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I have used beech and it does cut nice and finish well.

The drier the better obviously, movement in the wood is the biggest problem, I can fly cut a bit of oak and within hours it's bent like a...

Cool nice mod Eddy. What do you make with your machine? Furniture?

I ended up buying the setup advertised on Aliexpress. It arrived today and I very pleased with the quality of the parts. It certainly beats the build quality of the countless cheap lasers I have used...

This arrived today, got hit with customs charges so in total the package cost around £750. The quality is great cant wait to see if it works as well as it looks.

Overall very impressed with...

The Steppers have something unique about them which means they cannot be driven with standard stepper drives so most people switch them out. you can also uprate them to improve feedrates as the...

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Mike all laser cutters will cut with a draft angle on the edge and not 90 degrees to the surface. this is down to the focus lens. The lens takes the 1mm wide co2 laser beam and concentates the beam...

Have you seen evidence that a laser will cut through that thickness of material. I would imagine the power needed to slice through that much fabric would charr the edges and set the material on fire....

For the lathe this is the tool I use 90% of the time, love it.


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Prob an ok machine if the price is right, certainly a good starting point for modifiying/improving. To me it looks like an older chinese built machine, similer anyway. It has Hiwin profile rails and...

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Build attempt number 1.

Lots of errors on this build.

Pvc plastic mounts
Mdf mounting...

Max's Little Robot Shop - NeRP - Neighborhood Roving Platform

Looks like a great resource and one hell of a moulder

"Gav, don't you mean 1.2 x 2.4m ? Could go for that big... but I'm not necessarily thinking of feeding whole sheets in for mass manufactured items. When I said light commericial it is likely to...

The Thermwood controller is made by Thermwood themselves, they call it the supercontroller 91000 or 910000. It is similer to a mach 3 setup with a motioncontroller like a kflop board. The controller...

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Benchtop Injection Molding Machine Examples

These old Wadkins change hands on Ebay for around £1000-1500 and if you have the space they are a good buy in my opinion. I have seen some good mach conversions and for bulk processing stuff like...

Thanks Web Goblin both look like good options, what was the smallest diameter of shaft you have used these on?

Searching for mini linear rails I can across this video. check out the 3mm rail in...