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These guys copied my "MechMate" . . . . . .
« on: December 05, 2008, 01:40:51 PM »
We used to own a ShopBot which was a little to shaky to our liking, so I build a new gantry and y-car for it. Shared some pics at the ShopBot forum and soon other SB'ers were asking for copies of my plans. The whole thing snowballed from there and the plans were extended to cover a complete CNC router, a support forum was created, and folk are now building these MechMates all over the world. (Australia is the only continent still to get one running  :))

The website, with forum and free plans are at http://www.mechmate.com/

Here are some machines:

Fabrica in Sri Lanka:

J.R. Hatcher, Wilmington, North Carolina :

This one rapids at over 1200 inches  per minute!

Doug Ford, Conway, Arkansas

Sean Reish, Orlando, Florida

John, Wiseton, Saskatchewan

Hugo, Pto. Ordaz, Venezuela

Kobus, Dalview, South Africa.

Greg, Hagerman, New Mexico

Ed Denton, Alamogordo, NM

Sharma, Rajasthan, India

David, Taibao, Taiwan





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Re: These guys copied my "MechMate" . . . . . .
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2008, 08:12:09 AM »
I wish I had the space for one.

Regards, Tweakie.
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Re: These guys copied my "MechMate" . . . . . .
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2008, 09:03:32 AM »
Me too tweakie.

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Re: These guys copied my "MechMate" . . . . . .
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2008, 07:42:01 PM »
I looked at these some time ago. Looks to be a nice machine. There may be a few odds and ends that may not satisfy some people, but it should be very simple to mod to your liking. You sure as heck can't beat the price for a proven system, either! Thanks for just throwing it out there for everybody to use, Gerald!
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