Hey all,
While looking around kickstarter, i saw this CNC milling machine. Looks rather niffty, but then again, i know very little on these things!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...nomad-cnc-mill
regards,
Alan
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Hey all,
While looking around kickstarter, i saw this CNC milling machine. Looks rather niffty, but then again, i know very little on these things!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...nomad-cnc-mill
regards,
Alan
I'm having to seriously bite my tung on this...
Have a good read and viewing of the gantry build log section on these forums, pay particular attention to the physical requirements of such machines for them to be even considered as meeting the abilities of a milling machine.
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It's also silly money $2500
Is that the American spelling? :joker:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee Roberts
One gusset does not turn a piece of box section in to a Rock-Solid Aluminum Frame, or Aluminium either for that matter. I don't think Jazz was consulted during the design phase, it looks more arty farty than engineered
The clever bit is the bend in the Perspex lid. I have never managed to kink Perspex without making it go all blobby and twisted looking.
YOUR having to bite your Tongue. !!!!! (spelt correctly just for Robin)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee Roberts
IN one sentance it's OVERPRICED CRAP (Feel safe I won't get banned for saying that this time. . Lol)
But it comes with cutters ground from genuine American carbide! That must make it lots better, no?
That's another thing that puzzles me. When I was a nipper, carbide meant tungsten carbide, or wolfram carbide if you were foreign.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neale
It now seems to mean iron carbide, which confuses me because surely iron carbide is what we called "steel".
Carbon steel cutters are considered seriously third rate, but how can you have steel without carbon? Isn't steel an alloy of iron and carbon? Perhaps carbon steel is an abbreviation for high carbon steel.
I suspect carbide may mean some clever steel alloy with a fancy fine grain structure that doesn't hold flaws easily? Called carbide because it is reminiscent of the good old tungsten product. A bit like calling graphite, Graphene to make it sound all modern and trendy.
I never thought I'd see Jazz correcting someone's spelling! Oh and just for Robin, it's "you're" not "your" and "sentence" not "sentance".Quote:
Originally Posted by JAZZCNC
How can we be sure he's not biting one of these:
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No, it's clearly worse than that. It almost manages to make the CNCdudez router look worthwhile.Quote:
Originally Posted by JAZZCNC
I thought that it still meant tungsten carbide. Not sure that it's quite correct to talk about steel as an iron carbide as it's more of a physical mix than a chemical compound. Silver steel is around 1% carbon, I think? Definitely inferior to, say, high-speed steels for cutting tools but it depends what you are doing. I've made things like a T-slot cutter for T-slots too small for standard commercial cutters from silver steel, and for one-off jobs they work fine even cutting mild steel. But, of course, American carbide is the best sort. Unless you come from Sheffield? Or do they just make steel? Now stands back while all the metallurgists and chemists out there sharpen their darts...Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin Hewitt
What the hell, the tools are probably the best bit of this "so quiet you can use it on your coffee table" router!
I like the "Rock_Solid Aluminium Frame" coupled with the failure to mention the "Bendy-Wendy Round Rails" ;-)