BigAl
17-11-2011, 09:54 AM
Hi, After some head bashing with the account verification system, I finally got authenticated.
I am a completely unqualified British Bodger, Shedhead and Tinkerer. Possibly one of the worst people to have as a neighbour, from a Health & Safety point of view.
I have built three CNC routers so far, all to my own design;
#1 was built from timber. It was wimpy but did make a serviceable laser cutter (http://crapworks.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-first-cnc-router-project.html)
#2 was built from MDF. It was over ambitious in size and I resolved never to use MDF again (http://crapworks.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-second-cnc-project.html). It is unstable and soaks up humidity like a sponge. However #2 was quite good for a while.
#3 my most recent build, has been made from super chunky aluminium C-channel. I just have taken delivery of trapezoidal leadscrews to upgrade from the recycled all-thread. #3 is in a semi-finished state (http://crapworks.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-third-cnc-router-project.html). There are still quite a few mods to be made, but you can see her below.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bWS7KLR31yM/Trkb2RBCC-I/AAAAAAAAABw/dZ2F6-WKQ70/s1600/IMG_1153.JPG
More piccies of badly built CNC routers and other crap I have made are available on my blog: The Crapworks (http://crapworks.blogspot.com/)
I am a completely unqualified British Bodger, Shedhead and Tinkerer. Possibly one of the worst people to have as a neighbour, from a Health & Safety point of view.
I have built three CNC routers so far, all to my own design;
#1 was built from timber. It was wimpy but did make a serviceable laser cutter (http://crapworks.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-first-cnc-router-project.html)
#2 was built from MDF. It was over ambitious in size and I resolved never to use MDF again (http://crapworks.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-second-cnc-project.html). It is unstable and soaks up humidity like a sponge. However #2 was quite good for a while.
#3 my most recent build, has been made from super chunky aluminium C-channel. I just have taken delivery of trapezoidal leadscrews to upgrade from the recycled all-thread. #3 is in a semi-finished state (http://crapworks.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-third-cnc-router-project.html). There are still quite a few mods to be made, but you can see her below.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bWS7KLR31yM/Trkb2RBCC-I/AAAAAAAAABw/dZ2F6-WKQ70/s1600/IMG_1153.JPG
More piccies of badly built CNC routers and other crap I have made are available on my blog: The Crapworks (http://crapworks.blogspot.com/)