Mostly Printed CNC Router

[barry99705]

I suppose I'll start a build thread for this. It's a long term project. Building as extra funds become available. Here's the creator's site, and the thingiverse page.

This is the middle assembly. It's what the Z axis will connect to.
[img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--Xq1 ... 170105.jpg[/img]
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Here's one of the roller assemblies. They are where the X Y steppers get mounted. The screws on the side are for the wiring, no soldering needed!
[img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Vd5f ... 170156.jpg[/img]
The fender washers have a bearing behind them. The stepper will have a gear that the belt will go over then under the bearings to the corners of the router.
[img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BtkM ... 170209.jpg[/img]

And the corner blocks, kinda self explanatory..
[img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UZw6 ... 173536.jpg[/img]
[img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wExW ... 173539.jpg[/img]

[Captain Starfish]

Neat-o!

Looked so lightweight and spindly on his photos, but seeing the carriage in your hand gave it a bit more perspective. Gonna be a pretty chunky little machine when you're done!

[Windshadow]

I look forward to reading your build thread . it looks like a very interesting machine how big do you plan to make it?

[barry99705]

Neat-o!

Looked so lightweight and spindly on his photos, but seeing the carriage in your hand gave it a bit more perspective. Gonna be a pretty chunky little machine when you're done!

Yea, that middle assembly has some heft to it. There's 24 bearings in just that part!

I look forward to reading your build thread . it looks like a very interesting machine how big do you plan to make it?

I think I'm going to start out at his stock size, which is I think about 2 foot square carving area. I'm hoping to get it out to about 4 foot carving area when I'm done though. I'll have to go stupid slow at that size, but that's okay. I'm hoping to be able to use it to make parts for this.

[Windshadow]

Very Cool I have seen an antique tablet with i guess a similar mechanism there was a huge fad for morphing furniture in the 19th century i understand.... it looks to be a very challenging project will you be doing exotic veneers as well? the antique i recall was all in solid oak but it had a lot of relief hand carving on it in the late 19th century craftsman style will you use the Makita or Dewalt trimmer for your spindle?

[barry99705]

Very Cool I have seen an antique tablet with i guess a similar mechanism there was a huge fad for morphing furniture in the 19th century i understand.... it looks to be a very challenging project will you be doing exotic veneers as well? the antique i recall was all in solid oak but it had a lot of relief hand carving on it in the late 19th century craftsman style will you use the Makita or Dewalt trimmer for your spindle?

Probably the dewalt. Haven't decided on the table top yet though. Will probably use oak veneer plywood for the top, and something else for the parts that come up from underneath.

[Eaglezsoar]

This is one thread that I cannot miss, thanks for posting it!

[barry99705]

Rails are installed! Going to have to resquare everything when I mount it to a table. Just wanted to see it put together, I'm impatient like that...
Tubes are 30ish inches each, plus or minus an eighth inch depending on which way my pipe cutter blade wanted to flex.

[img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1cLz ... 163904.jpg[/img]

Crap. Just realized the corner blocks are all backwards...

There, that's the way they should be!

Heh.

[img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-we7F ... 550916.gif[/img]

[barry99705]

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Now I just have to get the electronics, steppers, belts, and gears! Also need to actually mount it to something, then level the legs.

1 liter dew for scale.

[Tincho85]

I thought I was done... but you gave me CNC fever again, now I want one too!
Keep posting please.

[Eaglezsoar]

Still looking cool! I am very much interested in this project.

[davec3275]

Nice work! Looks great! This is such a fun project to build. I am just working on my spoil board for mine and then I can get to actually cutting parts.

[Tincho85]

I was for real... Pic or didn't happen.
Roller done!

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[Captain Starfish]

Very Cool I have seen an antique tablet with i guess a similar mechanism there was a huge fad for morphing furniture in the 19th century i understand.... it looks to be a very challenging project will you be doing exotic veneers as well? the antique i recall was all in solid oak but it had a lot of relief hand carving on it in the late 19th century craftsman style will you use the Makita or Dewalt trimmer for your spindle?

