My first ever built CNC router.

[RobC]

Good job, looks rather quite nice and compact! Will you be putting it in any enclosure or fences around to prevent the material from being thrown all over the place? I have mine in an enclosure with a 24v 100mm fan pumping the airborne dust outside. Not to mention it also is a damn sight better on the ears as the noise is reduced by a good near half of what it would be without an enclosure.

[Timatronics]

Good job, looks rather quite nice and compact! Will you be putting it in any enclosure or fences around to prevent the material from being thrown all over the place? I have mine in an enclosure with a 24v 100mm fan pumping the airborne dust outside. Not to mention it also is a damn sight better on the ears as the noise is reduced by a good near half of what it would be without an enclosure.

Thanks Rob,

Quite possibly yes as I was testing some cuts today and I'm pretty my whole street could hear it, not great on a Sunday. Its mainly gonna be used for aluminium and delrin so that tends to just gather around the machine so I'll need to look at extraction close to the spindle at some point. At the moment its my trusty old hoover :)

Tim

[RobC]

Yeah mine too is very noisy when doing deep cuts, I thankfully have a water cooled spindle so its just the cutter noise. I don't have any setup for collection, I clean up on each new tool change and then the end with a 100mm dust collection system hose. Again all down to the noise of the dust collector