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General CNC Chat => Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) => Topic started by: ynneb on April 11, 2007, 08:32:06 PM

Title: Here is a video of my CNC router
Post by: ynneb on April 11, 2007, 08:32:06 PM

I feel I need to show a video of the machine working before I actually show you how I built it.
The reason been, the router was built very cheaply, and crudely.
I did not have the luxury of a lathe or mill or any fancy machinery.
The only tools I had was hand tools, a welder, an angle grinder, and a electric drill.
This machine was made with a manufacturing purpose in mind, and payed for itself many times over.
I will post some closer pictures of how it was built, as well as some of the things I have made with it.

Please click the arrow on the below picture to start the video

http://www.youtube.com/v/1HxwgAV8On0

Title: Re: Here is a video of my CNC router
Post by: Chaoticone on April 11, 2007, 08:46:48 PM

Flower power. LOL When are you going to build another one?

Brett

Title: Re: Here is a video of my CNC router
Post by: Hood on April 12, 2007, 06:32:47 PM

Think we will have to call you daisy from now on ;)

Title: Re: Here is a video of my CNC router
Post by: Greolt on April 12, 2007, 07:11:25 PM

"The Fat Fella From Aus"     That's a bit harsh!!!  ;D   ;D

What sort of spindle do you have on that?

Greg

Title: Re: Here is a video of my CNC router
Post by: ynneb on April 14, 2007, 03:53:34 AM

The job was done as a freebie for Salvation Army who was decorating a hall for a kids club.
The spindle is a GMC 2400 w hand held router with the handles surgically removed. At $150 bucks I treat it as a consumable. I have replaced it once, as the main bearing seized.
It probably did 400 hours work. The thing that killed it was it had a high duty cycle, meaning it would run 8 hours with very short breaks.
Would you settle for overweight chap from Melbourne then ? :)

The whole machine cost about $3500 to build.

EDIT the frame is 2M wide and not 4 as it shows.

Title: Re: Here is a video of my CNC router
Post by: Hood on April 14, 2007, 06:26:31 AM

Nice pics , gives a much clearer idea of how things are done.
Thanks Benny

Hood (little fat bald bas*&%d from Scotland ;) )

Title: Re: Here is a video of my CNC router
Post by: ynneb on April 14, 2007, 06:29:46 AM

Its about time I did this thread. Pretty bad of me to expect others to make these sorts of threads and me not do the same.
Some more pics.

The timing belts have steel wire threads in the middle.

Title: Re: Here is a video of my CNC router
Post by: ynneb on April 14, 2007, 07:20:42 AM

Intermission.......Here are some of the things I have made with the router.
I made quite a few hundred wall aquariums as well as some other private and one off stuff.

Title: Re: Here is a video of my CNC router
Post by: ynneb on April 14, 2007, 07:22:56 AM

More.......and one pic of me so you can see what a fat fella from Aus looks like.

Title: Re: Here is a video of my CNC router
Post by: ynneb on April 14, 2007, 08:29:07 AM

More

Title: Re: Here is a video of my CNC router
Post by: marcel beaudry on May 08, 2007, 01:28:24 PM

Hello Benny

Very nice machine and a lot of good work . Thank you for the nice photos

Marcel

Title: Re: Here is a video of my CNC router
Post by: zoltan on May 08, 2007, 03:17:43 PM

Hi Benny,

A lot of creativity into your machine. Could you, please, explain me what are those wall aquariums? How they are built, and how is built the entirely assembly - wall/aquarium? I never seen such a thing in reality but can not imagine how you mount the aquarium in the house wall and still have access to feed the fishes, change water, etc. Could you, please, explain how the whole thing is built and used?

Thank you.

Zoltan

Title: Re: Here is a video of my CNC router
Post by: ynneb on May 11, 2007, 06:43:52 AM

Hi Zoltan, it would be too difficult to describe how to build one in words. I dont have any drawings to show you either.
One thing I can tell you is that they sit on the wall, and not in the wall. You feed and clean from the top. The light is just suspended with a piece of glass.
The tank sits on a piece of angle iron that is bolted into just two wall studs.
I hope that helps.