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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…

I have made several more versions of the 1mx1m design and ultimately made it a little smaller and a lot more rigid. Removing the long legs will make the frame much more rigid, as will the extra side bracing and the internal panels, that are primarily there to catch the dust. The X axis is…

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)…

I saw a CNC plasma cutter on cnczone and liked the look of how some of the parts had been made and the ideas behind how they mounted. I then discovered that the machine in question was a ShopDroids machine. The extrusions they show are IVTAAG and IVTAAN from Pacific Bearings. The ShopDroids design is intended for a plasma…

OK, I will admit that some of my earlier designs were not exactly robust, and probably attempting to run before I could even crawl :o) With that in mind, I have scaled back my current design to about a 1×1 metre cutting area. The design is also all profile extrusion – no Unistrut this time.…

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…

I came across the Makerslide product recently – see my post on my PCB CNC Machine Blog for the full skinny on this product. Suffice to say, I thought I would have a go at modelling something using this product. The current idea is a 4×2 machine: This machine makes use of belts (not currently…

  Changed to an to be capable of milling a full sized sheet of MDF. Swapped the long side from X to Y, less moving mass. Doubled up on the X and changed to plate aluminium rather than profile for the X carriage. Plate Aluminium on the ends of the X beam, which is now…

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.…

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…