My CNC projects pages
Lexan shower caddies
Making finger jointed boxes
Projects Page 3
Projects Page 2
Projects Page 1
Making motor shaft couplers
The New Aluminum CNC machine
The old Oak machine I built down below is
great but I am ramping up the precision level by a factor of 10 by building a 6061 aluminum frame machine with some really nice THK parts.
The new machine uses a THK FGS 140 and 200 actuator assemblies for the Z and Y axis.
The X axis is two THK HSR30H bearing blocks and 33" THK rails
The new machine page 4
The new machine page 3
The new machine page 2
The new machine page 1
Here's a short movie of the Oak machine below cutting out aluminum parts for the new machine above
CNC1 Movie
The Oak CNC machine
I decided to build a wood CNC machine first to iron out all the design
elements, see what works and what doesn't.
An aluminum version may be next after I get all the bugs out of the wooden version.
I am using Red Oak for most of it. It's hard as rock, very stable and I had a bunch of Oak in my shop already.
I didn't want to use plywood or MDF, which is basically glued sawdust.
The Z and Y Axis parts
The X Axis and Table
Acme screws, Shafts and Bearings
All the parts assembled and a working router
The first project on the router and my first crash
Cambam tips and tricks
When I get time, I like to document some of the things that may save people some time and headaches when creating your Gcode using Cambam.
Cambam regions, pocketing and profiling tips #1
Computer stuff
Mini keyboard/mouse combo
My power supply - Motor Drivers - Parallel port breakout board
I took an older PC I had laying around and installed the CNC power supply assembly into it
Mock up of a sliding Z axis tool holder
Tool Holder mock up page
Go here to see the miniature brass CNC router I built
Mini Brass CNC Router
Probotix link
These guys have awesome documentation on all the products they sell and great service.
I purchased their 3-axis bi-polar kit - Link to the Probotix
3-axis bi-polar kit
This is where I had my custom length ACME screws made.
McMaster-Carr
Shafts and bearings, nuts, bolts, etc.
CamBam is a CAD / CAM application designed to take common CAD files such as DXF and 3DS,
manipulate drawings using CamBam's internal geometry engine then produce tool paths and Gcode for CNC machines.
Link to Cambam web site
Link to Cambam forum
CNC Zone forum -Everything you wanted to know about CNC
CNC Zone link