big budget cnc

**Desertboy** · 29-06-2017

Originally Posted by pet30

No its to big ,

i have max 3000x1800 mm if i go 2000 mm then the car can't go in the garage.

should i make a metal frame for the cnc or can i make a wooden frame and bolt everything ?

Metal frame, really wants to be steel at that size but if you do use T slot aluminium you need chunky profile and I would have it predrilled so it bolts together rather than T nuts. I'm certain you can make it fold to the wall for extra space (Although not the machine I linked to lol) It will cost a lot more to make it from aluminium rather than steel, I lack the confidence to weld a steel frame for a cnc so i would use a coach builders to make my frame.

Or maybe it's time for your mum to take up motorcycle riding ;)

**Boyan Silyavski** · 29-06-2017

That used machine looks very promising.

**Lee Roberts** · 29-06-2017

Originally Posted by Boyan Silyavski

That used machine looks very promising.

I know its also so close to me i could reach out and touch it, would be prefect project for me.

**Desertboy** · 29-06-2017

Originally Posted by Lee Roberts

I know its also so close to me i could reach out and touch it, would be prefect project for me.

If I wasn't so skint right now I would be buying this today ;)

At prices like that it's not worth building an 8*4 I'd just buy one I have no doubt £1k and you can get that working and £2k and you can get working like new.

**Clive S** · 29-06-2017

Originally Posted by Desertboy

If I wasn't so skint right now I would be buying this today ;)

At prices like that it's not worth building an 8*4 I'd just buy one I have no doubt £1k and you can get that working and £2k and you can get working like new.

I don't think its 8x4 its 3mtr x 2mtr bed so probably bigger still.

**Desertboy** · 29-06-2017

Originally Posted by Clive S

I don't think its 8x4 its 3mtr x 2mtr bed so probably bigger still.

I always think of these as 8*4 machines lol as that's what I mostly would use it for but the ability to do 10*5 would be very useful but only occasionally. If i do build my own I will build it to have a workspace of 3m*1.6m because you never know when you need those extra inches ;) Space is not an issue to me at the moment within reason I could fit 3 of these machines in ;)

This machine would be spot on for what I want, I would then convert what I'm building now into an aluminium machine for cutting molds for vac forming and use the big one for wood only.

**pet30** · 29-06-2017

the frame could i make it out of 50x50x3 mm or do i need to use bigger and heaver steel?
i found this shop in holland i think the price is ok because i need supported rails of 3 meter long

https://www.hardware-cnc.nl/en/shop/...ted-round-rail