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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / 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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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / An African built 9'x 6' router - with free plans

« on: April 16, 2007, 02:16:50 AM »

Did you think this was a joke? 

The blue beast started about 2 years ago when we replaced the wobbly gantry on a ShopBot (see above Rafi's head in first pic). That worked rather well, so we built a second, longer gantry, and added a table and controller. Then got nagged for plans and a brandname was born for the download website. Don't quite know where this is going yet, but enjoying the ride so far!

(If truth be told, the major goal was to give our son a foot up in establishing his own business after school - that has worked really well.)