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Making a CNC Milling Machine Remove The Head
Enter your name and email below and click the button to get started now… Get Instant Access We value your privacy and will never spam you REMOVE THE HEAD Well the prep work has been done in my series about making a CNC milling machine. Now it is time to remove the head from the milling column so that I can begin the conversion. You have to remove the head from the milling machine so that you have access to the mill column. Once the milling column is accessible you can remove it […]
EZ-One Tracksaw Woodworking Center
Adding a Tracksaw to your Woodworking Table saws scare me so I decided it was time to add a Tracksaw to my woodworking. I looked around for a bit and discovered the EZ-One Tracksaw Woodworking Center from Eurekazone. Initially the price of the unit was out of my reach so I began buying the equipment a little bit at a time. Once I had assembled enough parts I decided to build my own DIY EZ-One Tracksaw Woodworking Center. I got my first pieces of equipment used on Craigslist. I started with a piece of Track and some clamps. Later I […]
Motion Control
I recently had a hard drive controller failure on my CNC computer and had to decide to either replace the motherboard or get a new computer. Most new computers don’t have a printer port anymore so it is getting difficult to find a replacement computer. The old CNC computer used a parallel port (printer port) for Motion Control. You either need to purchase a separate Motion Control add-on card for the computer or you had to try to make a USB adapter work. USB converters by themselves don’t work with Mach3. Mach3 needs to be able to control the […]
Edge Lit CNC Sign Project
Recently I made an Edge Lit CNC Sign Project for a school musical. The theater director asked if I could make a lighted sign for the production in a short period of time. The curtain would raise in 3 weeks but the materials couldn’t be purchased for a week and a half. I took on the task and decided to get a head start on the project. I took the artwork the play director provided and began the design work for the sign using Vectric Aspire. I scanned in the image and then created vectors for the artwork. Then I […]
Warp Drive Project Story Part 2
FATE STEPS IN As you may recall from my last post in The Warp Drive Project Story, I was wondering why I should bother, designing and making plans for a CNC Router table. Most people would consider the project too difficult or beyond their skill. Well, in this post are explained how fate stepped in to prove me wrong. About this time fate once again stepped into my life. My neighbor Jeff decided to build his own bench top sized CNC router table so he could make printed circuit boards. Jeff had been following my exploits on CNCzone before […]
Warp Drive Project Story.
MY CNC JOURNEY IN THE BEGINNING I have been building CNC Router tables since about 2005. I wanted a CNC Router table to make it easier for me to make model airplane kits and custom parts. Commercial CNC machine were very expensive (and still are) and were out of my reach. So I decided I would try and build my own after I saw a set of plans on the internet. My first efforts were made from MDF, Gas pipe and roller skate bearings. I soon realized that my MDF machine was finicky and too small. So I began design […]