cut out the honda-acura.net logo from aluminum, then put a nice light behind it and mount it somewhere in your car. :X

 

Neg, I can do all of the above except mount in my car. And I am sure IB would have a problem with that, they seem to be pretty anal about stuff.

 

mount on computer case at home then?

 

You should go on the finish carpentry forum on contractortalk.com Those guys would love to see your setup.

Are you going to have a vacuum setup to hold the wood down? What type of programming are you going to use? I believe alot of people use http://www.thermwood.com/, and its free IIRC.

Let me know when I can bring some plywood down

 

I will have a vacuum table, I use Vectric Aspire for CAD/CAM, Thermwood is nowhere close to free, although I would love to own one of those some day....

And Shaolin, I will probably cut something out of AL here real soon, not sure it will be the HA logo though.

Ran into a problem tonight with the new CNC computer. Need to figure out why it is not posting, it is either the vid card or the motherboard, both of which, are fail if so.

 

i figured as much. :dunno:

good luck trouble shooting the cnc comp.

that setup/station you have is bad ass.

 

WOW! Very impressive!!!! I wish I had the time and talent. Cant wait to see what you crank out with that beast!

 

Thanks Shaolin and Jay.

The machine is mechanically complete. I will try to finish up the electronics this week, but I am going to have to wait to run the thing till I get my CNC PC back up and running. Hopefully it is just the power supply, if not, I will probably just buy a new barebones kit and build a new one.

On with the pics!!

Machine from the front with the Controller and VFD Installed. I will skin the section that is holding them up once the machine is running, I want to carve it.


Z Axis (sorry it is out of focus, didn't notice till after I brought the camera in)


X Axis


Y Truck


Inside Controller Box


Fan on Bottom Left (intake)


Fan on upper right (exhaust)


X and B Connection (there are two 5/16 bolts in the back that mount to the back 2 slots on the 3060 as well)


Looking down the X


Z Axis Motor Mount


Still need to hard mount the wiring harnesses for each axis, and then plug those up to the box. Then add hard stops to everything. You do not want the blocks coming off on this machine, little balls will go everywhere, not to mention they are 50 bills a pop.

I know a lot of the aluminum work is not pretty, but I am pretty proud of it for doing it with a chop saw, table saw, and a drill press. Once this machine is working I will use it to heal itself to an extent, don't know if I want to take that X off again.....

 

Machine is moving under its own power now!!

I will tweak it more tomorrow and then post a video.

 

:thumbup: Pretty decent fab skills considering you're not using major metal working tools.