Advise on building a CNC table

[T0rnado69]

clive S. i guess thats true.
erm i guess all and any advice is good.
for the size of table i want. what size frame would be ideal.
best place to get the steppers. and other electronics.
software ?

Eddy
i guess that would make it easy to fasten.
but the mess the plasma leaves when it cuts would
proberly mess it up, and i thought of another way to fasten the ply to the water table.

jazzycnc
a lot of reading tells me thats it best to have a water table with cnc plamas.. helps keep the metal cool and cuts down on the smoke etc.
changing it over to a router would be fairly easy.
take the torch mount off the gantry and fit the router mount on.
sking any slats that have dross on the top with a soft disc.
fix ply bed onto 4 or 6 tabs that are welded to the water table slats.
i understand that they proberly dont belong together.
but if it turns out they both dont work well together.
then i can leave it as just a plasma table and always look at making a router one.

[Clive S]

TOrnado69--changing it over to a router would be fairly easy.
take the torch mount off the gantry and fit the router mount on.
sking any slats that have dross on the top with a soft disc.
fix ply bed onto 4 or 6 tabs that are welded to the water table slats.
i understand that they proberly dont belong together.
but if it turns out they both dont work well together.
then i can leave it as just a plasma table and always look at making a router one.

Please take this in the spirit that it is intended I think you really need to read JAZCNC's post again and digest what has been said.
You will get all the help you will need on this forum as I and countless others have done.

Start by asking specific questions ie what do you want to use the machine for: wood, plastic, alu, perhaps engraving etc. then start a build log and read a lot of the logs on here. Submit a drawing of some sort to get advice on and be prepared to get a bit of flack (most of it is given in good faith and humour on here) don't give up there are some good guys on here willing to help, but they need something tangible to work with.

Sketchup (SketchUp | 3D for Everyone) seems to be a good package to make a drawing in and it's free.

Don't buy any motors or electronics until you are happy with the frame. Giving some idea about your budget for the build will help. ..Clive

[JAZZCNC]

changing it over to a router would be fairly easy.
take the torch mount off the gantry and fit the router mount on.

Yes sounds easy as chips but I've not seen any commercial machines that do this and believe me they would if it was at all practicle. I've seen less than a couple that have DIY built and that's for good reason.? They don't play nice together.!

Just swapping out torch for spindle isn't simple as you realise or think but you'll find that out the hardway by the sounds of it.! . . . Good luck.