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Other designs

Just in case you thought I had given up on designs for a woodworking router, here are a few more designs that never made it off the drawing board. rack and pinion CNCRouterParts based setup with a reduction gearbox To be honest, if I was going to use all of these items, I might as…

Revised 1mx1m design

Just my luck – Pacific Bearings decided to discontinue the IVTAAS extrusion in April 2012! Ah well back to the (virtual) drawing board again. This time making use of the IVTAAN extrusion: The frame is all Unistrut, and all based on 1.5m lengths (easily cut down from standard 3m lengths of Unistrut). Close up of new Y axis: Updated X axis (gearbox removed)…

Belt drive ideas

I came across this video on YouTube of a CNC machine using 2 belts as a sort belt on belt rack, I then went searching for other implementations of this idea and came across an interesting thread on the CNC Zone forums where several other people are discussing the same idea. I thought I would also give…

4×2 Machine

Basic design with 40x120mm extrusion for the main axes. Changed to Unistrut for the Y axis and added some basic slides and a gearbox of sorts, I am not entirely convinced that this would have been vey stable. Some better slides, based on the ones from CNC Router Parts and a first attempt at a Z axis.…

Concepts

This CNC machine has been in the design process even longer than my PCB CNC Machine. First of all I was thinking of something along the lines of the Build your own CNC Machine: or maybe a JGRO: I also liked the look of Joe’s 2006: but really liked Joe’s 4×4 Hybrid. There is loads of…