Hi I am located in Western Australia and have the well known book Build Your Own CNC machine (Hood/Kelly) and so far have collected a "kit of parts" ready to commence making the machine with my son.
He is restoring an old Arcade Sega gaming console and wants to make dedicated control panels from aluminium and Stainless steel. Me I am into scale model shipbuilding and want to use the device to cut out the hull formers, which in the past have been labouriously cut with a fret saw. Most of my ships are up to 2 metres long fully radio controlled.
My son is a computer whizz and should be able to handle the software. Me I am a retired electronics engineer and can handle the mechanics and electronics. I have previous experience writing airports for the earlier flight sims using FSASM and BGL I also hold a full Ham Radio licence. as for CNC I have heard of G-Code and that is the limit of my knowledge ATM
Hopefully we will shortly commence construction. Using 3/4" MDF (with precautions!) I also plan to treat each component of the MDF with a Polyurathane varnish as humidity levels here can play havoc with MDF. But to prove a point on a scale 1 metre class yacht I have used MDF as the keel blade and after 10 years it has been perfectly water impervious, after being treated with Poly varnish and finished with a light oil based paint.
Hopefully we can share our project and gain a few tips along the way.
Cheers Dave and Mark
PS addit. Has anyone run Mach3 in Windows 10 we have a Dell 780 we intend to use I did a search for this but no posts as yet
