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Ok so after months of research, lots of cold ones, many many phone calls and endless hours of reading the posts here.... I have jumped right in and started to build. The whole thing starts with a TM1 kit. I ordered my kit about a year ago, upon it's arrival I quickly realized that although being a great diy kit. It was not going to be exactly what I needed for my shop. Sooooo.... I started changing the design to suit my needs and before long realized that I would be tossing all the bracketry and hardware from the kit. I started off with a water table design that worked best for me, which included a 187.16 gal table capacity. A 250 gal resevoir tank mounted below the table and a 2 hp swimming pool pump to flood the table from below. I then changed the whole cam follower deal to 15mm linear rails on both the X and Y axis, added the torch height control, plate marker, and laser cross hairs attachment from Torchmate. I changed the single side drive with jack shaft to dual side drive and mounted all the drives on floating mounts also using 15mm rails. Didn't like the whole " bolt ,nut and pivot thing".
I built the gantry entirely from aluminum added the computer and control center to the left side. So here it is guys, tell me what you think !!!
Thanks , Todd
Very nice build, by the looks of it you're set-up to cut some serious plate. Have you had it runnin yet?
I noticed the double spring set-up on your y-axis. Be interesting to see how that works for you. We used a similar set-up on our router table, but we went with a pivot and spring set-up. Not sure how to link previous threads to other threads, but we're under the DIY table build "Med-Pac new machine" quite a ways back.
Mike
Looks Good! Have you had any problems with the long pinon shaft on the Y?
Hi everybody! I want to buy a cnc router and Am interested in the 4x8 ez router but I want the spindle colombo with 5hp because am gona work with solid in 3D pieces.
Is the table strong enough for the power of the spindle?
Im apologize for my english.
Thank You!
!uckin a BenFab, that is a nice lookin setup. I KNOW the work and thinkin that went into what you've got there. I didn't take mine quite that far but am happy with it now. Great job and good picts. Shapenfab
Two Thumbs UP.!!!!!!,.,,.,,,,........,........................
Thanks Shapen, I certainly apreciate the kind words. and your right, alot did go into it. I am almost finished and have some new pics to share. I will get them up asap. I can't begin to thank this site and all the members (posts) that I have spent countless hours reading, for all the help and info leading to decisions and avenues of attack on this project. Thanks again all !
Todd
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