Thread: CNC Router for the Disabled

Looks impressive

I am going to make a rotor table for myself but nothing as elaborate couldn't afford what you have made for starters looking at your other forum site.

Hope you have fun with it

Hi,

I'm sure I will

There is a fairly detailed story on my site at http://www.ocm.com.au/cnc/cnc.html it has the whole story on the other bits you need as well to make a CNC work

Originally Posted by crocky

Hi,

I'm sure I will

There is a fairly detailed story on my site at http://www.ocm.com.au/cnc/cnc.html it has the whole story on the other bits you need as well to make a CNC work

Well done nice site.....now go on tell us the wife was out the day you had assembled the bench in the carpeted lounge room??

I have just become a grandfather myself June 8th Nathan 52cm (21") 6.145 kilos (close enought to10 pound) but he doesn't look fat as he is long.

I have just past you site onto a friend who had a stokea few years ago and is wallowing all to often. The thing he misses most is flying as he had pilots licence for up to 6 or 8 pax. An Electrician previously, gets around on a gopher or with s quad or walking stick.

Hello Crocky,
Well done! I have visited your site and the WIP is outstanding. I have been tossing up for years on a CNC system since I saw a review in Silicon Chip for one doing PCB. I am a woodworker, I don't have access to a metal lathe, so I thought of making it out of Melamine, do you think this would be durable or would it be a better approach to go with the aluminum construction. My primary goal would be PCB and designs on boxes.
thank
les

Originally Posted by wheelinround

Well done nice site.....now go on tell us the wife was out the day you had assembled the bench in the carpeted lounge room??

I have just become a grandfather myself June 8th Nathan 52cm (21") 6.145 kilos (close enought to10 pound) but he doesn't look fat as he is long.

I have just past you site onto a friend who had a stokea few years ago and is wallowing all to often. The thing he misses most is flying as he had pilots licence for up to 6 or 8 pax. An Electrician previously, gets around on a gopher or with s quad or walking stick.

Hi,

Actually I am assembling it in the office, it was the computer room before I had the stroke so we have given it coat of paint and thats my room now

Good on Nathan they are magic grandkids and they are living reasonably close so we see them quite often.

I hope he logs on to the site bbs, it is primarily for stroke survivors and what they can do or would like to. I used to fly gliders so I know how he feels!

Originally Posted by les88

Hello Crocky,
Well done! I have visited your site and the WIP is outstanding. I have been tossing up for years on a CNC system since I saw a review in Silicon Chip for one doing PCB. I am a woodworker, I don't have access to a metal lathe, so I thought of making it out of Melamine, do you think this would be durable or would it be a better approach to go with the aluminum construction. My primary goal would be PCB and designs on boxes.
thank
les

Hi Les,

Well CNC is a pretty good therapy operation

The best place I could send you to for anything CNC is the american site called www.cnczone.com and go into the forums, all the details are on my post there in the CNC Router Log but building in aluminium is good because the frame is pre-cut.

You have to work out what size cutting area and then get the measuring gear out and start. I started by buying the router first, it's only an ozito but it was a start because I can only use one hand it needed to go on a CNC table. Then I got the american xylotex stepper motor kit and then the frame came along after that

I did not start the frame until I had read heaps on cnczone and formulated a project on what I had learnt from the site and there are heaps of aussies there too. You might even find one who lives close to you and can help you. There is Greolt who lives at Geelong (and is doing the metalwork for mine) and Rod1952 who is in Perth and both of them have a heap of knowledge about CNC.

Melamine is probably fine but I would use aluminium every time simply for it's strength and the fact that you can order a kit of parts to your own specific design and it comes ready to install. But if it is not an option and you want build in timber the cnczone would be the place to ask questions.

Hello Bob,
I have been looking at cnczone for a while now, just not sure which way to go. I will watch your progress. I agree with your suggestion of a cnc forum site here, we would learn together.
thanks
les

Les

On the site that Crocky is referring to there are a lot of successful machines made primarily from MDF.

There are a number of detailed plans posted that are free to use.

JGRO, Lionclaw and Joe2000 are some of the popular ones. Do a search. Lots of info.

Joe2000 is in my opinion the better one. Lots of these built and under way around the world.

Isn't the internet great.

Greolt

Thanks for you help Bob / Greolt I spent an hour this morning on cnczone and most of the cnc machines are quite large. I am thinking of an A4 sized machine. I have a few routers, but for small work the Demtel is great and it can be used with one hand easily.
regards
les

hmmm just when I thought I had enough tools, this comes along! I work in IT and my hobbie is woodworking, so this is heaven for me!

Now I just have to convince swmbo

Crocky keep us posted, I'd love to see more pics... looks like an awesome project, workmanship looks first rate, hard to believe it isn't a commercial machine.

Had a quick look at cnczone and there seems to be a few suppliers out there for the electronics/controllers etc... Is there anybody making Gantry kits (I am lazy)??

thanks


joez

Originally Posted by joez

hmmm just when I thought I had enough tools, this comes along! I work in IT and my hobbie is woodworking, so this is heaven for me!

Now I just have to convince swmbo

Crocky keep us posted, I'd love to see more pics... looks like an awesome project, workmanship looks first rate, hard to believe it isn't a commercial machine.

Had a quick look at cnczone and there seems to be a few suppliers out there for the electronics/controllers etc... Is there anybody making Gantry kits (I am lazy)??

thanks
joez

Hi Joez,

I like that one, do it slowly and she wont notice

The whole story so far is on my website up a few messages, I did an update this afternoon so it has all the latest information. Greolt is doing some machining work for me at present.

I got the electronics ready to go from the US (xylotex) and I also got the nook ballscrews from the US www.homeshopcnc.com. There is nowhere here that would come near the price I paid. Mine is not the cheapest that you could build, there are even a couple of blokes here building joes2006 router tables out of mdf. I don't know of anyone building gantry's for sale. Best way is do what I have done or what a number of users on cnczone have done and build a solid frame and gantry with the help of some generous people.

Commercial CNC machines would be far too expensive!

Originally Posted by les88

Thanks for you help Bob / Greolt I spent an hour this morning on cnczone and most of the cnc machines are quite large. I am thinking of an A4 sized machine. I have a few routers, but for small work the Demtel is great and it can be used with one hand easily.
regards
les

Hi Les,

Keep looking at the cnczone, there are quite few around an A4 size and you need to spend longer than an hour or two there and there are even some that use dremels too

She is finished now and I am feeling my way around at present. The Dell PC died in the move from the front room to the shed so I am looking for something else now.

In the meantime I will use my notebook, tested it today and it works good I'll get the table surfaced properly tomorrow and buy some wood and get busy making things!!!

Originally Posted by crocky

She is finished now and I am feeling my way around at present. The Dell PC died in the move from the front room to the shed so I am looking for something else now.

In the meantime I will use my notebook, tested it today and it works good I'll get the table surfaced properly tomorrow and buy some wood and get busy making things!!!

Good on you Crocky

Dell Died could have been the shock of going out in the cold

This posses the question of dust and dirt in PC's which are connected as such???

keep us updated don't forget the pics.