Cincinnati Shaper

[dallen]

still working on getting the parts together for the router, but its that time of the year when money's tight and the gas bill seems to just keep getting bigger.

anyway heres a shot of the shop monster doing his thing while its cold.

[dallen]

one more step closer to having all the stuff to build me a router table, got back from being out of town last night and checked with the neighbor this morning and found out that I had a box full of stepper motors and electronics waiting for me to open up, now for some rails and bearings.

DA

[dallen]

ordered up two sets of linear rails and bearings yesterday for the router table I'm hoping to build. just a couple more things to gather up and I can start putting it together.

Damn stepper drivers didn't come with any doc's.

DA

[latzanimal]

Dave, any idea how much you'll have into this project? I want to build a desktop cnc...

[dallen]

I'm trying to hold it to around 500 dollars, but with a smaller one the electronics would be about a 100 bucks less then what I paid for mine.

here's a link to where I got my stepper package at. looks like the price may of went up a little.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/181024013551?ss ... 1439.l2649

The Tee Slot Extrusion stuff I picked up from 80/20 pretty cheap you have to look around the evil bitch store but the savings are there.

rails and bearings I'm getting that stuff from VXB's evil bitch store, for what your after you may be able to get away with the riprap package they have which is all 8 MM rails and bearings, you will have to just look and see what will work for you.

But so far I'm still under the 500 dollar ceiling I set, but also know that it will go up with all the little stuff that a guy needs screws, aluminum flat bar, that type of stuff that you don't think of till the last minute.

I also made out on a spindle motor, SVSeeker gifted me two HF trim router motors, which saved a couple bucks on the balance sheet.

DA

[dallen]

The Brown truck brought me a gift package today (had to go rescue it from the neighbors porch) that had a pair of 20 MM and 12 MM linear Rails and four bearingsof each size,

Getting pretty close to starting to put this pile of parts together. going to pick up some aluminum flat bar in the next few days so I can start making parts that I can't buy.

Will try to pile it all up tomorrow and take a picture of what I have so far.

DA

[mite5255]

Dave could you have CNC'd your mill

[dallen]

I could of but it wouldn't of been able to cut as big as the router will, and it would of cost a lot more for the stuff like ball screws and way bigger stepper motors.

I want the router so i can make casting patterns that my wood working skills won't let me make..

Like this handle, SVSeeker up in Tulsa cut this for me, we had to make some changes as I lost the original file and had to re do it pretty fast.


the MDF that we cut it out of warped a little, and I'm trying to get it to straighten out as I type by clamping it to a piece of aluminum, once it straightens out and the weather premits I plan on casting it.

DA

[dallen]

had a beautiful day here today so I got out in the yard and fired the burner up and did some testing on a pump that i was wanting to use to pump oil to the nozzle but that was a bust.

But me and the shop monster did get in some sun, I think he might of gotten a little to much of it.

anyway heres the picture that I said I would post of the parts that I have rounded up to build my router with.

I still have to round up the linear rails and bearings for the Z Axis and a ball screw for it, I'm going to try to use regular all thread for the X and Y Axis cause I have it already, its probably a mistake but I want to get the thing working so I can start making patterns with it so I'll live with the backlash that it will have till I can replace it with something better.

DA

[ian b6]

backlash in the Z axis is not such a problem the weight of the motor keeps it in the down direction i built mine 5ftx4ft for a total £148 original build cost 3years ago 2 routers later and a replacement drive board and another £240 it is in its own freezer body off the back of a truck dry and easy to keep warm with its own dust extraction unit it happily runs 10 hours a days and the screaming router does not drive you mad when it is on 3-4 hour cuts wile i get on with other jobs i just use a timer to tell me when to go back and reset

best of luck Ian