A better openbuild OX cnc machine ?

**eurikain** · 07-04-2016

Hello,

What do you think about the OX CNC from OpenBuilds ? I like it's design and the ratio footprint/work-area. I know that the belts aren't the best, and I think they should be replaced by ballscrews. With more bracing on the structure, it seems like a good design.

What do you think ?

Jazz, I hear you already :D

Cheers,
G.

**magicniner** · 07-04-2016

Lightweight side plates!
I've just deleted 5 minutes of typing but Isembard Kingdom Brunel is spinning like a top in his place of rest!

**eurikain** · 07-04-2016

Originally Posted by magicniner

Lightweight side plates!
I've just deleted 5 minutes of typing but Isembard Kingdom Brunel is spinning like a top in his place of rest!

Just make thicker plates then, out of steel even better :) It's crazy how when you British people post I always have to Google your slang :D

**Clive S** · 07-04-2016

Originally Posted by eurikain

Just make thicker plates then, out of steel even better :) It's crazy how when you British people post I always have to Google your slang :D

By the time you have put ball screws on made the plate thicker changed the control box etc etc etc. Just build one from scratch

**magicniner** · 07-04-2016

Originally Posted by Clive S

Just build one from scratch

What He said!
Don't buy crap and improve it, look at crap and improve upon it ;-)

- Nick

**PotatoMill** · 07-04-2016

Sgspenceley at open builds is building an improved version, with linear guide rails http://www.openbuilds.com/builds/lin...machines.1771/.

**JAZZCNC** · 07-04-2016

Do I really Need to Say anything.?? . . . . I think Not.

**Clive S** · 07-04-2016

Don't buy crap and improve it, look at crap and improve upon it ;-)

Now that would make a good signature

**eurikain** · 07-04-2016

Originally Posted by Clive S

By the time you have put ball screws on made the plate thicker changed the control box etc etc etc. Just build one from scratch

I was really only talking about the machine, not the electronics. Obviously I'd put my own control box and electronics.

Originally Posted by magicniner

What He said!
Don't buy crap and improve it, look at crap and improve upon it ;-)
- Nick

Love it :)

This thread was really intended to see your opinion on the machine. I don't intend to buy one, but I was curious to think what you had to say about it. I heard you :)

**AndyGuid** · 07-04-2016

Originally Posted by PotatoMill

Sgspenceley at open builds is building an improved version, with linear guide rails http://www.openbuilds.com/builds/lin...machines.1771/.

With the square 20mm linear rails and RM1605 ball-screws specified at the end of that link, it looks to me like that is more of a build-from-scratch than a kit-thingy? Think it would benefit from RM1610 ballscrews on the X and Y axes though.