I'm in... another Joe2006 machine

[ccsparky]

Congratulations! All you guys have dust flying and I haven't even gotten a splinter yet. Hope to get up by this weekend! Your test screens look excellent, can't wait to see the video!

Keep up the great work!

[DayneInfo]

DougO - if I remember corectly you have a Xylotex 269 kit? Is that what you are running with?

Dwayne

[joecnc2006]

Make sure you bolt the machine down, you will get better cutting with a real stationary machine. I have mine with bracing screwed to the wall, makes a difference in how it cuts.

Joe

[DougO]

Dwayne, I do have the Xylotex 269 kit. I had decided I was going to have to go to the HobbyCNC kit but now I'm hoping everything is going to work with the Xylotex. I kept waiting for CCSparky and David to get theirs running with the Hobby but they never would. I'm glad now because I know I would have bought the Hobby kit after theirs starting working.

Joe, now that the machine seems to running fine I will start work on a table to mount it on. I will bolt it to the wall also.


I never could get the Google video to work so I unloaded to youtube. If you can't see the video, let me know and I will upload it to Google later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q8nfKt7e9I


This is just a short video but it kinda shows how much better my machine is working. I will cut something larger tomorrow and get a video of that.

[David Da Costa]

Looks good.

I am very happy with my HobbyCNC board.

[DougO]

Couldn't stop myself, had to try the BullsHead sign out tonight. The video is of the machine cutting at 60 ipm. You can tell I'm not the best at taking videos but I think you can get a pretty good picture of how the machine is running. I think it will work better when I get it on a table and bolted down. I attached a few pictures of the completed carving, which I thought turned out real good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1dpaXyNruo

[ccsparky]

Originally Posted by DougO Couldn't stop myself, had to try the BullsHead sign out tonight. The video is of the machine cutting at 60 ipm. You can tell I'm not the best at taking videos but I think you can get a pretty good picture of how the machine is running. I think it will work better when I get it on a table and bolted down. I attached a few pictures of the completed carving, which I thought turned out real good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1dpaXyNruo

Great job DougO, that's very impressive. Your machine seemed to handle the 60IPM very smoothly.

What bit are you using?
Also please post a pic or two of your machine when you get it up on it's table.

[joecnc2006]

Yea that did turn out pretty good, even for being carved into an old shelf with the laminate material, good idea to have a material with top coating on it already . the other way i would do it is to stain the stock 1st and apply a poly coat, then v-carve the sign or pciture, then stain the carving this way the poly will prevent the stain from getting on the stock and will wipe off clean.

Joe

[DougO]

CCSparky, I used a .50 inch 90 deg v-bit. We should be seeing pictures of your machine running by now.

Joe, I used to work for a company that manufactured motor homes and they went out of business. The pieces I am practicing on are some small cabinet doors that I bought when the company sold out. I have had these things for 20 years and don't know how many times I started to throw them away. They are definitely coming in handy now. They are perfect for routing names for some of the young kin folks to hang on their bedroom doors. Rout the names, spray paint the routed part and then just wipe the excess paint off the laminated top. Look real nice when completed.