Sitting down letting my Christmas dinner digest over a stubby of cold amber fluid, I've decided my CNC Router needs to be bigger.
Well actually, my youngest son and I were putting together a small model boat today that has been CNC cut from ply (commercially bought kit). This is all good fun. The boy asked if I could make him a kit for a bigger model race boat. My CNC is too small as some parts need to be around 1100mm long.
So now it's Time to Upgrade (TTU). Well time to start nutting out design and parts list anyway.
I've been pretty impressed with Rod's latest build so I will probably plagiarise (steal) some of his ideas. :D
Here are my initial thoughts:
- I would like to have a table that will cut a 1200 x 600 sheet of ply. So I guess the table would need to be slightly bigger.
- Water cooled spindle is on the list
- smoothstepper and gecko drivers.
I don't think I'll be able to order any parts until around March so I've got a bit of time to work the shopping list out.
Time for some Christmas Pudding :2tsup: