Stepper Motor Mounts How To Make Your Own CNC Milling Machine Part 4 The next phase of my journey in how to make your own CNC milling machine I needed to figure out how to deal with the stepper motors. Making the stepper motor mounts requires a balance between rigidity, adjust-ability and accessibility. About […]
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Ballscrew Upgrade How To Make Your Own CNC Milling Machine – Part 3 One of the first options I decided to Make to my CNC Milling Machine was a Ballscrew upgrade. I decided to upgrade the Acme Thread Leadscrews to BallScrews. A Ballscrew (sometimes spelled Ball Screw) is a type of linear actuator that translates […]
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V CARVING One of the things that CNC machines do well is V Carving. V Carving is a type of carving that uses a “V” shaped bit to create cutouts that vary in width, with the cut being narrowest closet to the tip and wider towards the top. The deepest point of a V […]
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FINAL CUT Part 10 This is the home stretch for this project. I have done my research and artwork and now it just comes down to making the final cut. In the last segment I did the shadowing for the V-Carve and setup all the tool paths to take into account the actual thickness of […]
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CNC SIGN PROJECTS SAMPLES AND SETUP ONE MORE TEST PIECE Part 9 After spending quite a bit of time making sample test pieces I decided that the entire process took too long to setup so I decided to try one more technique to help speed things along. I decided that I would eliminate the stain […]
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