Anyone built a CNC machine?

scherubino · Post by **scherubino** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:44 pm

Has anyone built a CNC machine. I recently bought plans on Ebay and am going to give it a shot. I've spent about $400 for all the materials, controller, motors, etc.. Beats the $5000-10000 I've seen charged for them.

I'm going to use it to make my cases from now on.

Just looking for any input as to tips, successes, failures, etc... from anyone who tried it.

Here's the site I bought them from:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/rockcliff/rock ... ncplan.htm

Post by **gannon** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:49 pm

I've browsed some sites with open source plans and looked at general designs to build my own design, but I wouldn't have the cash to build one. The bigger you make it the more it's going to cost and the harder it'll be since your parts will need to be more precise too.

scherubino · Post by **scherubino** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:03 pm

yea, I bought an economy CNC controller kit from stepperworld. It was only $200. I thought that was going to be the most expensive part. Which it was, but I thought it was going to be WAY more expensive.

The whole thing is a new challenge for me, I'm kind of excited about it. But I hope it works. It will make my portable building about 300X easier.

This is a kit I bought - it is supposed to be powerful enough to run the machine - http://stepperworld.com/FET3economy.htm

Post by **gannon** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:17 pm

These are the links I have in my cnc folder when I was originally doing my research:
http://www.cnczone.com/
http://www.xylotex.com/#3axis
http://www.hobbycnc.com/4aupcpkg.php
http://www.cnclinx.com/1212Router.htm
http://engraving.majosoft.com/
http://engraving.majosoft.com/assets/geleiding_2c.gif
http://engraving.majosoft.com/assets/geleiding_2b.jpg
http://engraving.majosoft.com/assets/geleiding_2a.gif
http://engraving.majosoft.com/assets/machine4.gif

scherubino · Post by **scherubino** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:34 pm

thanks gannon,
those are some good links