Newbie looking at 6040 (China CNC) for polypropylene 15mm sheet

**Zeeflyboy** · 21-03-2017

Again within reasonable bounds, the depth of the material really isn't hugely relevant to the machine's ability to cut it... as long as a tool in an appropriate diameter and length can be found then it really just becomes a question of number of passes.

That last piece must have taken ages to machine at that speed and depth, but as you can see most of these things will have a stab at alu.

If going the chinese router path, I do recommend you avoid any round or unsupported rails if alu is on your to-do list, having owned both I can say you will have much less frustration if you get one that at least has proper HG20 rails... take a look at omioCNC - they make some of the better chinese routers imo (I own an X6-2200L at the moment, building myself a new bigger badder one mostly for fun). If you wanted to go sans-electronics they would probably sell a bare frame if asked.

This is an example of a 20mm plate cut on my X6-2200L:

**JOGARA** · 21-03-2017

Ill check them out. I get what you are saying and from the looks of the video it is totally worth it.

Where do you get your cutting bits?
Not really looked into that yet.

**Zeeflyboy** · 24-03-2017

depends, I use a few places.

Shop-apt are quick and good quality, but I generally use aliexpress a lot these days... there's some really high quality stuff on there at decent enough prices, you just have to wait a bit longer to get them. I've also ordered stuff from BZT in the past for some specific bits I wanted (diamond coated ones for CF), shipping was ridiculous though...

**JOGARA** · 27-03-2017

Okay so you pretty much sold me the omioCNC...
Few other threads on it show that it is pretty good.

Question is, do you still use the stock components like the controller, steppers, drivers etc?

And what accessories to get?

Ta