Probably the dewalt. Haven't decided on the table top yet though. Will probably use oak veneer plywood for the top, and something else for the parts that come up from underneath.

Suggestion: if you can find the bucks, a VFD controlled water cooled high speed spindle with an ER16 or ER20 collet will run smoother and ~so~much~quieter~ than a router. They can be had outta China for $300-$400 or so IIRC. Your neighbours, your dog and your own ears will thank you for this investment plus you'll be able to tune feeds and speeds to get a better finish and so on.

[cope413]

Something like this guy?
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product ... 89082.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Captain Starfish]

That looks pretty much like the spindle on my X2200L. Heaps of grunt and the ER-20 collet means I can go up to 1/2" tool shanks. It might be a bit heavy for throwing around on the machine in this thread, though. I'd look at the 800W equivalent, probably.

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/800w-spi ... 96808.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sadly it looks like most of these VFDs want 220V input, not 110.

[barry99705]

Very Cool I have seen an antique tablet with i guess a similar mechanism there was a huge fad for morphing furniture in the 19th century i understand.... it looks to be a very challenging project will you be doing exotic veneers as well? the antique i recall was all in solid oak but it had a lot of relief hand carving on it in the late 19th century craftsman style will you use the Makita or Dewalt trimmer for your spindle?

Probably the dewalt. Haven't decided on the table top yet though. Will probably use oak veneer plywood for the top, and something else for the parts that come up from underneath.

Suggestion: if you can find the bucks, a VFD controlled water cooled high speed spindle with an ER16 or ER20 collet will run smoother and ~so~much~quieter~ than a router. They can be had outta China for $300-$400 or so IIRC. Your neighbours, your dog and your own ears will thank you for this investment plus you'll be able to tune feeds and speeds to get a better finish and so on.

Yea, if I'm going to spend that much, I'll build a full sized all metal router. I live on 3 acres and have a barn, so not too worried about the noise! This will probably be a gateway drug anyway, will eventually build a bigger one.

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[Captain Starfish]

Plenty of room for a bigger shed then!

[barry99705]

Plenty of room for a bigger shed then!

Heck yea!

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Here's the barn before we moved in. My forge is downstairs.

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[Eaglezsoar]

Plenty of room for a bigger shed then!

Heck yea!

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Here's the barn before we moved in. My forge is downstairs.

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Hey Barry, your picture links do not work, but I appreciate that you tried!

[barry99705]

Plenty of room for a bigger shed then!

Heck yea!

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Here's the barn before we moved in. My forge is downstairs.

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Hey Barry, your picture links do not work, but I appreciate that you tried!

Heh, oops, fixed it. Still getting the hang of google photos, picasa was so much easier...

[Captain Starfish]

Nope, still wants me to sign into google to see them. :/

[Windshadow]

You have to click the links in the original post then it worked for me but I do use google so it may be the reason.

Nice workshop space plenty of room and what looks like a fire-resistant forge area... nice job on the rebar tongs too

[Captain Starfish]

Good call, that worked nicely.

Wow. So much room to grow and collect!

[dunginhawk]

Good morning gents and ladies

I havent been on the boards here for a while as I no longer own my max v2... Ive always been a fan of the community here though.

So i thought id chime in (not to hijack).

This MPCNC this is FOR REAL. I just finished mine a couple of weeks ago and its fantastic. It works really really well, and its cheap.
If you can print your own parts (of course you can, you have a rostock max v2 or an orion) you can get the rest of the router done for under $300.

My first project was creating a chess board to go with my DLP resin 3d printed parts.
The board turned out awesome. The tolerances of the cut were perfect. This board required no sanding. It was perfect.
So anyone who started hearing about the MPCNC on this thread, rest assured, its awesome.
the youtube link below is my chess board/set video.. start to finish my entire process

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