hey jazz that MY photo-!! copyright.... joking obviously-!!

thats an axyz machine- having spoken to the sales guy- he was saying they don't actually sell these in the uk- theres a few in the states but not many-

I asked him about material holding etc and he thought the same as me- although there's a vac table it's not that efficient- and if you were to cut out a circle, for example, as you got to the end there's a danger of it falling back onto the bit- ruining it....

He said obviously you could do mechanical clamping etc but bit more tricky....

i'm pondering a fold down solution, so like the photo but if cutting difficult things/ things that might be hard to clamp, you could lift it down... lots of counterwieghting required and a really stiff table design... hummm

but looking at the photo the z axis is counterwieghted to reduce gravity i guess... nice looking tho...

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