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[Lachlan]

Boyan,
I have not seen any well made smallish cnc machines. This will be the ideal machine after people have played with a chinese machine and realised all the shortcomings that cannot be fixed.

Problems for this idea that need to be overcome include how to break it down for postage and keep rigidity as well as ease of constuction and how to fit all electronics in unit or will it need to come with an additional box? Great idea

[Boyan Silyavski]

Thanks. Actually i have already finished drawings of 3 small machines. This time all in CAD, not Sketchup. I am at the moment at prototype stage, but very busy before new year with some wood working.

Basically 400x600, 600x900 and one fixed gantry. Some secrecy also :-) that's why i still have not shown the drawings. I hope will show the ready machine in a month or 2

What i can say is that i aim to make the best simple machines possible, meaning beautiful and extremely rigid. Will not be cheap cheap, but are aimed for 24h industrial use but without going to tool changers and so that will raise the price. Though a tool changing spindle will be an option.

Cause at the end i believe no point of buying crap that will make your life difficult and will not pay itself fast.

[JAZZCNC]

Basically 400x600, 600x900 and one fixed gantry. Some secrecy also :-) that's why i still have not shown the drawings.

Good job for you then Boyan WE didn't take the same "It's Secret" Attitude in parting with our Designs and Knowledge .!!. .

[Boyan Silyavski]

Good job for you then Boyan WE didn't take the same "It's Secret" Attitude in parting with our Designs and Knowledge .!!. .

Dean,

I don't know why you said that? I am one of the few people that you can count on your left hand, that have shared open source drawing of their machines in CAD format publicly.
Especially machine plans worth making. Proven design i mean. More over i constantly give mail and forum support for the said plans. For free. As you well know many people already have based their frame design on the yellow machine. At the same time people sell crappy plans for 50-100 euro at ebay.

When i say "secret", i mean more "surprise" . But its also a secret at the moment until i have no machine to show. More over this is a commercial project of mine,Maybe Kickstarter. So i will sell the machine, maybe sell or make available the plans and sell some parts with it, so whats the big deal? When ready, i will show it and then you could criticize it as much as you want. Or help.

But FYI these machines are not the typical DYI as the basic concept is big aluminum pieces to be made in serie on big CNC, so yeah, i dont want to show the world my idea for production and assembly solutions for now. Other wise they will be implemented in more crappy machines like " Nomad" and more people would be cheated. Or may be even from the bloody Chinese.

PS:
In my country we dont show the babies to other people untill they are at least 6 months old. To keep them from bad luck :-)

[Lee Roberts]

When i say "secret", i mean more "surprise".

I must say that when I read your comment, I did interpret that to mean "I'm not ready to show yet, you'll have to wait and see", given your contributions previously.

I left excited to see what you have come up with, as a solution for a machine :).

.Me

[cropwell]

Further up this thread there is mention of sand or epoxy filling the frame. Is this a naive question, but would foam filling (that evil stuff in a spray can, that builders use) give enough resonance damping to be useful ?

Rob

[mekanik]

Hi Rob
I wouldn't think so, you are looking for a dense mass, foam is light and full of gas.
Mike

[JAZZCNC]

Dean,

I don't know why you said that?

Why I said it was because to me it said I'm not showing the plans only the machine I intend to sell.!! .. Which I find a little Ironic given that most of what you know now was gladly given to you freely.

I really wish you well with your machine ventures and my objection isn't really related to this in anyway. Also has you rightly say you have previously posted your builds which some find very helpful. But in this case for me personaly it smacked of " I'll show but it will cost you" which in my view isn't fair to the forum given most of what you know was learnt or given freely here.!!

If I got you wrong then sorry but that's how it came across to me.!!

[mekanik]

Eye Spy with my little eye, first post

Of course for fellow forum members the plans will be for free.

[JAZZCNC]

Eye Spy with my little eye, first post
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Of course for fellow forum members the plans will be for free.

Ah ah like Manuals I don't read threads until after the event. . .