of painting the wall? ( Just take the missus to work ).

Will go to work in morning and unwrap gantry and take some photos of spindle. Think i can upload photos from photobucket now, so i will post plenty of them.

We needed the big router as our panels are quite often 9ft x 4ft.

Rocket.

[Jimmy007]

Originally Posted by rocket67 G`day cabnet, Xmas festivities finished finally. We had a good look at the software this morning. The type3 and ucancam supplied with the machine looks a bit daunting. My son has been practising with V Carve Pro for a few weeks and thinks that he can do ok with it. If so, we probably will not need the other ones. Do you like my method of painting the wall? ( Just take the missus to work ). Will go to work in morning and unwrap gantry and take some photos of spindle. Think i can upload photos from photobucket now, so i will post plenty of them. We needed the big router as our panels are quite often 9ft x 4ft. Rocket.

Your a patient man Rocket- I had the wrapping off my machine before I even had the crate fully away from it :-)

Have you had a go at getting the shipping grease off all the running gear? I used a heap of rags and so called enviromentaly friendly degreaser- probably not an easy job before you have him powered up as you cant drive the gantry around.

Id have a look at sourcing a small grease gun also, you will find most nipples will take a few pumps (mine seemed virtually dry on delivery.

It may pay you to go for a crawl around underneath the table with a screwdriver and check the tightness of the clamps on the VAC hoses- mine leaked first time I fired him up.

[cabnet636]

must be reading this i just got a copy of "making wood signs" for xmas

we have traditionally used mineral sprits to remove the packing grease from tools, and i believe this is usually the method in manuals such as delta jet and powermatic, we usually wipe with wd-40 after cleaning on friction steel surfaces and clean only on paint surfaces. and absolutly grease all bearings and fittings before using rourter and after an hours use check again as grease will fix in where there was none before.

rocket can you paste taneys email for me or see if you can find price on wave board software shown here for me, this is something i need
i think i want ucancam !!!!
http://www.ucancam.com/list.asp

well my wife just put a pig in a blanket with honey mustard sauce in my mouth so i gotta go !!!!

merry christmas
cabnet

[rocket67]

Hi Guys, you are making me hungry cabnet. Sounds delicious.

I have some wax and grease remover on hand and will give all of those surfaces a good clean. Will also make sure that all nipples are well lubricated. One query that i do have - Jimmy you and Scott both wrote about using machine oil on the slides. Are you using this in addition to greasing the nipples?

I had deliberately left the wrapping on the gantry as we still needed to finish off the flushing on the gyprock wall and the finishing compound is very fine when it is sanded. But we have finished painting the outside wall now so it is time for it to come off.

My son has already been crawling inside the machine to check all fittings.
When the machine arrived there was a small electrical box inside the machine which had come adrift in transit. The screws had worked loose so he fixed that back into position and checked everything else. The only other issue that we have is with the adjustable feet. A couple of them had come unscrewed and the thread is damaged. Should be an easy fix.
The feet can be seen on the top of the table in the photo of the gantry.

Rocket.