Quote Originally Posted by motoxy View Post
I am not sure that I follow the logic of having a forum that encourages people to be involved in designing, building and improving a cnc machine and then telling them what to do so that everyone can be exactly the same.
Well said that man

I think things started to go to pot when folk started trying to cut aluminium with woodworking technology. You may get away with it on a good machine but not on a budget job. If you want to cut aluminium design for aluminium.

I'm currently building a plasma cutter and it's radical because I read between the lines on lots of plasma build threads over on CNC zone. They weld it all up, paint it, everyone says it looks fantastic, a pause, then they are back trying to add torch height control.

Did they really expect it to be flat and square after all that welding? Shame they used a stepper for the Z because THC is a lot easier with a DC motor.